MCDM, Matt Coleville’s company, just released Flee Mortals! This 400 page book includes new takes on existing 5e monsters and a few brand new ones – all in MCDMs style of cool tactics and action-oriented designs. I had the great pleasure of designing the vampires in this book including the monstrous Count Rhodar Von Glaur!
Check it out!
Also, the funding for the the lairs book is now up. They want $150k to print it, but the PDF is already done. https://mcdm.gg/evilparty
Important to note that if you backed Flee, Mortals! you get the lairs pdf for free once it’s released.
hope it’s good, need better monsters in 5e since WotC’s design philosophy is to make everything just big sack of hit points with two claw and one bite attacks and no cool abilities.
If this is how you feel, pick up all the kobald press monster books. Between Tome of Beasts 1-3 and the creature codex, that’s probably more monsters than WotC have printed across all of 5e.
Also check out the Monsterous Menagerie be Level Up 5e, this book can take a few extra liberties as it’s for EN Publishing’s take in 5e, and that difference means they can really make interesting monsters that are basically compatible with standard 5e.
I’m also a fan of the Grimhollow Monster Grimoure, although it’s probably the closest to current 5e content, and is only elevated by it’s consistent dark fantasy tome, sort of like the monster from Van Richens Guide to Ravenloft.
There are probably 1500 monsters across all of there which are all more interesting than many WotC monsters, I couldn’t recommend them enough.
I have mixed feelings on this. I backed the Kickstarter the day it launched, but I’ve since moved completely to PF2e. Hopefully there is still lots of inspiring content that I can convert into Pathfinder equivalent content.
I’m in the exact same boat. I’d like to use some of the monster lore and trying to convert the action oriented bosses to be used in PF2e. I’m thinking it would be pretty easy to just treat the Villain Actions as costing two actions in Pathfinder. I think the minion rules would transfer over as well.
I expect the easier approach is going to be using the PF2e custom monster rules to create something which matches the theme of the monsters in the book due to how different Pathfinder math and tactics are. But hopefully it at least gets the creative juices flowing. I really like MC’s style in general so I’m certainly not upset, just a bit disappointed.
Sweet! I didn’t know you created those, I used the MCDM vampires in my Curse of Strahd game and loved them. I also used your earlier varieties of vampires like the Bonded Vampire. You’ve made some really distinctive, fun monsters! Thank you.
Awesome! Thank you!
