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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

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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

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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

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Need A Vacation? Try the Isles of Nukkertawa

Why not get away for the weekend?

Trips to the Isles of Nukkertawa are free. Just bring your imagination…. Oh, and don’t mess with the obelisks.

I’m just a LoRes version, see below for download link to full resolution file…

No one is really sure why not. I mean, they are so black, shiny and tactile it’s hard not to want to touch them… then the runes that you never spotted before start to glow deep red.

Anyway, besides that you can always do a spot of diving. The Golden Caravel was said to have sunk off the coast over a hundred years ago, filled with stolen gold.

You could alwys take in the views north of Reaper’s Point, but watch your step, those rocks are quite loose.

Sound good? Great! Pack your bags and a cart will pick you up and take you to the port in 10 Rounds…

Grab the Full Resolution JPG file here:

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Have fun and don’t forget to pack your longsword!

Glynn

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The Dustlands

I previously shared the settlement of Ironhome from the intro scenario for GATEpunk, which sits in the region called The Dustlands.

I did a map for a commission a long time back which was a parched desert land and I really liked the style. I wanted to revisit it for this map and I’m really liking it!

6 mile hexes
Extract from The Dustlands map

Want the whole map? Grab it here…

The Dustlands r2.JPGDownload
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Subscribe to MonkeyBlood

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This is Ironhome. A post apocalyptic settlement on the site of an old miltary airfield. It’s the starting point for the first GATEpunk adventure.

Thanks, Glynn

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One Page Dungeons

The winners were announced for the One Page Dungeon Contests 2020 this week, and I think I came in at number 16 with The Trojan Pig, which I am pretty pleased about as it was another classic ‘running out of time late panic entry’ 😀

Congratulations to the winners, honorable mentions, and anyone that took part and submitted. There are some lovely entries.

I thought it would be nice to summarise all of my One Page Dungeon Contest entries into a single blog post, so here we go!

Escape the Oubliette (2015)

Escape-the-Oubliette-r1Download the PDF

Descendants! (2016)

Descendants-r1Download the PDF

The Color of Fungi (2017)

This entry was written by Thom Wilson (Throwigames) and Art/Layout by me.

OPD-2017-FINALDownload the PDF

Wastes of the Rhinofolk (2018)

Wastes-of-the-Rhinofolk-r1Download the PDF

Escape from Dead Bird Isle (2019)

Escape-from-Dead-Bird-Isle-r1Download the PDF

The Trojan Pig (2020)

I am especially pleased with the ‘pig’s butt entry door’ on this one.

The-Trojan-Pig-r2Download the PDF

Until next time, have a great one and stay safe!

Glynn

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The Bats of Saint Abbans Kickstarter ENDS in just a few days!

A vertigo-inducing adventure inside a crumbling cathedral. For all OSR games.

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/the-bats-of-saint-abbans-an-osr-adventure?ref=43rt29

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.
  • Books 1 to 3 are fully indexed. Play Notes.

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/the-bats-of-saint-abbans-an-osr-adventure?ref=43rt29

Many thanks,

Glynn and Richard!

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Megadungeon Monday: Map 52 – Portal to Morromorro

It’s Monday and I hope you are all doing well. We are finally here, after 52 weeks of posting (a whole year!) here is the final part 52 of the Megadungeon Monday project! Thanks to everyone for following along with it!

Got any suggestions about what to do with it all now? Drop them in the comments below or email me using the contact page!

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Map 52 – Portal to Morromorro

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