OSR The Monster Overhaul

[Thondor]

@Thondor are y’all going to be at GenCon? With copies?

Not this year unfortunately.
Our con schedule is most up to date here: 2023 Events for the Compose Dream Games RPG Marketplace

 

[Auchen]

A few of our FLGS partners like Warp One in Edmonton and Dragon de Cuivre in Montreal already have copies. Our mostly up to date retailer list is here: Retailers
We're still getting the word out to them.

Of course, you are more then welcome to order direct. We'll also likely have a few copies at the next few conventions we attend: Ptarmicon (Yellowknife), Tabletop Scotland (Perth, UK), Brisbane Comic Con (Australia) and Essen Spiel (Germany).

Ah this is excellent, I'd love to grab a copy at Tabletop Scotland! I should be there early Saturday morning and I'll keep my fingers crossed there's copies left.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

My hard copy just arrived by mail today. Really impressive. Larger in every dimension than a WotC D&D book, although a similar height to Skerple's Magical Industrial Revolution.

Every page of this book has something useful on it.

Orcs, for instance, have a few paragraphs directly addressing the problem of evil -- a.k.a. the entire online discourse around orcs over the last few years. Skerples lays out the choices -- orcs are either inherently evil created beings or are people, and as good or bad as people are generally, exhorts the reader to pick one and stick with it because mixing the two in a campaign can cause a whole lot of problems, and notes, without judgment, that the Monster Overhaul is going with "orcs are people." Now, the next time the topic comes up, I can just hit someone with this book, which elegantly and even-handedly handles the issue very neatly.

Meanwhile, vampires get four pages, including a Dyson Logos-designed haunted manor house and lots and lots of random tables for generating everything about your adventure's vampire. I suspect a DM could be told "hey, we want to play a vampire adventure and we want to start playing in five minutes" and be able to pull it off in a manner satisfactory to both DM and players with this book. A pretty neat trick.

 

[Dyson Logos]

I suspect a DM could be told "hey, we want to play a vampire adventure and we want to start playing in five minutes" and be able to pull it off in a manner satisfactory to both DM and players with this book. A pretty neat trick.

The random-stocked maps he did are wonderful. You can run a LOT of off-the-cuff scenarios using this book!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The random-stocked maps he did are wonderful. You can run a LOT of off-the-cuff scenarios using this book!

I am honestly thinking of doing so, once I've read more of the book, just as test. Some of the stuff, like vampire, is very complete.

 

[GamerforHire]

I feel incredibly stupid for having just found this thread, because I bought a physical copy (for a fair but not cheap price) from a Kickstarter backer on a Facebook RPG Auction group, and the PDF-only option from DriveThru is not cheap. I could have checked on this thread and realized I could buy book+PDF for a cheaper price together. Oh well. The book is terrific, though.

 

[Malmuria]

I feel incredibly stupid for having just found this thread, because I bought a physical copy (for a fair but not cheap price) from a Kickstarter backer on a Facebook RPG Auction group, and the PDF-only option from DriveThru is not cheap. I could have checked on this thread and realized I could buy book+PDF for a cheaper price together. Oh well. The book is terrific, though.

I wonder...do people back kickstarters just to resell the product as soon as it comes out?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I wonder...do people back kickstarters just to resell the product as soon as it comes out?

Sometimes, but I think it's probably more likely that, when a book finally arrives, the passion for it has cooled and a backer may no longer want the book. I provide a trickle of such books to Noble Knight, for instance.

 

[Thondor]

Ah this is excellent, I'd love to grab a copy at Tabletop Scotland! I should be there early Saturday morning and I'll keep my fingers crossed there's copies left.

If you wanted to "reserve" a copy, DM me and I will give you a free shipping coupon code. See you at Tabletop Scotland!

 

[GamerforHire]

I wonder...do people back kickstarters just to resell the product as soon as it comes out?

My guess is that some people may also be buying an extra copy or two of the physical book copies, maybe to sell or for a friend who later decides they don’t want it. I know I have bought an extra copy of things here and there because I want a copy for my group, but it turns out no one wants it after all.

I also think some definitely buy to sell (based on what I see on EBay), but that is a risky proposition because you are essentially betting that the game becomes popular enough that the Kickstarter goodies become in high demand.