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Ascoleth: The Last Great City ENDS This Weekend

  • Kickstarter Campaign ENDS This Weekend!
  • Funding Goal Reached.
  • 2 Stretch Goals Smashed
  • Next Stretch goal within easy reach

Ascoleth: The Last Great City ENDS This Weekend!

A system neutral zine toolkit for weird science-fantasy city roleplaying. Now LIVE! on Kickstarter.

When Tobias and Felix from Rabid Halfling Press got in touch about their zine toolkit for a weird science-fantasy city adventure generator, I got excited. We created a Discord channel where we could discuss it and plan on how to bring it to life.

After reading through, I started to see how it might look in InDesign. It looked TERRIFIC! This had to exist for others. We needed to set up a crowdfunder, we needed to pay for art and print costs and postage out to wonderful gamers everywhere. They all needed to experience Ascoleth, in whatever way the random generator tables decided.

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/ascoleth-the-last-great-city

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Physical Product Specification

What Is It?

Stretch Goals

Who’s Involved?

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/ascoleth-the-last-great-city

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We’d love to have your support!

Many thanks,

Glynn [MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing], Tobias & Felix [Rabid Halfling Press]

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Ascoleth: The Last Great City is LIVE on Kickstarter!

Please feel free to share the project and crush those stretch goals!

Ascoleth: The Last Great City is LIVE on Kickstarter!!!

A system neutral zine toolkit for weird science-fantasy city roleplaying. Now LIVE! on Kickstarter.

When Tobias and Felix from Rabid Halfling Press got in touch about their zine toolkit for a weird science-fantasy city adventure generator, I got excited. We created a Discord channel where we could discuss it and plan on how to bring it to life.

After reading through, I started to see how it might look in InDesign. It looked TERRIFIC! This had to exist for others. We needed to set up a crowdfunder, we needed to pay for art and print costs and postage out to wonderful gamers everywhere. They all needed to experience Ascoleth, in whatever way the random generator tables decided.

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/ascoleth-the-last-great-city

mailtimers.com

There are Early Bird pledges for the first weekend, so don’t miss the chance to get it for a little bit less!!

Physical Product Specification

What Is It?

Who’s Involved?

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/ascoleth-the-last-great-city

mailtimers.com

We’d love to have your support!

Many thanks,

Glynn [MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing], Tobias & Felix [Rabid Halfling Press]

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Ascoleth: The Last Great City. A Collaboration.

When Tobias and Felix from Rabid Halfling Press got in touch about their zine toolkit for a weird science-fantasy city adventure generator, I got excited. We created a Discord channel where we could discuss it and plan on how to bring it to life.

After reading through, I started to see how it might look in InDesign. It looked TERRIFIC! This had to exist for others. We needed to set up a crowdfunder, we needed to pay for art and print costs and postage out to wonderful gamers everywhere. They all needed to experience Ascoleth, in whatever way the random generator tables decided.

And so, here’s what we’ve done!

Time left until campaign ends!! Don’t miss out.

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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/ascoleth-the-last-great-city

The launch is Friday 22nd April 2022 at 12:00pm! If you head over to Kickstarter and click the green [Notify me on launch] button, they’ll drop you an email when it’s live!

Be quick though, there are Early Bird pledges for the first weekend only (£17 + shipping).

And here’s our team!

Thanks to everyone that has spread the word so far! Please feel free to share about the project.

Cheers, Glynn, Tobias, Felix and the rest of the awesome team!

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ENDS VERY, VERY SOON!

Rancid Canyons of the Floating Death Sheep
on KICKSTARTER has just a few days remaining!
Don’t get backer envy, secure your pledge now!

An adventure with versions for 5E, Swords & Wizardry, and Dungeon Crawl Classics. Now LIVE! on Kickstarter.

Take me to the Kickstarter page!

Rancid Canyons of the Floating Death Sheep is a low level adventure available in three rule variants: Fifth Edition (5E), Swords & Wizardry* (S&W), and Dungeon Crawl Classics** (DCC) and therefore can be used in all retro-clones and old school role-playing games with little or no work.
The adventure features the following.

  • The detailed village of Yarrowbone featuring NPCs and 22 locations (can be used as a base for any future adventure).
  • Immersive NPC and building art.
  • Six pieces of cool cartography.
  • Three new juicy magic items.
  • Seven tricky new adversaries.
  • Five engaging mapped encounter locations.
  • Table of additonal adventure hooks.
  • Table of NPC names.
  • Information on fitting the adventure into the Lost Wyrld setting of The Midderlands.

* Swords & Wizardry, S&W, and Mythmere Games are trademarks of Matthew J. Finch. Glynn Seal, MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing are not affiliated with Matthew J. Finch, Mythmere Gamesâ„¢, or Frog God Games.

** Dungeon Crawl Classics and DCC RPG are trademarks of Goodman Games. For additional information, visit www.goodman-games.com or contact info@goodman-games.com.

Click here to head to the Kickstarter page and make your pledge:

Take me to the Kickstarter page!

Many thanks,
Glynn over at MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing

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Rancid Canyons of the Floating Death Sheep NOW LIVE on Kickstarter!!!

An adventure with versions for 5E, Swords & Wizardry, and Dungeon Crawl Classics. Now LIVE! on Kickstarter.

Take me to the Kickstarter page!

Rancid Canyons of the Floating Death Sheep is a low level adventure available in three rule variants: Fifth Edition (5E), Swords & Wizardry* (S&W), and Dungeon Crawl Classics** (DCC) and therefore can be used in all retro-clones and old school role-playing games with little or no work.
The adventure features the following.

  • The detailed village of Yarrowbone featuring NPCs and 22 locations (can be used as a base for any future adventure).
  • Immersive NPC and building art.
  • Six pieces of cool cartography.
  • Three new juicy magic items.
  • Seven tricky new adversaries.
  • Five engaging mapped encounter locations.
  • Table of additonal adventure hooks.
  • Table of NPC names.
  • Information on fitting the adventure into the Lost Wyrld setting of The Midderlands.

* Swords & Wizardry, S&W, and Mythmere Games are trademarks of Matthew J. Finch. Glynn Seal, MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing are not affiliated with Matthew J. Finch, Mythmere Gamesâ„¢, or Frog God Games.

** Dungeon Crawl Classics and DCC RPG are trademarks of Goodman Games. For additional information, visit www.goodman-games.com or contact info@goodman-games.com.

Click here to head to the Kickstarter page and make your pledge:

Take me to the Kickstarter page!

Many thanks,
Glynn over at MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing

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Rancid Canyons of the Floating Death Sheep

An adventure with versions for 5E, Swords & Wizardry, and Dungeon Crawl Classics. Coming to Kickstarter in early 2022.

Click here to ‘Notify me on launch’

Rancid Canyons of the Floating Death Sheep is a low level adventure available in three rule variants: Fifth Edition (5E), Swords & Wizardry* (S&W), and Dungeon Crawl Classics** (DCC) and therefore can be used in all retro-clones and old school role-playing games with little or no work.
The adventure features the following.

  • The detailed village of Yarrowbone featuring NPCs and 22 locations (can be used as a base for any future adventure).
  • Immersive NPC and building art.
  • Six pieces of cool cartography.
  • Three new juicy magic items.
  • Seven tricky new adversaries.
  • Five engaging mapped encounter locations.
  • Table of additonal adventure hooks.
  • Table of NPC names.
  • Information on fitting the adventure into the Lost Wyrld setting of The Midderlands.

* Swords & Wizardry, S&W, and Mythmere Games are trademarks of Matthew J. Finch. Glynn Seal, MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing are not affiliated with Matthew J. Finch, Mythmere Gamesâ„¢, or Frog God Games.

** Dungeon Crawl Classics and DCC RPG are trademarks of Goodman Games. For additional information, visit www.goodman-games.com or contact info@goodman-games.com.

Click here to head to the Kickstarter pre-launch page and get notified when it launches:

Take me to the pre-launch Kickstarter page!

Many thanks,
Glynn over at MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing

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Two New Books for Other Publishers

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to let you all know that there are two new books added to the webstore. Now, whilst they are on the MonkeyBlood webstore, they are linked to the respective websites of other publishers, who contracted me to create books for them, so here they are:

The Midderlands for 5E (Necromancer Games/Frog God Games)

https://monkeyblooddesign.co.uk/product/the-midderlands-for-5e-print-or-printpdf/
  • Front Cover
  • Rear Cover
  • Spine
  • Poster Map
  • Poster Map
  • Interior Pages
  • Interior Pages
  • Interior Pages
  • Interior Pages
  • Interior Pages
  • Interior Pages

This project was successfully completed a little while back, but I have been very remiss in not blogging about it. The good folks over at Necromnacer Games/Frog God Games contracted me to work on a 5E version of The Midderlands book. Edwin Nagy handled the 5E conversion on behalf of the Frogs, and I handled the new colour artwork/cartography, and layout.

It’s a beautiful book and I am so pleased with how it came out. You can also get a really swanky cloth/foil Limited edition if you are quick (read the webstore product entry to find link).

  • Limited Edition Front Cover
  • Limited Edition Spine
  • Limited Edition RearCover

Staffortonshire Trading Company Works of John Williams, The (Lamentations of the Flame Princess)

https://monkeyblooddesign.co.uk/product/staffortonshire-trading-company-works-of-john-williams-the-print-pdf/
  • Front Cover
  • Rear Cover
  • Front Cover
  • Rear Cover
  • Spine
  • Spine
  • Endpaper
  • Endpaper
  • Interior Pages
  • Interior Pages
Back in 2017, James Raggi commisisoned me to create a 128 page ‘map book’. I spent the next 13 months of evenings and weekends (I was working full time doing something completely different) researching and drawing 17th century plans, strutcures, buildings, ships, etc. Things happened in between and final release dates faltered along the way, but now it lives! I completed all artwork, writing and layout for the project and it’s come out lovely.

So, why not check them out and head over to the prospective webstores and pick them up. You won’t be disappointed!!

Many thanks, Glynn

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Need Maps? Of course you do! Last Few Days!

500+ backers! Over 550% Funded! Two stretch goals down!

Hello Everyone,

We hope you are all doing well.

We just wanted to let you know that the last few days of the campaign are upon us.

HandyMaps Dungeons, Caves & Strange Locales

So, we have currently funded a set of twenty four (24), double-sided A5 cards showing beautifully illustrated dungeons, caves and strange locales for fantasy-themed games. The cards can be used as valuable tools for game planning by Game Masters.

Whilst there are 24 cards, they detail a total of 60 locations for you to populate and your players to explore.

The cards will be double-sided in a handy A5 size (210mm high x 148mm wide OR 8.27″ high x 5.83″ wide) from 350gsm uncoated card stock (giving a nice matt finish, suitable for ink and pencil marking).

Each side will be professionally digitally printed on a parchment style background.

The maps will all have a basic grid and minimal text labels (generally kept to elevation marks, stairs/slope directions, secret doors, etc), but NO title, room numbers, or compass allowing Game Masters to use them as they need for their campaigns.

Also, a great opportunity to pick up previous HandyMaps too!

Please feel free to check it out here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/handymaps-dungeons-caves-and-strange-locales-for-game-masters?ref=d58ck6

Card fronts
Card rears
Sample card front and rear

Please feel free to check it out here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/handymaps-dungeons-caves-and-strange-locales-for-game-masters?ref=d58ck6

Many thanks,

Glynn over at MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing

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HandyMaps Dungeons, Caves & Strange Locales has just launched on Kickstarter!

Hello Everyone,

We hope you are all doing well.

We just wanted to let you know that we have a new Kickstarter campaign running which might interest you.

HandyMaps Dungeons, Caves & Strange Locales

So, we are creating a set of twenty two (22), double-sided A5 cards showing beautifully illustrated dungeons, caves and strange locales for fantasy-themed games. The cards can be used as valuable tools for game planning by Game Masters.

Whilst there are 22 cards, they detail a total of 56 locations for you to populate and your players to explore.

The cards will be double-sided in a handy A5 size (210mm high x 148mm wide OR 8.27″ high x 5.83″ wide) from 350gsm uncoated card stock (giving a nice matt finish, suitable for ink and pencil marking).

Each side will be professionally digitally printed on a parchment style background.

The maps will all have a basic grid and minimal text labels (generally kept to elevation marks, stairs/slope directions, secret doors, etc), but NO title, room numbers, or compass allowing Game Masters to use them as they need for their campaigns.

Also, a great opportunity to pick up previous HandyMaps too!

Please feel free to check it out here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/handymaps-dungeons-caves-and-strange-locales-for-game-masters?ref=50qgem

Card fronts
Card rears
Sample card front and rear

Please feel free to check it out here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/handymaps-dungeons-caves-and-strange-locales-for-game-masters?ref=50qgem

Many thanks,

Glynn over at MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing