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Do you like intrigues, mysteries, and romance?
– So do we!
Therefore we have written a Gothic romance & mystery adventure for 5e – inspired by Bram Stoker!

Prepare for dashing vampires, werewolf secrets, forbidden love, silver daggers in the dark, and a night filled with mystery and romance. This is your invitation to travel to Wightcliff Castle with us!

Please help us create this amazing mystery adventure!
Join us on our epic journey!

Tove & Erik 
(The two nerds behind Midnight Tower)

Until Death Do Us Part is a Gothic romance & mystery adventure inspired by 
Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, for the world’s largest roleplaying game (5e).

The book will be compatible with 5e 2024 and 2014 rules and approximately 80 pages. 
The adventure is designed as a level 5 adventure, but the book includes scalable encounters so that the adventure can be played by all characters of level 1-20.

The compendium Creatures of the Night contains lore, new monsters, and more. It will feature all unlocked stretch goals and be available to all backers.

This book is created by Midnight Tower, the two nerds who brought you other mystery adventures like Before the Stroke of Midnight, An Unexpected Wedding Invitation, The Mystery of the Cursed Statuette, and many other adventures.

For half a century, a blood pact between the local vampire coven and the roaming werewolf pack has kept the people in Saltby village safe. 

However, the pact must be renewed every seventh year. This is a dangerous time, and the fragile alliance is in peril when the mayor’s daughter is suddenly missing!

You must unravel the mystery before dawn to save the alliance. Should you fail, lovers will turn enemies, and more blood will be spilt under the full moon. 

A night filled with mysteries, intrigues, and dark romance awaits you at Wightcliff Castle.

➛ A Gothic romance & mystery adventure inspired by Bram Stoker!
➛ Professional commissioned cover art by Alaina Milare (Before the Stroke of Midnight, Secrets of the Drow Trilogy, Empyrean Investigations) 
➛ Nine illustrated and detailed NPCs with personal background descriptions, agendas, and secrets
➛ Beautiful concept art, a two-page full-spread commissioned artwork
➛ New monsters, unique magical items, and lore
➛ More than 40 full-colour illustrations and original artworks, including gorgeous character portraits and professional commissions by Janna Sophia Art (Secrets of the Drow Trilogy, Ghostfire Gaming, Crimson Company - Wildwood Tales) and illustrator Oleksii Chernik
➛ Approximately 80 pages of content in total (if all stretch goals are unlocked)
➛ High-quality fantasy maps, including hand drawn and coloured maps
➛ Six premade characters so that you can start the game straight away
➛ Gorgeous character sheets with illustrations inspired by Bram Stoker with a dark romance theme designed by Bookwyrmling
➛ The compendium Creatures of the Night, featuring all unlocked stretch goals and more
➛ Free VTT pack with tokens, maps, and digital handouts for online gaming 
➛ Bonus: Your name will be featured in the book! (Immortality unlocked!)

This project is FULLY FUNDED and we've UNLOCKED ALL STRETCH GOALS!
Thank you so much for your amazing support! <3

➛ You’ll be the first to get the book before it’s released anywhere else! 
➛ You save money, as all prices are discounted
➛ You get to see behind the scenes and sneak peeks of the project to watch it come alive 
➛ You’ll support small independent creators and other fantasy illustrators
➛ You’ll be part of the Midnight Tower community and involved in creating the book, for example, by voting for stretch goals, adding your own ideas, suggesting names, and more
➛ Did we mention that you get your name in the book? 

Once you’ve selected your pledge reward, you can add more mystery books from Midnight Tower!

The following books are offered as add-ons:

➛An Unexpected Wedding Invitation  
A romantic mystery adventure inspired by Jane Austen. 
The book includes both the adventure An Unexpected Wedding Invitation and the compendium Intrigues & Intentions.

➛ Before the Stroke of Midnight
A Gothic mystery adventure inspired by Edgar Allan Poe. 
The book includes both the adventure Before the Stroke of Midnight and The Black Raven’s Compendium.

➛ Murder at the Old Wolf Inn
A romantic mystery adventure inspired by Agatha Christie.
The book includes both the adventure Murder at the Old Wolf Inn and the compendium Cloak and Daggers.

➛ The Mystery of the Cursed Statuette
A mystery adventure inspired by the famous detective Sherlock Holmes.
The book includes both the adventure The Mystery of the Cursed Statuette and The Magpie Secret Society Compendium.

➛ What Happened to Evy Ashwood?
A Lovecraftian mystery adventure inspired by H. P. Lovecraft. 
The book includes both the adventure What Happened to Evy Ashwood? and The Great Old One Compendium.

Each book contains a mystery adventure and compendium with plenty of new monsters, magical items, lore, and much more! All our adventures come with free VTT packs and include scalable encounters to suit any level from 1 to 20.

We collaborate with DriveThruRPG, and their printing company has facilities in both the USA and the UK. This means that for the majority of backers, your books are printed locally, which keeps shipping cost and delivery time to a minimum – and it’s more environmentally friendly, too!

This is our twelfth Kickstarter campaign and thanks to our amazing backers, all of our previous projects have been successful! We’re incredibly excited (and quite nervous, to be honest) to create this book! 
Over the years our mystery adventures for 5e have become wildly popular and even received an ENNIE nomination for Best Adventure and won the People’s Choice Best Adventure NDU award.

We now kindly ask for funding to cover production costs to make this book truly amazing! 
The production costs include: Nine beautiful NPC illustrations ($585), covers ($275), concept art commissions ($275), professional maps ($270), fantasy illustrations ($425), unique character sheets ($315), print design and other artwork ($250), and professional proofreading ($100).

The more funding we get, the better the book will be, with extra content and more commissioned art – which in turn will support other fantasy artists! :) 

This adventure is LGBTQ+ friendly, and it can be played by anyone, anywhere. 
The premade characters included in the book can be played as female, male, or non-binary characters. In addition, the game is open to same-sex romantic relationship options, and it’s also possible to form long-lasting friendships between characters and NPCs instead of a romantic relationship. 

Midnight Tower supports diversity and inclusion. Our adventures are meant to be played and enjoyed by anyone regardless of their gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, background, etc.
We hope that everyone will enjoy our adventures and have fun! 

All of our adventures come with a link to a free VTT pack with tokens, maps, and digital handouts, including NPC portraits, monsters, and magical items.

This means that the adventure can easily be played online!

We love local game and book shops and offer greatly discounted prices to retailers. Midnight Tower’s roleplaying books are available at 3 Trolls Games & Puzzles (US), DoDragaoGaming (US), The Jousting Yeti (US), The Gaming Goat (US), The Shop on the Borderlands (UK), Science Fiction Bokhandeln (Sweden), Dillbergs (Sweden), and others.

We offer heavily discounted prices for retailers with a physical brick-and-mortar shop. 
Contact us directly at info@midnight-tower.com and we’ll get back to you straight away with information about how to order this book and previously released titles by Midnight Tower. 

Bonus: Your shop’s name will be featured in the book!

‘Thanks so much for a great Kickstarter!’ 

        — Gerald (Superbacker) Comment from Secrets of the Drow Kickstarter campaign 

‘Wow, I quickly skimmed the contents after downloading and I’m so happy with it! I can’t wait to find a group to run this for. For the price, it’s such a great value and you really went above and beyond.’ 

         — Karen Petrasko (backer) 

‘I backed the original crowdfund for What Happened To Evy Ashwood? and I have to say the final product I received exceeded my expectations in every way. 
My group LOVED this adventure and I highly recommend it to both DMs looking for a cosmic-horror themed classic-style D&D adventure as well as those looking for a more subtle, nuanced, heavier role-play style experience. Also, just my advice; splurge for the physical book, it's gorgeous!' 

          — Jay G. (Review at DriveThruRPG) What Happened to Evy Ashwood?    

“This is very, very cool. It’s very Sherlock-Holmes-que Looking!”

          — Unboxing of The Mystery of the Cursed Statuette
               Mocha Bear’s Hobby Den (@MochaBearDen) 

"This is a fantastic little adventure, I think this is my favourite one-shot adventure!"

          — Review: An Unexpected Wedding Invitation
              By Cutting Word (@CuttingWords)  

Tove (she/her) is a highly introverted geek (level 7, lawful neutral). She writes all of the adventures and does a lot of the fantasy art illustrations for Midnight Tower.

Erik (he/him) is a bookish nerd (level 6, chaotic good). He does all of the editing of the books and most of the graphic design for Midnight Tower. 

Tove and Erik live in Oxford (UK) together with two incredibly sarcastic cats and a tiny dragon (leopard gecko). Their rebellious daughters have fled the nerd cave, but occasionally return home to empty the fridge and wrap the collector’s edition as a side hustle.
 
This project is created with love by Tove and Erik, the two nerds behind Midnight Tower. Both of them are real, living humans.

No text or fantasy art in the book will be created using chat bots or AI art.

We’re collaborating with a small group of amazing fantasy artists we’ve been working with for several years: The extraordinary illustrator Alaina Milare, the fantastic artist Janna Sophia Art, the talented illustrator Oleksii Chernik, and the wonderful fantasy illustrator Danika Bonham at Bookwyrmling, who will make the character sheets. In addition, we’ll also purchase a couple of illustrations from stock art sites where AI art has been excluded.

The text will be proofread by eagle-eyed editor Pauline Nolet, who has saved us more than once from horibbel typoos in thepasta.

We have also teamed up with PledgeManager, Jellop, and DrivethruRPG. 

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More roleplaying adventures by Midnight Tower are available here! 

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