Sea Monsters: 60+ savage creatures of the deep for DnD 5E

Books have cleared customs! And a new Quickstarter is coming!
almost 5 years ago – Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 11:11:43 PM

In a supreme bit of irony, after six weeks sitting on the docks, our books are at last ready for delivery! Well, sort of. That is to say, they are now ready but I am 500 miles from home. I'll be back for a quick stopover this weekend and then off for another trip, but we are working with the printer and shipping company and planning a delivery for the week after next, hopefully on or around October 25th. Once the books arrive here, we'll break down the pallets, prep the big truck pickups to go out to distribution centers, and start packing books to ship to YOU!

We are delighted to finally have a firm target date for receiving these books and getting them out to you, and with that in hand and our development and layout team closing in on the final PDFs for Boricubos: Latin American Monsters & Adventures, we are pleased to present our next Quickstarter monster project: Mother of Monsters! This one isn't a bestiary book; instead, it's a new adventure saga inspired by Greek mythology, set amidst the Kagari Islands and featuring new monsters, class options, and more. This passion project by Adrian Arduini has been percolating the past few years in the background, and art and layout are done! He has future installments already written with terrific guest authors like Ron Lundeen and David N. Ross, but those are a potential project for another time. This campaign setting and introductory adventure are entirely self-contained and tell a complete story on their own!

This will be a Quickstarter like those early in the year, around 20 days with immediate PDF delivery at the conclusion of the project. Unlike the recent Boricubos Kickstarter, this project is 5E only, with no stretch goals, just an awesome adventure and campaign book ready to go (though we'll have a few relevant add-ons available for those that want them, like Sea Monsters for expanding the nautical side of this campaign, for anyone who missed our original campaign).

This is our first adventure-focused Quickstarter, and we're excited to see how you like it! We are getting the Kickstarter page ready to preview soon and aim for launching around the end of October/beginning of November. Thanks for your amazing support and we are so excited to get your books up, up, and awayyy, with new projects ready for you too!

VOYAGE COMPLETE!
almost 5 years ago – Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 01:55:49 AM

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. As we noted in the "Risks and Challenges," if we had a fantastic response that merited a full print run, it would take probably 3-6 months to get books printed and shipped to us, and here we are - despite COVID slowing down worldwide freight networks - almost exactly at the 6-month mark and the books are right down the hill and just about ready to send. 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! 

Books nearing the midpoint of their voyage! And Boricubos/Latin American Monsters Launches!
about 5 years ago – Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 04:49:22 AM

Hi all,

We had a question recently on book shipments so we wanted to give you a quick update! Our ship left Hong Kong on July 26th with all of our Mythos Monsters, Sea Monsters, Asian Monsters, Battlemasters & Berserkers, and Pirate Campaign Compendium books and is nearing the halfway point of its journey to our local port (only about 10 miles from LG headquarters, so no worries about potential long-range rail or truck delays)! Scheduled arrival date is mid/late September, and as soon as our books arrive we'll start getting them headed out to you for all of those projects!

(BTW, we received 6 advance copies of our Asian Monsters book from the printer via airmail and sent them on to six lucky backers just as we did for Sea Monsters and Mythos Monsters. These books are all looking GREAT!)

While we wait for those books to arrive, we have just 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 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 noted above, this is going to be a classic 30-day Kickstarter, complete with stretch goals; HOWEVER, you know that Quickstarters are in our blood, and we are full speed ahead on expediting the process. The 5E and Pathfinder 1E versions of Boricubos: The Lost Isles are already complete in layout (pending additional stretch goal sections that might be added), and the 5E version of Latin American Monsters should be finished in layout by launch day! We are assembling the other versions as we go along, so that by the time we are finished with the Kickstarter you'll have PDFs available to you regardless of which version(s) you select. If we end up with more stretch goals hit than expected, we'll release a beta version with all of the completed sections, followed by the final version once stretch goals are complete, but we're so confident in the response to this project that we are already working on those stretch goals in advance so we can have things ready for you!
• 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 450% funded in just the first few hours, with three stretch goals already complete, and we look forward to a fantastic ride creating these books for you. We hope you'll check out the Boricubos: Latin American Monsters and Adventures project with us! 

Our books finally set sail this week!
about 5 years ago – Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 11:57:06 PM

Hi all,

I was waiting to send out an update until I had confirmation that our books were aboard ship and heading stateside, and they left port this week on July 26th! We had a long wait on the docks before we got our turn to get loaded. It turns out those news reports you may have heard about global shipping and logistics being snarled by COVID complications across multiple industries... yeah. Turns out that still is most definitely a thing that made the process take longer than expected, but that just meant patience for all of us and that patience has at last been rewarded! 

The sailing is scheduled to arrive here in the Seattle/Tacoma area in mid/late September, and after unloading should be trucked here within a week or so of arrival. Our shipment will include all copies of Mythos Monsters, Sea Monsters, Battlemasters & Berserkers, Pirate Campaign Compendium, and - thanks to a heroic push by our printing partners - our recently completed Asian Monsters books too! We're well set up to start shipping out books within a few days of their arrival! 

With the print books finally headed our way, we are gearing up for the Boricubos: Latin American Monsters and Adventures Kickstarter, scheduled to launch next week! This two-book Kickstarter features both the Boricubos: The Lost Isles campaign setting and our latest fantastic bestiary, Latin American Monsters. Unlike our recent Quick-Starters, this one *will* have stretch goals, though we fully anticipate reaching them and already have a ton of work done towards that extra content. Between the two books, we anticipate around 300 pages of incredible content, and it's going to be available not only for DnD 5E but also for Pathfinder RPG and Pathfinder Second Edition! 5E and Pathfinder RPG versions of Boricubos are already complete in layout and we'll have the Pathfinder 2E version in layout by next week, along with the 5E version of Latin American Monsters. We are planning to have as many versions as possible complete by the time the KS ends, so we can have immediate PDF fulfillment.

You can sign up to follow the project right here and get the alert when we go live. If you've enjoyed our 5E past monster books like Mythos Monsters, Sea Monsters, and Asian Monsters, we hope you'll check it out!

Early Bird books are here!
about 5 years ago – Wed, Jul 07, 2021 at 12:32:18 AM

Time to celebrate, as our case of pre-press books has arrived! We are excited to get the full shipment sometime next month, but for six of you, Sea Monsters Christmas comes early! 

Thanks to the wonders of the backer lottery, backers Z. Erickson, S. Smith, T. Houseman, C. Close, T. Anderson, and N. Blanchard will be getting one of these early copies headed their way! Three cheers for these lucky six, and all of you can look forward to your books coming soon!