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| richgreen01 |
 Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:32 am Post subject: Midgard Bestiary for 4e - now available |
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Hi,
Very excited that the Midgard Bestiary for 4th Edition that I wrote with Brian Liberge last Autumn has gone live as a Kickstarter project.
I worked on this book every weekend from the end of July through to the beginning of December last year and loved every minute of it.
To pick the monsters, I went through five year's worth of Open Design's adventures and sourcebooks looking for the most interesting, iconic and flavoursome monsters to pull together a balanced line-up of creature types and levels that represented the best of the Midgard setting.
After Wolfgang had approved the outline and the list, Brian came on board, we decided who was going to do what, and began working our way through the monsters, converting them to 4e from 3.5 D&D, Pathfinder and the AGE system. Often, we looked at the original monster and decided it would be would be fun to come up with several variants of the creature. For example, there are three nasty gnomes of Niemhiem, rather than just the one that appeared in the AGE Bestiary.
We also wrote some brand new monsters, and got additional contributions via the KQ Forums from patrons including Tracy “Sarah Darkmagic” Hurley. The Pathfinder Bestiary was being written at the same time and we worked closely with Adam Daigle, adding in several creatures from that book to bring the final total to 150 monsters.
Long time fans of Midgard will be pleased to see monsters like the owl harpy from Six Arabian Nights and the blood hag from Blood of the Gorgon included, and there are 30 brand new creatures which don’t appear anywhere else, including Mammon himself (a level 33 solo!)
Once we had all our monsters, we enlisted the help of 15 groups of 4e players and playtested them to make sure they all worked properly at the table and were fun to fight. Final tweaks were made the manuscript went off to the editor.
We’re very proud of the book and I’m very excited it’s now out there for people to back as a Kickstarter project. The monsters give you a fantastic set of creatures with interesting, varied powers and great background lore to put straight into your 4th Edition D&D game.
It would be great to get as many backers as possible to bring the book into print!
Cheers
Richard
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| BrianLiberge |
| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 6:36 am Post subject: |
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Have we really been working on this book for a year? Wow.
Everything Rich said +2. Its a great book. You want to have it, if only to scare the snot out of your players on occasion. There's some Feind Folio level scary folded into those pages. |
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| Daigle |
| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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| richgreen01 |
| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Well done, guys! |
Cheers Adam!
Very pleased we're 25% of the way to the initial target on the first day 
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| richgreen01 |
| Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| richgreen01 |
| Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2012 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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Huzzah! We've hit the original $3,500 funding goal and are now aiming for the first stretch goal.
Cheers
Rich |
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| richgreen01 |
| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2012 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Wolfgang |
| Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2012 6:00 am Post subject: |
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Nice diary, with a sneak peek of the page layout as well.
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| richgreen01 |
| Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2012 11:26 am Post subject: |
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Now just $765 from the first stretch goal and bonus monsters!
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| ObsidianCrane |
| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2012 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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Under $500 to go to get to the first stretch goal now.
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| richgreen01 |
| Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 10:24 am Post subject: |
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| Wolfgang |
| Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 2:56 pm Post subject: Hit Goal #2 |
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This project just hit goal #2 and is still climbing with 14 days to go. I'll be adding some additional rewards to the upper tiers tonight as well.
Very happy to see this project doing so well.
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| richgreen01 |
| Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 1:38 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
Very happy to report that the Bestiary Kickstarter met its final $10,000 stretch goal and finished up with 220 backers!
Thanks very much to everyone who supported the project. It's great to see there is still support for 4e Midgard/Open Design projects.
Cheers
Rich |
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| richgreen01 |
| Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 11:26 am Post subject: Out now! |
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Hi,
Just a quick note to say the book is now available at drivethrurpg.com and has had its first (5 star) review!
I'm very pleased how it's turned out.
Cheers
Rich |
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