The road through Tegan's Bridge is not safe anymore.

The small village of Teganhsire is in disarray as the workers sent to repair the bridge never came back to town, and rumors spread that a monster has killed them all. Hired PCs investigate the situation, but find themselves thrown into a maelstrom of druidic intrigue and repercussions of an old feud between the village and forest spirits.

Burials of Teganshire is a module for level 1-3 characters that can be used in any campaign setting (commercial or homebrew). It is the first module of the Circle of the Blood Moon adventure path that will take characters to level 10, through a long campaign filled with complex encounters and ancient mysteries. 

A few things that are important to us in the design of this adventure:

Campaign Setting Agnostic. We wanted to propose a module that can be inserted in any campaign world. The Kingdom of Lothmar is our own setting, and in the appendix of the module, we provide guidance on how to play this adventure in this setting. However, we designed it so that if you want to play the module in your own setting, you totally can. How do we achieve that? First off the action of the module is local, it spans an area of about 15 miles wide, that you can easily plug into your preferred setting. Also, we made sure to strip any lore or NPC behavior that would not be applicable to most settings, offering the possibility to play it as it is, or DMs to add their custom lore-specific content to their liking.

Heroic Story Centric. We want players to feel like heroes. Our modules are tough and complex because players do not like to feel their progression is undeserved. Nothing beats a party of players cheering at each other after a tough battle. We also believe that actions should have consequences and our modules include many different possible endings based on how the players behaved. Compelling stories are supported by motivated and plausible NPCs. We have designed this module so that every NPC's motivations and perspectives are described, giving DMs the tools to bring the environment to life.

Burials of Teganshire is a module that brings together the investigation of a murder mystery and the combat elements of a dungeon-crawl adventure. For those of you who intend to play the complete adventure path, the conclusion of the module also offers different possible endings - based on the decisions of the PCs - and how these branch off to the second module in the series. We want this journey to wrap around your players and put them in the driver's seat, instead of forcing them on a set of rails they will have to follow.

Burials of Teganshire comes with:

• Complete monster statblocks as part of an original bestiary
• DM guidance on how to play the main encounters
• Detailed motivations and perspectives for all NPCs
• Immersive detailed maps, also available in digital format for VTT or prints

Staying alive…

…will be the least of your troubles.

Tales of Lothmar is a new collection of modules and adventure paths from Griffon Lore Games. Its objective is to both propose a set of exciting content that can be played with any setting, and also introduce players and DMs to our own campaign world, Kingdom of Lothmar.

In Burials of Teganshire, DMs will have the opportunity to play the adventure in this setting, and more precisely in the Viscounty of Kandra, one of the thirteen provinces of the kingdom. Kandra will be the setting for the whole adventure path named Circle of the Blood Moon that starts with this module. Characters will be compelled to untie a complex knot of intrigue and face terrifying enemies, through a total of five modules, leading up to 10th level.

We have published a 15-page gazetteer that covers lore about the history, the people, the places of the Viscounty. This Viscounty of Kandra Gazetteer is a free add-on to all backer tiers of this Indiegogo campaign!

Who are We?

Griffon Lore Games was started by Christophe and Anthony about two years ago, though this is our first IndieGogo campaign. We are both long-time players of tabletop RPGs and had been authoring modules and adventures for our private groups for 30+ years and decided we'd like to share what we built with the rest of the community.

Christophe was born in France and has lived in the US for the last 15 years. He started RPGs with the D&D Red Box, played a lot of 2E and ran years-long campaigns in Ars Magica and Vampire as well.

Anthony grew up in Washington State, and played all editions of D&D. He remains locally famous for DMing his 20+ years D&D campaign in the Greyhawk setting.

We are both super excited to become a part of the Indiegogo community and experience your support for our projects!

Exquisite, Precise and Immersive Maps

One last word about our maps. We're pretty proud of them and excited to put them in your hands. We humbly think we have the best maps in the industry!

This module comes with maps-you-can-play-with. Our maps are not only meant to be fancy illustrations for the book. They are immersive tools for players and DMs to use. The maps presented in the module are of small enough scale that, again, you can plug them in any world you want to use. We think of maps as story generators: when characters need to travel from one locale to another, a rich and detailed map turns that journey into an adventure.

Addon products and freebies to the module will include Map Packs that will provide high-resolution files for the maps so you print them and/or use them on VTT platforms. Anna Meyer authored all the maps for the campaign setting. You can look at her previous work on her website (http://ghmaps.net)

Why Indiegogo?

This is our first campaign on Indiegogo - but not our first crowd-funding campaign. We have been looking at Indiegogo for a while. From our perspective, its one of the remaining platforms that stayed true to the original purpose of crowd-funding: get guys like us in contact with folks like you and enable our ideas and projects to come to life. It has been a frustrating journey on other platforms that turned into marketplaces and online stores where large companies come to score high sales numbers and leave crumbs for the Indie publications.

We hope this campaign is the first of many as we bring the collection to life. We aim for these campaigns to:

• Only run for a couple weeks
• Have options priced between $5 and $30
• Flexible goals so you know the campaign is a go whatever happens
• We seek to cover our costs - if the campaign should get funded beyond our goal, this money will go towards improving the product and help finance the products to come. We will find our profit as a company outside of IndieGogo.

Delivery

PDF:
After the campaign concludes and as soon as the document is ready, you will receive a unique code by email allowing you to download the module from our website. You will need to setup a free customer account on the Griffon Lore Games website to get your PDFs. Please contact us with any questions/requests about this.

Softcover:
This version of the module is printed on premium paper, with a thick, glossy cardstock cover. These are the nicest prints available from Ingram.

Softcover perks will be mailed to the address provided by us via Indiegogo. 

Shipping internationally has become very expensive. All softcover orders are shipped with USPS based on their International rates (We do not make any profit on shipping!). We think they offer the best speed/quality/price ratio.