Today’s call out box fun!

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Awesome Callout Boxes for RPG Layouts YouTube video by MonkeyBlood Design (Glynn Seal)

My favourite RPG design layout call-out box to date!
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Never drop your wand again!

Midderstore The Midderstore is a high quality storage box with additional functionality. Use to store all your Midderlands, or even non-Midderlands-related loose products, such as Midderzines, maps, bookmarks,…

Midderstore
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36 mile hexes... Nagor Kadir. The Plaguelands are where the Ratkin thrive.

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Dungeonrunner Fantasy Solitaire Card Game

Hi all, I'm super happy to be contributing to the Dungeonrunner Fantasy Solitaire Kickstarter campaign with some add-ons!…

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Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir is coming together beautifully!

The Lichseed Trilogy: A Three-Book Descent into Darkness The Lichseed Trilogy is a connected series of high-stakes 5e adventures steeped in horror, mystery, and cosmic dread. On this project, I worked with the excellent Yoav Niv at NiStar Entertainment handling both layout and cartography duties! Layout evoking the early 80s with 5E rules! Old and new harmonise! There are two ways of backing the project: Kickstarter or Backerkit! Choose your weapon!

The Lichseed Trilogy: A Three-Book Descent into Darkness

The Lichseed Trilogy is a connected series of high-stakes 5e adventures steeped in horror, mystery, and cosmic dread. On this project, I worked with the excellent Yoav Niv at NiStar Entertainment handling both layout and cartography duties!…

Mythic Battles: The Roleplaying Game Monolith has just launched their latest RPG, Mythic Battles: The Roleplaying Game, following on from the great success of their Conan: The Hyborean Age RPG. It's sitting over on Gamefound. I had the pleasure of working with Chris 'Shep' Shepperson on the cartography for the project (not the battlemaps though), creating some huge poster maps of Pantheon, Nordheim and Midgard.

Mythic Battles: The Roleplaying Game

Monolith has just launched their latest RPG, Mythic Battles: The Roleplaying Game, following on from the great success of their Conan: The Hyborean Age RPG. It's sitting over on Gamefound. I had the pleasure of working with Chris 'Shep' Shepperson on the…

More fun with layout call-out boxes

Interestingly, I now know what is going on with this... It's not the art asset it is saying is AI, it's the pregenerated description it's coming up with in the tooltip that's 'AI generated content'! Very, very misleading.

I just spent 2 hrs creating layout assets. Add them into InDesign, export sample PDF, looks great. Hover over asset in Adobe Acrobat... Tool tip say "AI generated content".

Like f**k is it. Just what freelancers fighting against AI need in their creation apps which cost £55/mnth... Do better Adobe.

Gaia Complex Megabundle Get a money-saving bundle of the amazing The Gaia Complex products! 1x Gaia Complex Rulebook/Setting 1x Gaia Complex Hardware 2119 1x Evolution by Design – Sourcebook 1x GM Screen and Data Va…

The Gaia Complex
This is such a great cyberpunk game and setting and this bundle price is a steal!
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Lost Shrine of the Necrophidian I'm incredibly pleased to announce that since its original planned release date back in 2022, and the help and assistance of Morgan Lean at Epiphany Entertainment, that Lost Shrine of the Necrophidian is officially released for Beyond the Black Sea (A Darkstars Universe product) The high priest of a major temple explains that he is seeking to find the location of an ancient burial site of historical significance.

Lost Shrine of the Necrophidian

I'm incredibly pleased to announce that since its original planned release date back in 2022, and the help and assistance of Morgan Lean at Epiphany Entertainment, that Lost Shrine of the Necrophidian is officially released for Beyond the Black Sea (A Darkstars…

Noice!

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Mice of Legend – Omnibus Volume 1

I've had the very great pleasure to work with Alchemical Press and its owner Paul Hoeffer on the layout of a number of their products. In…

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The arena went silent as the hooded spearmen grunted. At his feet, a corpulent wart goblin, blood spurting from its throat. The gladiator glanced towards the emperor’s balcony, looking for the signal to put the poor creature out of its misery.

I’m finally selling my Gibson Les Paul Standard 1995 Cherry Sunburst if anyone is interested. I don’t play these days. Had it from Musical Exchanges in Birmingham from new. It’s in very good condition. UK located.

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Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir: Areas of Knowledge

Areas of Knowledge are the skill system for Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir and the Scimitar System. The beauty is that anything that can be applied to a test,…

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Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir: Ghostgates One of the objectives of the Scimiar System is for multi-genre play— Whilst Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir focuses on technology based in a medieval fantasy world, it introduces Ghostgates allowing travel between worlds and time. We wanted the Scimitar System to support play across multiple genres where characters from a lower technology medieval fantasy world can pass into a high technology alien world, and vice versa.

Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir: Ghostgates

One of the objectives of the Scimiar System is for multi-genre play— Whilst Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir focuses on technology based in a medieval fantasy world, it introduces Ghostgates allowing travel between worlds and time. We wanted the Scimitar System…

Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir: Ancestries Ancestries There are 10 ancestries to play, each bringing its own strengths and weaknesses: Clan Raggad Dwarf These short and stocky humanoids are considered tall at 4-1/2 feet. They favour plaited beards and facial markings to distinguish their clan allegiances. They are usually dour and short tempered, but their demeanour changes when discussing mining, gold, ale, and stonework. Dwarves have slightly longer lifespans than humans, commonly extending to 120 years.

Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir: Ancestries

Ancestries There are 10 ancestries to play, each bringing its own strengths and weaknesses: Clan Raggad Dwarf These short and stocky humanoids are considered tall at 4-1/2 feet. They favour plaited beards and facial markings to distinguish their clan…

Anyone else going to #OrcaCon? We'll be there this weekend and look forward to sharing the latest Mice of Legend updates, like this 200+ page omnibus edition.

Cover art: @servsci.bsky.social
Layout: @monkeyblood.bsky.social

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Introducing Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir Project Scimitar has evolved. The Scimitar System’s first publication has now got its final name—Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir. I’m currently working my way through the bestiary and vehicles/mounts section, but the core rules are solid and standing up well in play-testing. Let’s introduce some of the rules in bite-size posts! Attributes Characters have six Core attributes and six Secondary attributes, as follows:

Introducing Jewel-Delvers of Nagor Kadir

Specialists in cloaks of protection.

Project Scimitar Project Scimitar has been known by many things over the years. It's roots started in variations of Darkest of Tales, Gate Punks and Malefica, and whilst those things still exist as work-in-progress projects, they have all evolved into a game using what I am calling the multigenre Scimitar System, and this is its first game Project Scimitar (until I get closer to a commerical release and rename it).

Project Scimitar

And updated to switch out AI placeholders to empty art placeholders or my own art!

Want to have a play with Project Scimitar and see what we're up to? Download the WIP playtest rules and setting map here:
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Scimitar Ancestries! Hell yeah!