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Final Week and 3D Artist Spotlight
2 months ago
– Thu, Sep 12, 2024 at 03:29:40 AM
As we enter the final week I want to send my thanks to you for making this project a huge success. Whether you have been supporting our projects from day one or this is your first time backing us, this project would not be possible without you.
What 3 locations would you like to see in the village in Cult of the Gnoll Lord and Savage Adventures? If you haven't taken the survey yet, there are a couple days left to get your vote in: Survey Link
Artist Spotlight: Gabriel J. Spangler
I met Gabriel Spangler when I was working on "It Came From the Cellar!". I was so inspired by the drawing that Danh Tran had created of the Giant Ratipede that I thought a giant ratipede mini placed on the battle map would would be amazing, especially since there is no monster like it in D&D. I reached out to Gabriel and he delivered.
When we play tested, "It Came from the Cellar!" the look of shear terror, quickly followed by smiles from the players when the ratipede mini was put on the table was unforgettable. Since then Gabriel has been delivering boss monsters that are sure to shock and awe players. Most recently he created the Dread Minotaur and Gnoll Lord (Yeenoghu) for us.
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Avast ye scurvy scum! You and your mateys are on the hunt for a lost civilization in the Southern Islands of the Celestial Sea, rumored to have an ancient "City of Gold." It is rumored to be haunted by a ghost named "Spectral Tide," a wicked pirate who marooned his men for the treasure and fell victim to a curse that turned his crew in zombies that killed him! Hot on the trail are three buccaneers: Peggy Blackstocking, a fierce and seductive woman who rules her crew with an iron fist; Mogh the Ruthless, a hulking bugbear who escaped from an island prison by eating anyone who got in his way; and Whiskey John, a friendly, drunken "rob the rich, give to the poor" swashbuckler! Who will plunder the gold, artifacts, and treasures beyond your wildest imagination in the Pirates of the Serpent's Den?
Dungeon Builder’s Toolkit is a collection of 425+ (growing with each backer) modular tiles designed to transform your tabletop adventures. It empowers you to design and arrange your own dungeon battlemaps, offering flexibility to create endless unique layouts tailored for D&D or any TTRPG.
All the images are digital and are provided in 4K resolution. Each tile comes with both a gridded (square) and gridless option. The grid size is fixed, allowing you to seamlessly combine images, making it possible to print and assemble your custom maps if that is something you wish to do.
Wilderness Map Unlocked and New Village Location Survey
2 months ago
– Mon, Sep 09, 2024 at 03:43:16 AM
We have unlocked our 6th stretch goal: Wilderness/ Region Map! This map will include the road to Dawnfell (from the Dread Minotaur of Dawnfell) and some interesting locations in the surrounding wilderness of the village of Duskmire.
Survey
Choose the next locations in the village
The next stretch goal is 3 more locations added to the village and campaign setting. We already have an inn/tavern, market area, temple, apothecary, slaughterhouse, and pawnshop.
Enter the cursed kingdom of Ashendire in Scourge of the Tyrant King! A wickedly dark adventure, filled with twisted monstrosities and diabolical secrets.
What's included:
100+ Page Adventure
15+ Menacing Monsters
5+ Powerful Magic Items
4+ Forsaken Locations
Made by Humans
The adventure is growing with Stretch Goals!
Don’t miss the EXCLUSIVE Kickstarter adventure expansion; The Greedy Guzzler tavern. This bistro serves the most popular meals in town, and even though the curse has corrupted the cook, his famous food is still TO DIE FOR! This exclusive side-quest comes with a unique magic weapon, 2 detailed maps, and a grotesque mini-boss; Gribelly, the Butcher!
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Savage Adventures Cover Art
3 months ago
– Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 03:32:27 AM
Savage Adventures Cover by John Latta
John Latta created this cover artwork for us after our first book, The Trouble with Gnolls was published, just over a year ago.
I had featured a gnoll shaman that John had created in The Trouble with Gnolls. I loved his attention to detail and how he really expressed the savagery of gnolls so I reached out to him about this idea I had been kicking around (see Update: Evolution of Savage Adventures). John was excited to work on this project and he did not hold back!
If you would like to see more of John's art or commission art for your next ttrpg character or project you can find him here:
From sketch to final cover artwork.
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What are Stories of Taverns & Stores? This product consists of a collection of taverns, bars, and inns, designed to fit into any game world. Each and every one of them includes a possible encounter encounter centered around it, ensuring that its introduction into your game world is memorable; however, you need not use the encounter if you don’t want to. Most of these places can be just a replacement for a regular good ol’ tavern if you wish them to be, though they can offer much more.
Additionally, all taverns include a brief suggestion for moments in which they might be useful during the span of a longer campaign. However, remember that these taverns are all yours to modify and use as they best suit your needs.
It's a multi-level modular castle for wargaming with 5e adventure in PDF and nice HD renders for merchants. I think it's awesome and looks great!
WIP Gnoll Lord Mini and Artist Spotlight: Danh Tran
3 months ago
– Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 05:21:25 AM
Hello Amazing Backers!
This week we have been working on paper textures for the interior of the Savage Adventures book. Between book layout and prepping for next Friday night's D&D game this week I found a little bit of time to get a gnoll lord mini primed, and I started painting it.
Artist Spotlight: Danh Tran
I have had the pleasure of working with Danh on my last 3 books. Danh is an amazing artist and a great professional. A year ago I knew I would do another gnoll book and I commissioned him to create a gnoll, I liked it so much that I commissioned him to do a gnoll cultist (See update: Evolution of Savage Adventures for more details). Danh's work was always done timely and with style.
After creating the gnoll and gnoll cultist, Danh was next commisioned for the cover of "It Came from the Cellar!" I sent him a very rough sketch and explanation of what a giant ratipede would look like and he delivered an amazing cover.
From the author of DM's Guild's Adamantine-Best-Selling Monster Manual Expanded series comes the 300+ page sequel to the best-selling bestiary at DrivethruRPG, Dragonix's Deadly Denizens Volume II! This monstrous tome showcases artwork created entirely by real top-tier artists, including two WotC artists! Click Here.
A DnD 5e supplement containing three original monstrous entities that lurk in the depths of the sea. Each creature comes to life with a custom-made 3D model, captivating lore, a finely crafted stat-block, and a one-shot adventure for each of these new monsters. You can get all of the above for 4€ each or if 3D printing is not your cup of tea, you can still get your preferred monster and its adventure for only 1€!
Evolution of Savage Adventures 5E
3 months ago
– Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 03:13:30 AM
After our first Kickstarter, The Trouble with Gnolls, I went to work writing Bandits of Siege Tower. I envisioned that all of our one shots could have small elements (i.e. NPC's, locations, and lore) that could link each one shot.
Extra content only in Savage Adventures
I love gnolls and thought it would be great to have an overarching story that involved human cultists living alongside gnolls. These cultists could infiltrate cities in ways that gnolls cannot, and that is where the extra content for Savage Adventures stems from. In Savage Adventures the gnoll cultists have infiltrated the village of Duskmire and hide in plain site. People are disappearing, temple attendance is dropping, strange rituals are occurring, encounters with gnolls are increasing, and it is up to the heroes to determine what is going on and stop this evil cult before they achieve their ultimate goal of summoning their gnoll lord, Yeenoghu.
Savage Adventures will include all of our one shots, taking characters from level 1 to level 5, and have extra content linking them where GM's can introduce elements of cultist subterfuge, more gnolls, city & wilderness encounters, a bonus encounter featuring Yeenoghu, and more!
If you want more cultists, gnolls, mystery, and an optional campaign setting definitely consider picking up Savage Adventures! If you want to add it to or upgrade your pledge, click on manage your pledge on our campaign page.
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The Book is an illustrated guide to traditional card and dice games. Inspired by historical gambling and based on card games popular in different countries and eras, it has been structured into a book to enhance your gaming experience in 5E , RPGs, TTRPG games.
These games 🎲 can be incorporated into your adventures, offering a variety for your campaigns. LINK
The Cave Giant & Sporefolk Guide is a 27 page long PDF with the description and battle tactics of 12 original cave giants & sporefolks, with their lore and stat blocks, and 12 magic items you can harvest from them!
Want to add these monsters organically to your campaign? The 2 page long adventure “The Spore War” will allow you to introduce these new creatures to your players: With its plug & play approach and two PNJ battlemaps, you can jump straight into the action! Will you succeed in finding what attacked the gem convoy... or will it find you first?
On top of that, Mériate Games partnered with the talented people from Quest Fox Studio to create STL files for the monsters of the guide! The project will start with two monsters: the Pallidcap Architect, a magic-wielder Sporefolk and the Stoneback Lookout, a brutal Cave Giant. And there are other monster STLs on the Stretch Goals!
Are brave enough to venture into the depths of the earth? LINK
The Amethyst Dragon's Hoard of Everything is a 575-page book filled more than 1,700 original creations for adventurous 5e players and GMs to use in their games, including new subclasses, new species and ancestries, additional feats and added abilities, new items and equipment, hundreds of new spells and magic items, treasures, points of interest, plot hooks, unique NPCs, monsters, and more.
A few highlights of what can be found inside include:
108 subclasses
46 martial techniques (extra options for martial classes as they advance in level)
433 spells
crafting skill and tool uses
528 magical items
ways to make adventuring more challenging in certain circumstances
115 monsters and multi-use NPCs
This wealth of 5e creations can be yours as a hardcover book for your gaming table and collection, as a digital PDF that you can access on basically any device, or as a bundle with both so you have options on how and when you use it. LINK
