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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 finall...

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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 ...

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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 ju...

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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...

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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...

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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 c...

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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...

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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 Dungeo...

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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 ...

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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 La...

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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 Labyr...

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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:

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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 tit...

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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.

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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 ther...

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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 back...

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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....

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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.

Bot...

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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.

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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 ...

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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.

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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....

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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 o...

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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.

Dungeo...

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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)...

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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!...

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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.

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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...

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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 de...

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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 t...

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