D&D General Forge of Foes from Mike Shea, Teos Abadia, and Scott F. Gray!

[dave2008]

Just downloaded my copy - I now what I am doing over the 4th of July weekend!

 

[Quickleaf]

In case anyone else was having difficulty finding the preview from the Kickstarter page: https://slyflourish_content.s3.amazonaws.com/forge_of_foes_preview.pdf

 

[darjr]

Note you can essentially order one.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I just got the notification that Forge of Foes is in transit to my house. That's five months early.

My pointy hat is off to you, @SlyFlourish, @Alphastream and Scott.

 

[el-remmen]

Just got my shipping confirmation. I have a hard time digging into digital stuff, so I am really looking forward to having a physical copy to sit on the couch with.

 

[darjr]

Just got my shipping confirmation. I have a hard time digging into digital stuff, so I am really looking forward to having a physical copy to sit on the couch with.

Got mine too!

 

[SlyFlourish]

I’m so glad people are getting and loving the hardcover! I got my own copy as well. Full Kickstarter fulfillment should be done this month in North America and next month in the rest of the world. It’ll be up on the Sly Flourish bookstore soon too. The PDF is there already!

The Lazy DM's Forge of Foes

128 pages of tools, advice, and practical tips for building, customizing, and running fantastic monsters for your 5e fantasy roleplaying games

shop.slyflourish.com

 

[darjr]

It has arrived!

May the forging commence!

 

[darjr]

From M. T. Black

I've finished creating the general purpose stat blocks from Forge of Foes in D&D Beyond. The interface sucks and data seemed to disappear at points. But I think they are fine now:

Minion (Forge)

Attack. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: [rollable]+3;{'diceNotation':'1d20+3','rollType':'to hit','rollAction':'Attack'}[/rollable] to hit...

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Soldier (Forge)

Attack. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: [rollable]+4;{'diceNotation':'1d20+4','rollType':'to hit','rollAction':'Attack'}[/rollable] to hit...

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Brute (Forge)

Multiattack. The brute makes two attacks. Attack. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: [rollable]+5;{'diceNotation':'1d20+5','rollType':'to ...

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Specialist (Forge)

Multiattack. The specialist makes two attacks. Attack. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: [rollable]+6;{'diceNotation':'1d20+6','rollType'...

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Myrmidon (Forge)

Multiattack. The myrmidon makes three attacks. Attack. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: [rollable]+7;{'diceNotation':'1d20+7','rollType'...

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Sentinel (Forge)

Multiattack. The sentinel makes four attacks. Attack. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: [rollable]+9;{'diceNotation':'1d20+9','rollType':...

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Champion (Forge)

Multiattack. The champion makes four attacks. Attack. Melee or Ranged Weapon Attack: [rollable]+11;{'diceNotation':'1d20+11','rollType...

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[el-remmen]

My copy arrived yesterday. Looking through it, I know I will get a lot of use from it.

However, I was disappointed to see how the monster powers were organized. I guess I got a different impression from how Slyflourish described it (which is on me, not him)

Rather than list all the new and interesting powers alphabetically in its own chapter, they are listed under monster types, which means finding an individual power if you don't know what monster type it is associated with (and that you may want to use with a different kind of monster) will be more difficult (esp. without an index). I would have preferred a chapter of just powers and then have the monster types list common powers with a reference to that chapter.

Oh well, I have struggled with how RPG books are organized and laid out since I started with the hobby in 1983, so it is clearly not a dealbreaker, even though that chapter of monster powers was my primary reason for getting this book. Heck, maybe I should consider my own product of monster powers since I am constantly making them up or tweaking them anyway.