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My Dad’s Monster Manual is Here!

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My Dad’s Monster Manual is number 1! Seriously, at the moment of publishing this post, it is the top seller on DMs Guild, and you can get it now in PDF and print! Plus you can view the first 20 pages of the book for free on the product’s page. Here’s the description:

“This book needed a lot more of me in it. Instead, they completely rewrote my part and turned me into a giggling, tentacled grapefruit.”

—B. Holder, Aberrations Quarterly

“This book did not taste like a dad at all, and I have eaten a lot of fathers in my time.”

—Al Bare, Monster Report

“Thank goodness. This will get your father out of the house for a little while.”

—Camille Introcaso

Behold the power of my dad’s mind! Hey, my name is James Introcaso, and my father is pretty great. From the time I was a kid, my father created original stories using my toys. Now as an adult and professional game designer, I asked my dad to look at just the art of the Monster Manual. For every picture, I asked him how he thought this creature behaved, its history, and its name. Then I took this information and rewrote the Monster Manual according to my dad’s lore.

This book contains 80 new stat blocks and lore for original D&D creatures inspired by the art of the Monster Manual and Lucian’s imagination. Get ready to read My Dad’s Monster Manual.

This is a DMs Guild Adepts product. The DMs Guild Adept Program was started and is managed by Wizards of the Coast. It brings together talented creators to produce quality content for the DMs Guild. DMs Guild Adepts products are identified by the gold ampersand logo.

Thank you so much to everyone who has already purchased a copy, shouted out the previews on this blog, and shared your joy. If you’ve got a copy and can leave a review on the product page, it would mean a lot! If you haven’t picked it up yet, check it out!

My father is thrilled that our book is selling so well! Huge thanks to the team:  Hannah Rose, Rich Lescouflair, Daniel Kwan, Leona Maple, and many, many playtesters.

On a personal note, this is my final product as a DMs Guild Adept, since in 2021 I’ll be joining the folks at MCDM full-time as a line developer. Thank you to everyone for the huge support of all my DMs Guild products, and to all the amazing people who made awesome stuff with me.

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Last Chance to Get 20% Off My Dad’s Monster Manual

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If you’ve been following this blog at all this year, then you know that I’ve been working with my father, Hannah Rose, Rich Lescouflair, Daniel Kwan, and Leona Maple on My Dad’s Monster Manual. I’ve shown off many, many previews of the work. Well on Tuesday, December 15th, you can buy My Dad’s Monster Manual in softcover print and in PDF on DMs Guild!

If you want to get 20% off, sign up now for my mailing list. On December 15th, you’ll get a coupon for 20% off the PDF in your email!

And before we go… how about a preview of the final product!

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Puzzle Master: Volume 1

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Check out Burn Bryte, an original science fantasy TTRPG I helped create for Roll20!

I am super excited to announce that Puzzle Master: Volume 1 is currently available on the DMs Guild! I contributed to this DMs Guild Adepts product that was led by Celeste Conowitch and featured the work of Stacey Allan, M.T. Black, and Hannah Rose. Here’s the description of the product from the DMs Guild:

Greetings traveler, you are invited to the grand opening of Aenigma’s premiere puzzle dungeon! Congratulations on receiving this illustrious invitation! You’d best be on your way. Dragons don’t like to be kept waiting.

Challenge and delight your players with the premiere issue of Puzzle Master! Inside this supplement, you will find ten puzzles suitable for every level of play, accompanied by beautifully rendered handouts.

Puzzle Master also includes a unique dungeon that utilizes the puzzles to craft an escape room-style experience.

This title includes:

-10 puzzles suitable to use in any adventure.

-20 hand-crafted puzzle handouts for you to print or digitally share with your players.

-A unique puzzle dungeon play experience.

-Difficulty ratings for each puzzle, and suggestions on how to adapt them.

-A series of hints to help your players solve each puzzle.

-Suggestions on how to run each puzzle in person or digitally.

So if you want puzzles to drop into your games, check out Puzzle Master: Volume 1.

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Encounters in Theros, Charity Bundles, and Freebies!

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Check out my ongoing Kickstarter for Fantastic Lairs, a book of twenty drop-in boss battles and climactic encounters for your D&D games!

I have a ton of announcements this week for you. Let’s start with a little DMs Guild fun.

Encounters in Theros

Encounters in Theros is the latest DMs Guild product I contributed to with the team of DMs Guild Adepts. This supplement is great for any Theros or D&D campaign inspired by ancient Greece. Here’s the product description:

Bring your mythic campaign to life with this companion supplement for Mythic Odysseys of Theros!

Encounters in Theros presents over 70 short encounters for a variety of environments. Keep characters busy with these story-rich experiences that help flesh out the world of Theros. This supplement is great for Mythic Odysseys of Theros or any other mythic campaign!

This is a DMs Guild Adept product. The Dungeon Masters Guild Adept program brings talented individuals together to produce quality content for the DMs Guild. Guild Adept products are identified with the golden ampersand.

From the DMs Guild product page

National Police Accountability Project Bundle

The DMs Guild has three Black Lives Matter charity bundles and Invasion from the Planet of Tarrasques is part of the National Police Accountability Project bundle. You can also check out the Black Lives Matter bundle and the NAACP Legal Defense bundle. Each bundle benefits charity, costs $9.99, and has more than $150 of content within!

Hellturel and Two Dungeons: FREE

For a limited time, Hellturel, my expansion for Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus, is available for FREE as part of the D&D Stay at Home, Play at Home promotion. If that’s not enough free for you, then head on over to my ongoing Kickstarter for Fantastic Lairs and grab TWO free dungeons that you can drop into any game: Caves of the Cockatrice and the mechadragon that is Ashsnarl’s Secret.

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Abyssal Incursion and Infernal Machine Rebuild

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You can order The Demonplague, my level 1 – 20 fifth edition adventure, right now!

I have two new products on the DMs Guild this week!

Abyssal Incursion

The first is a demon-tastic expansion for your Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus campaign called Abyssal Incursion. I previewed two artifact weapons from it in last week’s post. Here’s the product description:

Note: Light spoilers for Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus in this description!

Expand your Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus game with three new adventure locations, complete with plot hooks and NPCs, plus two new artifacts: Baphomet’s glaive, Heartcleaver, and Yeenoghu’s flail, Butcher! This supplement adds more challenges for characters of levels 8 and above who dare face Demon Lords on the River Styx.

Face Baphomet aboard his war barge!

Go inside the belly of Yeenoghu’s beast, Crokek’toeck (literally)!

Get a little Eberron in your Forgotten Realms by acquiring an elemental galleon made to sail the River Styx… if you can deal with the yugoloths defending it!

Maps and a printer friendly version included as separate files!

The Blood War rages in Avernus. Will you sieze opportunity, fight back the hordes, or perish?

This product is meant to be a companion to Baldur’s Gate: Descent into Avernus and requires the adventure.

The incredible maps for this adventure were done by Kayla Cline. Check out her depiction of the inside of Crokek’toeck! She’s a genius!

Infernal Machine Rebuild

I am also pleased to say I got to contribute to Infernal Machine Rebuild, a special adventure led by Bart Carroll with all proceeds going to Extra Life! Here’s the description:

A fallen clock tower holds components from an ancient artifact. Upon discovery of the components, competing agents look to launch expeditions to uncover additional components scattered across distant places—and times. The now-lost Temple of Moloch and the construction site of the legendary Tomb of Horrors are two of those locations. However great the risks, finding the components demands the effort, for whoever does so can reassemble the fabled Infernal Machine of Lum the Mad!

For characters 5th-10th level.

This adventure explores two dungeon locations and includes new monsters, magic items, plus new artifact powers submitted by the player community!

Further featuring new art, maps (from Claudio Pozas), cartoon (from Jason Thompson), even an Adventurers League cert for a new trinket—and all monies that Wizards of the Coast receives from sales of this PDF are donated to Extra Life.

Your purchase of this adventure goes to a truly great cause!

About Extra Life:

Extra Life unites thousands of gamers around the world to play games in support of their local Children’s Miracle Network Hospital. Since its inception in 2008, Extra Life has raised more than $30 million for sick and injured kids. Sign up today and dedicate a day of play for kids in your community!

This was so much fun to be a part of! Plus you can see Chris Perkins running the adventure in video below!

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Saltmarsh Encounters

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You can order The Demonplague, my level 1 – 20 fifth edition adventure, right now!

A new product from many great creators (including yours truly) is now available on the DMs Guild! Behold Saltmarsh Encounters for your Ghosts of Saltmarsh or any high seas campaign!

Bring your campaign to life with this companion supplement for Ghosts of Saltmarsh!

Saltmarsh Encounters presents 60 short encounters for the town, coast, and sea. Over 150 variations are included, making the encounters highly replayable and allowing you to customise them to fit YOUR game. The supplement is great for Ghosts of Saltmarsh or any coastal or high seas campaign!

Saltmarsh Encounters is already a Silver Best Seller and includes the work of these fine authors:

  • M.T. Black
  • James Haeck
  • James Introcaso
  • Rich Lescouflair
  • Ashley Warren

Right now this product is a steal at $4.95! I contributed quite a few encounters, so if you like my work, you’ll enjoy this book!

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Introcaso EntrepreNERD and Eberron Bundle

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You can order The Demonplague, my level 1 – 20 fifth edition adventure, right now!

A quick update (or a 51-minute update depending on how you look at it) this week!

EntrepreNERD Podcast

Do you want some #RPG business advice? You’re in luck! Tim Lundy was kind enough to invite me onto his EntrepreNERD podcast, and let me babble on about this blog, Don’t Split the Podcast Network, and my RPG design work. It was a blast! If you want to hear my story, listen below. Thanks for having me on, Tim!

Eberron Bundle

More good news! You can now pick up all twelve of the Embers of the Last War adventures and Encounters in Sharn as a discounted bundle on DMs Guild! Even if you already have one or more of the titles, you can get the rest discounted (since DMs Guild bundles do not make you pay for the titles within a bundle you’ve already purchased). Get the whole shebang for a $26 discount!

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City of Mist: The Tourist Trap

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You can order The Demonplague, my level 1 – 20 fifth edition adventure, right now!

It’s time for another release! This time I got to stretch my brain designing a new district, the Tourist Trap, for City of Mist. If you’ve never played the awesome Noir RPG, here’s a description from the game’s website:

Here’s the lowdown: City of Mist is a modern city where legends are real people. Heroes, tricksters, and monsters are reborn inside ordinary people, regular Joes and Janes, who gain supernatural powers connected to their legendary alter-egos.​

The mystical veil of the Mist hides these miraculous powers from the other, sleepwalking residents of the City. It makes armor look like a flak vest and fire breathing like a cheap party trick or a gas leak explosion, so no-one ever knows about the legendary. Modern-day legends exploit this to run secret lives and insidious organizations behind the veil of the Mist.

This is your City: gritty, corrupt, and rife with magic and mystery.

And here’s what my new district, Tourist Trap, is all about:

A Flashy District of Wide-Eyed Tourists and Dangerous Pleasures

If you’re looking for a crowd, the Tourist Trap can provide, day or night. When the sun is up, families spend money in the many attractions the district has to offer. After dark is when the adults come out to play: dancing, drinking, flirting, and getting high in the district’s establishments of debauchery.

In the Tourist Trap, everything – legal or otherwise – is tacky, flashy, and overpriced. Some of the stores are shipping in more than what’s advertised in their catalogues. There is a market for high-grade, expensive drugs, fake IDs, and even weapons that come through the Tourist Trap.

The Tourist Trap is a chance for Rifts to access the endless resources of the world beyond the City, even if they don’t really care about that world…

This standalone PDF describes a new district in the City setting for the City of Mist RPG: the tacky and colorful Tourist Trap. Here are some examples of how to use the included locations, NPCs, and Dangers:

  • The perfect setting for cases involving victims of a wild night gone wrong. Out-of-towners and locals alike who come here to drown their sorrows, end up as the prey of the many predators of the Tourist Trap. Whether their loved one come looking for them or the crew takes on cleaning up this seedy den of inequity, opportunities abound for noir investigations beneath the light of the Ferris wheel.
  • A place for PCs to lose themselves and forget their troubles, setting the stage for some interesting role-playing moments. When a player character wishes to go on a self-destructive binge, the Tourist Trap welcomes her with open arms… although by morning, she’ll have more troubles than she started with.
  • A colorful backdrop for shady acquisitions of unique items. As an entry point into the City and a mercantile center, the Tourist Trap features high on the City’s hot locations for smuggling contraband. If the PCs are after a special artifact or commodity, word on the street is they can get it here.
  • Enhancing themes of superficiality. The Tourist Trap is made of cheap plastic and bright colors, and behind them… nothing. Noir wouldn’t be what it is without the lead characters going on anti-social rants about the corruption of modern-day culture, and  this place can provide them with all the ammunition they need.

I was so honored to work on this game, and I’m really proud of what I helped create with an incredible team.

Adventure Atlas Update

I also wanted to let you know that if you’re thinking about purchasing or have purchased Tactical Maps: Adventure Atlas (see this post for a description and preview), there are a few things you should know:

  • The $14.99 sale price is going to go up to the regular price of $19.99 on Tuesday, April 9th.
  • A Print-On-Demand version of the product is coming for $29.99. If you already purchased the PDF, you can get a discount on the POD, but you MUST have opted-in to DMs Guild emails.

That’s it!

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Mirt’s Undermountain Survival Guide

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You can order The Demonplague, my level 1 – 20 fifth edition adventure, right now!

This has been a busy week, but I have another DMs Guild product to share! From the minds of M.T. Black, Greg Marks, and myself comes Mirt’s Undermountain Survival Guide! If I am being honest, M.T. and Greg did the lion’s share of the work. I wrote one of the races (the nimblewright), but it is an INCREDIBLE product that’s already an Electrum best seller. Here’s the description from DMs Guild:

It takes more than a strong arm and a sharp sword to overcome the dangers of Undermountain. What you need is an expert, someone who has been there before and can advise what resources you will need to survive. Who better to guide you than Mirt, the renowned veteran of Undermountain?

Mirt’s Undermountain Survival Guide provides everything you need to make your expedition a resounding success, including:

  • Five new races: the Giff, Half-ogre, Illithid, Nimblewright, and Sprite.
  • Five new archetypes: the Cavern Domain, Circle of Stone, Wayfarer, Trapsmith, and the Dark Pact.
  • A new class: the Factotum.
  • Twenty-five new spells.
  • Fifty new magic items.
  • New dungeoneering rules.
  • New underground hazards.
  • Porters, guides, and other hirelings.
  • And… Mirt’s Dungeon Delving Tips!

Mirt’s Undermountain Survival Guide is brought to you by these Guild Adepts: M.T. Black, Greg Marks, James Introcaso, Will Doyle, and with Chris Lindsay supplying the voice of Mirt!

Free Preview

Want a free PDF preview of Mirt’s Undermountain Survival Guide? Of course you do! Here is MOST (but not all) of the nimblewright race I worked on and just a handful of the new magic items in a PDF:

Preview of Mirt’s Undermountain Survival Guide

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Tactical Maps: Adventure Atlas

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You can order The Demonplague, my level 1 – 20 fifth edition adventure, right now!

I have a new product on the DMs Guild that I created with many fine folks. It’s called Tactical Maps: Adventure Atlas. It’s already an Electrum best seller. If you’ve already purchased it, thank you so much, and please take a moment to leave a review! Here’s its product description:

Launch sale! For a limited time this title is $14.99!

88 ready-to-play encounters are here to save game night!

Adventure anytime! Tactical Maps: Adventure Atlas makes playing Dungeons & Dragons easy. This supplement provides everything you need to plan an evening (or even just an hour) of D&D for characters of any level with very little preparation. Just pick an adventure from this supplement, take a few minutes to read it over, and game time is good to go.

You can also use this supplement to throw down a new adventure when the players take the story in a surprising direction. Several of the adventures in this supplement take only an hour or so of time, allowing for side-trek sessions that fit into diverse stories and hectic schedules.

This supplement can be enhanced with Tactical Maps: Reincarnated. Each of the 22 maps included in that product is detailed as a full fantastic location in the Adventure Atlas and given four short adventures, meaning this supplement includes 88 ready-to-play adventures from the following designers:

  • M.T. Black
  • Will Doyle
  • James Haeck
  • James Introcaso
  • Rich Lescouflair
  • Ginny Loveday
  • Shawn Merwin
  • Cindy Moore
  • Ashley Warren

This product is a DMs Guild Adepts adventure supplement! The Dungeon Masters Guild Adept program brings highly talented individuals together for creative development. Guild Adept products are identified with the golden ampersand and logo.

Preview

There are previews of Tactical Maps: Adventure Atlas available on its product page on the DMs Guild, but how about one more? Below is a link to a PDF that contains the introduction and one of the maps and its adventures called the Chromatic Vault! Enjoy!

Chromatic Vault Preview

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