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

Stretch Goals AHOY for African Monsters!
over 1 year ago – Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 12:37:00 PM

Hello to all and thanks so much for your incredible support of this project, with a special salute to backer Jchon B whose pledge pushed us over the $10,000 mark and unlocked our first stretch goal! Welcome to Ayelala, the orisha of justice and vengeance! 

This celestial emissary of the heavens is one of the orisha from the Yoruba culture of Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and the surrounding region. In the real world, orisha are sometimes considered gods, some ascended from mortal status, others as intermediaries between the heavenly realms and mortals. In the African Monsters bestiary, we present a number of orisha in that latter role as celestials beyond mortality but not fully divine. 

I've posted up a set of stretch goals on the Kickstarter so you can see what's coming up soon (next stretch goal is mummified crocodiles and elephants at $15K) as we continue to grow this amazing book! Keep spreading the word wherever you can, and we hope we can make this book truly Legendary!

PS - Just for fun, we like to shout out our milestone backers, so let's give three cheers to Serena N (backer #100), Corey B (backer #200), and Tomas BC (backer #300)! 

Thanks so much for a sensational start!
over 1 year ago – Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 03:47:45 PM

We want to thank each and every one of you for helping this project to rise like a rocket, with a special tip of the cap to Erik D.K. for pushing us over our base funding goal of $5,000! We look forward to a marvelous campaign and hope you will help us spread the word about this amazing project anywhere you can to friends and fellow 5E fans! Just share this link with them, and if you'd like a graphic to post on your socials, by all means please do grab any of these. If you see an ad for the project, or a post about it in a D&D Facebook group or ENWorld, give it a like or love or a comment if you can! Nothing beats great word of mouth, so your enthusiasm is a blessing to all of us working to make these books Legendary!

We've had a few messages from backers already and so we've added some extra bits and pieces to the project:

• You can now order the Asian Monsters, Latin American Monsters, and Mediterranean Monsters PDFs, softcovers, and VTT modules as individual add-ons rather than all-or-nothing in the World of Monsters bundle.
• We've added the VTT Pawn Sets as separate add-ons as well. If you already have ordered the VTT module, you automatically get the Pawn Set for that bestiary. These are for folks who only want the tokens but not the full module. 
• We've also added links to all our social media at the bottom of the Kickstarter page, in case you would like to follow us there! This includes our Legendary Loot Patreon, with new 5E content every single day, including FREE content every 5E Friday FREE-day!

If you know anyplace that we should be talking up African Monsters, by all means suggest them and we'll get up there ASAP! 

I'll be posting up our first set of stretch goals soon! Thanks again and let's keep this project flying!