The Black Market Guide to Immortality now on Backerkit
The Black Market Guide to Immortality, a 200+ page 5e/Pathfinder 2e inspired by East Asian mythologies and folktales, is crowdfunding now on Backerkit!
What are you willing to become for immortality? From the creators of the Korea-inspired Undying Corruption, The Black Market Guide to Immortality seeks to provide both players and GM characters with the choices to answer this question. The "author", Shin Seul-ki, has stolen magical secrets from a failed cultish scheme to seize godhood and inscribed them all to aid cultivators across the world seize eternal life.
This 250+ page 5e and Pathfinder 2e sourcebook that expands on Undying Corruption. Achieve divinity and beyond in your adventures by supporting the campaign on Backerkit!
The Black Market Guide to Immortality expands the world of Undying Corruption with:
- Worldbuilding expanding across East Asian mythologies.
- 5 new species/ancestries based on mythologies and folktales from China, Japan, and Korea.
- 13 new subclasses for each existing class plus our homebrew Tactician class, with Pathfinder 2e conversions.
- A bestiary of 50+ new monsters from across East Asia.
- 20+ new legendary items and artifacts from East Asian mythologies.
- An NPC Guide with plot hooks, allies, and villains to drive your campaigns' stories.
- A progression system built around story-driven milestones that enable your characters to achieve immortality.
"Deeply researched, culturally authentic, stunningly creative, Undying Corruption is unlike anything else in English for its presentation of Korean myth and Asian folklore." - Sixiang Wang, Associate Professor of Korean History and Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California - Los Angeles
The crowdfunding campaign will fulfill primarily fulfill a print run of The Black Market Guide of Immortality for both 5e and Pathfinder 2e. Additional campaign rewards include Virtual Tabletop (Foundry or Roll20) monster tokens, STL files of 3D printable miniatures, an original soundtrack, a digital artbook, a digital NPCs guide, stickers, enamel pins, art prints, and more!
New to the world of Undying Corruption? Pledge levels and add-ons include the option to receive both Undying Corruption and The Black Market Guide to Immortality.
Cross-Collaboration with Grim Moon Studio
Nine Heavens Press and Grim Moon Studio are cross-collaborating with The Black Market Guide to Immortality and Nightfell: The Witches' Path. Back both campaigns at any tier and you will receive Nine Heavens Press' homebrew Oath of the Lunar Eclipse subclass for Grim Moon Studio's Lunar Cultist homebrew class!
About Nine Heavens Press
Nine Heavens Press consists of mostly Asian creators, amateurs and professionals alike, many having worked as freelancers or known companies and studios such as Paizo, Blizzard, Nintendo, and Square Enix.
Contact Information
For press inquiries, interview requests, or more information, please contact Minki Kim, founder and lead writer of Nine Heavens Press, and nineheavenspress@gmail.com. You can also follow Nine Heavens Press on Bluesky, Facebook, and Instagram.
