Gate Pass Gazette Issue #31
Issue 31 of the Gate Pass Gazette has now been added to the site. This is the September 2024 issue, and includes advanced challenge building rules, a bunch of new exploration challenges, new arena assets, new cleric archetypes, and more!
Mission: Imperiled! Perilous Challenge Mechanics
Different stories call for different focuses. Sometimes a political intrigue at court deserves a whole session and other times a week of investigating a criminal plot might be resolved with a single skill check. When Narrators want to give the players a chance to flex their ingenuity in low-stakes scenes, perilous challenges provide a quick way to keep the story moving while keeping everyone engaged with the threat of peril.
The Vault of Fallen Gods
Buried deep below the Ghostwatch Mountains, an ominous temple of red and white marble grows out of an ancient battleground like an eldritch cyst. Millennia ago, celestials and fiends perished by the score in a war for dominance of the Material Plane. The spells and weapons used in that war prevented the essences of those creatures from returning to their respective planes, so they remained trapped in an eternal state between death and life. Those few mortals that are aware of the place thought the devastation so terrible that it could only have been inflicted by deities, thus giving the cursed caverns their name.
Enhance Your Battlefield 2: Additional Arena Assets
In Gate Pass Gazette Issue #29, we introduced Combat Arenas—a robust system for building and running rich and dynamic theater-of-the-mind combat encounters. In this issue, we will be supporting that system and your games with additional arena assets and a more complicated example of a combat arena.
Unorthodox Faiths: Archetypes for Misfits Clerics
Divine pantheons are as large and varied as the experience of living is. While faiths related to noble purposes like justice, healing, or light may be the most popular in many cultures, there are those who devote their lives to different callings. The need to roam and explore the world, the desire to enjoy life and love, and the embrace of the gloom and darkness inherent to existence; all of these are possible, if less common, paths to accept divinity.
ISSUE 31 (Septmber 2024)
- Mission: Imperiled! Perilous Challenge Mechanics || The Pace of Peril | Designing Obstacles | Assess the Challenge | Face the Challenge | Resolution
- The Vault of Fallen Gods || Haunted Rest (exploration challenge) | Maw of the Demon (exploration challenge) | Razor Halo (magic item) | The Maker of Gods (magic item) | Imprisoned Celestial (monster variant) | Imprisoned Fiend (monster variant)
- Enhance Your Battlefield 2: Additional Arena Assets || Elements | Terrain | Props | Example Arena
- Unorthodox Faiths: Archetypes for Misfit Clerics || Divine Hedonist (cleric archetype) | Open-Road Adherent (cleric archetype) | Shadow Priest (cleric archetype)