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Curse of the Usurper- RPG 5e

Created by Tomb Guardians

The LARGEST 5e adventure/campaign EVER WRITTEN with over 1000+ pages, 50+ maps, 50+ minis, and so much more! Be part of history!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Long Awaited Delayed Update
2 months ago – Wed, Feb 18, 2026 at 09:20:07 AM

Hello All,

Thank you for your patience's in this long over due update.  With the end of last years advent calendar promotion, the year end promotion, our owner being very sick, time just got away from us.  Tomb Guardians apologizes for the delayed update and we will fix that moving forward.  So instead of sharing unneeded banter lets jump into what everyone is wanting to know about the campaign.  

Shipping of Miniatures

Lets start with the international miniatures shipments.  Please remember, Tomb Guardians has always and will always look out of our customers best interests and that is the only reason for the delay in shipments.  Unfortunately, we have waited to see if the tariffs are going to be removed or reduced for sometime and unfortunately, with the current administration that is not going to happen.  So starting in mid March, all remaining (around 70) miniature orders will be mailed out internationally.  We apologize if you have to pay the increased tariff fees.  

Dice Orders 

All orders for dice and the collector set will be mailed with the books at fulfillment in late fall, 2026. 

Book's 1 - 4 Update

 Book 1(Trouble in Havdhir) and Book 4(Innocent in Still Echo) are both fully completed and the PDF copies have been released.  Shard Tabletop is also available to play online.  You can obtain the PDF versions of the book on the download section in your Backerkit profile.  
 

Book 2(Darklands of Vlaskhell) - Book 2 is with the formatter.  Chris is currently working on the Book and he is currently around 70% completed with the book which is about 350 pages.

This book is amazing and below are several pages of Book #2!  We are estimating that Book 2 will be finished April/May.  Once, finished we will release the book on PDF, followed by on Shard Tabletop.  The vast size of this book, plus the holidays, the owner being sick has slowed this completion down a few months.  

Book 3 (Mines of Shjekhel) - Below is where the book stands as of today:

  • Book written - 100% Completed
  • Editing - Started 60% Completed 
  • Formatting - Waiting on Editing to complete
  • Voice Over Acting - Waiting on Editing to complete
  • Artwork - 30% completed, Estimated finished May/June, 2026
  • Maps - Started, Estimated finished April/May, 2026
  • Dice - Will be ordered in June, 2026 from manufacturer.

If all goes as scheduled, we anticipate completing all the books by September, 2026.  Once completed we will place the order to manufacturing.  We will keep everyone posted with updates.

Below are some pictures of Book 2 pages and sneak peek pictures of the final Book 3!

Book 2 - Work in Action

Book 3 - Sneak Peek Pictures

Treant Attack
Fell Swamp
Lizardfolk Village
Witches Lair

Again, we want to apologize for our delay in this update.  We are making progress, but the holiday and owners sickness has slowed this down a bit.  We are excited to finish this series of books in the next 6 months and get moving onto our next projects.  We are very excited for what is coming this year and next!  More to come on that in our next update at the end of March. 

If anyone has any questions please reach out to us at [email protected]

Have a great day.

Tomb Guardians Team

Last Fall Update Ever!
6 months ago – Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 02:37:06 PM

Hello All,

We have some exciting news to share with you this evening.  Also, this will be the last fall update ever for this project!  Saying that, lets just get right into the information and news.

Shipping of Miniatures

We have received a lot of messages asking about international shipments.  We starting shipping orders to Canada and we received many complaints about the cost of shipping and tariffs haven't to be paid.  So the owner, stopped all shipments a waiting the hopes of the tariffs being removed.  Unfortunately, that has not been the case.  So this is what the owner has decided to do.  We are going to post a survey asking if you want us to ship the miniatures with the tariffs or no please wait to ship.  

Please remember, Tomb Guardians has always and will always look out of our customers best interests and that is the only reason for the delay in shipments.  Please click the link to answer the survey. Again this survey is only for international customers.  

https://forms.gle/nxSDwxRRyGEsQrSL8

Now lets jump into the Books because we have some good news here!

Book's 1 - 4 Update

  •  Book 1(Trouble in Havdhir) and Book 4(Innocent in Still Echo) are both fully completed and the PDF copies have been released.  Shard Tabletop is also available to play online.  You can obtain the PDF versions of the book on the download section in your Backerkit profile.  
     
  • Book 2(Darklands of Vlaskhell) - Book 2 has been passed onto the formatter.  Chris is currently working on the Book and he is currently around 70% completed with the book which is about 350 pages!  This book is amazing and below are several pages of Book #2! We are still estimating that Book 2 will be finished by end of the year.  Once, finished we will release the book on PDF, followed by on Shard Tabletop.  
  • Book 3 (Mines of Shjekhel) - Book 3  Below is where the book stands as of today:
  • Book written - 100% Completed
  • Editing - Started 50% Completed 
  • Formatting - Waiting
  • Voice Over Acting - Waiting on Editing to complete
  • Artwork - Started 20% completed, Estimated finished December, 2025
  • Maps - Started, Estimated finished December, 2025
  • Dice - Will be ordered in February, 2026 from manufacturer.

If all goes as scheduled, we anticipate completing all the books by March/April, 2026.  Once completed we will place the order to manufacturing.  We will keep everyone posted with updates.

Christmas Advent Calendars are Available!  

  • On September 30th, we released our limited edition set of "Santa's Workshop."   Jason Wiebe is our amazing sculpture and has done an outstanding job on these miniatures.    
  • The calendar will include over 40 miniatures in the first 25 days of Christmas!  
  • Plus, we have an additional 5 miniatures for December 26th - 30th.  
  • Then finally, if you buy both collections you will receive for free "Father Time and Baby New Years!".  

There are only 10 Days left for guaranteed delivery before December 1st.  Don't waste time or you will be left out.   Click the link below or picture to view the Advent Calendar.

https://www.tombguardians.com/advent-calendar-2025

If anyone has any questions please feel free to reach out at [email protected]  Have a great evening!

Tomb Guardians Team

Fall Is Here!
8 months ago – Sun, Sep 14, 2025 at 02:45:05 PM

Happy Sunday Everyone!

We know its been nearly two months since the last update and everyone is excited about the next update. But we want to let everyone know that we have not forgotten about you and that we have a lot of go over in this update.  So lets get to the information everyone has been waiting for.  Lets start out with the Shipping of Miniatures

Shipping of Miniatures

All US shipments have been completed.  We started shipping international shipment 2 weeks ago.  The owner waited purposely to ship these packages because of the tariffs and import taxes that our customers will pay.  We understand roughly 70 of our international clients have not received there miniatures and we have not forgotten about you.  The owner last week has decided due the overwhelming emails and posts that you do not want to wait so starting on Monday we will start the final fulfillment of international orders.   Tomb Guardians has always and will always look out of our customers best interests and that is the only reason for the delay in shipments. 

Now lets just into the Books because we have some good news here!

Book's 1 - 4 Update

  • As everyone knows, Book 1(Trouble in Havdhir) and Book 4(Innocent in Still Echo) are both fully completed and the PDF copies have been released.  Shard Tabletop is also available to play online.  You can obtain the PDF versions of the book on the download section in your Backerkit profile.  
     
  • Book 2(Darklands of Vlaskhell) - Book 2 has been passed onto the formatter.  Chris is currently working on the Book and he is currently around 40% completed with the book which is about 200 pages!  This book is amazing and below are several pages of Book #2! We are still estimating that Book 2 will be finished by end of the year.  Once, finished we will release the book on PDF, followed by on Shard Tabletop.  
  • Book 3 (Mines of Shjekhel) - Book 3  Below is where the book stands as of today:
  • Book written - 100% Completed
  • Editing - Started 50% Completed 
  • Formatting - Waiting
  • Voice Over Acting - Waiting on Editing to complete
  • Artwork - Started 20% completed, Estimated finished December, 2025
  • Maps - Started, Estimated finished December, 2025
  • Dice - Will be ordered in November, 2025 from manufacturer.

If all goes as scheduled, we anticipate completing all the books by March, 2026.  Once completed we will place the order to manufacturing.  We will keep everyone posted with updates.

Here are pictures from Book #2!

  • We are excited because as this project is coming to an end, Tomb Guardians will start delivering the Books in the Spring of 2026.  But as we finish this book series, Tomb Guardians is excited to announce that our writer Dillon Olney will start writing our next book adventure series "War of the Realms!" next month.  This book series will continue the saga and world of "Heroes of the Realm".  In the next series we will introduce 3 new factions to our world, the evil empire of the Orcs, the realm of the Humans and then the Bandits.  Who doesn't like a group of bandits that control and rage chaos in the realm.  Not to mention, new hero companions, new monsters, undead, and maybe a rumor of a dragon!  More to come:  Coming in Fall/Winter 2026 to Kickstarter.

Next Release September 30th - Christmas Advent Calendar!  

  • On September 30th, we will release a limited our limited edition set of "Santa's Workshop."   Jason Wiebe is our amazing sculpture and has done an outstanding job on these miniatures.    
  • The calendar will include over 40 miniatures in the first 25 days of Christmas!  
  • Plus, we have an additional 5 miniatures for December 26th - 30th.  
  • Then finally, if you buy both collections you will receive for free "Father Time and Baby New Years!".  

In all, there are 48 new holiday miniatures being introduced.  All orders for the Advent Calendar received by November 24th will be delivered by December 1st in the United States. Internation Orders recieved by November 17th will be delivered by December 1st.  

Lastly, for the additional 5 miniatures and Father Time and Baby New Years miniature.  They, may be delayed on delivery until December depending on demand of the Advent Calendar.  Only one shipping charge will be assigned per order and if Tomb Guardians has to mail our customers a second package for the extra miniatures we will cover the cost of shipping.   Here are a few pictures of the miniatures and a link for you to be added to the notification email when we release.  Again, this is a limited collection set.  Only 300 - 400 sets will be made.  

Santa's Workshop
Nutcracker Warrior
Holiday Wreath
Oh!  Did we forget to tell you the Holiday Wreath is a Mimic!
Krampus 1
Krampus 2
Krampus 3
Rat King

Click here to follow and add your name to the waiting list:  tombguardians.com/advent-calendar.  This release is only on our website and not on Kickstarter.  

Individual miniatures will be released each day in December to allow for additional purchases of each miniature.  

Wow that was a big update.  We will have additional information coming in the next few weeks.  That's it for now and as always we appreciate and thank you for your support of our company.  If you have any questions please email us at [email protected].

Have a great weekend and we will see you soon!

Tomb Guardians Team

Issues with Large Miniatures
10 months ago – Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 08:54:58 PM

Evening everyone,

It has been brought to our attention that some of our larger miniatures that we have shipped out to customers may have uncured resin.  The resin is toxic and should not be touched or try to recure to harden.  Please contact our office by email us at [email protected].  The miniatures in question are Giant King, Giant Warrior, Sewer Ogre and the Undead Giant.  If you have a miniature that has liquid resin in the plastic clam shell, please contact us and we will replace it for you at no cost.  

Again, email us at [email protected], with some pictures of the miniature and we will get it replaced at no cost.  We apologize for the issue and thank everyone for your understanding.  Have a great night

Tomb Guardians Team

Shipping Update
11 months ago – Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 10:07:43 AM

Happy Saturday Everyone!

With the summer now upon us we wanted to give an update on were things stand as of today.  We will be giving everyone an update to the progress of the Books, shipping of miniatures and other topics in this email.  So lets just jump into the information because we know many of you are waiting for an update.  

Lets first start off by apologizing for the delay in this email.  We have been waiting for several reasons.  As many of you know, things in the United States right now are very hectic and the current situation with tariffs are making things very difficult for most small companies.  Right now, we are holding off with the hopes that the tariffs will resolve themselves over the next 6-9 months so we do not have to impose those costs onto you.  Our fingers are crossed but we still have time before we make our final purchasing order.  We appreciate everyone's patience's and understanding in this matter as this is out of our hands.

Shipping of Miniatures

Next, lets talk about the shipping of the miniatures.  All US shipments will be completed in this upcoming week.  We will then switch to shipping all international orders, Canada, North America, Australia, New Zealand, EU and then the rest of the world.  We will be shipping all packages right now by UPS.  Please watch your email for we will email you a confirmation of shipment.  We expect this to take until the end of June to complete.

Book's 1 - 4 Update

  • As everyone knows, Book 1(Trouble in Havdhir) and Book 4(Innocent in Still Echo) are both fully completed and the PDF copies have been released.  Shard Tabletop is also available to play online.  You can obtain the PDF versions of the book on the download section in your Backerkit profile.  
     
  • Book 2(Darklands of Vlaskhell) - Book 2 has been passed onto the formatter.  Chris is currently working on the Book and he is currently around 20% completed with the book.  Because we added over 200 additional pages to this book and now roughly 500 pages this has put us behind schedule but it is for the benefit our DM and players.  This book is amazing.  We are now estimating that Book 2 will be finished in mid to late fall.  We will release the book on PDF, followed by on Shard Tabletop.  
  • Book 3 (Mines of Shjekhel) - Book 3  Below is where the book stands as of today:
  • Book written - 100% Completed
  • Editing - Started 20% Completed (Estimated finished August/Sept, 2025)
  • Formatting - Waiting
  • Voice Over Acting - Waiting on Editing to complete
  • Artwork - Started, Estimated finished Fall, 2025
  • Maps - Started, Estimated finished Late Fall, 2025

If all goes as scheduled, we anticipate completing the final book January, 2026.  We will keep everyone posted with updates.

We hope everyone has a great weekend and as always we appreciate everyone's support of this campaign and in the near future.  Tomb Guardians, turns 7 years old in July.  We cannot believe its been 7 fantastic years doing something we love to do.  We can announce today some excited projects that we will be releasing in the near future.

Future Project Releases:

  • Fall of 2025 - Miniature Christmas Advent Calendar.   25 days of miniatures for the month of December.  Open up a new miniature each day of the month in December.  This is a great gift or just fun for the family.  Jason Wiebe will be creating this set of miniatures.  We plan on start selling these sets in early October.
  • Winter of 2025/2026 - Orcs vs. Humans Miniature Collection.  We will be introducing 2 new factions of miniatures to our family of miniatures.  Orcs and Humans.  Who doesn't like hordes of Orcs, Warg riders or religious zealot Humans, druids, horseman and more.  And as always im sure there will be more monsters!
  • Fall/Winter 2026 - "War of the Realms!"  Our second book release to the series will be introduced on Kickstarter.  This will also be a 3 book series.   This series of books will introduce 3 new regions(Orcs, Humans, and Halflings) in the "Heroes of the Realm" series.  We are very excited about this new book coming.  More information will be forthcoming.  

That's it for now and as always we appreciate and thank you for your support of our company.  If you have any questions please email us at [email protected].

Have a great weekend.  Until next time - Good Bye!

Tomb Guardians Team