The mud of pure malice pollutes the wetlands of the Yuhwa Province and the people of Eunsan grow restless and scared as possessions and undead mischief become commonplace. Undying Corruption will take your characters from lvls 1 to 20 as ordinary shamans and exorcists of the Black Bear Clan restoring order between the physical world and the spiritual. What appears like a local issue becomes far grander as your journey takes you across the entirety of the Korean mythology-inspired country of Danguk, uncovering the dark conspiracy at the root of the challenges you must face.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
April Update: Arc 4 out
almost 2 years ago
– Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 04:27:11 PM
By MLarty
Hello everyone, here we are coming at you with April's update! Arc 4 has been sent to everyone's email through Backerkit. Like before, do contact us if you haven't gotten them or you need help with the download. In this segment, the player characters are traversing through the industrial city of Gungnae in the cold north, about to run into whole nests of curse-imbued dragons.
With Arc 4 out, we're 2 arcs away from finalizing the PDF to send out to the printers. Hopefully we can get the ball rolling on that June and July. Merchandise is underway, I'm having healthy discussions with a company that specializes in acrylic minis specifically meant for TTRPG play.
The Patreon is as lively as ever. We just posted our 5e conversion of PF2e's Skulltaker, a CR 18 undead monster that assimilates the bones of its victims into its body. Big fan of wind chimes, this one. He only appears at higher elevation of mountains, preying on lost travelers. I'm thinking also of revamping our output depending on what people would want to see, maybe include more subclasses based on Eastern culture and mythology. Definitely going to expand into doing more UC-based lore. We're open to any suggestions!
Other than that, everything is moving smoothly at a reasonable pace that we can muster based on our individual life circumstances.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to email [email protected], join our Discord server, or simply comment/DM us on Kickstarter!
March Update: Arc 3, Updated Player's Guide
about 2 years ago
– Wed, Mar 06, 2024 at 06:14:27 PM
Hello all!
Happy March, hope you're all healthy and well. We've sent out Arc 3 out of 6 to your emails through BackerKit! If there are any issues regarding that, please let me know.
It's been a busy month for me and the layout team already, but we're finally back and moving at our regular pace. We don't expect Arc 4 to come out later than it should around the end of April. In addition, we've taken this opportunity to incorporate any comments and criticism we received into the Player's Guide. For example, weapons and spells have been moved to the Player's Guide for easier access for players.
Korean Translation Progress
The Player's Guide is almost complete! At well around over 30K words, there was a lot to go through and a lot of culturally sensitive terminology to research, so we thank you for your patience. We'll do our best to make sure this gets out properly.
We're still working on PF2e and Cloudbreaker Alliance content of course, but our priority at present is to ensure that the foundational English-language 5e version is released and sent to print. This thorough multi-step review process is ultimately helping to make our book and adaptations of it as strong as it can possibly be, so I'd like to thank my team for all their hard work and due diligence there.
Altogether, we are continuing our pace to get the completed digital file sent over to the printers around May or June, with one arc released each month.
Our Patreon is still up and running! To share with you a little of what we're doing, here's another sample of one of our first releases: Tan the bomber chef Dokkaebi!
We put out an update last week with an original Gumiho Cleric of the Hearth NPC statblock and printable mini design. There's a lot of intentional synergy between the Undying Corruption adventure and the converted monster and NPC designs we put out, particularly with the expansion of Valiant Actions. I'm hoping to branch further into expanded lore too shortly!
Paid GMing Update
I have a new part time job with an irregular schedule, so I may not be able to run my paid gmed games as consistently as I would've liked to. BUT I would be very happy to still open up some tables, particularly on Sunday or such if you'll have me! Happy to maintain flexibility and discuss what's in the realm of possibility.
Our Season of Ghosts game just got its first player KO! Fighting against a mushroom man and catching a bad bug in the middle of a fight, our poor Magus was consumed by the fungus. Still, we're working on figuring out how to return him to the campaign, certainly in a different form than before.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to reply to this update, contact me privately, reach us at [email protected], or simply join our growing Discord community!
Feb 2023: Addendum to the Last Update
about 2 years ago
– Fri, Feb 09, 2024 at 07:16:46 AM
Hey everyone, chiming in since we have a new announcement and a backer brought to our attention that the Patreon link in the previous update wasn’t functional. Kickstarter only lets us update announcements until only 30 minutes after they’re first posted, so this is the best way to get the right information out there:
We’ve actually just posted our update for this week too for both 5e and PF2e! Presenting our Dokkaebi NPC, Tan the Bomber! She’s an alchemist born from a chef’s love for cooking (though her dishes end up being far, far spicier). Her idea of fine dining tends to get her in trouble, usually charged with arson, but someday, her love will prevail over such the culinary establishment’s fuddy-duddy sensibilities.
Use her digital token or playable mini for your character or add her to your story as an allied NPC!
Enamel Pins
We also would like to show off the enamel pins that have been manufactured!
All pins have been accounted for and are up to snuff for delivery. The only bits of merchandise left to put together now are the special norigae and the acrylic standees we promised. They will be sent alongside the hardcover books as planned!
Paid-GM Games
Also worth mentioning, I still have a table open for my Curse of Strahd game to be run, say, Monday afternoon! If anybody is interested, please do not hesitate to hit me up. We’re due to start the 3rd session of my Season of Ghosts game this weekend and we’re almost at the end of Chapter 1!
Again, thank you all for your patience, but we just wanted to make sure we got accurate information out to you.
If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to reply here, DM us, or email us at [email protected]. You can also join our growing community in our Discord server!
February 2024: Arc 2, Patreon, and Update!
about 2 years ago
– Thu, Feb 01, 2024 at 02:24:52 PM
It's February 2024!
Hello everyone, I hope you've had a good start to the New Year. It's now both Black History Month and just a week from Lunar New Year. Very exciting.
Act 2
First thing's first, we've uploaded the PDF for Act 2 out of 6 of Undying Corruption! You can download and play Water: Dead Men's Raid from BackerKit just like with both Act 1 and the Player's Guide. This act will take you to the port city of Nampung which is under siege by undead pirates based on the multinational wokou pirates from history!
From a small village to treacherous waters, your adventure's only getting bigger from here. Please let us know what you think of it!
Patreon
NHP finally has our own Patreon up!
Click here to see our Patreon!
We're hoping to use the Patreon platform to both help fund future projects and work on smaller projects such as homebrew NPC/Monster statblocks, PF2e-5e conversions, digital tokens, and also, printable paper minis!
Below, we'd like to share a preview of our Astromancer Lunamorph NPC, Yun Dal-myeong. She's a wizard from the Moon on a mission to reunite with her true love, a distant dwarf planet. You can add her into any game you're running with custom Valiant Actions to support your PCs with. We have more to come over the coming weeks!
Update
Everything on the merch front is going well. I've sorted everything to be shipped to their respective warehouses for final deliveries minus acrylic standees which we're hoping to find time to work on properly. That's the last thing though, so we can coordinate everything to be delivered alongside the final hardcover and softcover books.
Act 3 will be slightly late about by a week or so, due to some personal matters to attend to. We're committed to staying the pace, but I just wanted to let all of you know in advance.
Of course, if you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to comment here, DM us privately, or email us at [email protected]. You can also chat with the growing NHP community at our Discord server!
January Update: Player's Guide and Arc 1 PDF out
over 2 years ago
– Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 12:40:00 PM
Hey everyone, happy holidays, Merry Christmas, and happy new year!
Hope you've all been getting some rest amidst the festivities. As for this month's progress update, I'm happy to announce that the Player's Guide PDF and the PDF for Arc 1 out of 6 have been released. You might've received an email from BackerKit with a link to your downloads. If you haven't, you might need to complete your survey first. In that case, please contact me and I can resend yours to you. We plan to release the remaining arcs one at a time per month and as we collect feedback for essentially our closed beta period, we'll fine-tune the final iteration so that the printed edition will be perfect.
On the merchandise side, we're proud to announce that I've received the prints and enamel pins are currently in manufacturing. That just leaves the acrylic standees and the norigae, so we're making solid time with these.
That's largely it for now, but please stay tuned in the coming month as we're working on some exciting things we're itching to announce. Till then, we'll keep working on both layout and translating our book into Korean.
We're also almost ready to start our paid-GM 5e Curse of Strahd and PF2e Season of Ghosts campaigns to help fund future projects, so if you're interested, please contact me to discuss scheduling! Thanks so much and again, happy new year!
If you have any questions or comments, you can reply here or contact us at [email protected]. Please also consider joining us in our Discord server by clicking the following link:
