Epic Encounters: Ghule

Steamforged Games bringen neue Epic Encounters heraus.

New Epic Encounters Sets! Meet the Flesh Eaters

Enter an underground world where flesh-eating creatures teem in the darkness. Will you live to breathe fresh air again? Pre-order Hive of the Ghoul-kin and Barrow of the Corpse Crawler today!

Today, we’re taking you on a journey into the bowels of the earth. Hope you’re not afraid of the dark…

Containing everything you need to create truly epic roleplaying encounters (hence the name), the Hive of the Ghoul-kin warband box and Barrow of the Corpse Crawler boss box pit you against flesh-eating fiends.

Slot them into your existing roleplaying campaigns, or combine the two for a delectable series of adventures!

Made for new and experienced players, every Epic Encounters set features an all-in-one boxed encounter that’s 5e compatible and ready to play as part of a new or existing roleplaying campaign.

Let’s see what Richard August, lead writer for Epic Encounters, has to say about the latest sets:

“The ghouls and the Corpse Crawler take Epic Encounters in a new and, I hope, horrible direction. The art, miniatures, and writing are focused on plunging players into something more approximating a horror film than traditional fantasy fare. There’s body horror, the depraved machinations of warped science, and lots of blood.“

“I’m a big fan of the work of HP Lovecraft, so I wanted to make sure there were lots of references to the Mythos contained in the adventures. And there are, but not necessarily the ones people might expect.“

“The ghoul-kin are especially horrific, with the hints about their origins and nature being a lot of fun to write as I kept trying to find weird, unpleasant angles to help GMs give their players the creeps (as long as everyone is okay with a creepy game, of course)!“

“The Corpse Crawler is a grotesque creature, capable of destroying a party with a number of pretty disgusting attack moves. I mean, it’s a giant, dead-flesh-eating worm… You didn’t expect ‘nice’, did you? These sets are a great way of mixing up your game, and introducing players to something new, and just a little bit scary!”

Terrifying, thanks Richard!

About Hive of the Ghoul-kin

Listen well, adventurers. It’s time to set the scene:

You may think the leagues of earth beneath your feet are still, with centuries of soil and stone heaped in the dark, but you’d be wrong. Didn’t you ever wonder why so many dead go missing from their graves? True, it’s easier to pretend otherwise. Easier than confronting the roiling mass of slavering ghouls that tunnel into crypts and catacombs, never satisfied. But you can’t pretend forever.

The thefts are getting more frequent, and more noticeable. And now, the living are being taken down into the hive. Of course, they’re not living when they get there. Or in one piece… Do you dare venture into a terrifying subterranean realm to confront the ghoul-kin?

Hive of the Ghoul-kin is a warband encounter that pits you against a horde of ravening ghouls.

It’s playable as a standalone battle but you can also use it as part of a wider campaign.

Glutton for punishment? Use it as the precursor for Barrow of the Corpse Crawler for a deliciously creepy adventure!

As with all our Epic Encounters sets, each box contains everything you need to run a 5e compatible roleplaying campaign.

Hive of the Ghoul-kin includes 15 highly detailed minis, a double-sided game mat, and an adventure book replete with everything needed to transfer your imagination to the tabletop.

About Barrow of the Corpse Crawler

So, you survived the hive. Just. Your clothes are ragged from the lashing ghoulish claws you barely escaped. Just as your ragged breaths return to normal, and your heart ceases its frantic thudding, you hear a deafening rumble. Clods of earth fall all around you in the tunnel as you clasp your hands to your eyes.

Out of the blackness comes an enormous churning maw, fit to swallow a village.

A Corpse Crawler!

As with all Epic Encounters boss boxes, Barrow of the Corpse Crawler contains a truly monstrous miniature! The colossal Corpse Crawler mini is sure to hog the limelight in your campaigns.

As usual, you’ll also get a double-sided game mat and an adventure book to help bring your Corpse Crawler campaigns to life on the tabletop.

Can you kill this gluttonous abomination, or will you end up as worm food? Use Barrow of the Corpse Crawler as a standalone encounter or as part of a new or existing RPG campaign!

Someone needs to destroy these flesh-eating fiends! Someone like you.

Make your next roleplaying session one to remember. With just one box, you can run sessions your friends will be talking about for weeks!

Or combine Hive of the Ghoul-kin and Barrow of the Corpse Crawler for a truly epic campaign! You could even embed them into an existing RPG campaign to keep the adventures going for days.

Tales of high adventure, danger, and derring do are nigh. Pre-order Hive of the Ghoul-kin and Barrow of the Corpse Crawler now.

Und das sind die Sets:

Epic Encounters: Hive of the Ghoul-kin – 54,99$

Confront formidable, flesh-eating foes with this Epic Encounters warband box!

Ghouls teem in the darkness, stealing up from their subterranean kingdom to filch corpses wherever they can find them. There’s not an undisturbed graveyard to be found on the continent. 

The most wealthy, and most determined not to be molested in their eternal sleep, invest in steel caskets. Even this does not stop the ghouls for long — how could it? Their brood-sire simply breeds a ghoul with claws capable of shearing through steel. If you take the words of a bizarre book seriously, of course. But such a thing would explain much about the ghouls…

Didn’t you ever wonder why so many dead are taken from their graves? True, it’s easier to pretend otherwise. But the thefts are getting more frequent, and more noticeable. And now, the living are being taken down into the hive. Of course, they’re no longer living by the time they get there. Do you dare venture into a terrifying subterranean realm to confront the ghoul-kin?

Inside this warband box is everything you need to challenge the ghoul-kin, including 15 highly detailed minis and an adventure book woven with information to fuel your imagination.

Can you survive the hive? Use Hive of the Ghoul-kin as a standalone encounter or as part of a new or existing RPG campaign!

Key Features

• Everything you need to create epic roleplaying encounters with the ghoul-kin
• 15 highly detailed miniatures and a ghoulish adventure book!
• 5e compatible
• Use as a standalone one-shot or part of an existing campaign
• Includes 5 unique sculpts
• Combine with Barrow of the Barrow of the Corpse Crawler for a cinematic boss fight!

What’s in the box?

Contains:

• 15 highly detailed miniatures
• 5 unique sculpts!
• Ghoulish adventure book
• Double-sided game mat
• Monster stats
• Tips and tricks for building tension and excitement

Epic Encounters: Barrow of the Corpse Crawler – 44,99$

Pit your roleplaying group against a ravenous Corpse Crawler with this Epic Encounters boss box! Compatible with fifth edition or any fantasy roleplaying game.

There are things in the endless passages beneath the world; things that feast on the dead. Things that carry death with them, spewing foulness in their wake as they drag their vast bulk through an endless darkness. The corpse crawler. An enormous worm, oozing through the illimitable darkness, drawn ineluctably by the scent of the dead. And who knew death had undone so many? 

Little is truly known of the gluttonous worms, for few scholars possess the appetite to descend into the endless network of tunnels to study them…

In times of peace and plenty, Corpse Crawlers remain few and small. But where there is death, there is worm food, and feed the Corpse Crawler does. Some scholars believe one is approaching a size beyond which it might become unkillable. Is it even possible to kill a beast of such implausible vastness? I guess you’ll find out.

Inside this boss box is everything you need to challenge a Corpse Crawler, including a large, highly detailed Corpse Crawler miniature (100mm base!) and an adventure book woven with information to fuel your imagination. It’s up to you to discover which rumours and whispers are true!

Can you overcome this gluttonous abomination, or will you end up as worm food? UseBarrow of the Corpse Crawleras a standalone encounter or as part of a new or existing RPG campaign.

Key Features

• Everything you need to run cinematic boss encounters with a Corpse Crawler
• Huge Corpse Crawler miniature inside! (100mm base)
• 5e compatible
• Play a one-shot boss battle or add to your current campaign
• Pair with warband box Hive of the Ghoul-kin! for an epic subterranean adventure!

What’s in the box?

Contains:

• 1 gargantuan, highly detailed Corpse Crawler miniature (100mm base, unpainted)
• Double-sided game mat
• Adventure book
• Monster stats
• Tips and tricks for building tension and excitement

Beide Epic Encounters befinden sich in der Vorbestellung mit einer geplanten Veröffentlichung im Juni.

Quelle: Steamforged Games