OSR The Monster Overhaul (now including The Treasure Overhaul)

Scribe said:

Is this going to be a Kickstarter?

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I am quite sure that there will be a crowdfunder.
It should also be made clear: Treasure Overall will be available in retail as well.

Source: I distribute Monster Overhaul and Magical Industrial Revolution in Canada and the UK (via Compose Dream Games). And fulfilled the MO KS in Canada.
Monster Overhaul has been one of our top sellers, so we are certainly looking forward to Treasure Overhaul releasing.

I actually just pulled the trigger on Magical Industrial Revolution and got the book a week ago. I was really questioning it for a long time because I wasn't sure how much I'd use such a hyper-specific city sourcebook...but man oh man was that dumb. Just like The Monster Overhaul, MIR had so many useful tables for ANY fantasy settlement, or any Victorian-style settlement, or any Eberron-like settlement, plus so many good magical catastrophes, weird formula, etc. etc.

It's crazy how useful his stuff is. Just endlessly applicable to so many types of settings, situations, and rules. I can't stop gushing.

I was weening off the crowdfunding train, but I'll back anything by Skerples immediately from now on.

timbannock said:

Just like The Monster Overhaul, MIR had so many useful tables for ANY fantasy settlement, or any Victorian-style settlement, or any Eberron-like settlement, plus so many good magical catastrophes, weird formula, etc. etc.

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Yeah, he casually tosses in tables into MIR that other game lines base their whole book around. Huge value for dollar in his books.

Whizbang Dustyboots said:

His previous hardcover books have both been, so I assume so.

Between this, the Dark Caribbean, Into the Salt & Surf and Merryshire Detective Club, I'm going to be fully back on the Kickstarter horse next year.

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I haven’t heard or seen any chatter about Into the Salt & Surf - is that a new Wet Ink Games book like Into the Cess & Citadel?

Xenolith234 said:

I haven’t heard or seen any chatter about Into the Salt & Surf - is that a new Wet Ink Games book like Into the Cess & Citadel?

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Yep, their third and final environment book. It appears to be about coastal communities. They've posted beachcrawl pages to Bluesky and they look just as dark and weird as Into the Wyrd & Wild. I'm planning on using it with Pirate Borg, where it should fit like a filthy glove.

How about 12 pages of summonings, including 100 different weirdos your spellcasters can summon?

The blog post labels this as a chapter of the Monster Overhaul, but there is no such chapter there. I assume they mean it's the Treasure Overhaul.

Here's an example:

Skerples said:

99. Yeltran, Bearer of the Cups of Haste

Enters with a billow of steam. Appears as a silver tray with six spindly silver legs. Carries 1d4+1 cups of a miraculous liquid. Anyone who drinks a cup moves move at 2x speed and make 1 additional attack each round for 1d6 minutes. They are jittery, excitable, and
unable to focus. Yeltran will follow the summoner, acting as a mobile tray or carrying light burdens. Any poisons poured into Yeltran's empty cups have a 50% chance of being neutralized. If they are not neutralized, the poisons become doubly effective.

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Looking over the list of summoned entities, I can definitely see giving out the ritual to summon one of these guys instead of spells in wizard tower hoards. (My Shadowdark campaign is set in a region that was part of a wizard war, so when in doubt, that ruin is a former wizard tower.)