Hungry Little Monsters - Funds go to charity

[Krug]

Just a note that this product is out.
http://www.seankreynolds.com/skrg/products/003HLM/

Hungry Little Monsters is a compilation project initiated by Sean K Reynolds to be a charity fundraiser for FoodForAll.org, a program to help feed the hungry.
Hungry Little Monsters features 43 new monsters (each approximately one page long) for the d20 system. The theme for this book is "monsters for which you can use existing miniatures or tokens." Rather than a collection of bizarre-anatomy creatures that you can't represent with anything on your miniatures shelf or in a store, this book is full of creatures which you can represent in play with commonly-available miniatures or tokens. This is set up by a serious of monster archetypes -- corpses (skeletal or zombielike undead), fiends (your typical bat-winged demonic or devilish creature), humanoids, oozes, spirits (bodiless undead), and so on.
This book is authored by volunteer members of the RPG industry, including Sean K Reynolds, Dave Mattingly, Matt Forbeck, Scott Bennie, and Ed Greenwood, as well as a dozen other established game designers. Likewise, the editing, art, and typesetting is donated as well. Hungry Little Monsters is created entirely on volunteer time. The game material in the book is entirely open game content as defined by the Open Gaming License.
All proceeds from this book are donated to Food For All.org
A special thanks to typesetter Jeffrey Visgaitis who spent more time working on Hungry Little Monsters than any other contributor. Jeffrey, you went the distance for this project, and if it weren't for you it never would have been finished.
About the Cover Artist: Brooklyn-based illustrator Gerald Lee went through college thinking his soon-to-be mentor Tony DiTerlizzi was in fact a girl. Fortunately, Tony was amused by this mistake and agreed to take Gerald as an apprentice. Gerald has a certain knack for meeting great artists throughout the industry and applying what he learns from them (through trial and error and a lot of imagination) to his own art. Expect to see a lot more from his drawing board.

63-page PDF (plus 22-page illustration book and 4-page token book), product number SKR003
Release date: June 2005
Price: $7, available from

So do give your support.

 

[MulhorandSage]

Just a note that this product is out.
http://www.seankreynolds.com/skrg/products/003HLM/

So do give your support.

Speaking as a not-disinterested party, there's some real good stuff in here and the cause is definitely a worthy one. Please check it out.

 

[Henry]

I'd heard about this project from Sean a while back, but never checked out the organization. Awesome - I love their mission goals. I'll try to swing this today, and at worst on next weekend.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Back in the day I bought Swords into Plowshares so I'll probably pick this up two.

 

[DMH]

I bought it and many of the critters are interesting. I just don't know about the minis thing though- the ethereal lasher doesn't look like any mini I have seen.

The archetype concept is interesting, too bad I don't use counters or minis.

A high point is the extra pdf that has the art- each is about a 1/2 page and thus you can pick out details that are hard to see in the main file. I do love the cover with the ogre and little girl. The best artwork in it, IMO is the fly on the pin- the second time I have seen an insect drawn correctly in a rpg supplement.

As for the individual critters, the owlbear (and bear) templates, pyrefly, nethermold, pupylaen and kyokan are my favorites.

 

[Aeson]

It's a good cause and I will see if I can swing helping them out.

I might need a hungry Aeson fubd soon.

 

[seankreynolds]

I bought it and many of the critters are interesting. I just don't know about the minis thing though- the ethereal lasher doesn't look like any mini I have seen.

I believe the designer of that monster wanted to create something that looked somewhat like a phantom fungus.

 

[Krug]

Lotsa interesting monsters in there. Skulldrake Stalker.. hhmm.... *evil thoughts*

 

[reveal]

Some very, very cool monsters in here. I was one of the lucky ones to proofread it and I was amazed by all the original, highly creative and just plain fun monsters that are presented. I highly recommend buying this, especially if you're a DM who has players that have the Monster Manuals memorized (AND if you like alliteration! ).

 

[Klaus]

I am very proud to have contributed to this fine product.

As for the ethereal lasher, it was built on the same assumptions of the ethereal filcher and ethereal whatsitsname from the MM (notice the legs), with a mass of flayiling tentacles on top. I'm sure some Cthulhu-esque mini could fit the bill (Dark Young, perhaps?).