Kickstarters

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.

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

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.

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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:

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 December 4, 2021December 4, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

Rancid Canyons of the Floating Death Sheep

An adventure with versions for 5E, Swords & Wizardry, and Dungeon Crawl Classics. Coming to Kickstarter in early 2022.

Click here to ‘Notify me on launch’

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 pre-launch page and get notified when it launches:

Take me to the pre-launch Kickstarter page!

Many thanks,
Glynn over at MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing

Posted on September 8, 2021September 8, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

Need Maps? Of course you do! Last Few Days!

500+ backers! Over 550% Funded! Two stretch goals down!

Hello Everyone,

We hope you are all doing well.

We just wanted to let you know that the last few days of the campaign are upon us.

HandyMaps Dungeons, Caves & Strange Locales

So, we have currently funded a set of twenty four (24), double-sided A5 cards showing beautifully illustrated dungeons, caves and strange locales for fantasy-themed games. The cards can be used as valuable tools for game planning by Game Masters.

Whilst there are 24 cards, they detail a total of 60 locations for you to populate and your players to explore.

The cards will be double-sided in a handy A5 size (210mm high x 148mm wide OR 8.27″ high x 5.83″ wide) from 350gsm uncoated card stock (giving a nice matt finish, suitable for ink and pencil marking).

Each side will be professionally digitally printed on a parchment style background.

The maps will all have a basic grid and minimal text labels (generally kept to elevation marks, stairs/slope directions, secret doors, etc), but NO title, room numbers, or compass allowing Game Masters to use them as they need for their campaigns.

Also, a great opportunity to pick up previous HandyMaps too!

Please feel free to check it out here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/handymaps-dungeons-caves-and-strange-locales-for-game-masters?ref=d58ck6

Please feel free to check it out here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/handymaps-dungeons-caves-and-strange-locales-for-game-masters?ref=d58ck6

Many thanks,

Glynn over at MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing

Posted on August 13, 2021August 13, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

HandyMaps Dungeons, Caves & Strange Locales has just launched on Kickstarter!

Hello Everyone,

We hope you are all doing well.

We just wanted to let you know that we have a new Kickstarter campaign running which might interest you.

HandyMaps Dungeons, Caves & Strange Locales

So, we are creating a set of twenty two (22), double-sided A5 cards showing beautifully illustrated dungeons, caves and strange locales for fantasy-themed games. The cards can be used as valuable tools for game planning by Game Masters.

Whilst there are 22 cards, they detail a total of 56 locations for you to populate and your players to explore.

Each side will be professionally digitally printed on a parchment style background.

Also, a great opportunity to pick up previous HandyMaps too!

Please feel free to check it out here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/handymaps-dungeons-caves-and-strange-locales-for-game-masters?ref=50qgem

Please feel free to check it out here:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/handymaps-dungeons-caves-and-strange-locales-for-game-masters?ref=50qgem

Many thanks,

Glynn over at MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing

Posted on July 13, 2021July 13, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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

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