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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AngusA" data-source="post: 7730495" data-attributes="member: 57758">Unleash the first volume of Frog God Games’ iconic <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/tome-of-horrors-reborn-for-fifth-edition" target="_blank">Tome of Horrors</a> series, reimagined and redesigned for 5[SUP]th[/SUP] Edition campaigns. Hordes of sinister adversaries, restless dead, and other horrific monstrosities to gleefully challenge your players’ expectations. Bursting with hundreds of creatures, new additions as well as converted classics, in a library-bound and stitched full color volume. Everybody needs more monsters.[PRBREAK][/PRBREAK] [ATTACH]91832[/ATTACH][hq]The Tome of Horrors series was first launched by Necromancer Games in 2001 for the 3rd edition d20 rules. Since then, The Tome of Horrors line has spawned 4 classic volumes, two shelf breaking compendiums, and numerous softcover supplements.  They have detailed beasts, demons, humanoids, elementals, dragons, devils, fey, extraplanar, undead, and even more for three different rule systems: ·         3.0/3.5 compatible editions   ·         The Pathfinder Role-Playing Game System (including Starfinder Compatible Creatures, many of which work well as extra-planar new 5th Edition creatures!)·         Swords & Wizardry, Frog God Games' classically influenced fantasy rules. [ATTACH]91833[/ATTACH]We want to bring these monstrosities to 5th Edition with full color illustrations by top artists who have reimagined the entire catalog of creatures. Our eventual plan is to create a series of books encompassing the 2011 list of monsters, the TOH 4 list of monsters, and hundreds of others that we have included in books along the way, and will continue to add over time (both unique to these volumes and used in our other products). This release is the first step along that path. The Tome of Horrors series of books have always been some of Frog God Games/Necromancer Games top-selling books. In fact, our single largest sales day ever had us selling out of 2500 of these books in 3 hours! To bring the Tome books to Fifth Edition they will need conversion and formatting upgrades in addition to other necessary changes to existing content. That process has been going on for awhile. [ATTACH]91834[/ATTACH]What will the new Tome of Horrors contain?   The original three volumes of The Tome of Horrors were combined and expanded into The Tome of Horrors Complete, released in 2011, which was bursting with monsters (over 700 pages of them). Yet it soon proved not to be complete enough for us (or for you). The siren call of more creatures was answered with the Tome of Horrors 4, adding another 280+ unusual and deadly monsters for your campaigns. These combined would be a titanic cyclopedia of creatures.   What about the creatures from the Necromancer archives?   Yes, those are awesome.   The creatures from your newest releases like the Blight or Bard's Gate, how about those?  Those are dark and disturbing, we couldn't leave those out.   So this is a Tome of Horrors Complete for 5th edition with new material added?  Alas, no. It would one be a hell of a book, the kind we would want to make. It would come with one hell of a price tag, a price much higher than even The Slumbering Tsar Saga or The Blight. Even if everyone could afford it, it would break shelves, wallets, and backs. Most importantly, it is not possible. Physically the printer cannot produce a book that size without prohibitively costly custom work with which we have no production experience.   Then what are you funding?   The first in a series of incredible books, a full color, high-quality core reference for Frog God Games’ 5e future releases, Tome of Horrors. [/hq]  <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/froggodgames/tome-of-horrors-reborn-for-fifth-edition" target="_blank">Tome of Horrors: Reborn for Fifth Edition</a> by Frog God Games is live on Kickstarter until Tuesday 26[SUP]th[/SUP] December 2017.</blockquote>

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