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Posted on November 18, 2023November 18, 2023 by MonkeyBlood Design — 2 Comments

Announcing OSR Shorts!

Need some quick, short, low-cost game-juice without the pain of a monthly subscription to Patreon? All from an ENnie award winning creator?

A one or two-shot encounter, interesting location, memorable NPC, unique loot, great optional rule, or engaging random table? We’ve got you covered!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/7771/MonkeyBlood-Design

The first four OSR Shorts releases are now up in digital format over on DriveThruRPG. Written for Swords & Wizardry Complete Revised and using the AELF gaming license. Also easily usable in Old School Essentials (OSE).
More is to come!

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/7771/MonkeyBlood-Design

Click on the OSR Shorts category. #osrshorts #ose #oldschoolessentials #swordsandwizardry #oldschool #osr

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Thanks everyone, we hope you enjoy it!

Posted on October 27, 2022October 24, 2022 by MonkeyBlood Design — Leave a comment

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

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

We’d love to have your support!

Many thanks,

Glynn [MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing], Richard and Pookie

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

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!!!

Check out the Kickstarter page here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/fighting-folk-of-the-haven-isles?ref=deumhw

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

We’d love to have your support!

Many thanks,

Glynn [MonkeyBlood Design & Publishing], Richard and Pookie

Posted on July 23, 2020July 23, 2020 by MonkeyBlood Design — 2 Comments

Chewer of Fingers KS Coming Soon

Follow the Kickstarter here to get notified on launch:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/monkeyblooddesign/chewer-of-fingers

Chewer of Fingers is a grim old-school introductory adventure intended for The Midderlands setting. The adventure is written for Swords & Wizardry (Free pdf here) and therefore can be used in all retro-clones and old school role-playing games with little or no work. The book contains swear words and mature themes.

The encounters in the adventure take place in and around the small hamlet of Fetterstone—a depressing place on the edge of a stinking marsh near the border between the Western Midderlands and Staffershire.The PCs are heading to Fetterstone because there is a 20 gold quid reward for the capture of an escaped criminal called ‘The Finger Chewer’. He absconded from Middlemoor Gaol five days ago and is believed to be hiding out in the surrounding oft-foggy marsh. The marsh is notoriously dangerous and even the lure of 20 gold quids isn’t enough to entice the locals into its fetid clutches.

The adventure is A5-sized (148mm wide x 210mm high OR Approx. 5.8″ wide x 8.3″ high) containing 24 interior pages.
The adventure features 4 encounter areas: Old Lady Harris’ Farm, The Village of Fetterstone and the Gloombug Tavern, Middlemoor Gaol, and The Marsh.
Four pregenerated adventurers are provided: Solomon Pilkington (Level 2 Human Cleric of Gael), Dergal Pock (Level 2 Wart Goblin Fighter), Norris Hitchcock (Level 2 Half-elf magic-User), and Elspeth Fallows (Level 2 Human Thief).
6 beautiful hand-drawn and scanned maps. These will also be provided as separate unlabelled VTT versions with the PDF download.

This will be a Kickstarter Special Edition version (limited to 500 copies). Any later printings (post-Kickstarter) will feature a different cover, cost a bit more, and be unsigned.

Here are some 3D mock-ups (unedited and not final) showing what the print-version should look like.

3D Visualisation (not final, subject to change)

3D Visualisation (Unedited. Not final, subject to change)

The adventure is A5-sized (148mm wide x 210mm high OR Approx. 5.8″ wide x 8.3″ high) containing 24 interior pages.
The PDF version will be an A5, 24-page bookmarked PDF.
The Softcover PRINT version will be a stapled A5, 24-pages of 130gsm silk paper, with a full colour/ matt laminated cover with the green text and logo in spot UV.
This Softcover PRINT version of the book will be signed by Glynn Seal.

We have the following stretch goals…

£5,000 – I’ll add additional appendix information for making the adventure more useful taking the interior page count from 24 pages to 28 pages.
£6,000 – I’ll provide the pregenerated characters as four separate 250gsm sheets with blank rear, printed on uncoated paper for ease of writing upon. They will also still appear in the book itself too.
£7,500 – I’ll provide a separate 250gsm sheet with relevant game handout to both sides (one will be a list of old by-laws, the other is TBC).
£10,000 – I’ll upgrade the interior of the book to full colour with subtly textured background, colour art, and colour maps. This will only be available for the Kickstarter Special Edition version.

That’s it for now! Thanks for looking, Glynn