Curtain Call! Thank you so much!
about 2 years ago – Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 11:57:24 PM

THANK YOU!!

With the support of all 1368 of you, we smashed through all stretch goals and achieved an outstanding goal of $89,704! We at Nine Heavens Press are beyond humbled for your support in making sure we can finish Undying Corruption in its most outstanding form. From this point on, we will be hard at work finishing the book along with the additional content made possible through your generosity as our investors. 

Besides our wonderful team for all the enthusiasm and efforts to push the game in the final days, I'd like to extend special thanks to Zac of Plus Three Press, HTTPaladin, and my cousin Bundy Kim of Contingent99 for their guidance and experience both setting up and managing the campaign. With the dynamic nature of campaigns like this, their advice absolutely helped adapt to new situations.

In addition, we'd like to thank Josefiend and Stellaluna for organizing live one-shots of our sample chapters in the beginning days. You can find them over on Twitter and Twitch!

Final thanks to KUKIBOX, DCC Cafe, and the Laughing Goblin Cafe, game stores in Korea, for helping both print and distribute flyers to reach a Korean gaming audience. In particular, we'd like to thank Dan, 젤리빈, and Strofel for connecting us to the wider Korean player base and earning their trust through the past couple months. 

What's Next?

Sometime next week, we'll put out a timeline of what to expect during the post-Kickstarter phase of our push to get these books printed. Though we have three separate groups running through our adventure, I think we'll need to enlist our backers to assist with playtesting, especially at Tiers 3 and 4 play. We'll also put out details regarding that and get content out at the right time. 

We'll also be getting our pre-order shop ready, so if you've missed out on the Kickstarter, have no fear! You will still be able to get your early copy of Undying Corruption no problem.

Once again, thank you all so much for your incredible support, and we'll be sure to keep in touch as we progress toward completion.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at [email protected], hit us in the comments or messages, or join our Discord server:

Final 24 hours! Pathfinder 2e conversion cleared
about 2 years ago – Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 05:31:40 PM

Good morning!

We’ve cleared 75K meaning we can start the process of converting Undying Corruption 5e into Pathfinder 2e! Everyone who bought a digital or physical book through Kickstarter will be eligible to receive a free copy of the conversion PDF.

All that remains now is translating the book from English to Korean. As mentioned, everyone who purchased the book either in digital or physical form through Kickstarter will recieve the pdf for the Korean version. Please help us take this project back to our country where we’ve got our roots in!

Also not so fun fact, but my internet is down today of all days, so I’ll do my best to keep everyone updated through my phone if that’s what it takes! 

Thank you all so much and I hope you have a wonderful day!

9 Hours Left: the final Stretch goal has been cleared!! Thank you everyone!
about 2 years ago – Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 05:31:35 PM

And on the final day, with 9 hours remaining, the last stretch goal has been cleared!

We will begin translating Undying Corruption from English into Korean! Everyone who purchased the book in either PDF or physical format will be eligible to receive the Korean version for free! For those joining us after the Kickstarter campaign, we will figure out the best way to go about selling it. With the value of the Korean Won having depreciated as much as it has, I want to especially thank all Korean gamers who helped us reach this point. Thank you so much.

What's Next?

Well, we've cleared all the stretch goals, but your continued support will enable us to set a strong foundation for future creative endeavors. We've received a lot of questions about either combining the Player's Guide with the book or at the very least getting a softcover release going. We would absolutely look into making that possible knowing that the setting information there would make it easier for others to run their own homebrew campaigns.

With additional funds, we can continue to expand the lore of the world and commission our art team to continue creating wonderful new illustrations to depict other nations neighboring Danguk. We're also keen on illustrating more monster art especially the high level ones that your characters will contend with in Arc VI.

Speaking of which!

This is your last chance to get the limited edition hardcover book with the cover illustrated by creator of Skullgirls, Alex Ahad!! We won't be selling them on our Backerkit pre-order shop!

That said, there are a lot of things we'd still like to do and with your help, we can include more plans in the realm of possibility.

Once again, thank you all for your continued and generous support, and we promise to work hard from here till the next year to get this book out to print! In the meantime, let me take the liberty of posting some sketches our artists made to promote the project in its final hours:

Final 48 Hours! Cleared stretch goals and elaboration on the Unlocked One Shot: Curse of Neungwon Temple
about 2 years ago – Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 12:49:13 AM

Good afternoon and holy heck!!

We have less than 48 hours of the campaign remaining and we've cleared $72K plus an incredible amount of stretch goals already! Your generosity means the world and we're going to triple our efforts to make this project something every one of you will remember.

Now, let's dissect what we've cleared and what's to come!

The "School of Astromancy" Wizard has been unlocked! You can rewrite the cosmos to empower your spellcasting to new heights.

The new Tactician homebrew class has been unlocked! Mounted on a legendary beast, you will ride into battle and lead your comrades to victory! The three Military Arts we've prepared for this homebrew class are the combat and defense-focused Art of the General, the lyrical Art of the Hwarang, and the Art of the Monster Slayer designed to take down creature types you've prepared against! I'd also like to confirm when we publish future books, we would absolutely be happy to expand this list with more homebrew subclasses.

"Curse of Neungwon Temple"

Neungwon Temple/능원사 is actually a temple that exists in Korea, located in the Gyeonggi Province. It's famous for its splendor, I mean, seriously, if you look at photos of it, you'll see that it's a spacious, beautiful temple with intricate, beautiful designs on its architecture. 

There is also the legend of the Neungwon Temple that appears in the Samguk Yusa. A group of thieves sneaked into the temple to loot the shrine of King Suro of Geumgwan Gaya, the ruling city-state of the Gaya Confederacy. What they were greeted by when they got there was a nightmare: immortal warriors fired arrows that rained on them from the skies. 

When they tried again, they found the shrine guarded by 30 giant serpents whose eyes glowed like lightning and their bites impaled the thieves. In this legend, the temple protects something extremely sacred and I wanted to bring this legend to life through a one-shot where players attempt a grand heist. I'm thinking about setting it around the latter end of Tier 2 or earlier Tier 3 depending on where my writing takes me.

But I'm extremely excited to bring to you this adventure! I'll be using all my dungeon-making chops to do so.

In the next update, we'll talk more about our plans for the expanded lore! To give you, the players, more options for creating characters traversing through Danguk, we're excited to reach out to writers and creators representing these different Asian cultures to help build this world together.

Once again, thank you so very much for all your generosity! All of us at Nine Heavens Press are deeply humbled by the outpouring of love from TTRPG players.

Final Hours: "Way of the Dosa" Monk archetype unlocked! And more incoming
about 2 years ago – Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 02:26:57 PM

"The Way of the Dosa" Monk has been unlocked! Activate states of inner power corresponding with the five elements of Taoism with this incredibly flexible Monk archetype!

We've mentioned in the prior update details about our next stretch goal at 69k: the "School of Astromancy" Wizard. Astromancers can draw constellations in the heavens that corresponds with different schools of magic spells fall under to give them a boost during your daily preparation. 

At 70k, we have the Tactician class, but let's talk a bit more about the other goal next to it: an expansion to the book, "Birth of Malice". It's difficult to talk about the sixth arc of the book when we've kept Arcs 1-5 under wraps, but we'll try our best!

The book's story spans from levels 1-17 and the story finishes satisfactorily with the end of Arc 5. There are few loose ends to tie up and you've foiled the machinations of the main villains handily. Arc VI will begin with a time skip featuring your characters being able to enjoy their new lives as well-regarded heroes of the realm.

A new villain that opted instead to spectate from behind the curtains decides to gather the pieces of the calamity you foiled. The gates to the Realm of Darkness opens, flooding the world with the mud of mortal malice. With the crowning of the Emperor of Darkness, the unifying will of all evil, grudge-consumed spirits, you have one last job to do and banish this threat once and for all.

From levels 18-20, you and your party will be in for the fight of your lives against a specially planned dungeon through a plane of malice and the superboss waiting at the end!

There's still more to come after this too!! Thank you so much and I hope we're able to make it to the very end!!