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Posted on October 14, 2022October 14, 2022 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

Fighting Folk of the Haven Isles: LIVE on Kickstarter!

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Fighting Folk of the Haven Isles: LIVE on Kickstarter!!!

An old school roleplaying supplement for warriors and fighting folk. Fighting Folk of the Haven Isles is a roleplaying supplement for old school role-playing games. Its focus is on warriors and fighting folk. The book is written for Swords & Wizardry and therefore can be used in all retro-clones and old school roleplaying games with little or no work.

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/fighting-folk-of-the-haven-isles?ref=deumhw

There are Early Bird pledges for the first 48 HOURS, so don’t miss the chance to get it for a little bit less!!

Physical Product Specification

An A5-sized hardcover (148mm wide x 210mm high OR Approx. 5.8″ wide x 8.3″ high) containing 100+ interior pages comprising 20+ pages of evocative, full colour illustrations.
17 Fighting Folk sub-classes, such as the Arfurian Knight, Barber Surgeon, Coastal Corsair, Fisher Knight, Kiltic Hero, and Queensgrave Club Member. These sub-classes are ‘overlays’ that are intended to be used in conjunction with the fighter class, giving them benefits, drawbacks and flavour.
11 Fighter backgrounds such as the Battlefield Scavenger, Gloomdelver, and Snake Cult Survisor. Unique and flavourful micro-stories that make your fighter unique and explain how they came to practice magic.
20 Weapons such as the Boohoomian Ear Spoon, War Scythe, and Duckfoot Pistol.
10 Magical Weapons and Armour such as Old Bog Iron, Bloodthirsty Spear of Old Lugg, and Lambtown Spiked Armour. Usable in any old school game.
5 Legions of Legend. Elite and unusual military units of the Haven Isles.
Fighting Folk Superstitions
A Glossary
Open Gaming License (OGL)

A typical Fighting Folk subclass provides:

Flavour text,
Rules for play such as requirements, alignments and level-related abilities,
Roleplaying Suggestions,
Fighting Style and,
Suggested Starting Equipment.

Imagery

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/fighting-folk-of-the-haven-isles?ref=deumhw

We’d love to have your support!

Many thanks,

Glynn [MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing], Richard and Pookie

Posted on July 15, 2022July 15, 2022 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

ENnie Awards 2022! – Voting for ENnie-nominated HandyMaps is now OPEN

Voting is now OPEN for the ENnie Awards 2022!

We’re proud to have been nominated for HandyMaps: Dungeons, Caves & Strange Locales!
Please consider voting for us in the following categories:

Best Cartography
Fan Award for Best Publisher

We’d love your vote, it means the world to us and we get to continue creating awesome things.

https://vote.ennie-awards.com/vote/2022/

Vote for us by giving us a ‘1’ in the Best Cartography category
Vote for us by giving us a ‘1’ in the Fan Award for Best Publisher category

Thank you,
Glynn

#ennies #ennieawards #ennies2022 #monkeyblooddesign #handymaps #rpgcartography #rpgmaps #ttrpgs #rpgartwork

Posted on June 25, 2022September 30, 2023 by MonkeyBlood Design — 10 Comments

Conan Age of Hyboria Map

I’ve been working on this fan map for a while now, but it’s finally finished as far as I’ll take it for the moment.
We shifted the original version of this to align it more with the Robert E. Howard texts, and it’s thanks to Jk Hep and David Thomas (Rambling Conan Blog) for the double checking and keeping me honest.

Whilst it’s not technically ‘The Lands of Hyboria’, and rather the mainly western lands in the Hyborian Age, I like the title 😛

The files are ISO A2 size at 600dpi, so you can still print it off at 300dpi colour at ISO A0 size!
I hope you like it. If you print it and stick it on your wall, we need photos!

This link should take you to the three high resolution versions of the map as follows:

https://1drv.ms/u/s!Asryxq7YIiBZiOYQ5gvO7MSF0zDu5A?e=2S0KkC

Full version with borders and text labels
Version without borders
Version without borders and text labels
Mono A3 Version (with labels). This map was commissioned and kindly provided to all by Matthew Fenn

Snapshots of the different variants!

Posted on June 25, 2022June 25, 2022 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

Did You Miss the Ascoleth Kickstarter?

Not to worry… Grab it here…
Physical Print: https://monkeyblooddesign.co.uk/product/ascoleth-the-last-great-city/
Digital PDF: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/394823/Ascoleth-The-Last-Great-City

Posted on May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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

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

We’d love to have your support!

Many thanks,

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

Posted on April 22, 2022May 2, 2022 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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.

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

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

We’d love to have your support!

Many thanks,

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

Posted on April 7, 2022April 14, 2022 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

Ascoleth: The Last Great City. A Collaboration.

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.

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!

Posted on February 7, 2022February 4, 2022 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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 Games™, 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

Posted on January 21, 2022January 21, 2022 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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!

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.

** 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

Posted on November 12, 2021November 12, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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/

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).