Game Systems

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

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.

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.

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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:

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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:

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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).

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/

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

Posted on July 15, 2021July 15, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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

Posted on May 27, 2021May 27, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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

Posted on May 21, 2021May 21, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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

Posted on May 11, 2021May 11, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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

Posted on April 29, 2021April 29, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — 2 Comments

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

The Bats of Saint Abbans

Price range: £8.00 through £35.00

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Chewer of Fingers

£20.00

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Folk Magic of the Haven Isles

Price range: £11.00 through £22.00

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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

Posted on April 27, 2021April 29, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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: