They come from a dimension made of darkness and eat souls.
Along with the bonus monster this month, I think this marks the completion of the bestiary section for Only Monsters Here, so we're getting pretty close to the finish line.
2021-08-26 00:08:21 +0000 UTC View Post
The Lighthouse is a creature of nightmares, made from the memories of trauma attached to the first lighthouse ever built on the island of Inkstvarr.
Written for The Nightmares Underneath.
2021-07-29 21:54:42 +0000 UTC View Post
The monthly monster for June is dragon mages! These wizards seek out dragons in order to learn their magic, but too often that magic is more powerful than the human form can handle.
This is a section of Only Monsters Here and is written for ...
2021-06-29 14:37:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the Moon Goblins and Moon God Pantheon chapters from Only Monsters Here, expanded somewhat from their previous releases, with new fonts, stat blocks, and social institutions.
2021-06-03 00:00:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the dark elves chapter for Only Monsters Here. The stat blocks include a couple of walking vehicles, and the bloody lamp illo has been improved, but there's no new art, just new rules and stuff for The Nightmares Underneath.
2021-05-30 22:38:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This month we bring back the chaos riders, with an updated version of the old illustration, and five new illustrations, all with images and stat blocks for both steed and rider.
This is one of the playable monster chapters of Only Monsters H...
2021-05-28 19:51:33 +0000 UTC View Post
More plant monsters from the dead city! This one produces arcane chemicals so of course there's a random table for that. This is intended to appear in the next book, Only Monsters Here, so it's written for The Nightmares Underneath.
2021-04-29 17:33:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I have incorporated some additional illustrations into the stat blocks for the Goblin Mutants, and added a new mutant type (the Altered Beast), so here is an even longer version. Probably this is exactly how they will appear in Only Monsters Here....
2021-03-29 19:03:42 +0000 UTC View Post
When you go adventuring and then you die in the dungeon, what happens to your ghost? What if it possessed some plants and they picked up your weapons and continued fighting? Oh no! The next adventurers to come through here will have to fight a pla...
2021-03-29 18:55:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The goblin mutants of the Sakhab Wastes, ready to go into the next book. Actually they will probably get expanded a bit, based on the stuff that Nathan is working on right now. These guys leaves the wasteland to become mercenaries, and that's how ...
2021-02-25 13:59:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody,
This is just a small update on that game we're working on, The Company of Monsters, which I'm still tweaking and refining here and there in between other things.
Here's the updated reference sheets for the basic moves. A...
2021-02-08 17:31:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The first monster of this year is the Demongate Shrines, guardian shrines that summon Shrinegate Demons to attack unauthorized passers by. These are going into the next book and are written for The Nightmares Underneath.
2021-02-01 13:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
This month we have rules for playing trolls in The Nightmares Underneath. Trolls in the wasteland around the dead city are usually ancient and powerful, but not always. Sometimes they start at Level 1! This pdf also includes a collection of NPC st...
2020-12-28 17:54:59 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, this is just a short update. Recently, Nathan broke his drawing arm. Luckily, he left me with illustrations that I can release later this month, but we might be late again with releases around the beginning of next year, as we wait for hi...
2020-12-07 14:32:20 +0000 UTC View Post
And now we get to see inside: there is a map! We did a monster map!
Part 2 of the Giant Husk introduces one of the wizards that controls this horrid monster and shows us two of the seven rooms inside it. Like Part 1, written for The Nightmar...
2020-11-30 22:57:57 +0000 UTC View Post
The giant husk is a huge monster that lumbers around the wastelands breathing fire. It has a whole story connected to it, including multiple characters, so I've split the parts up. Part 1 is the monster itself, written up for The Nightmares Undern...
2020-11-29 21:41:23 +0000 UTC View Post
So, this post is to announce a second book we have in the works. A little while ago I posted a draft of some monstrous professions that were for playing monster characters in The Nightmares Underneath, but I realized they didn't really fit with th...
2020-10-10 18:12:29 +0000 UTC View Post
The monster for this month is the Landshark of Kulderhaven. A fishing village on the north coast of Inkstvarr is plagued by a terrible monster every night. The king has sent new settlers to repopulate, and monster hunters to slay the beast. Are yo...
2020-10-10 12:15:24 +0000 UTC View Post
The Giant Hunger is a monster that lives beneath the dead city of Ardoussarlis. He hungers for the purple crystals that the mutant goblins like to feed to their dragonseer (from November 2019), so as you can imagine, there's a rather one-sided con...
2020-10-02 13:32:03 +0000 UTC View Post
It turns out the squarecrawl map that I posted previously has been kind of a pain in the ass to work on. Plus, the monstrous professions don't really have a place in that book. so I decided to bring all the releases connected to the dead city of A...
2020-08-22 16:36:41 +0000 UTC View Post
July's Monthly Monster is a new adventuring profession for The Nightmares Underneath and Labyrinth Lord: The Alien Astronaut. You can play as a weird alien exploring Earth with your collection of technological gizmos. Also included is The Terranau...
2020-08-17 22:28:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I am slowly but surely catching up to the present! The monthly monster for June is the goblin pirates of the North Sea, written up for The Nightmares Underneath as both antagonist monsters and also player characters. Includes more new random gear ...
2020-07-24 19:41:59 +0000 UTC View Post
The goblin prince of birds is the chief lunar hierophant of the Moon Goblins. For use as a monstrous antagonist OR as a player character!
I think I've finally got a good format for presenting monster player characters in The Nightmares Under...
2020-06-29 17:15:31 +0000 UTC View Post
In general, I've resisted the urge to write player character versions of our monsters for old school D&D (and/or Labyrinth Lord etc). The Company of Monsters was supposed to be the game where you play the monsters. HOWEVER! At this point I thi...
2020-05-21 16:28:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the horde of beasts, a nightmare creature originating on the island of Inkstvarr, the subject of our next book.
Versions for Dungeon World and The Nightmares Underneath are in separate pdfs.
2020-05-20 16:42:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everybody,
Okay so first update is just to let you all know that in February I started experiencing pain issues related to sitting in front of the computer allatime. I'm dealing with it, but it makes my work schedule somewhat uncertain, ...
2020-03-27 23:01:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Mouth Eyes is the monthly monster for March. It comes to this world from beyond space and time to kidnap humans and subject them to the dire effects of the outer planes. They come back, at least, but they don't come back the same.
This one i...
2020-03-25 16:45:30 +0000 UTC View Post
This month's monster is the gargoyle wizards who conspire to make gargoyle sculptures common to all human cities and towns. What better way to help their kind pass unnoticed in the night? They go with the Stone King from last July.
Dungeon W...
2020-03-02 06:49:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Progress is happening slowly on The Company of Monsters, but the revisions to the basic moves (along with dramatic moves, interstitial moves, and travelling moved) are now in an attractive and usable format! These will be incorporated into later r...
2020-02-18 22:01:27 +0000 UTC View Post
King Buzzu, worshipped by poor and wretched goblins of the wastes, flies over the lands around the dead city of Ardoussarlis, wreaking destruction. The kingdom of Ardoussarlia lives on in other lands, but the city's last king lives on here, as thi...
2020-01-31 14:35:17 +0000 UTC View Post