Upgrade and enhance your Dungeons and Dragons 5e Monsters with this book of legendary creatures and mutation decks.
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Hi Backers,
Half way through the campaign and we are thrilled to see so much great support as we move forward! Speaking of which:
With 50k we have unlocked a new stretch goal. The book will now include 3 playable races, with unique features and racial abilities! We will be posting a preview of the first playable race this Thursday: the AlterKin!
We also want to give you a look at the fantastical legendary creature that we are adding to the playtest sample PDF this week. At CR19 it's a tough challenge for any adventuring party. We've also included lair effects you can use to take the combat to the next level.
Please continue to help share the campaign! One of our awesome backers, Landon, provided some great ideas of what you can do to help! We have provided his list below to make it easy:
Our friends at Hit Point Press are crushing it with their new book Fool's Gold. Fools Gold: Into the Bellowing Wilds is a new 5e adventure in a jungle campaign setting. A great place to utilize your new mutations.
That's all for now, more to come later this week.
Happy adventuring!
John and Jarrett
- The Dice Dungeons Team
Hi Backers!
We will be periodically releasing new previews of the book content throughout the Kickstarter, exclusively for you. For our first monsters in the series, we want to introduce you to the Abberantis! You can check out the summary below, and download the playtest stats and lore for the Aberrantis Bloom Here!
We also wanted to give you a preview of the Aberrantis STLs and miniatures. These will be available as add-ons soon, and the STLs will be automatically included at the Epic Myth Tier. Some backers have asked if we will offer all the STLs in one big pack: yes, we are putting that tier together now and it should be live sometime next week.
Born from mutagen. Aberrantis are the penultimate result of a creature’s prolonged exposure to the strange ethereal rock Metamorphite. Creatures are sometimes exposed to Metamorphite by eating it or cutting themselves on one of the strange rocks. Simply living in proximity to the rocks can also initiate the mutation process. Some civilizations know the secret mutational properties of Metamorphite and use arrows tipped in the mutagenic rock to turn their foes into Aberrantis. Some cults, such as the followers of Itakaala, live near the rare deposits of Metamorphite, intentionally trying to initiate this change. They see this transformation as a boon from their patron: rather than dying they transform as they age and enter the world born anew as Aberrantis.
Creatures that have been exposed to Metamorphite change slowly at first and the effects can be reversed with lesser restoration or similar healing spell if the changes are caught early. Once a chrysalis forms around a creature affected by Metamorphite (approximately 2 weeks after the transformation is initiated), the change is permanent: they will burst from the chrysalis 5 days later fully transformed.
Voracious converts. Aberrantis have an innate desire to convert all other life into more Aberrantis. The strange bone spurs which they use to attack are infused with Metamorphite and break off in creatures that they bite or strike with their strange appendages. Generally, Aberrantis are solitary, although you may happen across three or four of them in a group by chance, especially if a caravan or other traveling group was recently transformed into these creatures.
In combat the main focus of the Aberrantis is to hit every enemy creature with an attack and break off a bone spur inside of them to start the transformation process. If the Aberrantis successfully injects Metamorphite into every opponent, the Aberrantis will attempt to run or, if they are near death (less than 5 HP remaining), they will simply slump down and expire having achieved their purpose.
We'd love to hear what you think about this creature, let us know in the comments here or on the main Kickstarter page!
John and Jarrett
- The Dice Dungeons Team
Hi Everyone!
Thanks for another amazing day, we are so excited to see that we've unlocked our first two stretch goals! And with over 400 backers!
Our first unlock adds new rules for taming as well as new mounts. We'll be creating several new mutated mounts to join your adventures. The first of which we have pictured below. Internally we've been calling them the "Sea Horse", but we want to hear from you all what you'd like to name our aquatic equestrian.
We also unlocked the new spider lily miniature (and STL)! 4 packs of spider lily miniatures are also available as add-on options. You can now find it by editing you pledge, or grab it once the campaign closes in our Backerkit.
We're on our way to the next stretch goal at 50K! When this unlocks we will add a new Races section to the book, including 3 unique playable races with interesting innate abilities. We have some exciting races written up already, but if you have one you've always wanted to play, let us know, and we will consider adding it!
With several goals unlocked we are ready to announce the next stretch goal. We've just added the 75k goal, which has something for everyone! At this unlock all backers above the "Rumor" pledge level will receive a digital download of VTT tokens, free! These tokens will feature some of our favorite mutated creatures from the book. We'll also be printing a limited run of these as physical punch-out tokens, crafted from board game quality stock, that you can add-on to your pledge.
We've seen some new backers from people sharing the project directly with friends and acquaintances, and we really appreciate it! Every person who comes and checks out the campaign helps us immensely. You can send them to us directly with MutatedMonsters.com, every share helps out so much!
That's all for now, thank you again for bringing our new book to life on day 1, we are excited to start releasing some more previews of content from the book in the near future!
Let's go track some more Mutated Monsters!
Jarrett and John
- The Dice Dungeons Team
Hi Backers!
A huge thank you to everyone for an amazing first day! We are thrilled we've funded on day 1, and want to share our sincere appreciation for helping us bring the Mutated Monsters Project to life!
Now that the project has funded, next up is our first stretch goal: expanding our book with several interesting mutated mounts and optional taming rules.
This is our first ever book, and we could really use your help promoting the campaign. You can send people to campaign directly through MutatedMonsters.com or this Kickstarter link. With every pledge not only are we closer to the next stretch goal, but we are also able to better fund every portion of the book and decks; adding more art, monsters, and gear along the way.
Join us at our local board-game bar No Land Beyond for our launch event this Friday (10/15) at 6:30pm. If you are in the area we'd love for you to join us for a night of playtesting our sample monsters. And a few surprises!
Let's go find some more monsters!
John and Jarrett
- The Dice Dungeons Team