Monkey God and FFE

[talien]

If you can get either At the Edge of Dreams or All the King's Men do so, they are both excellent adventures with a mystery theme - something rare in published D20 adventures. While I have not run Song of Storms it also looks very good.

The Auld Grump

*EDIT* Hmmm, I see one of the "Good" reviews mentioned in Talien's post was by me...

And it seems that Monkey God's website is down, I hope that they are still in business, even if they are not producing D20 stuff.

Hey Auld Grump!

You're a difficult man to track down. I wanted to thank you for your compliments...not everyone loved All the King's Men, but I'm glad you enjoyed it.

MonkeyGod's web site is down, permanently. They're out of the d20 business.

That said, their back catalogue has been picked up by Highmoon Enterprises as a line of .PDFs. You can buy them here: http://www.rpgnow.com/default.php?manufacturers_id=602

MonkeyGod is now Face-2-Face games (http://www.face2facegames.com) and doing quite well. They just won a "Game of the Year" award, as a matter of fact.

 

[Teflon Billy]

From Stone to Steel and Frost an Fur are both awesome products.

Even though I'm not much for adventures, I thought Monkeygod had some real gems.

I loved Maze of Screaming Silence. What a bizarre module. Where else will you find encounters called punch-in-the-face-guy or The dirt eater?

I mean seriosuly?

 

[Coredump]

well.... SOLD on MonkeyGod. Talien, I do not know you that well, but I do have respect for Mousferatu's posts here. So I will be picking up whatever I can from MG. If I get bored, I may pick some stuff from FFE, but will realize I will likely be disappointed.

Thanks folks.

Oh, while I have you here... any opinions on Bastien Press?

 

[Crothian]

it depends on the price. I picked up a few FFE stuff for under 5 bucks and I think it was money well spent. I'm not going to use them a lot but the ideas were mostly good and it was worth what I paid.

 

[Crothian]

Oh, while I have you here... any opinions on Bastien Press?

Bastion has some very solid books like Spells and Magic, the alchemy book, Torn Asunder and Oathbound. Outhbound is a high magic high adventure setting, but very well put together. Airships and into the Green I also like and use. Almost forgot Arms and Armor 3.5 a great book. And then Faries and Guildcraft I like but really have not had a chance to use. That covers all of theirs I have.

 

[Teflon Billy]

Oh, while I have you here... any opinions on Bastien Press?

If you mean Bastion press, I quite like their stuff. Though I'm kind of lukewarm on their Oathbound setting, they have these bookes I refer to as "The Red Spines" to my friends that a really packed with interesting, sometimes innovative mechanical crunch on a very broad vartiety of topics.

There has been some buzz around the boards recently about the 3.5 version of Arms and Armor and if it's anything like the 3.0 version, it's deserved.

They Published Alchemy and Herbalists in their Red Spine series and it was a remarkable complete treatment of a topic I thought D&D had needed addressed for ages.

How much I loved their Airships product was the biggest surpise of that year for me. It wasn't just good, it was fun to read

 

[johnsemlak]

Bastion Press is haveing a sale at their online store, check it out at www.bastionpress.com . Several products are being sold a t $5. (EDIT: Just realized, you may be asking for opinions about Bastion because you already know about this sale).

 

[TheAuldGrump]

Hey Auld Grump!

You're a difficult man to track down. I wanted to thank you for your compliments...not everyone loved All the King's Men, but I'm glad you enjoyed it.

MonkeyGod's web site is down, permanently. They're out of the d20 business.

That said, their back catalogue has been picked up by Highmoon Enterprises as a line of .PDFs. You can buy them here: http://www.rpgnow.com/default.php?manufacturers_id=602

MonkeyGod is now Face-2-Face games (http://www.face2facegames.com) and doing quite well. They just won a "Game of the Year" award, as a matter of fact.

You're welcome!

I am glad that they are still (sort of) in business, I got a great deal of enjoyment out of the two MGE scenarios I ran. My default setting is Reformation era, and both All the King's Men and At the Edge of Dreams fit nicely. The format used was very good, and I have lifted it for my own projects - NPC reactions are often ignored, but all three of the MGE adventures that I own kept them firmly in the forefront. (I haven't had a chance to run Song of Storms yet, it seems more tied to its setting than the others.) Those three scenarios are fully half of the D20 adventures that I have purchased, the other half being The Witchfire Trilogy.

I am very sorry that the D20 market didn't go well for Monkey God, they did a very nice job with it. I ordered the Magic Dump a few months ago from my FLGS, but they never got it in. I will take a poke around RPGNow and see what they have. Do you or Coyle still write D20 for another company?

The Auld Grump

*EDIT* Whooos, that's Coyle, not Coyne...

*EDIT 2* Wow, I really don't understand a couple of the reviews on All the King's Men... I had a great time both reading it and running it.

 

[talien]

I am very sorry that the D20 market didn't go well for Monkey God, they did a very nice job with it. I ordered the Magic Dump a few months ago from my FLGS, but they never got it in. I will take a poke around RPGNow and see what they have. Do you or Coyle still write D20 for another company?

Hahah, that's a dangerous question to ask me, because I'm a huge attention whore.

Christopher Coyle went on to become editor, art director, and contributing author for Sovereign Press and the Dragonlance campaign setting. Daezarkian, author of Hellstone Deep, also went over to Necromancer Games. And of course everyone knows Ari, who could have survived a D20 nuclear blast.

Here's the companies I am working with now:
* Privateer Press: I contributed the Khador section to the Iron Kingdoms World Guide (go figure, more fantasy Russia).
* Necromancer Games: They're publishing Ancient Kingdoms: Greece and another project we have yet to finalize (soon though, I hope).
* Paradigm Concepts: Combat Missions for Spycraft, although at this point the book is over a year behind schedule.
* Ronin Arts: Modern: Mercenary Manual. Just waiting on the art to be finished up.
* RPGObjects: Blood and Spooks, or "we don't have the rights to Ghostbusters"
* Goodman Games, but I've got an NDA on that one

The easiest way to keep track of me is at my web site, which I update daily: http://michael.tresca.net

Thanks for asking!

 

[johnsemlak]

MonkeyGod's web site is down, permanently. They're out of the d20 business.

That said, their back catalogue has been picked up by Highmoon Enterprises as a line of .PDFs. You can buy them here: http://www.rpgnow.com/default.php?manufacturers_id=602

MonkeyGod is now Face-2-Face games (http://www.face2facegames.com) and doing quite well. They just won a "Game of the Year" award, as a matter of fact.

Probably a lot to ask, but will any more of Monkeygod's products be put out as PDFs?