Masks: Mass Combat
/A brief mass combat system for Masks.
Read MoreYu-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!
Mailing List and Kickstarter
/Hello everyone! We are a few weeks away from the Kickstarter launch of Ancestry Awakened!
Check out the pre-launch page to get notified exactly when we launch, on 4/28!
Mailing List
I’ve made a mailing list!
If you want to stay notified of the latest updates from Pirate Gonzalez Games, we now have a mailing list.
Sign up to get notified directly from us. You’ll only get 1 update a month, MAX (and probably less frequently than that when we’re in between big projects).
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!
A DMsGuild Creator's Experience (With Sales Data)
/For anyone that is a DMsGuild creator, or is considering becoming one, I just did a breakdown of some of my experiences as a creator, including some of my sales data. It might be of interest to some of you, and if you’re not on twitter, here’s the info:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1217612148479811585.html?refreshed=yes
Hello everyone! As a RPG designer that started on the #DMsGuild and has been branching out to Kickstarter for other content, I wanted to do a review of my sales activity from the OneBookShelf sites (DMsGuild and DriveThruRPG), and put down some thoughts and lessons I’ve learned. pic.twitter.com/ENIOZXduUv
— Tim Gonzalez (@PirateGonzalez) January 16, 2020
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!
