Yu-Gi-Oh Stats: Part 2
/Hello! While working on Ancestry Awakened, I took a break to work on some more yu-gi-oh designs for 5e. Here’s the continuation of the monsters from the yu-gi deck!
Yu-Gi-Oh Stats
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When I was a kid, I loved the cards from Yu-Gi-Oh. The artwork was full of cool, interesting looking creatures and monsters. There wasn’t much info on the cards either, so my imagination was free to make up stuff on its own.
After playing Lancer lately, I’ve been rethinking how I design monsters. Simple monsters work as mooks, but having a role in combat is more fun. So instead of creating basic stat blocks, I’m trying out more experimental mechanics for monsters. And Yu-Gi-Oh cards seemed like a good source of inspiration.
So here are some new 5e statblocks, based on Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
Ancestry Awakened: Live on Kickstarter
/My latest Kickstarter, Ancestry Awakened, is now live on Kickstarter! Go check it out and, most importantly, tell your friends about it!
As a small time creator, I don’t have a huge audience, so I need your help to spread the word.
Let’s see how quickly we can get funded!
Ancestry Awakened
/Hello everyone! I’ve been working on my next Kickstarter, a book for D&D 5e tentatively called Ancestry Awakened, a book of new and reworked ancestry options for 5e.
I’m still in the prep phase of the Kickstarter, but I wanted to share some of the ideas that are in the book.
Major/Minor Feature System
Ancestry Awakened introduces the major/minor feature system, a framework for designing and balancing ancestries. The inspiration for the system came from Ryan Langr’s Grazilaxx’s Guide to Ancestry on the DMsGuild. That book uses a similar system, but a different approach to it.
In Ancestry Awakened, every ancestry is built with 2 major features and 2 minor features. Major features are mechanically impactful traits or abilities, and minor features are less impactful. An example of a major feature would be a dragonborn’s breath attack, and a minor feature would be something like darkvision or a skill proficiency.
Best of all, each ancestry has CHOICES! You don’t get just one set of features whenever you pick that ancestry. Instead, there are always choices to make. Take a look at a preview of the gargoyle.
You lookin’ for a bruisin’? art by @OutlandIdol
Anyway, stay tuned for more information as we get closer to the Kickstarter launch!
Santa's Workshop Compilation!
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Happy Holidays Everyone!
Some of the talented artists and writers in the RPG print-and-play community have gotten together to develop this special bundle straight from Santa's Workshop!
Santa's Workshop Compilation consists of:
Great miniatures from Printable Heroes, Darek Pages, Okumarts Games, Kev's Lounge, Decapitated Markers, and Trash Mobs Minis.
Holiday-themed paper crafting gifts and trees that are perfect for scatter terrain by Papierschnitzel and RPGPapercrafts.
Special winter-themed stat blocks by Pirate Gonzalez Games, perfect for those twisted holiday games.
We hope you find a lot of joy and value in this little collection of props, minis and stat blocks. We encourage you to reach out to the others on their social media to give them some love, and check out more of the great work from the contributors:
Darek Pages https://www.patreon.com/darekpages
Decapitated Markers https://www.patreon.com/DecapitatedMarkers
Kev's Lounge https://www.patreon.com/kevsloungepaperminis
Okumarts Games https://www.patreon.com/okumarts
Paper Realms https://www.patreon.com/paperrealms
Papierschnitzel https://www.patreon.com/papierschnitzel
Pirate Gonzalez Games https://www.pirategonzalezgames.com/
Printable Heroes https://www.patreon.com/PrintableHeroes
RPG Papercrafts https://www.patreon.com/rpgpapercrafts
Trash Mobs Minis https://www.patreon.com/trashmobminis
Keep the dice rolling, and thank you for your continued support. Happy Holidays!
5e 4th Age Classes: The Barbarian
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I really liked 4th edition D&D. One of the things I enjoyed doing in that edition (and still do) was building characters.
However, I don’t have that same desire to build characters for 5th edition. To me, part of the problem is that there aren’t as many options within some of the 5e classes. Aside from picking your subclass, you get the same things at every level.
The warlock is very much the opposite of this, and its one of my favorite classes because of it. Mechanically, you could have multiple warlocks with different abilities, not just different spells or subclasses.
In an effort to bridge the gap between 4e and 5e, I’ve started an experiment: The 4th Age Classes.
These are 5e classes, but built closer to the warlock. The goal is to have multiple choice points within the class, but not completely change the class.
The first class I worked on is the barbarian.
Check out the first draft of the barbarian, and let me know what you think:
UPDATE: The finished version is now for sale: https://www.dmsguild.com/product/302691/4th-Age-Barbarian-A-Class-Revisited
Pokemon 5e Pokedex: Hoenn
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It’s finally here! The long awaited generation 3 pokedex for D&D 5e is out now!
It has been over a year since I released the last pokedex, and I continue to learn more about monster design. These pokemon are designed around the idea of what they would be like in a D&D world, and not about trying to replicate them 1-for-1.
The CR assigned for a pokemon has nothing to do with their video game stats, and I made no attempt to do so. Instead, I just to have a variety of different CR’s represented in the pokedex, with many of the pre-evolution pokemon being lower CR.
If you see any mistakes with an entry, let me know here or on twitter @PirateGonzalez so I can fix it! This is a fan project, so it’s not cost efficient to hire an editor for this, but I tried my best.
If you enjoyed this, you can see the Kanto pokedex and Johto pokedex I did, or my other 5e work like the Archive of Magic Items, or soon to release Book of Constructs.
Gotta Catch ‘Em All!
Shaman: A World of War Class
/In celebration of World of Warcraft Classic, I’ve released a new class for D&D 5e: The Shaman!
This is a pretty big class book, 17 pages in all with 3 subclasses (elemental, enhancement, and restoration of course), 17 talents, and 39 new spells!
You can pick up a copy on the DMsGuild here. I’ve included some previews below.
I hope you enjoy the shaman!
https://www.dmsguild.com/product/287159/Shaman-A-World-of-War-Class
