First wave of shipping - over 100 pledges!
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 09:22:19 PM
Hi all,
African Monsters cleared approvals at the printer today, and we got a whopping 110 orders submitted! We'll keep cranking along to get these books headed your way ASAP. The printer is currently estimating 3-4 weeks between print order and delivery, but you should be receiving your items before June is out!
Some packages are heading out from LG as well, with people getting other combo packs of Legendary Bestiaries books and/or deluxe hardcovers of Boricubos or the Faerie Bestiary, so if you get a package with only some of your books, most likely your shipment was split between items from here and items from the printer.
We hope you love these books when they arrive, and we thank you for your support of this new bestiary book from Legendary Games!
African Monsters PDF is up at last!
about 1 year ago
– Tue, May 27, 2025 at 12:45:21 PM
Hi all,
Thanks so much for your patience as we navigated the process, but after much development, multiple proofing passes, and even a couple of last-minute art additions, the book is ready for you! Check your Backerkit account and download it today!
If you happen to see any typos that somehow snuck through, let us know in the comments below! We'll be getting this book set up with the printer shortly and pending any final corrections that a thousand eyes might spot, we'll be ready to start books shipping out to you by next week!
You've seen the front of the book plenty of times, but here's the beautiful back cover text! Check it out and we hope you love using these monsters in your game!
Layout First Draft Is Complete!
about 1 year ago
– Sun, May 11, 2025 at 03:08:11 PM
Hi all,
Our layout guy on African Monsters has put together the manuscript and looks like it's clocking in at current count of 118 pages and 105 stat blocks! I'm going through a proofing pass on the PDF now to check formats, headings, and any typos that might have snuck through and have found a few so far. I just wanted to share a spread from the book so you can see how beautifully it's coming together!
We have two pieces of our late-ordered art still being worked on (we have the black and white draft versions of both but are finalizing details and should have color finals done soon), and once those are in, we should be ready to get the PDF buttoned up and hopefully start sending it out by the end of the week!
Editing and development finally complete!
about 1 year ago
– Fri, May 09, 2025 at 02:59:26 PM
Hi all,
It's been a longer process than expected getting the final manuscript together, but I'm happy to report that editing and development of all 101 monsters in this beautiful bestiary is now complete! I had a mini heart-attack when I thought we were missing another piece of art and put out the call to our artists... only to find the piece I thought was missing was stuck in my email inbox on January 3rd and I had just forgotten to download it!
This book has really come together beautifully and you're going to be very happy when you see the final result! I'm pulling together the tables by type, CR, and cultural origin now and will be cross-checking the rest of the introduction, making sure the credits page and table of contents are all correct, but then it's off to layout-land at last! Hopefully within a week or two we'll be uploading the PDFs to Backerkit and sending them off to the printer!
Thanks once again for making this project a reality. For our fans of other game systems, we are definitely planning on bringing African Monsters to Pathfinder First & Second Edition and Tales of the Valiant later this summer and we hope you'll love getting your hands on them!
P.S. We are about to hit the final 2 hours of our Wardens of the Wild QUICK-Starterfor 5E 2024, Pathfinder 1E, and Pathfinder 2E, and we hope you'll check it out for a metric ton of killer class content for rangers, druids, hunters, shifters, shamans, and every wilderness adventurer!
First print books shipped!
about 1 year ago
– Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 04:22:39 PM
Hi all,
I've gotten back several of our missing monsters this week, plus some of the missing artwork, so we're still trucking along to completion on African Monsters, but I've already started sending out partial fulfillment on print orders! For about two dozen backers, I've packaged up all of the existing books you're getting for your order and put them in the mail to start heading your way! Backers Pickup, Whiteford, Tavares, Anderson, Enke, Miller, Vogt, Badeaux, Shiel, Shroeder, Baker, Reed, Sangar, Spiesz, Linnell, Rojas, Holcombe, Lanham, Tan, Oldhouser, Wilkerson, and Trusiano, your first batch of books are on their way!
For most print backers, they are either getting only books direct from the printer (African Monsters, Hoard Monsters, Egyptian Adventure Bundle) or else they're getting a bunch of our existing bestiary books plus just the African Monsters book. For backers whose entire order is coming from the printer, we'll ship those all at once when African Monsters is ready. For those in the latter group (like our World of Monsters backers), we'll be ordering a big pile of African Monsters to send to our home base and then packing and shipping them out with your other books.
Thanks once again for your support of this amazing project, and we invite all of you to check out our Wardens of the Wild QUICKstarter for D&D 5E 2024, Pathfinder 1E, and Pathfinder 2E! It's over 10x funded in less than a week, with tons of terrific class content for druids, rangers, hunters, shifters, and so much more, with immediate fulfillment starting May 9th! Check it out!
