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RPG.net: 'Joseph Goodman's The People of the Pit is a frickin' masterpiece.'.Assassins of the Pit offers an additional area for your PCs to explore when undertaking the challenges of The People of the Pit. The enigmatic people of the pit live despite the passage of ages! The earth shakes each night as they herd the primordial tentacles ever further, while the villagers ask: is any man brave enough to put the sword to this menace?īONUS ADVENTURE! This printing includes the adventure Assassins of the Pit by Daniel J. The Great Beast strikes with intelligence: bands of faceless gray-robed men emerge from the tenebrous depths, herding the beast’s roaming tentacles before them. All rights reserved.It has been years since the last virgin was sacrificed: and now the pit beast awakens once more! Every generation it stumbles forth on undulating tentacles from its resting place deep below the great ravine, its towering blubbery mass ravaging the land before returning to slumber for decades. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. The American Heritage® Student Science Dictionary, Second Edition.

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