Ramen Sandwich Press launches Pathfinder-ready rainforest village adventure on Kickstarter

The real test for Children of the Mountain God is not the premise, but the table work it saves. Ramen Sandwich Press has launched a rainforest-village adventure that is explicitly built for Pathfinder 1E, Pathfinder 2E, and D&D 5E, and that makes it the kind of crowdfunded module experienced GMs can judge by one practical question: how much conversion is actually left for me?

The answer, at least on paper, is encouraging. The project is the 15th entry in the publisher’s Places by the Way and Found by the Way location-module lines, a long-running format Ramen Sandwich Press says is meant to work as a stand-alone adventure or as a tile you can drop into a larger campaign. The new module centers on Tifala, a village whose trade depends on raw gemstones that flow down a river from a nearby volcano. That supply chain gets chewed up by a hungry xorn that has come out of the Plane of Earth, turning a local economy into a dungeon problem.

That setup matters for Pathfinder groups because it is not built like a giant metaplot installment or a rules-dense expansion. It is a compact location crisis, the sort of thing that fits between major arcs, on a regional map, or as a one-night detour when the party needs a change of pace. The BackerKit description says the adventure includes encounters scaled for parties of various levels, which is the clearest sign that this is meant to travel well between tables rather than sit at a single assumed tier. The story also pushes beyond simple monster hunting: traders suspect the elves are hiding profits, and the resulting pressure can turn into coercion or violence if the heroes fail to untangle the situation first.

For Pathfinder players, that social layer is where the pitch starts to look more useful than generic cross-system packaging. Paizo launched Pathfinder Second Edition in 2019, and the Remaster line remains a fresh entry point while staying compatible with existing PF2E products. A local crisis about trade, blame, and an elemental intrusion fits that ecosystem cleanly, especially for groups that like investigation, negotiation, and a final confrontation with a creature tied to the elemental planes. Paizo’s Rage of Elements has already put Earth in the spotlight, so a xorn-driven threat lands in familiar thematic territory.

The campaign itself is also moving. It went live on Kickstarter and BackerKit as part of Tabletop Tavern and Pocketopia 2026, and it is scheduled to end May 28, 2026 at 1:00 pm PDT. BackerKit listed it at 43 backers and $627 pledged against a $500 goal, while an early update said it was 60% funded with 30 backers and still had three weeks left. Tabletop Tavern includes 13 campaigns, and backers of three or more get a free bonus item from each creator they support.

Ramen Sandwich Press says it was founded in 2016, and that history shows in the pitch. Children of the Mountain God is not trying to be everything at once. It is trying to be the kind of small, adaptable module that a Pathfinder GM can actually use, with enough system reach to be useful and enough local detail to feel like Tifala could drop into a real campaign instead of a marketing slide.