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Draconis Fundamentum

Bow before the mighty dragon gods...

The Draconis Fundamentum puts a magnifying glass on everyone's favorite scaly, flying, (and often fire-breathing) predators. This book's archetypes, feats, spells, and monsters are designed to give players and GMs their dragon fix, finally fulfilling our long-time goal of making it possible to play a party entire composed of dragon-themed characters, regardless of class or race. Moreover, our new feat chain allows you to gradually transform your ch...

July Book Poll

Dragonbook is coming together for April 1st and the Palm is working feverishily on the Craftsman for April. June is officially the MFoV Expansion Pack (there was never any doubt in my mind), and the jusy is out on July. Vote now to pick which book we create for July!

Weird West Update

Howdy, partner. What brings ya' 'round these parts? 

The Weird West is hands-down my new favorite setting. It's not just the focus on guns and cowboy boots, it's the idea that you can take everything you love about fantasy and have it live in the West, with all the Western trappings and tropes. Just adding the Western elements feels like a force multiplier in terms of creativity when you're running an adventure.

This book is big. Its 50 pages includes a introductio...

June Book Poll

Hey all! We're steaming towards our March 1st book, the Weird West Update. The month after is the dragonbook, Draconis Fundamentum, and the month after that, the Complete Craftsman (which you all selected in last month's poll.)

So how about the month after that?

Vote below for your favorite book option! Select as many or as few options as you want.

Weird West Preview

A thousand stories live in the West, and a thousand more are yet untold...

The Weird West is the best campaign setting you never knew you wanted to play in. 

For people who want to dive deep, the Weird West is a setting of swords, sorcerery, and six-shooters, where the wide and dangerous frontier is populated by goblins, dwarves, and gatling dragons. If it belongs in a typical RPG world, it can be found in the Weird West. Knights in shining armor and trained wizards can div...

Gunslinger

Boom, headshot.

Risk is in a gunslinger’s blood. They are bold renegades, bucking tradition and forging a new path with dangerous and inelegant firearms. Gunslingers are infamous for surviving by their wits, relying on split-second timing and a considerable amount of luck to survive. 

We took our time balancing this class just right, making sure that it felt as good to play as it is to read. The gunslinger is a striker class with a role in combat reminiscent of the rogue'...

Shugenja

Water, Earth, Fire, Air…

The Shugenja are elemental masters, unlike anything you've seen for at least an edition and a half. Rather than casting spells normally, shugenja are scroll-casters, preparing and casting their magic through ink and parchment alone. This radical departure from conventional spellcasting requires thoughtful planning, but comes with a host of benefits: sharing scrolls with your allies, gaining the use of blank scrolls, which need not be prepared, and gaining a ...

Craftsman Redux

Swing your hammer wide!

This Craftsman revision is really something special. We took a class that we already loved and restructured top-to-bottom it to be simpler to digest, easier to play, and more interesting at the table. Some of the first changes you'll notice are that we've changed the old Well-Built equipment to Masterwork equipment. Besides just being instantly more iconic, we take a slightly different approach with Masterwork gear that allows you to more easily upgrade gear fo...

May Book Poll

Hello all!

As of right now, we have books lined up in some form or another for the next few months. This month  (which releases on Feburary 1st)  will be a collection of classes including the Gunslinger. Next month (March) will be the Weird West update, which mixes swords, sorcery, and six-shooters in equal measure, and the month after that (April), we have something only called Dragonbook lined up.

This poll is to decide which book comes after that. I know it's a lon...

Lovecraft Handbook

... we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. 

- HP L. 

Question your own sanity with the Lovecraft Handbook, an essential for DMs and players of campaigns which feature aberrations, the Far Realm, and creeping eldritch madness. This book is one of the longest we've ever written, and is packed full of new content: archetypes, backgrounds, a d100 table of trinkets, cursed magic items, variant ru...

Lovecraft Handbook preview

Something stranger this way comes

We're giving the gift of alienation this holiday season; the gift of a creeping existential terror that swells to the surface when you think you're finally alone, but aren't. That's right, we're bringing you the gift of Lovecraft.

And check out the art Kirby did for us this time! If you like his work, check it out at his artstation  and follow him on ...

Class Pack Poll

--Edit: open for everyone!--

The Digits, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to go resurrect the Class Packs. 

In addition to our Monday, Wednesday, and Friday posts, and our monthly Patreon books, we'll be creating semi-regular Class Pack collections, which feature a curated list of MFoV favorites. Greatest hits albums, if you will. 

But we've published a lot of stuff, and we're asking you, our marvelous patrons, to tell us your favorites from each class. 

Tundra Update

Winter is Coming. Light a fire and stay warm, for there are far deadlier things awaiting you in the ice and snow. 

The Tundra Update provides players and DMs alike the resources to stage adventures in the icy north and in other landscape of eternal winter. This book includes new archetypes, hazards, magic items, monsters, spells, and more. 

The following archetypes are included in this book (those marked with * are completely new):

• Barbarian: Path of the Fr...
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Patreon Preview: Tundra Update

It's getting cold outside…

When a certain witch dooms the land to eternal winter or the party travels to the icy north, you need the Tundra Update.

This one is coming at the end of the month, appropriately on December 1st, and I'm really excited it. Not just because it's just in time for everyone's Christmas campaigns, but also because I think we dug deep and found a lot more awesome in the tundra than I even knew was there.

As always, here's a glimpse at the phenomenal ...

All Patrons Eve

We here at Mage Hand Press love our warlocks, our monster movies, and our spooky October holidays. This new book, All Patrons Eve, brings these loves together in a collection of new warlock Patrons, Pact Boons, Invocations, and spells. If you're looking for a new warlock, there's no better book to read! 

All Patrons Eve includes the following Otherworldly Patrons (those marked with an asterisk are exclusive to this book):

• Mother Beast 
• The Blood
• The ...
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Warden

The warden was a mountain, his feet immovable and his shield unbreakable.

Wardens are vigilant guardians, and unbreakable defenders of the weak. They are nature’s shield, and the watchers of the realms of men. When the world cries out for a champion, wardens heed the call.

The Warden represents the first proper Defense / Control class ever in 5th edition. It excels in not only surviving oncoming hordes of foes, but also in locking down enemies to shelter the party from har...

Patreon Preview: The Warden

The warden cannot be slain, and cannot be felled.

You guys asked for a martial class, and we aimed to deliver. Some of you might be thinking, of all the classes, why did we choose the Warden, a relic of everyone's most hated edition, to adapt? Because the warden brings yet another dimension to 5th edition: the first defense/battlefield control class.

The warden can single-handedly lock down a group of enemies, while helping the party eliminate targets one at a time. The warden can...

Evil Archetypes

Every campaign has a big bad guy, and every hero has an evil side.

Mage Hand Press presents Evil Archetypes, a book containing the most wicked flavors of every class, alongside a host of villainous characters to terrorize your heroes. Villains come complete with NPC stat blocks, additional combat information, and a detailed backstory, so you know just how to introduce them into your campaign, and how to make them hurt your heroes.

The following classes are included in this book ...

Races of Manifest

In Manifest, gnomes keep a secret language, and dwarves sail about the world in trade. The elves are nowhere to be seen. But what about dragonborn? Thri-kreen? Tieflings? In this bonus chapter by Mage Hand Press, we talk a little more about the major races in Manifest, and probe a little more deeply into their cultures, histories, and attitudes toward one another.

Patreon Preview: Evil Archetypes

This month, we're bringing you another ambitious one: a collection of 12 archetypes, one for each base class, each packaged with fully fleshed-out Big Bad Evil Guy. Villains will come with their own statblocks and backstory, to make them as easy to pick up and use as possible.

Oh, and I absolutely have to show you the art that the great Martin Kirby did this month! Check them out in the attachments!

(ALSO: if anyone wants to check out more stuff by Mr. Kirby, follow him o...

Witch

The witch gestures at the charging orc, as a tendril of black energy reaches out and seizes it by the neck, bringing it to its knees.

Witches are cursed -- stricken by magic so dark it imprints a lasting shadow upon their essence. Through force of personality alone, they can spin this darkness outward, hexing creatures, casting manipulative spells, and even commanding a familiar with their thoughts.

The witch is the first proper debuff class in 5th edition, and, though it takes ...

Patreon Preview: The Witch

I haven't been keeping this one much of a secret -- but what I haven't told everyone yet is that the Witch is one of my favorite classes we've written so far. I penned almost the entire class in one sitting, and it came out as a great merger between the pathfinder witch, and our own MFoV take. I genuinely think that this one will be as well liked as the Alchemist and the Warmage. Here's some art the wonderful Mr. Kirby has done for us!

Also, at the end of this month we'll also be releas...

50 Magic Items

Oftentimes, your adventurers measure their progress and worth strictly by the quality of their loot. Higher levels are nice, but they're not quite as tangible as an enchanted great maul.

Your adventurers deserve the best loot. So we here at Mage Hand Press have written up 50 Magic Items to surprise and delight (and occasionally terrify) the adventurers in your campaign. Inside this book you'll also find Magic Item Sets, which are unique trios of items that become stronger when reunited, and tw...

Complete Warmage

Rook to king-4. Checkmate.

Warmages wield magic the same way a fighter wields weapons: swiftly and efficiently. It's no accident they've claimed the names of chess pieces for themselves. Chess is a game of strategy, where greater pieces trump lesser ones, and everything is done in service to victory. Logic alone dictates the winner, just as it does with magic. 

We wanted the Warmage class to be perfect, so we went back in, restructured the base class, tricks, and houses, an...

July 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Vecna Preview: Complete Warmage

It's finally ready! The Complete Warmage has had a crazy development cycle, as it actually involved polishing up the base class and making some big changes to the way we did things in the past. This one will come with a suite of cantrips for all classes, a heavily modified list of tricks to go with it, and even a new subclass!

For now, be content with some magic items and a look at the cover art for the book!

Waste Update

Howling winds, scorching sands, and the blazing desert sun.

The Waste Update is a must-have book for DMs and players alike of a desert-themed campaign. Containing 7 exclusive classes, the Waste Update has a desert option for any player, regardless of class. For DMs, it comes with a slew of new desert hazards, both magical and mundane, along with a number of new magic items and ten brand new monsters.

Exclusive classes include:

• College of Scheherazade (Bardic Col...
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June 2016 patron supported

Thank you so much for the support this month!

Vecna Preview: Dvati

It's definitely been some time since the last preview, so I thought I'd give you guys an interesting one: the dvati, a race which allows one player to control two characters as one.

In other news, the Waste Update is coming really soon, and I think you guys are going to like it. It's got a subclass for every class, a ton of hazards, monster stats, and even a few magic items.

Changelog: 6/30/16: Twins: Conditions section added

Vecna Preview: Waste Update

The Waste Update is coming at the end of the month, and I'm super excited to share it with you! It'll include monsters, magic items, hazards, and of course, a subclass for each class. Here's some of the amazing, fantastic, incredible art provided for us by Martin Kirby.