D&D 5E Tome of Beasts 2

[Marc Radle]

Wanted to be sure folks who mainly only frequent the D&D 5E forum didn't miss out on this!

Tome of Beasts 2
From the creators of the original Tome of Beasts! Kobold Press is wrangling a new horde of wildly original, often lethal, and highly entertaining 5E-compatible monsters to challenge new players and veterans alike.


The Tome of Beasts II will bring 400 new monsters to 5th edition, from angelic enforcers, sasquatch and shriekbats, to psychic vampires, zombie dragons, and so much more.

In addition to these lethal creatures to spring on players, if you back the Tome of Beasts II Kickstarter at the $25 level and up you can submit an original monster design for possible publication! The original Tome of Beasts published 40 such backer monsters, including some extremely popular creations!

With 2 Weeks still to go, the Tome of Beasts 2 Kickstarter has more than 3,700 backers and has raised more than $254,000 so far!

Please consider becoming a backer! If you've already joined us, please spread the word!

Back TOME OF BEASTS 2 on Kickstarter Today!

 

[Zardnaar]

Planning on picking it up later. Very happy with the other Midgard books and part 1.

 

[MechaTarrasque]

They had me at "enforcer angel."

 

[mach1.9pants]

Sadly I'll have to wait for Amazon or NobleKnight to get it, shipping for most US things is so prohibitive. But best of luck!

 

[TheCosmicKid]

In addition to these lethal creatures to spring on players, if you back the Tome of Beasts II Kickstarter at the $25 level and up you can submit an original monster design for possible publication! The original Tome of Beasts published 40 such backer monsters, including some extremely popular creations!

Does this sound to anybody else like we're being asked to pay for the privilege of writing content?

 

[Marc Radle]

Does this sound to anybody else like we're being asked to pay for the privilege of writing content?

Not at all!! Quite the opposite in fact!

Submitting a monster is in no way required! In fact, the majority of backers typically don't - they simply back the project and then receive the book (we've done this for the original Tome of Beasts and the Creature Codex, as well as a similar option to submit a spell for the recent Deep Magic Kickstarter).

This is just a cool option for those that think it would be fun to see if they can design and submit an original monster and get it selected for publication in the book!

ALSO, not only are you not "paying for the privilege of writing content"... if your monster IS selected for publication in the book, you get credit in the book, AND if your monster IS selected for publication in the book, we actually pay YOU a little something!

 

[Marc Radle]

The Tome of Beasts 2 Kickstarter has officially jumped ahead of the Creature Codex in terms of total backers!!

This makes Tome of Beasts 2 the second highest Kickstarter in Kobold Press history!

Deep Magic: 4,456 backers
Tome of Beasts 2: 4,176 backers
Creature Codex: 4,166 backers

Next up - Deep Magic: 4,456 backers ...

Can Tome of Beasts 2 get 281 new backers in remaining 11 days and vault to the new top spot???
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepmagic/tome-of-beasts-2-for-5th-edition-400-new-monsters

 

[happyhermit]

So, a lot of people liked ToB but a common thought was that the monsters weren't quite in line with 5e and were a bit more 3.x-ish. Have they maintained the same style or moved towards/away 5e design? Lot of lair and legendary actions? I didn't see any full sample writeups on the kickstarter.