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Golems & Goldfish Web Enhancement

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Most of the time we in the gaming industry take our monsters pretty seriously. After all, they form the foundation for a lot of your gameplay, and they need to fit that role, serving as tough combatants, challenging riddlers, adept betrayers, and occasionally unlikely heroes. We’ve already dedicated an entire book to the best monsters we could assemble.

Every now and then, though, the urge comes over us to get just a little bit…there’s no other word for it…silly. Still we like to hope that these efforts won’t go to waste. Without further ado, we present heaven’s mildest vengeance, the most comical bird in the nether realms, an entirely new use for a sheep, and the deadliest aquarium to be found in a mage’s tower.

A Flock of Foes Art Samples

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Thanks to positive feedback regarding the illustration of Metablades, A Flock of Foes features some impressive images from promising and established fantasy artists Brad McDevitt, Melissa Cox and Sergio Villa Isaza.

The samples below are only portions of the full illustrations.

  • A close-up of a muscular centaur's torso, grasping a pole-arm
    “Darkrunner” by Brad McDevitt
  • A greyscale close-up of a grinning dragon's face and claws as it sifts through coins and jewels
    “Spirit of Avarice” by Melissa Cox
  • A close-up of a rotting gnoll; armored shoulder, scythe, eyeless hyena face
    “Death Jackal” by Brad McDevitt
  • A one-eyed, moldering lizard man leans on a twisted staff, a satchel of bones and tools hainging over its shoulder
    “Lizard Guardian” by Sergio Villa Isaza
  • A grayscale image of tranclucent birds sitting on a bare tree
    “Haunted Murder” by Melissa Cox
  • The torso, head and arm of a fish-like humanoid, with webs of skin billowing around the limb
    “Enveloping Nightmare” by Sergio Villa Isaza
  • A bare-chested masculine figure with horns and wings
    “Eagle of Bacchus” by Brad McDevitt
  • A very close view ofa grinning monstrous face with a long nose and matted hair, a reaching claw, and a bat wing
    “Bog Fiend” by Brad McDevitt
  • The face of a man, screaming as ropy metallic arms woven with wire netting descend over him
    “Steel Smotherer” by Sergio Villa Isaza
  • A sinuous dragon-like skeleton with many limbs
    “Crawling Bones” by Sergio Villa Isaza
  • A close-up of a rotting elephant with exposed ribs and an undead skeleton clinging to its side
    “Circus of the Damned” by Sergio Villa Isaza

The book is available now on DriveThruRPG!

Metablades Art Samples

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Since the images I provided for the first edition of Metablades did not find much favor, new, more professional artwork was commissioned for the Expanded Edition. The original edition is also being cleaned up and will receive this new artwork, and prior purchasers will have an opportunity to receive this update for free when it releases.

The samples below, which are only portions of the full illustrations, are taken out of marvelous pieces by Sergio “Obsidian” Isaza, whose portfolio is available at The Ministry of Abnormality.

  • A vignette of a balding man handing an eldritch effect he has conjured to another man in armor, who accepts it in a free hand
    Touch Proxy feat
  • A close-up of an action scene; in the lower left, the face of a fighter whose sword is shattering the arm of an armored juggernaut.
    Focused Stroke feat
  • In the background, a mystic grins as ectoplasm pours off his form, coalescing into armored fighters that fly toward the viewer.
    Astral Centurion prestige class
  • A bare-chested man brandishes a sword up near his head; lightning jumps from his fingers to the blade. A grimoire sitcks out of a satchel slung over his shoulder.
    Martial Adept prestige class
  • And extreme close-up of an armored figure holding a scoundrel against his chest in a clinch; one of his hands is held over the captive's smoking face, where a sigil is being branded by his touch.
    Mark of the Infidel spell
  • A small protion of an image showing two fighters; a bearded male is conjuring fireballs from his spiked chain, which are being absorbed into the runes surrounding the woman's sword.
    Magical Misunderstandings