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Post by gringnr on Mar 27, 2023 9:52:57 GMT -5
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viva
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Post by viva on Mar 27, 2023 10:56:52 GMT -5
There was more about this over here (cool pictures, etc): I don't see a normal "website" article so even though not everyone uses Facebook or Instagram they are the only good links I could find: www.facebook.com/story.php?id=471831809495428&sfnsn=scwspmo&story_fbid=pfbid023p8e9hkRpyvXcEa4deq6M6i8tz5Qcws85hAd8jNqA9t87j6uCJyyAcM6qdK8fGbEl&paipv=0&eav=AfaOGJLbDarr37LQdZ8aeRLMdzqQ_qm2279nc8cew1eJpDbP_lmICzP2zQAQQqxnFYk&_rdrhttp://instagram.com/p/CnVEQZrrf1t Most specific thing I see is "spring": "Mindjammer Press is delighted to announce the release in spring 2023 of its brand new RPG line THE LAIR OF THE LEOPARD EMPRESSES. A licensed game using the MONSTERS! MONSTERS! game system from Ken St Andre's Trollhalla Press, this is a classic fantasy RPG of action-packed superheroic adventure. Like many of you, Sarah's been a lifelong fan of the Monsters! Monsters! family of games, right back from when she first bought the solo dungeon "Buffalo Castle" as a wide-eyed twelve year old in the summer of 1980 - and LAIR OF THE LEOPARD EMPRESSES is her love letter to those games! It presents a whole new fantasy world, Ximuria, and includes continental, campaign, and city maps and gazetteers, full rules, spells, magic, treasures, and an introductory adventure. The core book contains all you need to play, and plugs directly into the Monsters! Monsters! ecosystem of games, bestiaries, setting books, and adventures from Trollhalla Press! 250 pages, full-colour, full-size, digital, softback, and hardback. We're very excited about this project as it marks our return to productivity and publishing after a long hiatus. Stay-tuned for move information soon about our existing Kickstarter projects. Thank you for your patience - and sharpen your claws, the Lair of the Leopard Empresses awaits!Mindjammer Press is delighted to announce the release in spring 2023 of its brand new RPG line THE LAIR OF THE LEOPARD EMPRESSES. A licensed game using the MONSTERS! MONSTERS! game system from Ken St Andre's Trollhalla Press, this is a classic fantasy RPG of action-packed superheroic adventure. Like many of you, Sarah's been a lifelong fan of the Monsters! Monsters! family of games, right back from when she first bought the solo dungeon "Buffalo Castle" as a wide-eyed twelve year old in the summer of 1980 - and LAIR OF THE LEOPARD EMPRESSES is her love letter to those games! It presents a whole new fantasy world, Ximuria, and includes continental, campaign, and city maps and gazetteers, full rules, spells, magic, treasures, and an introductory adventure. The core book contains all you need to play, and plugs directly into the Monsters! Monsters! ecosystem of games, bestiaries, setting books, and adventures from Trollhalla Press! 250 pages, full-colour, full-size, digital, softback, and hardback. We're very excited about this project as it marks our return to productivity and publishing after a long hiatus. Stay-tuned for move information soon about our existing Kickstarter projects. Thank you for your patience - and sharpen your claws, the Lair of the Leopard Empresses awaits!"
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Post by ProfGremlin on Mar 27, 2023 19:06:14 GMT -5
The posts on the Tome of Visages and IG (We need a better nomenclature here) are copypasta and exactly what viva posted. The IG post mentions Kickstarter but I can't find anything relevant there beyond the Mindjammer game in and of itself. Read the Updates and comments for yourself and draw your own conclusions. The Mindjammer site can be found here: mindjammerpress.com/mindjammer-the-roleplaying-game/Thought some of this sounded familiar: Ximuria - The Lion continent
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Post by zanshin on Mar 28, 2023 3:32:53 GMT -5
This sounds exciting
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Post by Sarah Newton on Mar 29, 2023 2:40:17 GMT -5
Hi everyone - Sarah Newton here, I'm the author of The Lair of the Leopard Empresses, and a lifelong fan of T&T and Monsters! Monsters! Hello! LAIR went into layout on Monday, so I think we're looking at a release in May (I'm guestimating 2 weeks for layout, 2 weeks for proofing, then 1 week for final tweaking, etc. We're going to be releasing via DriveThruRPG in PDF and print-on-demand versions to begin with, rather than the Kickstarter or trad print/distribution releases we've done in the past, basically because I've been on hiatus for a couple of years and LAIR marks our return to activity. I'm hoping you'll dig the game - I've been talking with Ken and Steve along the way, and even Liz in the early days - the setting has been on the workbench since 2015, and the system has been completely written from the ground up based on the Monsters! Monsters! rules, but with lots of elaborations. So it's rules, setting, and an intro adventure all in one book, full colour, hardback, appx 300 pages. For Wrath and Wragna, the King and Queen of Old! All the best, Sarah, Mindjammer Press ps: Here's how things were looking Sunday afternoon just before going into layout, alongside a fairly raggedy scribbling printout with a temporary cover. I'll post some sample pages of the actual layout once I get them.
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Post by nialldubh on Mar 30, 2023 7:08:27 GMT -5
Yes, looking forward to seeing your adaptation of M!M!
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sscrompton
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Post by sscrompton on Mar 30, 2023 22:40:00 GMT -5
We are very proud to have Sarah partner up with Monsters! Monsters! for your latest project. It looks amazing and we can't wait to see it in its final form. She is part of the Monsters Monsters! RPG network along with a growing list of small publishers.
"Seek out the Monsters in the living waters of Drive-thru. This is the way..."
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Post by Sarah Newton on Mar 31, 2023 3:23:31 GMT -5
Thank you Steve, thank you everyone! Yep, it's an exciting time over here - THE LAIR OF THE LEOPARD EMPRESSES is really starting to take shape at last, almost 8 years since its conception, and is looking like everything I'd hoped for, a full presentation of my own personal take on the Monsters! Monsters! system, married to a detailed swords & sorcery setting packed with adventure hooks, and with some unique twists which bring out the particularities of the Monsters! Monsters! concept. I'm attaching a very preliminary sneak peek into the layout work which began this week. It's still subject to tweaks and changes, but I'm digging how it looks! For Wrath and Wragna, the King and Queen of Old! All the best, Sarah
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Post by alkazar on Apr 1, 2023 0:21:44 GMT -5
Dang! We're getting some pretty awesome stuff coming down the pipeline. First Zimrala soon Ximuria.
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sscrompton
4th Level Troll
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Post by sscrompton on Apr 1, 2023 19:49:08 GMT -5
It looksamazing and we will be doing all we can to help Sarah promote this!
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Post by mosker on Apr 2, 2023 8:26:42 GMT -5
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Post by oldskolgmr on Apr 2, 2023 9:02:03 GMT -5
Congratulations Sarah Newton for getting this out! I'm a big fanboy of yours ! Keep writing!
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Post by Sarah Newton on Apr 2, 2023 10:44:42 GMT -5
Thank you everyone! W00t! It's very exciting to see all the energy in the community, it feels like things are happening with this game and system we've all known and loved for so long, I'm jazzed to be onboard!
Layout's going well. But... *cough* *cough* we've had a bit of page count creep. We've decided to stick with the lovely clean layout Jason's come up with above, it's so readable and IMHO looks lovely, so it's meant we're now going to end up with an overall page count of appx 380 pages. Jason finished laying in all the text yesterday, and is now putting the artwork in place and playing Layout Tetris with the various tables. I'm finalising the various map layers to send over to him for final magic. Not sure when we'll be ready for layout proofing, but it could be as early as a week from now (Jason did a *Herculean* week last week).
I'll keep you posted, and also share some page spreads with art included just as soon as I have them.
For Wrath and Wragna, the King and Queen of Old!
Sarah x
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Post by Sarah Newton on Apr 7, 2023 2:33:24 GMT -5
Hi everyone! So Jason's done a Herculean effort this past fortnight on the layout for THE LAIR OF THE LEOPARD EMPRESSES, and this morning I'm starting my layout proofing pass, which should hopefully take about a week before we start finalising the docs for print + PDF. I wanted to post an example - here's a provisional two-page spread from the Ximuria gazetteer chapter (the map page may change a little yet). There are three such gazetteer chapters, which also include principal NPCs, organisations, and encounter tables: the first is the continental-level one for Ximuria, of which this is an example spread; the second is a regional gazetteer for the Wilderness of Toth, which is essentially the "introductory campaign area" which Mindjammer Press will be concentrating for initial releases, including the first couple of solo and GM adventures we currently have lined up); and the third is a city gazetteer for the Free City of Halagad, which is both a great base of operations and a cool place for adventuring in its own right (ask the Wall Demons, they know all the best ways in to the tunnels beneath the Mistblind and Dead-End quarters, and even the place behind the waterfall from which the wizard Blackfear led the Sabretooth Tribe fifty years ago!). Anyway, I hope you like the pic! More to come as we progress! Estimated release date is still May. All the best, Sarah
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sscrompton
4th Level Troll
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Post by sscrompton on Apr 16, 2023 1:20:49 GMT -5
Looks amazing Sarah! Congratz!
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