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August 2021 Monthly Monster: Void Sharks

They come from a dimension made of darkness and eat souls.

Along with the bonus monster this month, I think this marks the completion of the bestiary section for Only Monsters Here, so we're ...

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July 2021 Monthly Monster: The Lighthouse

The Lighthouse is a creature of nightmares, made from the memories of trauma attached to the first lighthouse ever built on the island of Inkstvarr.

Written for The Nightmares Underneath.

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June 2021 Monthly Monster: The Dragon Mages

The monthly monster for June is dragon mages! These wizards seek out dragons in order to learn their magic, but too often that magic is more powerful than the human form can handle.

This is a...

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Extra: Moon Goblins Revisited

Here is the Moon Goblins and Moon God Pantheon chapters from Only Monsters Here, expanded somewhat from their previous releases, with new fonts, stat blocks, and social institutions.

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Extra: Dark Elves for Only Monsters Here

Here is the dark elves chapter for Only Monsters Here. The stat blocks include a couple of walking vehicles, and the bloody lamp illo has been improved, but there's no new art, just new rules and s...

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May 2021 Monthly Monster: Chaos Riders Revisited

This month we bring back the chaos riders, with an updated version of the old illustration, and five new illustrations, all with images and stat blocks for both steed and rider.

This is one o...

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April 2021 Monthly Monster: Alchemical Greenery

More plant monsters from the dead city! This one produces arcane chemicals so of course there's a random table for that. This is intended to appear in the next book, Only Monsters Here, so it's wri...

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Extra: Mutant Goblins Expanded

I have incorporated some additional illustrations into the stat blocks for the Goblin Mutants, and added a new mutant type (the Altered Beast), so here is an even longer version. Probably this is e...

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March 2021 Monthly Monster: Plant Ghosts

When you go adventuring and then you die in the dungeon, what happens to your ghost? What if it possessed some plants and they picked up your weapons and continued fighting? Oh no! The next adventu...

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February 2021 Monthly Monsters: Goblin Mutants

The goblin mutants of the Sakhab Wastes, ready to go into the next book. Actually they will probably get expanded a bit, based on the stuff that Nathan is working on right now. These guys leaves th...

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The Company of Monsters Update

Hey everybody,

This is just a small update on that game we're working on, The Company of Monsters, which I'm still tweaking and refining here and there in between other things.

Here's t...

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January 2021 Monthly Monsters: Demongate Shrines

The first monster of this year is the Demongate Shrines, guardian shrines that summon Shrinegate Demons to attack unauthorized passers by. These are going into the next book and are written for The...

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December 2020 Monthly Monster: Trolls

This month we have rules for playing trolls in The Nightmares Underneath. Trolls in the wasteland around the dead city are usually ancient and powerful, but not always. Sometimes they start at Leve...

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End of 202 Update

Hey all, this is just a short update. Recently, Nathan broke his drawing arm. Luckily, he left me with illustrations that I can release later this month, but we might be late again with releases ar...

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November 2020 Monthly Monster: The Giant Husk Part 2 of 4

And now we get to see inside: there is a map! We did a monster map!

Part 2 of the Giant Husk introduces one of the wizards that controls this horrid monster and shows us two of the seven room...

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October 2020 Monthly Monster: The Giant Husk Part 1 of 4

The giant husk is a huge monster that lumbers around the wastelands breathing fire. It has a whole story connected to it, including multiple characters, so I've split the parts up. Part 1 is the mo...

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Only Monster Here (New Book Project)

So, this post is to announce a second book we have in the works. A little while ago I posted a draft of some monstrous professions that were for playing monster characters in The Nightmares Underne...

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September 2020: The Monthly Monster

The monster for this month is the Landshark of Kulderhaven. A fishing village on the north coast of Inkstvarr is plagued by a terrible monster every night. The king has sent new settlers to repopul...

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August 2020: The Monthly Monster

The Giant Hunger is a monster that lives beneath the dead city of Ardoussarlis. He hungers for the purple crystals that the mutant goblins like to feed to their dragonseer (from November 2019), so ...

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Draft of the Sakhab Wastes

It turns out the squarecrawl map that I posted previously has been kind of a pain in the ass to work on. Plus, the monstrous professions don't really have a place in that book. so I decided to brin...

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July 2020: The Monthly Monster

July's Monthly Monster is a new adventuring profession for The Nightmares Underneath and Labyrinth Lord: The Alien Astronaut. You can play as a weird alien exploring Earth with your collection of t...

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June 2020: The Monthly Monster

I am slowly but surely catching up to the present! The monthly monster for June is the goblin pirates of the North Sea, written up for The Nightmares Underneath as both antagonist monsters and also...

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May 2020: The Monthly Monster

The goblin prince of birds is the chief lunar hierophant of the Moon Goblins. For use as a monstrous antagonist OR as a player character!

I think I've finally got a good format for presenting...

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Playing Monsters in The Nightmares Underneath

In general, I've resisted the urge to write player character versions of our monsters for old school D&D (and/or Labyrinth Lord etc). The Company of Monsters was supposed to be the game where y...

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April 2020: The Monthly Monster

Here's the horde of beasts, a nightmare creature originating on the island of Inkstvarr, the subject of our next book.

Versions for Dungeon World and The Nightmares Underneath are in separate...

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Patreon Update March 2020

Hey everybody,

Okay so first update is just to let you all know that in February I started experiencing pain issues related to sitting in front of the computer allatime. I'm dealing with it, ...

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March 2020: The Monthly Monster

Mouth Eyes is the monthly monster for March. It comes to this world from beyond space and time to kidnap humans and subject them to the dire effects of the outer planes. They come back, at least, b...

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February 2020: The Monthly Monster

This month's monster is the gargoyle wizards who conspire to make gargoyle sculptures common to all human cities and towns. What better way to help their kind pass unnoticed in the night? They go w...

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Updated Basic Moves for The Company of Monsters

Progress is happening slowly on The Company of Monsters, but the revisions to the basic moves (along with dramatic moves, interstitial moves, and travelling moved) are now in an attractive and usab...

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January 2020: The Monthly Monster

King Buzzu, worshipped by poor and wretched goblins of the wastes, flies over the lands around the dead city of Ardoussarlis, wreaking destruction. The kingdom of Ardoussarlia lives on in other lan...

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