"Hungry Little Monsters"

[eris404]

I didn't see this posted anywhere, so I thought I'd bring up Sean K. Reynolds' new project for charity, Hungry Little Monsters. To quote from his web site:

"Hungry Little Monsters is a compilation project initiated by me to be a charity fundraiser for FoodForAll.org, a program to help feed the hungry... (It) features over 40 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 myself, Dave Mattingly, Matt Forbeck, and Scott Bennie, as well as a dozen other established game designers. Likewise, the editing and art will be donated as well. Hungry Little Monsters is being created entirely on volunteer time. The game material in the book is entirely open game content as defined by the Open Gaming License. "

You can see the complete info here:

http://www.seankreynolds.com/store/hlm/

Gamers have the biggest hearts.

 

[Bloodsparrow]

Oh! The cover art is so cute!

 

[seankreynolds]

I submitted a scoop to ENworld about this last night but it apparently didn't get in until after the mods were processing items for today's main page.

 

[Henry]

Sean, I've got to hand it to you. It's a great concept, and I hope it sells well. I'll plan to get a copy myself when it comes out.

 

[Old Fezziwig]

This looks like it'll be great. It wasn't there when I posted the news last night, but I'll make sure that it's up there tomorrow.

Best,
Nick

 

[BrooklynKnight]

Sean are you accepting submissions to be included or are you already done with all that?

 

[Wombat]

I'm not usually a monster manual fan (I have more than enough challenges just by using the PHB in most cases), but not only do the critters in here sound interesting, but I know I can back the project in general -- aiding groups like this just has a wonderful glow about it that I cannot ignore.

Good work, Sean!

 

[seankreynolds]

Sean are you accepting submissions to be included or are you already done with all that?

I'm pretty much done ... concept submissions were due 4/30. But thank you for asking.

(I had originally planned to make an open call for submissions once I heard back from the writers I initially solicited, but the response was so great that I'm able to fill 50 pages with the expected submissions, and I'd like to keep the book relatively small, both to keep the work from being to much for developer-me, but also to keep the book at a reasonable price without "undercutting" the price relative to similar-size books.)

 

[Voadam]

Looks good, have you determined a price yet?

 

[CrazyDrake]

keep us up-to-date on this please, i'm interested.