Open Post - April Release - The Null Mines
Added 2025-04-02 22:58:26 +0000 UTCTier Release Links
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Hey Critical Crew!
With over 100 pages of 5e content, this is easily our biggest release yet!!
April's release leaves the surface world behind, and plunges us deep into the depths of the earth. In the claustrophobic tunnels and sprawling caverns, the Order of the Blank's mining operation known as Null toils away (with entire generations of miners having gone their entire life without seeing the light of the sun). Null exists for the sole purpose of discovering rare veins of ore and arcanhile, for use on the surface in the front lines of the ongoing war against the mages. Does your table have what it takes to venture into the unknown?
Printable STL
This month brings our latest STL for our Apprentice and Loremaster tiers - the deadly Blank Overseer himself, Atreus III ! This STL file comes presupported by our good friends at TableFlip Foundry.
As always - STL's are NOT backlogged, so be sure to download it locally this month!
Encounters
We've got 5 brand new encounters of varying challenge ratings and settings -ready to drop right into your existing campaigns, or can just as easily be used as a springboard into a new adventure.
Send your party tracking down the location of a missing clone and bring the body-horror when they stumble across a laboratory deep within the caves; interrupt their subterranean travels with an unknown noise that appears to be getting louder; and cross paths with a group of Blank miners that are attempting to destroy an uncovered magical artifact....!
Stat Blocks
You get 5 brand new monster stat blocks of various challenge ratings, helping you flesh out the Order of the Blank at your table with creatures like the Blank Fleshripper, the Blank Nullsmith, and the Blank overseer Atreus III!
Player Options
Players and GM's alike have long been asking for more Order of the Blank player options, and this month we have answered your calls! April's release introduces our latest full player class - the Biosplicer! This class originates from the scientific knowledge and schooling of the Order of the Blank, and focuses on hunting creatures before harvesting various biological components that it can then fashion into craftable items and elixirs or even graft the parts onto themselves and others via our brand new Crafting system! This makes the Biosplicer a great utility class for any party, as the biosplicer helps augment the party for any challenge that may be thrown their way. With three subclasses to choose from that each focus on specializing in a different monster type (Aberration, Construct, and Undead), your players are sure to enjoy the nearly endless augmentations that this will introduce to your table.
We also have our latest player race - the humanoid native batfolk known as the Nycterians. Due to their ancestral homes lying so close to the advancing Blank miners, the nycterians have found themselves at odds with Atreus III and his ilk. The nycterians have turned to covert resistance in an effort to prevent the stones of the earth from being disturbed. Using their intimate knowledge of the caverns, they sabotage mining equipment, collapse tunnels, and mislead the Blank’s survey teams.
And lastly, we're covering all your player's needs with our 4 latest feats and 2 latest deficiencies, to allow for further character customization.
Items
The introduction of the biosplicer necessitated a brand new Crafting system, and we did not pull any punches with this one. This release includes 336 crafted items to allow the easiest introduction of the system to your table possible! We've also got our 16 latest items and 2 latest grafts to round out everything you could need to reward your players.
Spells
This release also brings our 8 latest warps - the antimagic version of magic spells that allow the user to literally warp reality and create spell-like effects! With a special focus on the biosplicer, these warps will help fully integrate it at your table.
Maps
We've also got 10 total battle maps (gridded and gridless variations) - ready for the included encounters (or just as easily used as standalone maps).
Tokens
And lastly, we are bringing you 9 VTT-ready tokens for all of your online needs!
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As always, we have to share some love with the folks in the Hivemind for helping us brainstorm and finetune the content in this release! If you have yet to join the Critical Crafting discord community and get involved, you're missing out!
We hope you enjoy the latest Order of the Blank content for this month, but fear not... May brings more Arcanuum content to help balance out the scales!
We'll see you in the skies!
- Dillon, Cameron, Connor, and Sarah
