Total Party Kill Bestiary: 5E Monsters for Veteran Heroes
Created by 2CGaming
A panoply of uniquely dangerous monsters to challenge veteran heroes in the 5th Edition of the world's greatest roleplaying game.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Backerkit & Developer's Clubs
about 6 years ago
– Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 11:06:02 PM
Welcome to Backerkit
We're excited to launch our after-campaign management platform through Backerkit. Backerkit is a great tool for those interested in other 2CGaming products, wish to adjust their pledges, or those who missed out on the Kickstarter campaign. For those of you new to the Backerkit web service, here are some of the awesome things you can do with it!
Adjust your Kickstarter pledge level
Pick up additional copies of the book/pdf/deluxe edition for friends and fellow gamers, while keeping the Kickstarter's discounted rate!
Purchase other 2CGaming products in PDF and hardcover form at a discounted rate, as our way of saying thank you for supporting the project.
You should be receiving surveys for Backerkit in the next few days. Please let us know if you find anything unusual on Backerkit that needs adjusting.
NOTE: Shipping cost will default to "Other Location" ($25), until you enter your shipping address, after which, they'll update. Items warehoused in the US (Categories 4 & 5) will require international shipping.
DM's & Player's Clubs
This last weekend we ran our first playtest for the monsters from the Total Party Kill Bestiary. Special thanks to the backers at these tiers, and those who participated at this level. We're looking forward to connecting with everyone through discord, where we'll be scheduling playtests, releasing alpha updates, and discussing community content!
Players: please review the monthly doodle polls and mark your availability as early as possible. This will allow us to schedule you into games!
DM's: We're going to be posting the framework for monster selection, and the long-list of monster groups (~40 groups) to the DM's Club channel in discord at the end of this weekend! Hopefully this'll give you a good idea of which types we're hoping to populate the book with and why. Very interested in getting some of the experienced developers involved in this project!
If you haven't been added to either of these groups in discord or have any other questions relating to this project, please ping Jon K. in discord (or post below).
That's all for now, folks! Expect another update in early May as we move forward with development!
Best,
Jon Kelly - The 2CGaming Team
Fully Funded, Our Thanks and Next Steps
about 6 years ago
– Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 09:20:14 PM
What a campaign!
Hey folks, with just a few minutes left in the campaign, we have hit the funding goal along with several stretch goals, allowing us to bring every plan we had for this book to life! Thank you so much for your support, we are always amazed at the level of dedication and interest from members of the RPG community. With your help, we can fill your games with dangerous fantasy foes from all corners of the multiverse. Hope your players have some extra sheets.
DMs and Player Clubs
Many of you who supported this project have joined our DMs and Player clubs, where you can face these monsters early in their development, providing feedback and design insights along the way. This is a first for us, so we are very excite to get to know you all and and look forward to playing with you! Expect details about how to redeem those rewards in the coming week (we will message you directly).
Update Schedule
As the project develops, we will be providing backers with monthly updates about our progress. However, if you wish to speak with us directly as the book is being written, you are always welcome to join us in our Discord server and see where we are on the project at any given time! Find us on Discord here.
Backer Kit
One of the ways we can reward our supporters is through Backerkit, a service which allows us to provide special benefits to those who supported us over this campaign. This allows us to conduct backer surveys and provide you with additional custom services that Kickstarter is not able to accommodate. Such services include:
Adjusting your Kickstarter Pledge Level
Acquiring Additional Copies of the book for friends and fellow RPG enthusiasts.
Purchasing 2CGaming Products in PDF and hardcover form at discounted prices as a reward for supporting the project.
Final Thoughts
This project is shaping up to be something really special, with a lot of passionate interest and opportunity for community engagement. We are looking forward to providing you with a unique and challenging book that will make a splash at your game table.
Best Regards and Humble Thanks
The 2CGaming Team.
Promo #2, One Week Left!
about 6 years ago
– Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 12:25:48 AM
First off, thanks to everyone for the overwhelming support on the Total Party Kill Bestiary! There's been a lot of traction and interest on Facebook, and some great back-and-forth on reddit, so thanks to both communities there for the feedback and insight!
Promo #2: Elemental Archons
With just under a week left, we wanted to put out the second promo: the Elemental Archons. Extraordinary beings that arise when the soul of a
powerful mortal travels to one of the elemental planes by accident, lack
of faith, or deific mal-intent, the elemental archons are *powerful* forces (Challenge 17 - 19) commonly roaming the material plane. Most
souls sent to the elemental planes are lost, destroyed, or otherwise suffer the
aforementioned fate worse than death, but when a mortal of great ability passes
to these planes, they become its master, at least for a time.
You can check out the Promo for these deadly elemental forces below:
Over the course of the Kickstarter, we've been putting extra focus on maximizing the utility of the book to the DMs out there. We've played a fair number of D&D editions, including 4th, which, while not without its faults, had some mechanically masterful ideas regarding encounter design. We've adopted some of these mechanics for the Total Party Kill Bestiary alongside our previously-implemented methods "Favors & Foils" some of you may recognize from our Patreon or the Total Party Kill Handbook.
The astute researcher, Talien Vos Karven, previously providing descriptions and flavor for the book, has also kindly included monster classifications indicating a generalization of the role a monster may fill in a combat scenario, as well as listing what he believes to be the best and worst-suited heroes against such monsters.
For those creatures of particular danger, Talien has included a stamp indicating his belief in the lethal nature of the creature (shown below for the Utterance of Unnamming, and in the Elemental Archons Promo with the Lightning Archon).
It may be a *little* tough to see here, but we've updated the Utterances of Truespeech promo to include these changes (and a few minor mechanical tweaks).
Development Notes
Worth noting that we're not married to these ideas - they are still fluid, though we like what they are trying to do. We'll be working with the DM's Club to get some alternate thoughts on how to implement this, and testing the favors, foils, and *deadly* monsters with our victims...er the Player's Club.
Let's push to the end here! Thanks for all the support.
Best,
Jon Kelly - The 2CGaming Team
And We're Off!
about 6 years ago
– Tue, Mar 06, 2018 at 06:13:17 PM
With the initial Kickstarter launch behind us, we're off to the proverbial races! Thanks to everyone thus far, we're already sitting just over 1/3rd funded - great progress, inspiring confidence in a funded project (knock on wood)!
Some Notes on Artwork
We are very fortunate to be working with the phenomenal Jason Strutz, who has a great way of bringing action and unexpected, but truly awesome personalization into the bare-bones art requests we send him.
As such, Jason's design will be influencing the appearance (and perhaps, to a lesser degree, the mechanics) of the creatures within the Total Party Kill Bestiary. Check out the utterances, below:
Utterances of Truespeech
The astute reader will note that the description in the promo doesn't *quite* line up with the illustration. This is often a product of concurrent development - in which the artwork and description are created simultaneously with little back-and-forth discussion between the artist and writer - both working from a simplified template.
To avoid this moving forward, and to give paramount priority to Jason's artistic inclination, we're going to go about this slightly differently: from the short summary, Jason will produce art, which will then be described by the writer. This is fairly unusual in publication driven by writers, but is very common in homebrew work. How many times have you found an awesome picture on the internet and built a stat block and background around that for your players? It's quite fun.
That's all for now! Share the project where you can, and let's see if we can get this project rolling!
Best,
Jon Kelly - The 2CGaming Team
We're 24-hrs In - Some Media Action!
about 6 years ago
– Fri, Mar 02, 2018 at 08:14:42 PM
Keeping it short and sweet here; Great thanks to everyone who has jumped on the Total Party Kill Bestiary thus far! We're very encouraged by the activity in just the first 24 hours!
Interview with Nerdarchy!
Ryan Servis, community manager and one of the lead writers for 2CGaming, had the opportunity to chat with the folks from Nerdarchy this morning! You can check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji9f1yOiigY
The exciting and captivating reviewer, Mr. Tarrasque, has looked over one of our first books in our Total Party Kill series, the Total Party Kill Handbook (our first project funded on Kickstarter!) You can check that out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVtchqbiRJk
Let's keep it going! If the Kickstarter rule-of-thumb(20% in the first two days) holds, we are well on our way to funding this project and helping you bring ruin to your unsuspecting players! Thank you for all your support!
