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December 2019: The Monthly Monster

When flower goblins turn away from pretty petals and take up instead with the nightmares of thorns, the result is a Brambelf. It doesn't even wait 'til the sun sets to terrorize you.

I finally pulled together a nice layout so I can write these monsters up for The Nightmares Underneath. The end goal (aside from just switching over from Labyrinth Lord to TNU stat blocks) is a book, set on the island of Inkstvarr, so I will be releasing more of that stuff as it gets finished.

The oth...

The Tarot of Monsters is Here

The Tarot of Monsters is done and now available for sale via DriveThruRPG cards. I have sent discount coupons to all current patrons so you can buy it for the cost of printing and shipping. If you did not get a coupon, let me know and I will send it out again.

The Tarot of Monsters is a 78-card tarot deck with the suits of Caves, Murders, Ruins, and Treasures. Pages have been replaced by Witches, IX is now Solitude, XII is now Insight, and XIV is now Intemperance. It comes in an 80-card...

November 2019: The Monthly Monster

It's later but here it is at last: the Monthly Monster for November is the Dragonseer. A wizard? A dragon? A mutated magical drug addict that goblins use to divine the future? All that and maybe just a little bit more.

Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord stats in the same pdf.

Tarot Cards Update

So, we got a proof of the cards with the tuckbox, and made what I think are the final round of changes to the set. I'm just waiting on the latest proof to arrive. If it checks out like we expect it to, that's when the cards will become available and I'll send out coupons for them. Hopefully in time for Xmas orders!

October 2019: The Monthly Monster

We return, once again, to the rat goblins who live in a fortress carved by fire giants up in the Clawcrest Mountains. But now we introduce their war against the dwarves* and one of the weapons they use against them.

Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord stats in the same pdf.

*At least, for now they are dwarves. Maybe we'll think of something different later.

September 2019: The Monthly Monster

Beneath the dead city, the ancient orkish wizards have imprisoned the blind idiot god. It still hungers for the flesh of adventurers, but the arcane stakes stuck inside its eyes hold its power in check.

Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord versions are both in one pdf.

August 2019: The Monthly Monster

The Monthly Monster for August is the serpent-headed monkeys. If you can find them, deep in the woods, and defeat them, maybe you can bring back those magic flowers they like so much.

Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord versions in separate pdfs, because it worked better for the layout.

July 2019: The Monthly Monster

The Monthly Monster for July is the Stone King, leader of gargoyles. His aim is to raise an army of monsters to attack the human Empire, now that it is weakened by civil war.

I put the Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord versions in different pdfs. I probably didn't need to, but it's an old habit.

The Company of Monsters: Go Play NW 2019 Update

I made a new version of the basic moves and character sheets to take to Go Play Northwest this weekend. They've been reorganized and I've expanded the rules quite a bit, which means not all of the moves are completely done! But I gave myself a deadline, so I'm sticking to it.

June 2019: The Monthly Monster

The coral men are the remains of sailors drowned by the goblin pirates of the North Sea. Returned from the Black Gates by demonic leviathans, they come ashore... to kill!

Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord stats in the same pdf.

May 2019: The Monthly Monsters

When the orkish giantslayers find a giant creature, they hunt it down and kill it, and then they ride its skull like a boat on the dark waters of the subterranean sea.

Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord versions included in the same pdf, and also includes a short Random Giant Monster Details Generator!

Dungeon Full of Monsters Second Edition is Now Live

Hey errybody!

The revised second edition of Dungeon Full of Monsters is now available for sale at DriveThruRPG:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226083/Dungeon-Full-of-Monsters

I have sent all current patrons comp coupons for the pdf, the softcover, and the hardcover version, so check your emails and pick your poison! Unfortunately shipping rates to (at least my p...

Dungeon Full of Monsters Update

Here is where we're at with this book:

The way DriveThruRPG works, when you set up a print version of a particular title, you can never change the format. That means I had to set up a new title listing for the revised edition of Dungeon Full of Monsters, instead of just updating the old version and maintaining some continuity.

The print isn't ready to go yet (still waiting on what I'm pretty sure are the final proofs), but I've updated the first edition files with the new pdfs. Wh...

April 2019: The Monthly Monster

The Bisector is a ravenous wizard-spawned monstrosity that roams the dungeon!

Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord versions in separate pdfs.

March 2019: The Monthly Monster

This month we add another entry to the pantheon of witches: the Bird Witch. She makes giant bird creatures from the enemies she slays and sells them to creatures from beyond time and space (or thereabouts).

Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord versions are in separate pdfs.

Dungeon Full of Monsters Backers List

Hello patrons!

The new layout for Dungeon Full of Monsters is proceeding faster than originally expected, which means it is time to revisit the Thank Yous section and add current Patreon backers.

This is what y'alls names look like in the book, currently:

A.D. Hardman, A.H. Ribeiro, Alistair Langsford, And Fett, Andy Evans, Bay Chang, Billy Bryan, Brad Osborne, Brandon Metcalf, Brendan Scott, Cameron McGowan, Chris Norwood, Chris Slater, Chris Stone-Bush, Craig Maloney, Dani...

Dungeon Full of Monsters secret project!

This is the current big project here at the monthly monsters: a new layout for Dungeon Full of Monsters!

These are pictures of a new letter landscape version: 11 inches wide, 8.5 inches tall. Each of these new pages contains a 2-page spread from the original layout, so along with some new material it ends up being 198 pages (200 if you count the extra page Lightning Source adds at the end).

The downsides to this new layout are mainly that I didn't plan to do this, so it's taken so...

February 2019: The Monthly Monster

The Siren of Inkstvarr is the monthly monster for February. It's a sea serpent haunting the waters around the island of Inkstvarr, which is where Valkolov the Mind-Wizard currently lives.

Both Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord versions are contained in a single pdf.

This one is a bit short because it's a short month and we've been doing some other secret project work that I will share with patrons soon.

January 2019: The Monthly Monster

The Thing in the Woods is the monthly monster for January 2019.

Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord versions provided in separate pdfs.

So it's 2019.

We didn't do much in the way of extra stuff last year, beyond the 2 monsters every month, which is kind of a shame. Hopefully that will change in 2019! We have a few different ideas we are mulling over and considering, so I thought I might fill you in.

We did some thinking about Dungeon Full of Monsters, now that it's been a year, and we've been considering ways to do more with it. I just sent everyone a DriveThruRPG comp coupon for the pdf, for those of you who do not have it already (...

Bonus Dungeon: The Time Pool

Not really a dungeon per se, but an encounter nominally set on the slopes of Skull Mountain, outside the Dungeon Full of Monsters. It's written up as if it were a page spread from that book.

December 2018: The Monthly Monster

He's called the rat golem because he's a golem created by a famous rat goblin sorceress. He's the only one who knows the location of her secret laboratory, but he wanders in search of a real heart.

Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord versions in separate files.

Bonus Dungeon: The Youth of Today

I decided to try writing up some outside encounters for Dungeon Full of Monsters, laid out in much the same format. These are things that can happen to adventurers while they are wandering around on the outside of Skull Mountain, before they ever get inside, even.

Here's the first one, where our heroes get ambushed by a youth gang, whose leader is something more than human.

November 2018: The Monthly Monster

The Twisted Man is a creature from the Outer Darkness, looking to experience the immoral pleasures of the material plane, and work with demonic cultists to undermine civilization from within.

Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord versions are in the same pdf.

Letter Landscape Layout Experiment

Hello patrons,

Today I am sharing with you the results of an experiment. I was looking at print formats and decided to try out letter landscape (11 inches wide by 8.5 inches high). Unfortunately, I can't get staple-bound books in this format even with a low page count, which is what I originally wanted. But even though the perfect binding (pages glued to the spine) isn't quite what I'd call perfect, I'm still thinking about doing more with it.

You'll notice in the pict...

October 2018: The Monthly Monster

Seeing as we started this Patreon project in November of 2013, this month marks the end of The First Five Years. It's been a trip looking back over all the monsters we've created (well over a hundred!) and thinking about where we can take them in the future.

The last public monster for this first half-decade, the Subterranean Fire Horse, is both a monster and a curse thrown by wizards at their foes. Let's just hope for your sake that you cast this spell correctly, should you ever get your hand...

September 2018: The Monthly Monster

The Longman Alchemist is a caterpillar man who sells drugs and other alchemical potions. He has an actual name too, maybe.

Both Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord versions are in the same pdf.

August 2018: The Monthly Monster

It's Ammazriel, the giant monster! But the evil cultists must assemble all ten of its eyes before it can be summoned. Maybe they can be stopped? Will our heroes locate the eyes first, and protect them?!?!!!

I put both Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord stats in the same pdf this time.

July 2018: The Monthly Monster

The wizard summons the Building Blocks to help him mine the toxic ore out of the ruined city. The city is (probably) going to be Ardoussarlis when I combine this with other sections, but we haven't decided who the wizard is yet.

Dungeon World and Labyrinth Lord versions in separate pdfs.

Tarot Deck Work in Progress

I just wanted to share this extra thing we're working on, even though it isn't finished. I put together a test run for a tarot deck featuring our monsters and it turned out pretty good. There's some that we weren't happy about, around ~15 that we want to replace with newer illustrations that work better. So it may take some time yet, as we're going to add in the ones we produce every month, but once we have enough good ones, we'll release it pretty much as you see it here.