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The Weekly Deal from the Frog Pond Frog Face — Hop on this deal before it’s gone!
Frog God Games continues its course of sales that are running throughout 2022. For this week’s sale (through October 30), we feature The Midderlands (for Fifth Edition) for just $24.99 (regularly $44.99)!
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The Midderlands is an award-winning, weird world setting for fifth edition (D&D) — a green-hued, dark-fantasy setting and bestiary set in a twisted middle England. It’s late middle ages/Tudor England seen through a looking glass, filled with strange creatures, insidious threats, and the color green. It’s edgy, it’s twisted, and the first thing you should expect is the last thing you’d expect. Looking for a 5e setting completely different from anything you’ve seen before? You’ve found it – now let’s see if you can survive it…
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)
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)
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!!
We have unlocked 2 Stretch Goals already for the Special Edition Print pledge, with the 3rd being very close and sure to be unlocked in the closing days. We might even get all 5, which will make this a bargain! Please don’t miss this opportunity to grab it all at a snip.
This is what all the unlocked goals will look like for the Special Edition Print pledge reward (posters and bookmarks are shown with reverse sides also)!
What Is It?
The Bats of Saint Abbans is an old-school adventure written by Richard Marpole and intended for The Midderlands setting suitable for Levels 1 to 3. The adventure is written for Swords & Wizardry and therefore can be used in all retro-clones and old school role-playing games with little or no work. The book may contain occasional swear words and mature themes.
The once-respected Abbey-Cathedral of Saint Abbans has stood at the top of Wellholy Hill for centuries.
Revenue is scarce and the abbey is falling into disrepair. To make matters worse, church bats have now infested the upper reaches of the building. They are causing a dangerous nuisance and further damaging the precarious structure.
Abbess Jessamine is looking for brave souls without fear of heights to ascend the cavernous cathedral and bring the problem under control.
Maybe, just maybe, that’s you?
The adventure contains:
Details about the town of Saint Abbans, some of its useful NPCs, the Abbess and the monks that reside at the abbey-cathedral.
A random generator for creating additional abbey monks.
Adventure Flow and NPC Relationship charts.
Details of the abbey locations.
4x Handouts, 15x pages worth of maps.
Appendices of Ecclesiastical Time and all the encounters that could happen during those times.
New class, spells, and items. 8 New creatures, including a Church Bat Generator.
NPC and Creature quick reference tables, NPC Gallery.
We are super proud and excited to have this project back on the rails. If you like 5E and want a sumptuous new setting and bestiary to stare agog at, then this is for you.
Standard and Collector’s 8.5 x 11″ Hardcovers
New Poster Map
All New Layout
All New Cartography
New Artwork, and some old artwork updated to glorious colour
Fully indexed.
New information on Gloomium
Additional info on the common 5E races and how they fit into the setting
We are now holding stock of Dungeon Crawl Classics products from Orbital Intelligence!
Hi Everyone!
We are excited to announce that MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing are now stocking some Orbital Intelligence physical products for shipment from our UK-based webstore.
Sean Richer of Orbital Intelligence develops fantastic content for Dungeon Crawl Classics working with fantastic artists, writers and editors.
We hope you enjoy looking and if there is anything you’d like to see in the webstore please let us know.
Many thanks, Glynn & Sean
And if all that isn’t enough… [Disclaimer! I am involved in this project and feature as a stretch goal!]
Orbital Intelligence are running an active Kickstarter for more glorious DCC content!
2 WORM 2 FURIOUS: A DCC RPG FUNNEL & MINI-SETTING A level 0+ adventure & mini-setting for 4-6 players. CHASE A MUTATING GOD GRUB! For Dungeon Crawl Classics! With Art by Scrap Princess!
We are back! The webstore has been closed since the end of February and we’ve missed three whole months of not being able to send you awesome roleplaying goodies whilst the whole world has been dealing with the virus pandemic.
We hope that you and your families have kept safe and well and that things will be improving soon, if not already starting to do so.
We’ve not been idle during this time, and managed to get some new projects on the store and some imminently arriving. So without further ado, come and stop by and look at all the pretty-shinies.
An Important Covid-19 Update about Shipping!In order to protect the health & safety of our staff and reduce trips to the Post Office, we will be shipping orders once per week (on Tuesdays) for the foreseeable future. We still aim to ship large orders (such as bundles) the following day. Also, whilst we want to get goods and parcels to you as soon as possible, please expect delays in the shipping services of the UK and other countries.
Richard Marpole’s teetering exploration of the Abbey-Cathedral of Saint Abbans. The abbess has a bat problem and needs competent people to head up into the lofty heights of the cathedral to sort it.
An adventure for Levels 1-3 for Swords & Wizardry and other OSR-style games. Compatible with The Midderlands setting.
This title will only be available from DriveThruRPG in both softcover print and PDF formats.
Midderzine Issue #5
More The Midderlandsgoodness!. This fifth issue contains details of the town of Abbots Bream, more Slightly Less Shit tables, March Woodkin, Legendary turnips, and more.
This title will be available in:
PDF format on DriveThruRPG
Softcover print and PDF format on the MonkeyBlood webstore
Folk Magic of the Haven Isles
Richard Marpole delights us yet again with a British folklore-based supplement for flavourful Magic-Users. Suitable for Swords & Wizardry and other OSR-style games. Designed to compliment The Midderlands setting. It provides ‘overlays’ for the Magic-User class, giving your Magic-Users a unique flavour and opportunity to stand out from the rest.
This title will only be available from DriveThruRPG in both softcover print and PDF formats.
We hope that you are keeping well in these unusual times. Follow all the advice you are given and stay safe. Look after yourselves and others and we will get through this sooner rather than later.
In the meantime, we have been staying safe and using this time of staying indoors to progress this project art along quicker than we originally envisaged. Cool! We are in the final 2 weeks of the campaign, and over 70% funded.
I had the pleasure to chat with Ben Barsh and Edwin Nagy last night about current The Midderlands 5E project in the ‘Around The Pond’-cast. Check out our musings.
Welcome to the fourth installment of Creator’s Corner!
This is where we let another small RPG publisher or freelancer loose on the blog in the spirit of supporting each other and spreading the word. The RPG scene is filled with amazing creatives and products and this is me doing my part by trying to help ‘raise the tide to lift all boats’.
#supportsmallrpgpublishers #creatorscorner
Please support these folks if you can, check out what they do, and if you can’t support directly, please help share this post.
If you want to post in Creator’s Corner and let the good RPG folks in my feeds know about you and your products, then drop a message to glynn@monkeyblooddesign.co.uk with the subject: Creator’s Corner submission.
Thank you for stopping by and supporting the creatives in the scene, Glynn
In the spirit of transparency, Sean and I have worked together previously.
Without further ado, over to Sean Christopher Richer and a look at some of the awesome stuff he is putting out there! —
HELLO I’M SEAN, FOUNDER OF ORBITAL INTELLIGENCE, LLC. We formed to start bringing ridiculous ideas to life. We focus on super weird, super strange, and extremely playable, content.
How’d we get here? Let’s jump back to when I was a child, back when satanic panic was a thing. I wasn’t allowed to play Dnd, and couldn’t tell you what edition it was in the 90s in Canada. (but somehow I played spellfire… I don’t know how that worked)
I did however hit the library hard, and going through Robotech art books I eventually stumbled into the palladium stuff. Which became the first game I’d run. This led to RIFTS, which pretty much raised me (and all things palladium for that matter). I wanted nothing more than to make a sourcebook for RIFTS (Siembieda if you’re reading this, HIT ME UP).
So what do we do now? We are trying to crank out as many zines as possible, while maintaining quality. It’s difficult, but we wouldn’t be able to do it without frequent collaborators. MonkeyBlood Design has done all of our layout so far, and I plan to keep it that way! Endmusik (Michael Weeks, friend and frequent musical collaborator) did our company logo!
A setting that focuses on “the drop”, an event where giant tentacled aliens burst forth and set up shop on earth (or wherever). It’s super Gonzo, and you can play 20 foot aliens from the get go. It was initially going to be savage worlds, then MCC, but DCC seemed like the correct home for over the top Aliens and Bat gods. Just about everything mutates, and has a separate tentacle die that levels with them.
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A ZINEQUEST KICKSTARTER IN FEBRUARY FOR STRATOSFIEND ISSUE 2 WE WILL BE BACK TO TALK ABOUT IT IN DEPTH!
This setting is a mess of collage art, mind-rending art, and layout to match it. It contains new character backgrounds (including sentient gravel), new bestiary entries (including a demonic elf on the shelf, and sentient toast), and A NEW ADVENTURE WHICH FOCUSES ON A WORLD THAT IS SLOWLY TURNING INTO CHITIN WITH EVERY DAY THAT PASSES AND DOOR THAT IS ENTERED. Glynn KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK on this one. Matching each piece of art, with even crazier layout.
This one is equal parts cosmic dread simulator, 1 player funnel, and a love letter to *cough* Dawson’s Creek. I used to put every new character background that I see for Troika through its paces. How many seconds did YOU last on the creek? In some cases you may be hit in the face by a frisbee, in other cases the sentient creek consumes you and everyone you know. In other cases, perhaps you just didn’t do your homework? Or lost your love.
If you have itch troika products, let’s talk and get a bundle going! I’d love to pair up!
The tragedy that begot ternwillow; a love letter to idyllic fields through the lens of [Redacted] of Green Gables and end of [Redact]-elion (TROIKA).
(Jackknife, Brains, and Ironsights (Ronnie) by Chin Fong)
Come spring 2020, you will start to hear about the town of Ternwillow, and how these brave pilots helped fight back horrors of humanity itself. Spoilers, they perish. All stories and play are told in the form of flashbacks, and stories of what happened. As players try to piece together what exactly the tragedy was.
The MASSIVE OSR Humble Bundle featuring The Midderlands and a metric shit-ton of other top-level gaming stuff is ending the middle of this coming week.
It’s the last chance to get $624 USD of digital stuff for $18 USD.
