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Korolstead: Secrets of the Smoking Ruin

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What Korolstead has to offer the foolhardy and the unwary:

  • New story seeds for visiting the Smoking Ruin
  • Complete, wall-to-wall maps of the entire Ruin, including 44 full-color maps of over 20 unique locations
  • Two new short scenarios to challenge players
  • Two new factions to keep Vamargic and the players on their toes
  • New friends, foes, and rogues to help or hinder the adventurers
  • Five new minor cult descriptions
  • New magic items
  • New creatures, flora, and races
  • Random encounter tables for all parts of the Ruin
  • GM’s tools for generating loot, weapons, armor, medicine, and just about anything else you might find in a ruined city

This supplement is compatible with Chaosium’s Runequest: The Smoking Ruin & Other Stories.  Its contents is playable with expeditions before, during, or after running the official adventure.

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shawn B December 30, 2023 7:59 pm UTC
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mow that this has hit electrum, any plans for a pod edition?
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John L December 30, 2023 11:56 pm UTC
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That would be really nice! But I don't think it's up to me.
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Trevor P October 23, 2023 8:17 am UTC
Is there any chance of a Print on Demand option for this title in the future?
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John L October 25, 2023 3:00 pm UTC
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That would be really nice! But I don't think it's up to me.
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Ian S August 04, 2023 5:00 am UTC
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On one hand, there is a tremendous amount of detail and ingenuity here, and several different scenario hooks are presented up front (page 3). Maps in the PDF book are also duplicated in the separate set of PDFs, and they are very colorful and artistic. So far I have gotten at least half a dozen game sessions out of two visits to Korolstead, and my Adventurers are only about half way through. I have to respect the copious production of detail here.

Now, as a description: Structurally it's a mostly-above-ground urban dungeon. It's a city and every un - ruined building has rooms (often two o thee floors of rooms) , every room has stuff in it and many have encounters or traps. There are also random encounters by area.

Besides that there is more than one set of intelligent opponents who will, sooner or later, react against the Adventurers. And several friendly or neutral NPCs they may encounter, too!

On the other hand, Korolstead takes considerable GM prep: i recommend...See more
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John L August 16, 2023 12:35 am UTC
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These were great suggestions! I'm going to roll out a new version soon, and I'll include as many of these as I can. Thanks!
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Jacob A February 21, 2023 5:02 pm UTC
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With the authors permission I made an online generator of the encounter and loot tables. The output isn't pretty but it saves time.

https://chartopia.d12dev.com/collection/2088/
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J.P. L January 11, 2022 4:02 pm UTC
It would be nice to see what the maps actually look like (a preview of one map or something) because I am mostly interested in them from this product.
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John L January 12, 2022 1:44 am UTC
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This is a great suggestion! I've updated the quick preview to capture some of the maps. Thanks!
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J.P. L January 14, 2022 5:53 am UTC
Thank you, John! The maps look good. I see that the maps have numbers in them, probably to go with location descriptions. I was wondering if the PDF version comes with maps without the numbers, possibly as seperate files? They might be more useful with different VTTs that way. Surely not absolutely necessary, but if it's easy to do, would be a nice thing for sure.
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John L January 14, 2022 1:55 pm UTC
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Hi JPL! Purchase of the PDF comes with a ZIP file that contains all maps, both those that are numbered and those that are clean.
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J.P. L January 28, 2022 9:29 am UTC
Thanks John, that's great news!
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Lon N November 20, 2021 5:12 am UTC
When I click on the full size preview I get a message of "file not found".
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John L November 21, 2021 3:09 am UTC
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Thanks for letting me know! I have no idea why it's doing that. For now, the Quick Preview is working.
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John L November 21, 2021 9:20 pm UTC
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It seems to be fixed now. Thanks!
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Jim M October 08, 2021 5:22 pm UTC
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At the moment I only seem to be able to download a map pack consisting of jpg and png files.
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John L October 08, 2021 8:33 pm UTC
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I'm sorry about that, Jim! There was a mix-up related to my poor choice in titles. The PDF should be available now.
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