3pp Top Ten: May 20, 2016

Every week Paizo sends out an email detailing the happenings of the Paizo store. This includes top 10 lists of what sells on their stores. Each week I'll be focusing on the list, 'Top 10 downloads from other companies' and commenting on the rise of the companies involved and changes of the list as well as new and trending products that catch my attention.

1. Kineticists of Porphyra 3 - Purple Duck Games

2. One on One Adventures Compendium - Expeditious Retreat Press

3. Everyman Options: Kineticists - Rogue Genius Games

4. Kineticists of Porphyra 2 - Purple Duck Games

5. Kineticists of Porphyra - Purple Duck Games

6. Path of War Expanded - Dreamscarred Press

7. Hypercoprs 2099 - Legendary Games

8. Ships of Skybourne - Drop Dead Studios

9. Way of the Wicked-Book #1: Knot of Thorns - Fire Mountain Games

10. In the Company of Unicorns - Rite Publishing

 Once again its another week of Kineticists. With all three Kineticists of Porphyra books and Rogue Genius Games' Keneticists options we have almost half of the top ten slots taken by Kineticist centered books. Everyman Options: Kineticists is more of a short and to the point addition to the class while Purple Duck Games' offerings go large and widespread doling out a ton of wild talents and archetypes to work with. During the playtest for the occult classes the Kineticist thread was by far the largest, and both then and now the class has been controversial for it's ability to functionally have at-will magic while at the same time critics have noted that it's damage output is relatively low and its less versatile than a traditional caster. All of this has combined for chatter about how broken or weak the Kineticist is but the constant domination in sales do show that there is a large market for the Kineticist, as it now stands to be the most developed new class in Occult classes by pure support.

One on One Adventures, a book that allows you to play with one GM and one Player without having to worry about the one player being overwhelmed by might or magic that it can't handle, is still in high standings. Meanwhile Knot of Thorns keeps on the list. Although very popular before the Way of the Wicked Adventure Path may be picking up steam with the current interest in evil adventure paths, especially since there are so few and few that do it so well.

This is also a good week for products from Kickstarters I've participated in. Hypercorp 2099 is now out and is already affecting my current Spacefinder campaign. Although there are new rules and options for playing a superhero cyberpunk campaign and an interesting setting the book also serves a wonderful toolbox for any post-modern setting, full of NPCs, organizations and even a few new classes. Skybourne has been out for a few weeks but the setting won me over back at the first kickstarter, however Ships of Skybourne is the real hot ticket right now where you can just get the rules for running and constructing airships in a way that's fun for the whole party.

In the Company of Unicorns continues Rite Publishing's habit of having strange and spectacular race books with plenty of options to keep it fun for a long time.

Little Red Goblin Games is off the list despite Gonzo 2 being cool as hell but there's a new contender out there. They've presented a fighter rewrite. I'm excited to see how it turns out and hope that it remains compatible with the great fighter material we've seen over the years.

Playground Adventures, publishers of the Playground Adventures series, a set of adventures that are more kid-friendly than usual, had started putting out some player content with The Royal base class. I'm thinking of a Noble made into an actual class. 

Rusted Iron Games has put out material that was short but very admirable, with their Deadly Gardens series pulling a lot of bang for the buck for pushing a new plant themed monster but presenting it along with a bunch of items that brings the whole thing together. It looks like their up to the same with Deadly Gardens: Mulch Stalker.

Epic Level NPC, LLC is a company I'm not familiar with but one product drew my attention. Kaiju Beastiary Kamon the Living Mountain.  Supposedly we get a new monster, that has a city (with city stats) inside of it. This is the kind of crazy off the wall GM tools that I love to see out of third party products so I'm all game.

And lastly Fat Goblin Games releases a new installment of it's Astonishing Races series with a new book on Fetchlings.

Well that's it for this week. I'll see you next week with more looks at Paizo's top ten list as well as new and trending Pathfinder products that should be on your radar.