D&D 5E (2024) [Legendary Games] African Monsters Unleashed for 5E and Tales of the Valiant and The Dragon's Hoard!

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It’s 5E Friday, and we’re excited to be just a day into the African Monsters II QUICK-starter! We already created the original African Monsters bestiary for 5E earlier this year, and now we are pleased to offer it once more with all-new versions for Tales of the Valiant as well as Pathfinder First and Second Edition! This killer creature collection features over 100 pages of marvelous monsters, most of whom have never been seen before in any other gaming book! Expand your world of adventure with this tome of terrors in PDF, print, or VTT, and get terrific bonus bundles of other real-world bestiaries like Asian, Latin American, and Mediterranean Monsters, or even our incredible Up to Eleven MEGA-Bundle (a timely addition, consider the sequel to This is Spinal Tap releasing this weekend) with over 1,300 incredible creatures!

Check it all out right here, Pledge Today, and get your stuff NEXT MONTH when the project ends and backer surveys are complete!



Of course, we celebrate every month with our marvelous magazine of monsters, magic items, spells, subclasses, & more with The Dragon’s Hoard #58, available now with magical items like the Bivouac Scroll and Baton of the Fallen, spells like Trickster’s Disdain and Unadulterated Loathing, traps like the asphyxiation mote and dark sacrifices, class options like the Purification domain and Supercomputer warlock pact, and monsters like the alien sky spore and three kinds of predatory kaulvrex! Grab this 26-page 5E book in print or PDF today at the Legendary Games webstore, Open Gaming Store, Amazon, and DrivethruRPG!


Each issue of The Dragon’s Hoard collects all of the new magic items, class options, spells, monsters, and more from our Legendary Loot Patreon, which publishes new 5E content every single day, with new magic items free to everyone each week on 5E FREE-day, like the sorcerous defenses of the Spellguard Shield! A new issue of The Dragon’s Hoard releases every month, and our Patrons get their copies for free on the 1st of each month, but they go live for everyone by mid-month. Check out some of our past issues like:

  • The Dragon’s Hoard #31, available now with magical items like the firefly dart and spells like fearful rapture and torch-wielding mob!
  • The Dragon’s Hoard #32, available now with monsters like the moon hag and brain in a jar!
  • The Dragon’s Hoard #33, available now with magical items like the aeromancer’s heart and minotaur sweat!
  • The Dragon’s Hoard #34, available now with monsters like the time-twisting cuegle, the bloodthirsty deinos herd, and the devastating hundred-handed hekatonkheires!
  • The Dragon’s Hoard #35, available now with magical items like the shieldsplitter lance and swordmaster’s blindfold.
  • The Dragon’s Hoard #36, available now with class options like the Angel of Wrath, Verdant Knight, and new sacred vows!
  • The Dragon’s Hoard #37, available now with spells like demonhide, village veil, defiler’s mantle, and ravaging remorse!
  • The Dragon’s Hoard #38, available now with monsters like the dream-weaving meigas and the venerable La Befana!
  • The Dragon’s Hoard #39, available now with class options like the Beastlord primal path and Winter Knight paladin oath!
  • The Dragon’s Hoard #40, available now with spells like molten orb, path of glory, mirror hideaway, and curse of burning sleep!
 

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I hate to be. Me about this, but uh, that Bulgu's a bit. Very inspired by A Book of Creature's design for it, huh?
It is indeed. I've talked with the guy there about the project and he's cited in the credits. As for researching monsters of mythology, it's often pretty sketchy when it comes to folklore to find specific details on exactly what a thing looked like, or for different versions of a very similar creature concept to agree on what a thing is or what it should look like. One story might describe it more as a demon, others as a ghost, others as what in game terms would be more of a fey creature, others more like an intelligent animal. Even names of creatures are their own challenge, given that often different names are used for the same creature concept and sometimes the same name is used for different creature concepts depending on where you are (the chemosit, getiet, and nandi are all examples of this just in African Monsters, and there are plenty of examples we've run into in other bestiaries). Making it distinct and different from other existing creatures also plays a role, and sometimes you don't even do a monster because at the end of the day it's really just an ogre or a big snake without much to really distinguish it.

For a game book, at a certain point you've done as much digging as you can, and you just have to pick one version and roll with it.
 




No North African monsters or contributors? Missed opportunity in my opinion.
There are 10 creatures from Egypt, 1 from Chad, 1 from Sudan, and 2 from Mali in this book, and of the contributors 1 from Mali.

If you check out our Mediterranean Monsters bestiary, you'll find a bunch more North African monsters from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Malta, and Egypt, including contributors from Morocco and Malta. Not including North African creatures in book about monsters from cultures around the Mediterranean would have been a missed opportunity as well, so we definitely wanted to include them there. At the same time, we didn't want to repeat monsters from that book to this one. If you're looking for North African monsters, you can grab Mediterranean Monsters right here!
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There are 10 creatures from Egypt, 1 from Chad, 1 from Sudan, and 2 from Mali in this book, and of the contributors 1 from Mali.

If you check out our Mediterranean Monsters bestiary, you'll find a bunch more North African monsters from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Malta, and Egypt, including contributors from Morocco and Malta. Not including North African creatures in book about monsters from cultures around the Mediterranean would have been a missed opportunity as well, so we definitely wanted to include them there. At the same time, we didn't want to repeat monsters from that book to this one. If you're looking for North African monsters, you can grab Mediterranean Monsters right here!
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Mali isn’t North African, but cool to see Sudan (even though many debate its classification as North African) and Egypt represented with some monsters. 🙂

Thanks for pointing me towards the Mediterranean book, I’ll have to check that out along with this book.
 

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