A wizard can change the world for better...or worse. 120 new monsters affected by a strange curse for your 5th Edition game.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
3 days to go! New Monster Revealed!
about 3 years ago
– Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 01:44:26 PM
Thanks to everyone for backing the project. We are heading into the final three days! One Stretch Goal is unlocked and the others are in sight. The project is around 119% funded and we have 1000 people signed up for the key 48 hour alert.
Last week we decided to add three extra monsters for the final week. A few days ago we shared the Jackalops, today we have another. We'll reveal the third tomorrow.
Monster of the Day
Here's an oddball for the Swamp/Jungle Region!
Illustration by Travis Hanson
Last week several backers joined us for Monster Battle I, an online tournament with 8 creatures from our 5E Monster Series. We had players from New York, Toronto, Michigan, and Vancouver. Here's the video of the action. Thanks to Pat for running the technical side of things and Loke Battle Mats for maps. Congrats to Tim and the Skeleton Warrior for winning the battle!
Hexbound is a witchy supplement for 5th Edition. It gives both players and game masters all the necessary tools to add the magic of witchcraft and witches into their games.
The book offers content for both players and GMs alike, with new witch subclasses, spells, familiars, and backgrounds as well as ready-to-run, fully illustrated adventures, magical items, new creatures, and more!
It also offers a companion app that uses AR technology to animate the illustrations on the very pages of the book, and allows you to roll for everything by simply tapping on your screen!
We appreciate all the people who have helped to promote the project. There is still enough time to create an even better book! Please continue to share Monsters of the Wilderness far and wide!
Thanks,
Andrew and the team
First Stretch Goal is Unlocked! One Week Left!
about 3 years ago
– Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 02:31:26 PM
Hey Everyone, we've unlocked the first Stretch Goal! Two PC subclasses go in the book! Now it's time to add a lot more monsters. We still have a week to go, the next Stretch Goal is in reach.
*UK backers see note on main page
Monster of the Day
Here's the Snogre from the Arctic Region. A more dangerous northern cousin of the ogre.
The Snogre from the Arctic Region. Illustration by Travis Hanson
Here are the results of the first online Monster Battle from Tuesday. Video still to come.
Thanks to Pat (Montreal), Tim (Michigan), Dan (Toronto), Adam (New York), and Michael (Michigan) for participating. Thanks to Loke Battle Mats for their Wilderness VTT maps, here's their current Kickstarter: Wilderness Battle Maps
Everyone received our World of Myrr and Adventures in Myrr (16 adventures) PDFs for participating. Our champion, Tim also won a softcover copy of our Monsters of the CIty!
Please Continue to Share the Campaign
We appreciate all the help with sharing the project. Let's keep it up! We have a pinned post on Twitter you can share:
Funded! Stretch Goals in Sight!
about 3 years ago
– Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 09:02:51 PM
Thanks to all the backers for getting the project funded! We had an absolutely mammoth day yesterday!
Illustration by Travis Hanson
First Stretch Goal
We're very close to unlocking the first Stretch Goal and adding two PC subclasses to the book! The second goal will add a number of extra monsters.
Article on EN World
Charles Dunwoody interviewed us on EN World yesterday: Cawood on EN World
Another article about our last book will be published tomorrow.
The first of two Monster Battle events was held last night. One of the early favorites, the Armored Polar Bear, won the tournament (CR 3-5 monsters from all of our books). Backer Tim won a softcover version of our Monsters of the City book! We'll post a link to the video soon. Two more online events coming up!
Monster Battle I Champion. Illustration by Travis Hanson
Please Continue to Share the Campaign
We appreciate all the help with sharing the project. Let's keep it up! We have a pinned post on Twitter you can share:
Very close to funding! Just over a week to go!
about 3 years ago
– Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 09:02:20 PM
Hey everyone, thanks for coming on the journey. We're almost 90% funded with 9 days to go! Let's get to those Stretch Goals!
Monster of the Day
Meet the Jackalops! This oddball is from the Hills/Lakes Region.
Illustration by Travis Hanson
Tomorrow night is our first of three Monster Battles over the next week. Creatures from all four of our Monster Series books will battle each other and face a party of high level adventurers. We're running polls on Twitter showcasing each fight:
Cawood Publishing will be featured in an article on EN World's RPG site this Thursday. It should bring more people to the project. We're also promoting our project together with Loke Battle Mats Wilderness Kickstarter: Wilderness Battle Mats
Almost 85% funded with about two weeks left!
about 3 years ago
– Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 09:01:55 PM
Happy Friday everyone! Thanks for backing the project. We're in really good shape going into the last half of the funding period.
How wild will these monsters get?!
Good question, we will focus on making stranger, wilder creatures for this book. Oswald's curse has twisted some monsters into even worse forms, created undead horrors, and let peculiar creatures enter the world from other planes. We're playing with the damage done by the evil wizard or mad scientist archetype.
More than half of the monsters are large size or bigger at this point. At the same time, we want to have depth to the different regions. For example, the ozlogs and armored polar bears in the Arctic are there as food for the larger monsters and mounts for humanoids. We'll add another bizarre creature and showcase it next week. Most of the book will be monstrosities, undead, aberrations, fiends, and fey. We'll round out the collection with some dragons, giants, elementals, lycanthropes, humanoids, and beasts.
Meet today's monster
Here's the Giant Sand Shark from the Desert Region!
