Today's The Day You Meet Your New Best Friend--Pets & Sidekicks Launches On Kickstarter!

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This new hardcover for Dungeons & Dragons and Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition introduces heroic companions to your games--allies, adversaries, pets, and companions who can level up alongside your characters.

• Level up your pets and animal companions!
• Befriend NPC sidekicks and allies who keep track with your characters!
• Encounter recurring monsters and NPC villains who have leveled up each time you meet them!
• Use evolving wildshapes and other shapechanging powers throughout your adventuring career. You wanted to change into a wolf in your early levels--now you can still do so at later levels!

Over 170 heroic companions--each with their own levelling up progression--and tons of player options including 12 new feats like Bonded Companion, Expert Rider, and Ringleader, as well as a new combat tradition and 7 new character archetypes (subclasses) join a slew of over 45 new magical items, and so much more, including companion flaws and traits, downtime activities, and rules for loyalty and motivations.

Pets & Sidekicks is on Kickstarter right now!

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[Micah Sweet]

Backed!

 

[Verall]

Backed!

 

[Morrus]

Livestreaming in about an hour! This week we'll be talking about the contents of the upcoming Eberron book, congratulating this year's ENnies nominees, and chatting about Pets & Sidekicks with special guest Paul Hughes!

 

[Jonstark]

I'm confused; it says the estimated delivery date for the pdf by itself is Jan 2026, but the estimated delivery date for the 3 pdf combo is Sept 2025. I missed out on Monstrous Menagerie 2 due to unexpected health crisis and I've been impatiently waiting for it to come to drivethru so I can pick it up, and so I don't know which to pick. If Monstrous Menagerie 2 is coming to drivethru sooner than Sept, then I'll go with the single pdf for Pets & Sidekicks (I already have MM 1, so yeah it'll be like buying it twice, but oh well). But I don't understand why the triple combo pdf would be so much sooner than the Pets & Sidekicks pdf by itself. Is it a misprint on the kickstarter?

 

[Morrus]

I'm confused; it says the estimated delivery date for the pdf by itself is Jan 2026, but the estimated delivery date for the 3 pdf combo is Sept 2025. I missed out on Monstrous Menagerie 2 due to unexpected health crisis and I've been impatiently waiting for it to come to drivethru so I can pick it up, and so I don't know which to pick. If Monstrous Menagerie 2 is coming to drivethru sooner than Sept, then I'll go with the single pdf for Pets & Sidekicks (I already have MM 1, so yeah it'll be like buying it twice, but oh well). But I don't understand why the triple combo pdf would be so much sooner than the Pets & Sidekicks pdf by itself. Is it a misprint on the kickstarter?

All PDFs are the day the Kickstarter ends.

 

[Jonstark]

All PDFs are the day the Kickstarter ends.

Sweet! Any idea on when Monstrous Menagerie 2 might appear on drivethru? I ask because it helps me make my decision between the single pdf or the 3-pdf combo.

 

[Morrus]

Sweet! Any idea on when Monstrous Menagerie 2 might appear on drivethru? I ask because it helps me make my decision between the single pdf or the 3-pdf combo.

It’ll appear on our own site before DTRPG. But not until after this KS ends.

 

[Jonstark]

It’ll appear on our own site before DTRPG. But not until after this KS ends.

Thanks, that makes my decision much easier. I'll go for the 3-pack