Open Post - March Release - Unearthed Undead
Added 2025-03-03 14:27:46 +0000 UTCTier Release Links
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Hey Critical Crew!
March's release marks the return of the necromancers of old - the Order of the Three. The Lady of Sorrows, the Red Witch, and Khaldhool are names burned into the annals of history due to their part in setting off the events that led to the inevitable rise to power of the technocratic fascist Order of the Blank (and thus the outlawing of magic), and they are once more walking the earth. It's a sign that many herald as ushering in the end times, so prepare your tables for pure evil....
Printable STL
This month brings our TWO latest STLs for our Apprentice and Loremaster tiers - the necromancer Khaldhool in both his human form and his shadow dragon form ! This STL file comes presupported by our good friends at TableFlip Foundry.
**NOTE - The STLs have taken longer to sculpt this month than usual, because of this, STLs will NOT be available with the initial release.
All Loremasters and Apprentices will be notified when they are uploaded into the Google Drive folder for the month for Patreon and into your library for Tribes.**
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.
Investigate the strange happenings at a home grieving over their deceased pet; trap your players within a strange crypt, laid out as a seemingly horrifying dinner party; and take your players through an epic stand-off as a city under siege watches as a nether herald slowly shambles towards the wall, carrying an army of undead on its back...
Stat Blocks
You get 7 brand new monster stat blocks of various challenge ratings and our Haunt monster template, to allow for easy reskinning of existing monsters into new spectral variants!
With stats for the Lady of Sorrows, the Red Witch, and Khaldhool, we may have your campaign's next Big-Bad...
Player Options
This release brings our latest subclass for our original Gravebound player class (originally introduced in our "The Wretched Dead" release back in September of 2024) - the Pneumamancy Devotion! Gravebound who choose the devotion of pneumamancy are those who raise and command haunts - spectral manifestations of animalistic or monstrous spirits consumed by powerful emotions related to their violent deaths. Haunts are often found prowling the battlefield with an unsettling presence that exhausts and terrifies their foes, still reliving their mortal days of hunters stalking their prey. Pneumamancers' mastery over haunts make them particularly enigmatic and dangerous, as their harnessing of the wild, otherworldly side of “nature” after death provides them with truly terrible minions.
We also have our latest player racial template - the Risen. Risen creatures are beings that have died and been returned to a semblance of life - animated by necromantic energies or bound to existence by a powerful will. While they retain some of their original traits, they are irrevocably altered by their condition, gaining abilities and weaknesses associated with their new Undead state. (We're eager to hear stories of how players integrate this into their background, as it should make for some great roleplaying opportunities!)
And lastly, we're covering all your player's needs with our 5 latest feats and 2 latest deficiencies, to allow for further character customization.
Items
We've also got our 7 latest items and 3 latest grafts! Reward your players with terrifying items like the Death Mask or Amulet of the Three, and help tame those pesky haunts running around with the Haunt Leash. And help your players further augment their PC's with our latest grafts the Gravedigger's Toes, the Lich's Finger, and the Skeletal Body!
Spells
This release also brings our 10 latest necromantic magic spells! With spells like Wall of Darkness and Witch's Touch, and Mass Bloody Mess or Grave Robber's Gullet, your table is sure to be in for a treat.
Maps
We've also got 12 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 14 VTT-ready tokens for all of your online needs!
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Big shout out, as always, to 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!
Next month takes us down deep within the depths of the Earth to an Order of the Blank mining operation (and also introduces our latest player class - the Harvester!) so stay tuned for more soon!
- Dillon, Cameron, Connor, and Sarah
