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Against the Darkmaster Adventure

The fabulous folks over at Open Ended Games asked me if I would write an adventure for Against the Darkmaster (also known as VsD). I said yes of course! So keep your eyes peeled for The White Watchtower as part of a campaign series coming soon.

I pixellated this so you wouldn’t spoil the surprise!

Already having backed the KS for the glorious hardback, and having read through the Core Rules, I LOVE this system and setting! Let’s hope the hardback gets a reprint soon too.

My own copy of the gloriousness that is Against the Darkmaster

Mockup of the Hard Cover Full Rules Core Book
Image (c) OpenEnded Games

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Friends of the Monkey Shout-out!

Hi all,

This past couple of months have been sooo busy! Kickstarter fulfilments and freelance work has gone stratospheric. I wanted to take some time to shout out some friends of MonkeyBlood who are running Kickstarters right now. Here they are (click pics to take you to the campaign pages):

North Wind Adventures – Hyperborea 3E

Jeff Talanian is taking his fantastic Astonishing Swordsmen & Sorcerors of Hyperborea game to a revamped ‘third edition’. The game is split into different books now which should make table play much easier. A Player’s Manual, Referee’s Manual, and an Atlas. Great stuff!

The campaign ends on 1st August and I am super excited to see if Jeff can hopefully hit $200k funding. That would be amazing!

Doug Cole and the Steve Jackson Games’ GURPS 2021 PDF Challenge

If you play GURPS, then this is for you! The excellent Douglas Cole has written a cool fortified town encounter PDF for the Steve Jackson Games’ GURPS 2021 PDF Challenge. There’s up to 12 to unlock. Doug’s is already secured and I did the ring fort map! Check it out here:

Steamforged Games – Animal Adventures: The Faraway Sea

Osric the Otter, your guide to the Faraway Sea, is back once again to show you the landmarks of Flotsam! https://steamforged.com/blog/landmarks-flotsam-animal-adventures-faraway-sea

Check out the Flotsam map I did for the great team at Steamforged!

This launches soon and is more great looking setting material for the Animal Adventures 5E setting. Click to get notified when campaign launches on July 20!

Black Cats Gaming – Cursed Captains of Cthulhu

The good folks over at Black Cats Gaming are running a campaign for Cursed Captains of Cthulhu. A swashbuckling tabletop roleplaying game pitting your pirate crew against the eldritch forces of Cthulhu in the Golden Age of Piracy.

I’ve been involved in the cartography, so why not take a look? It’s funded and ends on 30th July.

That’s it for the moment!

Enjoy, Glynn

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Midderzines Kickstarter ENDS in just a few days! Over 400% Funded!

Midderzines Kickstarter ENDS in just a few days! Over 400% Funded!

Zines for Old School Games. Compatible with The Midderlands setting.

Also, a great opportunity to pick up all the back issue zines too!

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/midderzine-issues-6-and-7-zines-for-old-school-games?ref=4soa8p

The Midderzines are an old-school, zine format gaming supplement intended for use with, but not exclusively for, The Midderlands setting. The rules content is written for Swords & Wizardry Complete and therefore can be used in all retro-clones and old school role-playing games with little or no work.

The two new zines contain:

  • Meet The Midderlander interviews
  • More juicy rumours from The Haven Gazette.
  • Gloomium – the lowdown.
  • Currency thoughts.
  • Slightly Less Sh*t Lesser Rings and Scrolls
  • The Lost Wyrld: The world of The Midderlands setting.
  • Races of the Lost World: A focus on the main S&W races with a Midderlands twist.
  • Treasure of the Lost Wyrld.
  • Drakekin – the OSR Dragonborn.
  • Three Drakekin NPCs.
  • New Oddities for Drakekin.
  • Upper Wychbray: A riverside settlement on the edges of Linkern Wolds.

Also, all physical backers will receive this lovely A2 (folded to A5) poster map if we hit the £6,000 GBP Stretch Goal!

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/midderzine-issues-6-and-7-zines-for-old-school-games?ref=4soa8p

Many thanks,

Glynn over at MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing

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Midderzine KS is almost 350% funded!

The Midderzine KS is almost 350% funded and we have announced the only stretch goal of the project at £6k for a larger The Lost Wyrld Map (in digital and print formats)!
Get a pile of page content for Midderlands/OSR games.

Get on board here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/midderzine-issues-6-and-7-zines-for-old-school-games?ref=88x9q3

Get on board here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/midderzine-issues-6-and-7-zines-for-old-school-games?ref=88x9q3

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Midderzines Issue #6 and #7 just launched on Kickstarter!

Midderzines Issue #6 and #7 just launched on Kickstarter!

Zines for Old School Games.
The next two issues of the Midderzine now on Kickstarter. Compatible with The Midderlands setting.

Also, a great opportunity to pick up all the back issue zines too!

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/midderzine-issues-6-and-7-zines-for-old-school-games?ref=4soa8p

The Midderzines are an old-school, zine format gaming supplement intended for use with, but not exclusively for, The Midderlands setting. The rules content is written for Swords & Wizardry Complete and therefore can be used in all retro-clones and old school role-playing games with little or no work.

The two new zines contain:

  • Meet The Midderlander interviews
  • More juicy rumours from The Haven Gazette.
  • Gloomium – the lowdown.
  • Currency thoughts.
  • Slightly Less Sh*t Lesser Rings and Scrolls
  • The Lost Wyrld: The world of The Midderlands setting.
  • Races of the Lost World: A focus on the main S&W races with a Midderlands twist.
  • Treasure of the Lost Wyrld.
  • Drakekin – the OSR Dragonborn.
  • Three Drakekin NPCs.
  • New Oddities for Drakekin.
  • Upper Wychbray: A riverside settlement on the edges of Linkern Wolds.

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/midderzine-issues-6-and-7-zines-for-old-school-games?ref=4soa8p

Many thanks,

Glynn over at MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing

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Midderzines #6 and #7 to hit KS this Friday

EXCITING NEWS!

Launching on Kickstarter THIS FRIDAY! Get the latest Midderzine Issues #6 and #7 and more…
Follow link below to ‘notify on launch’.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/midderzine-issues-6-and-7-zines-for-old-school-games

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/midderzine-issues-6-and-7-zines-for-old-school-games

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ENnies 2021

The close date for submission to the ENnies 2021 is for packages post-marked 1st May 2021. My ENnie performance in previous years has been as follows:

  • 2018 – Gold ENnie for Best Cartography for The Midderlands
  • 2019 – Nomination for Best Cartography for The Midderlands Expanded.
  • 2020 – Nothing

I deliberated on whether to enter this year on account of not finding time to do the leg work to get the correct submissions in, and also the increasing costs of submission.

Six copies of each of the submitted products have to be sent off, and the judges are NEVER in the United Kingdom, so the cost to send the packages by a tracked service is not for the feint-hearted. This year’s postage cost alone was £181.55 (just over $250 USD). Adding on the cost of the products, I need to ensure that enough sales are generated by the publicity to at least cover the postage, product cost, and my time. That’s going to be around $400-$500 USD. If it doesn’t, then there’s not much point in submitting.

I recall last year that based on the analytics, sales generated via the ENnies website were less than a product review by Ben over at Questing Beast… Sales via the ENnies is a bit nebulous to interpret though.

As the reminder for entering came in, I realised that the products we release are the work of a team, and that I wanted to allow the great folks in the team that supports me to also get a chance to have their efforts rewarded in an industry-acknowledged way.

Richard Marpole, Jim Magnusson, Pookie, and all those fine people in the credits deserve to have their work recognised, and I can help that along, and hopefully reward them with a medal.

I sent off three sets of products last week. They were:

  • The Bats of Saint Abbans
  • Chewer of Fingers
  • Folk Magic of the Haven Isles

I say this every time the ENnies come around, but if you are a fan of MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing, AND we get nominated for anything, then the support of fans like yourself is invaluable.

So, fingers and toes are crossed for a result in 2021.

Take care, Glynn

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Two New Products in Webstore

Two new products have hit the UK webstore today!

The Bats of Saint Abbans written by Richard Marpole and Dancing with Bullets Under a Neon Sun by Apollyon Press. Check them out on the webstore here:

Check out all the juicy pics!

Dancing With Bullets Under A Neon Sun

The Bats of Saint Abbans