Open Post - August Release - The La'Zairus Mind Heist
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Hey Critical Crew!
What would you risk to reclaim the pieces of your own past?
This month, we return to the La’Zairus Time Casino, a city-sized gambling hall hurtling through the Hollow Expanse, where fortunes are wagered in coin, lifespan, and memory. The House has taken something from you, and getting it back will require more than luck.
Your characters awaken with much of their memory missing. They know they are somewhere inside La’Zairus, and they know that the criminal underboss Din’itzz claims he can help them. His plan is simple: gather the tools and information needed to break into one of the casino’s heavily protected vaults, confront the alien intelligence storing their stolen memories, and escape before the House realizes what has happened. Of course, trusting a crime boss when you cannot remember your own past may be the most dangerous gamble of all....
This 55+ page Outer Space Casino supplement includes:
A full adventure designed for 9th - 11th level players. Awaken without your memories, strike a deal with a dangerous crime boss, infiltrate the La’Zairus Time Casino, and rob a heavily guarded Vaultmind to steal back your past!
5 new monster statblocks - Face the reality-warping Abnornyz; go toe-to-toe with heavily armed Calypt Enforcers; use caution with the scheming Calypt Crime Bosses; push your luck with the treasure-filled Slot Golems; and risk it all facing off with the memory-stealing Vaultmind!
Player Options - 1 new Sunscorned subclass, the Tradition of the Black Star, and 1 new calypt subrace, the hulking Tabanu.
5 new items and 3 grafts - Hack security systems, open portable wormholes, steal memories with a baton, cloak yourself from sight, or implant a laser cutter directly into your arm!
5 new Warps - Bend space-time, disappear from surveillance, hack advanced technology, rewind a creature’s actions, and conceal stolen objects outside reality!
5 new casino minigames - Gamble your memories, lifespan, body, and pride with Anomaly Anatomy, Laser Tag, the Claw Machine, and more!
10 maps and 7 VTT tokens - Bring the neon-lit gambling halls, high-security vaults, and strange denizens of La’Zairus to life in your online games!
New rules, hazards, lore, and more!
.STL's
This month brings our latest .STL for our Apprentice and Loremaster tiers - the Tabnu Calypt! Help enforce the laws of the casino as an NPC or even bring one into your party as PC!
As always - STL's are NOT backlogged, so be sure to download them locally this month!
Adventure
Revisit La'Zairus with "Reclaiming the Past", a 22-page adventure for 9th–11th-level characters! Your players awaken with most of their memories missing and only one clear lead: the criminal underboss Din’itzz claims he can help them steal their past back. To reach the Vaultmind holding their memories, they must gather intel from an Anomaly-obsessed calypt, survive a violent raid by casino enforcers, infiltrate the high-roller floor known as The Magnate, and crack open a malfunctioning Slot Golem containing the keycode they need. But in La’Zairus, memories are currency, the House controls the odds, and trusting a crime boss when you cannot remember your own history may be the most dangerous gamble of all.
Stat Blocks
This supplement includes 5 new statblocks and our latest monster template from from the neon-lit halls of La’Zairus: confront the Abnornyz, an impossible creature hurled back from the Anomaly with reality-warping power; bargain with a Calypt Crime Boss who commands loyal muscle, stolen memories, and dangerous influence throughout the casino; evade heavily armed Calypt Enforcers equipped with X-ray vision, tri-shot weapons, and batons capable of stealing years of life or entire memories; survive the Slot Golem, a treasure-filled construct disguised among ordinary gaming machines; and face the Vaultmind, a gargantuan living repository that stores thousands of memories, invades the thoughts of those around it, and turns the contents of their own minds against them.
Player Options
You also get our latest Sunscorned player subclass with the Tradition of the Black Star. These sunscorned have had their vampiric curse rewritten by exposure to the Anomaly near La’Zairus, leaving them hungry not only for blood, but for memories and lifespan. They can drain years or memories from their prey, using these to empower themselves, create Black Star spawn bound through memory and lifespan, and reinforce their unstable bodies with cybernetic grafts that anchor them to a single reality. At their strongest, they can feed an enemy’s remaining future directly to the Anomaly, stealing decades of life in a single moment.
This supplement also brings a new calypt subrace, the Tabanu. Larger, broader, and far more powerful than their ordinary calypt kin, Tabanu lack the temporal organs needed to drain lifespan and are instead sustained through time cards paid as wages by the House. Most are recruited as bouncers, vault guards, debt collectors, and personal bodyguards, where their immense strength makes them the muscle of La’Zairus. These Large calypts can forcefully shove, knock down, grapple, and drag troublesome creatures away without slowing down, making them ideal for players who want to embody the overwhelming physical authority of casino security.
Items
This release also brings you 5 new items and 3 new grafts for your players. Bypass electronic locks and loop security footage with an Auto-Hacker, suit up in advanced Elite La’Zarian Security Armor, and create linked wormholes with a Port-a-Hole. Crack difficult locks with Safecracker’s Gloves, or strip years of lifespan and entire memories from your enemies with a Temporal / Memoir Baton. For characters willing to augment themselves, implant a Cloaking Field to vanish from sight, a Laryngeal Dart Launcher to silently incapacitate foes, or a hidden Laser Cutter to slice through obstacles during the heist.
Warps
ou also get 5 new Warps that use science, machinery, and arcanhile to bend reality without relying on magic. Tear open the fabric of space with Create Space-Time Rift, disappear from cameras and security systems with Go Off Grid, and hack advanced technology with “I’m In.” Rewind a creature’s actions with Temporal Rewind, or hide stolen objects outside reality using Transport Matter.
Maps
We've also got 10 total battle maps to bring the hustle and bustle of La'Zairus to your table!
Tokens
And lastly, this supplement comes with 7 VTT-ready tokens for all of your online needs!
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Make sure that you players don't get too accustomed to the lavish lifestyles aboard La'Zairus. Next month we return to the battlefields of The Mages’ War. The Order of the Blank has adapted, dug in, and transformed the frontlines into a brutal network of trenches, fortified positions, and relentless warfare designed to grind down the forces of magic. Get ready to enter the mud, smoke, and blood of a conflict where every inch of ground is paid for, and the Blank is finally beginning to win, with "In the Trenches of the Mages’ War"!
-Dillon, Cameron, Connor, and Fitz
Comments (5)
I’m trying to get access to this as I just backed as a loremaster, I do not know where I am supposed to go to access the backlogs
Hey Ethan, sorry about this, loremasters can find the backlog here: https://www.patreon.com/criticalcrafting/posts/october-backlog-172801474?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
Perfectly valid my dude.
Hey the link is broken
Hey there! We post a new link for each tier each month and remove the old link (otherwise anyone thst backed at anytime would have perpetual access). If you check out the most recent post, it has an explanation of some issues we have encountered this month as well as the current link to this month's content (backlog link in progress). Let me know if you have questions!