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Mechanical Monsters: Clockworks & Cyborgs for DnD 5E and Pathfinder RPG

Created by Legendary Games

Mechanical Monsters is a softcover bestiary featuring over 140 incredible creatures for DnD 5E or over 100 creatures for Pathfinder RPG born from mad sciencists and magitech, clockworks and cybernetics. Sci-fi elements have been a part of the RPG landscape from its earliest days, infusing fantasy with elements of future tech from far realms beyond the stars, ancient empires with lost technology, or curious artificers and alchemists working together to blend science and sorcery. Mechanical Monsters delivers an incredible collection of these creatures for your campaign!

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Alien Bestiary (5E) import dates! And the Arcforge QUICK-starter ends next week!
16 days ago – Wed, Mar 13, 2024 at 01:24:46 AM

Hi all,

After an arduous journey of reconstruction and many cycles of proofing and review, we are pleased to let you know that the Alien Bestiary 5E is at long last on the presses and printing! Here are the dates for your reference for getting this book on its way to us:

  • 6 advance copies sent to us: 2024-04-08
  • Final confirmation to ship: 2024-04-12
  • RTS (Ready to Ship) date: 2024-04-16
  • ETD HK (Estimated Time of Departure, Hong Kong): 2024-04-22
  • ETA WA98023 (Estimated Time of Arrival to Legendary Games): approx. 2024-06-03

There's always the potential of a port delay with customs clearance, but that's only happened to us once so far, so fingers crossed that all goes smoothly! When the 6 advance copies arrive, we'll randomly select 6 backers to receive those books and ship them out. The remainder of orders that include the Alien Bestiary 5E will ship in their entirety once those books arrive. All orders that don't include the Alien Bestiary have shipped already (well, the last of those batches is downstairs right now waiting to go to the post office), unless you are one of the handful of folks who didn't fill out their survey - we can't send your books unless you get us your information! Check your Backerkit and let us know! 

Meanwhile, for any of our PF1 fans, we hope you swing by to check out our Arcforge Universe Kickstarter going on right now! We've hit our first two stretch goals with just one left to go to fill out this sci-fi/fantasy setting steeped in hypertechnology, psionics, and chaos magic! Get new character classes, feats, spells, gear, rules for mechs and power armor, nanotech, and tons of new monsters and templates! in the Arcforge Players' Compendium and Arcforge Universe Cyclopedia! It all ends next week so check it out and share the link your friends and fellow gamers, and as always thanks for your support for all that we do at Legendary Games! 

Arcforge Kickstarter launched for Pathfinder RPG!
30 days ago – Wed, Feb 28, 2024 at 01:01:14 PM

Hi all,

We are delighted to keep processing print orders for you and look forward to receiving the print plotters for the Alien Bestiary Revised Edition, but we also wanted to give a shout-out to our Pathfinder RPG fans who supported Mechanical Monsters about the Arcforge Universe Kickstarterthat launched today! This incredible collection marries high-tech and high fantasy in a pair of expansive books for players and GMs comprising over 600 pages of vividly detailed world lore and player options galore in the Arcforge Players Compendium and Arcforge Universe Cyclopedia! 

You'll find new character classes and over 200 archetypes, feats, spells, psionic powers, along with expansive mech rules, technomancy, and so much more, including beloved 3rd-party system support for psionics, akashic veils, and new spheres for both Spheres of Power and Spheres of Might! The Arcforge Universe opens up a system-spanning smorgasbord of nations and locations for planetary, interstellar, or cosmic adventure, including nearly 100 new monsters and creature templates from roving wasteland hordes to mind-melting chaos lords! We hope you check it out today! 

First wave of Mechanical Monsters on their way! And pre-print samples for Alien Bestiary!
about 1 month ago – Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 01:57:11 PM

Hi all,

We got our big shipment in last Thursday including Mechanical Monsters as well as other books and cards, and after organizing this weekend we've sent out the first wave of shipments - sending out bundles of both Mechanical Monsters and Mediterranean Monsters for backers who happened to get both of them! We're plowing through our shipping supplies and restocking padded envelopes and mailers as we go, and we'll have more books on their way to you soon! 

In addition, we're very pleased to report that our printer has notified us that they are sending the "page plotters" and digital proofs for Alien Bestiary 5E. This is a loose-leaf printout of the entire book to do a final visual check, plus 16 pages of high-gloss pages for checking color. Those are on their way to me by FedEx, and once I approve those (and they make any last-minute corrections), the books will be ready to print at last! It's been quite an odyssey with the Alien Bestiary, something I thought would be a quick-and-easy reprint of the original book and turned out to be anything but. That said, it's great to have the rebuilt book on final approach at last and I hope you love it when it arrives! 

Books arriving next week, and Mechanical Monsters & Heroes Quick-Starter final 24 hours!
about 2 months ago – Wed, Feb 07, 2024 at 07:48:40 PM

Hi all,

Our ship is scheduled to arrive in port next Monday, February 12th! We look forward to receiving them in hand probably 1-2 weeks later, depending on how long customs clearance takes, but we are excited to get your Mechanical Monsters books coming your way! 

Our copies of the Alien Bestiary 5E will be coming in our next shipment from the printer. It took some time to rebuild the entire file from the ground up, but it's finalized and in their hands. Our printer is currently shut down for Lunar New Year for the next week or so but will be back at it and ready to move ahead with ozalids and print proofs when they reopen. One benefit of this rebuild process is that it has allowed us to make our layout structure much more efficient, as the original version had a ton of wasted blank space and oversized art placement. The greater skill of the new layout person has allowed us to reduce the page count considerably on the Alien Bestiary but without sacrificing any of the actual content. Every monster, all the stats, all still there and ready for you, but a lot less wasted space! 

Last but not least, we wanted to remind you that February 8th is the FINAL DAY of our Mechanical Monsters & Heroes Quick-Starter! If you missed out on any of the books from the original Mechanical Monsters project for 5E or PF1, or if you want to take advantage of new VTT options, or if you want to check out the new Pathfinder Second Edition version of Mechanical Monsters and the companion PF2 Mechanical Heroes book, please check it out and help spread the word in the final 24 hours! 

Mechanical Monsters II has launched!
2 months ago – Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 10:49:40 AM

Hi all,

Thanks so much for your terrific support of the original Mechanical Monsters Quick-Starter! We are looking forward to getting our book delivery next month, with the ship set to hit the port on or around February 12 and then probably a week or two in customs processing before before they deliver them to us. Once we have them in hand, they'll start heading your way! 

Meanwhile, we are excited to announce that Mechanical Monsters II has just launched! If there are any items you missed in your original pledge or the cash flow wasn't right at the time, you can still get those items at the original KS prices, PLUS we have expanded VTT options available and new support for Pathfinder Second Edition, as we mentioned in our last update! Check out the new project right here and please spread the word about to your friends and fellow fans!