Asian Monsters: 90+ magnificent monsters for DnD 5E!

Still Waiting on Port Delivery, but Bonus Books are Here!
about 3 years ago – Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 11:58:00 PM

Hi all,

I checked in with our printer and shipping company and here's the most recent update from them, which unfortunately isn't much of an update at all. 

The container is pending for devanning and they can’t provide scheduling of when the cargo will be made available at this moment. But they will arrange delivery once the cargo is available and we will keep you posted.

"Devanning" is a logistics term that means "unloading cargo from a container," and that's where our books remain for now. They're only about 5 miles away, but labor shortages and backups at the port mean they're still sitting in a container. I'll keep you posted as they keep me posted.

Meanwhile, our boxes and padded envelopes are here, as are our print-on-demand bonus books from each of our Quickstarters, like the "Eastern Journey Adventures" for Asian Monsters, Tome/Cults of Madness for Mythos Monsters, and Power Armor/Ultimate Commander for Battlemasters & Berserkers. I've got our spreadsheets combined to unify orders across multiple Kickstarters and then subdivided into letter-coded package groupings to expedite packing once we have everything in hand. In short, the warehouse (aka garage) is ready to go as soon as we get delivery. We're looking forward to getting your books to you as soon as we can! 

The Long Voyage from Asia has Ended and the Books are in Port!
about 3 years ago – Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 06:48:43 PM

Hi all,

Good news! The print books arrived safely across the sea and to the nearby Port of Tacoma about a week ago! We are waiting for them to be cleared by customs, and once that happens they'll be delivered by truck right here to LG headquarters. We're only about 5 miles from the port, so it'll be a quick shipment once that happens. Our new label printer is here and we're picking up our shipping boxes and envelops tomorrow. We'll be ready to launch into action shipping out books to you as soon as they get delivered to us!

We're excited to get these beautiful books headed your way. Delivering your PDFs immediately on completion of the Kickstarter is definitely part of a "Quick-starter," but getting your books to you as fast as possible is right there too. With a heroic effort by our layout team and print partners, we were able to get Asian Monsters completed just in the nick of time to hit our sailing window, and the books will be arriving two months EARLY - September rather than the originally estimated November - despite COVID slowing down worldwide freight networks. The books are right down the hill from my house and just about ready to send to you. We'll update you again with pics when the truly epic quantity of books arrives!

PS - We'd be remiss if we didn't invite you to check out the Boricubos: Latin American Monsters & Adventures Kickstarter, which ends in less than 48 hours! With nearly 300 pages of monsters, adventures, character options, campaign settings, magic items, spells, and so much more, created with a terrific team including nearly 20 Latinx authors and artists, this is our biggest Kickstarter yet, at nearly $100,000. We hope you'll check it out and climb aboard - it all ends Thursday the 16th at 7 PM PT/10 PM ET!

Shard VTT modules going out for Mythos Monsters and Sea Monsters!
about 3 years ago – Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 12:22:10 AM

Hi all, 

We were excited on this project to partner with the great folks at Shard VTT, a brand-new VTT service designed specifically with 5E in mind. It's an uphill climb to make room in the marketplace when you've got bigger, more established services like Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds, but the features are excellent! For those backers who pledged for Shard on this project, we've just sent out the unlock keys (each is a URL; go to it and it should activate the product in your account) for Mythos Monsters and Sea Monsters! We had to get a new Shard person as the one formerly doing them was not able to carry the project through, but we we were delighted to get Mythos finished and are cranking away on Asian Monsters now and will have it ready for you soon on Shard and on our other VTT partners! 

Asian Monsters has been submitted at Fantasy Grounds and will be available as soon as it cycles through their system. Asian Monsters is likewise almost ready but Roll20 had us go back and fix a couple of technical things. Both versions should be up and live and ready to send out to you soon! 

As soon as we get those up and out the door, our guys are diving into Latin American Monsters from our current Kickstarter! If you haven't checked it out yet, we're looking at over 120 monsters if we hit our next stretch goal! We've got 10 days left and over $77,000 raised already. If you've enjoyed our 5E monster books so far, we definitely encourage you to check out Boricubos: Latin American Monsters & Adventures!

Update to the VTT update!
over 3 years ago – Tue, Aug 24, 2021 at 12:08:15 AM

Welllll... it turns out the Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds modules aren't quite as ready as I thought they were. :(

It looks like one of the FG modules should be ready in about 2 weeks and the other two are still grinding through the gears. I had misread the publisher back end where there was a date listed for each of them, but it turned out that date was simply a procedural marker in the module creation, not the "it's actually ready" date that I thought it meant. 

Hang onto the codes and keys you have. We'll be in closer touch with our VTT partners to verify when they are actually REALLY FOR REAL finished churning through their system, and we'll update you then, at which point the FG keys should be good to go and the modules added to your account. 

Our apologies for the over-eager mix-up and thanks for your awesome support. Charge it to our excitement to get cool stuff in your hands as soon as we can! 

VTT Files Sent! And Boricubos KS nearly 1000% funded!
over 3 years ago – Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 11:52:25 PM

Hi all,

VTT notes for you! 

• We finally got all our VTT stuff finalized at Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds, and last night we sent out Roll20 codes and FG activation keys to all the folks who had pledged for them. I pulled all pledge lists from Backerkit and sent them via direct email from [email protected]. Since each was sent as an individual email, they shouldn't bump up into most spam filters, but at least one person's account did so if you don't see them in your regular inbox, check your spam folder. 
• Our Shard VTT person departed the project and their replacement is now up and running. Mythos Monsters has been submitted at Shard and will be available soon through their system, and he'll be starting on Asian Monsters next week. Once that's in the can, we'll send out the VTT assets to our Shard pledges. 
• We continue to get requests from folks for Foundry VTT options, so if you know anyone familiar with that system who is interested in working on the project, please send them our way! 

We eagerly await our books' arrival next month so we can send them to you, but meanwhile you already know we launched our latest project, the Boricubos: Latin American Monsters and Adventures Kickstarter! This project is for TWO books - the Boricubos: The Lost Isles campaign setting/player's option book and Latin American Monsters, and by popular demand we are offering versions not only for 5E but also for Pathfinder 1E and Pathfinder 2E! This project is already at nearly 10 times its funding goal in the first 4 days, blasting through stretch goals aplenty to add over 20 more monsters to the bestiary, 3 introductory adventures, iconic sample characters, and more to come! The project runs a full 30 days, ending Thursday, September 16!

• As we did for Sea Monsters and Asian Monsters, we also have created an 11-page FREE preview PDF for you to get an early look at the amazing creatures heading your way in Latin American Monsters! You can download it right here, and by all means please share the word with any friends or fellow gamers who might be interested!
• We've also got a 21-page FREE preview PDF of Boricubos: The Lost Isles, giving you a taste of what you'll find in this fantastic campaign setting supplement!
• As we mentioned in the last update, we are pushing hard on the gas for layout to make sure we maintain our usual lightning-fast fulfillment. Books take the time that they take, of course, but we will have PDFs in your hands ASAP when the Kickstarter ends! 
• PS - Don't forget that there's also a deluxe 5E-only Omnibus Special Edition combining both books inside a beautiful two-color foil-stamped leatherette cover!

We're already almost 1000% funded in just the first few days, with eight stretch goals already complete and another less than $1000 away! We hope you'll check out the Boricubos: Latin American Monsters and Adventures project with us!