Maps

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

Get on board here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/midderzine-issues-6-and-7-zines-for-old-school-games?ref=88x9q3

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

Podcast Interview with Sarina Langer

An absolute pleasure to chat with fantasy author Sarina Langer, recently.

Check out the podcast here!
https://www.buzzsprout.com/1356037/8019989-your-team-of-pros-your-cartographer-with-glynn-seal

You can also check out here excellent boos and website here: https://sarinalanger.com/

Posted on February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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:

Download

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

Glynn

Posted on February 13, 2021February 23, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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!

Want the whole map? Grab it here…

The Dustlands r2.JPG Download

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

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Posted on January 26, 2021January 26, 2021 by MonkeyBlood Design — 3 Comments

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!