African Monsters: A D&D 5E bestiary of African legends

The final hours are upon us, one more stretch goal in reach!
about 1 year ago – Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 08:30:51 AM

HI all and thanks to Mike C as backer #600! It was a bit of an accident that our Kickstarter is ending this morning. Usually I set them to end at 6 PM Pacific/9 PM Eastern, but our launch time was 11 AM and I just forgot to reset the ending time, so it all winds up in just two and a half hours from now! 

I'm glad to see a last surge of folks climbing aboard and I look forward to bringing the dread Ajun your way to unleash plagues of misery and doom on your campaign! What could be a better cherry on top of your monster sundae? 

We appreciate every one of you and look forward to getting these books out to you ASAP! 

Another stretch goal down! Let's knock out some more before the project ends!
about 1 year ago – Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 11:51:30 PM

Thanks to everyone for your amazing support, with a special thanks to Stephen B for pushing us over the $20,000 mark and unlocking new cryptid creatures like we showed off last time! Next up at $25,000 is the awful ajogun Arun, the father of plagues and corruptor of body and soul. The ajogun are the fiendish foes of the divine orisha, and Arun is one of their most dreadful powers! We're excited to bring a whole new kind of evil to your campaign! 

Keep spreading the word and let's make these last few days truly Legendary! 

The final week is up on us!
about 1 year ago – Sun, Mar 16, 2025 at 03:16:10 PM

Hi to all and thanks for your faithful support of African Monsters, with a special shout-out to Jonathan G. as backer #500! We are inches away from unlocking several new cryptid creatures, the engariya and guiamala, and we're excited to see if we've got a great late surge to come in and bring us on home! 

It all ends on Thursday evening, so we look forward to a fabulous finish so we can finalize the monsters in the book and get this beautiful bestiary on its way to you! Please share this project with your friends and fellow 5E fans, and thanks once again for helping us Make Your Game Legendary! 

Another stretch goal down, and Ours Go Up to Eleven!
over 1 year ago – Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 10:53:48 PM

Thanks to all of your amazing support, we have unlocked another new bonus monster stretch goal, with Harold S pushing us over the $15,000 mark to unlock mummified crocodiles and elephants to a little bit of ancient horror to your campaign! We look forward to our next bonus monsters at $20,000 with mysterious cryptids of the African wild with the prehistoric engariya and the towering guiamala! We'll have art previews on the way for them soon! 

Speaking of bonus monsters, though, after hearing a question from one of our backers about our other bestiaries, we have added the biggest bonuses of them all with three top-end pledges, Up to Eleven Bonus Bundles featuring ALL ELEVEN of our Legendary Bestiary books in PDF, print, and even a Deluxe bundle featuring the beautiful embossed leatherette hardcover Boricubos: Latin American Monsters & Adventures and Faerie Bestiary books! For any fans who want to make their monster collection truly Legendary, get them all at a magnificent Kickstarter-only discount! 

Thanks again for all your support and keep spreading the word about African Monsters! And if you haven't yet checked it out, take a look at our Hoard Monsters bestiary project for 5E and Pathfinder 2E over on Backerkit!

One week in and 400 backers strong and climbing! Plus... For the HOARD!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Feb 25, 2025 at 03:57:27 PM

Thanks to every one of you for your fantastic support of the first week of African Monsters, with a special shout-out to Sean S. (backer #400)! We are closing in our second stretch goal, with mummified elephants and crocodiles! We've already got the art going, and here's the current work-in-progress from artist David Suarez! More mummy wrappings coming soon. :)

While we're rocketing along with African Monsters, building our stretch goals with new creatures in a traditional Kickstarter, we also decided to try an experiment. Over on Backerkit, we've launched a Backerkit project running at the same time with Hoard Monsters for D&D 5E 2024 and Pathfinder Second Edition! 

Wait, how can we do projects at once? We already did. The books are already DONE. Not almost, not mostly. All the way done. The project is running just over two weeks, ending March 13, and your rewards are ready and waiting for you!

• You'll get same-day fulfillment on all PDFs as soon as the project ends!
• Physical books and magic item cards are ready to start shipping!
• Roll20 VTT modules are complete, Foundry modules are in progress, and those will start rolling out to backers once we finalize pledge surveys!

Hoard Monsters features over 3 dozen treasure guardians, dungeon denizens, living traps, and more for D&D 5E 2024 and Pathfinder Second Edition! Loot is more fun when you really have to fight for it, but if you want treasure to go with your Hoard Monsters, you can bundle it with the incredible Triple Treasury bundle and Pieces of Eight Mega-Bundle for PF2 or the Ultimate Treasury and Legendary Loot Cards for D&D 5E! Get enough treasure to stock a hundred hoards in PDF, print, Roll20, and Foundry!

We thank you a thousand times for your support of African Monsters, but if some deadly treasures seem like they might be up your ally, we hope you'll check out Hoard Monsters too!