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Ryecroft: A Dangerous Cemetery Crawl for OSE and B/X TTRPGs

I’ve been working on this project over the years, but life kept getting in front of it. The pandemic, moving house, lots of freelancing, etc. It was close but needed a push over the line and NOW, the Kickstarter prelaunch is finally up.

With an expected lanuch of January 2025, this should finally get MonkeyBlood Design back to doing what it does best…. creating great and memorable products. Bring it on! This is a cemetery like no other!

Click any of the images to take you to the Kickstarter prelaunch page and get notified when it goes live!

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The Encyclopaedia of Incredible Artefacts

I’ve had the pleasure to provide the artwork for 76 unique items for the Encyclopaedia of Incredible Artefacts.
Two volumes of incredible magic weapons, armour, items, and trinkets, usable in any 5E setting!

Launches on Kickstarter 2nd July 2024. Get notified here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thegaiacomplex/the-encyclopaedia-of-incredible-artefacts-for-dandd-5e?ref=e8uf00

More info can be found at Hansor Publishing here: https://www.hansorpublishing.com/eoia

Check out these amazing spreads and product mockups:

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Fighting Folk of the Haven Isles: ENDS This Sunday!

Fighting Folk of the Haven Isles: ENDS This Sunday!

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

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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

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We’d love to have your support!

Many thanks,

Glynn [MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing], Richard and Pookie

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The Midderlands for 5E ON SALE!!

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)!

Click below to select and save!

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…

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Fighting Folk of the Haven Isles: LIVE on Kickstarter!

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

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

mailtimers.com

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

mailtimers.com

We’d love to have your support!

Many thanks,

Glynn [MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing], Richard and Pookie

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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

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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!

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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

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 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]