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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 is now on Roll20! Plus SWARMS!!!
2 months ago – Wed, Nov 20, 2024 at 02:45:21 PM

Hi there and thanks for your fantastic support of Mechanical Monsters! We wanted to share the good news that one of the biggest pieces of this project, the Alien Bestiary 5E, is now available for Roll20 VTT! We are excited to continue expanding our options for you to get our bestiary books on your favorite VTTs and this one took a while but we are excited to offer it live to you at the following VTTs!

At the same time, while we look back at this great project, we also look forward to new monster books all the time, and we just recently launched our latest QUICK-starter for Legendary Bestiary: SWARMSand we would love to invite you to check it out! 

Get classic swarms like vampire bats, scarlet spiders, and horribulous rat swarms alongside exotic monsters like living wildfire, dead ink swarms, fairy rings, hexagnomes, neutron starlings, finger-crushing lobsters, and the floofy kitten swarm!

As you can see, this project is available for 5E, Pathfinder 1E and 2E, and for Black Flag RPG/Tales of the Valiant! You also can fill in any of our other marvelous monster books missing from your collection from Asian Monsters to the Faerie Bestiary! We hope you'll check it out and consider adding Legendary Bestiary: SWARMS to your monster menu, and share it with any of your 5E friends, Black Flag buddies, or Pathfinder players at the link right here!

Again, thanks so much and have a Legendary finish to 2024!

Fulfillment Complete (except for a few special cases)
7 months ago – Thu, Jun 27, 2024 at 06:13:02 PM

Hi all,

I just wanted to let everyone know that fulfillment on this project is finished at last for ALMOST everyone! We have about a dozen pledges altogether that either are missing information and/or missing payment on their Backerkit survey (and I've emailed those folks), or for about 6 other folks who have partial orders shipped to them but who also are getting some of our Mechanical Adventures/Heroes bundles where I'm waiting on a restock of the last items remaining on their pledges. Once those arrive to me, I'll send out the remaining books.

Thanks once again for your amazing support of this project and we hope you love your final books when they arrive. We've got about 100 copies of the Alien Codex heading out to folks soon (print orders submitted, but not shipped yet), but they'll be on their way shortly! 

You help make us Legendary! 

PS - If you have any questions on your items, or if you haven't received your items within a few weeks, hit me back up and I'll check tracking and find out what is happening with your items. 

Alien Bestiary 5E and more shipping out to you!
8 months ago – Tue, Jun 11, 2024 at 06:39:34 PM

Hi all,

We got our shipment of Alien Bestiary 5E hardcovers in stock, and we've sent out over 100 packages already across our two Mechanical Monsters Kickstarters (plus more from Mediterranean Monsters as well). Some of you have already started receiving your packages and we got a question about whether all books should have been included in the shipment. 

  1. Alien Bestiary 5E and Mechanical Monsters 5E are shipping directly from us at LG. If those are the only books in your package, you'll have all your items coming your way! 
  2. If you got the Mega Monster Master Mega-Bundle with other books like the Faerie Bestiary, Asian Monsters, etc., the 5E versions ship directly from us; the PF1 and PF2 versions ship directly from the printer. 
  3. Mechanical Adventures or Mechanical Heroes bundle are shipping directly from the printer, so if you're getting those items they'll be in a separate package. 
  4. If you're getting the Alien Codex 5E, most of the time that will be shipping separately from the Alien Bestiary and Mechanical Monsters, though there are a few orders where they'll be combined. 

Thanks again for your support and we hope you love your books when they arrive! If you can please make sure to leave a review on DrivethruRPG and Amazon for the books you ordered, as those help to boost visibility and bring even more fans to the party! If you can, please also share a picture of your books on social media and tag us @LegendaryGamesJ on Twitter or Facebook!

The Alien Bestiaries are here!
8 months ago – Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 04:46:34 PM

Hi all,

Happy news as 2-1/2 pallets of Alien Bestiary 5E arrived today! I've got one pallet prepped and ready to head back out to our distributor and I've broken down the pallet and packed up the first 40 packages that were waiting for this book to arrive. They'll be headed to the post office tomorrow and into your waiting hands soon! 

Alien Bestiary 5E should be arriving next week! And the final day for A Tale of Two Seas!
8 months ago – Thu, May 23, 2024 at 01:03:06 PM

Hi all,

We are excited to get our hardcovers for the final book in this project in our hands! The ship landed in Long Beach, CA on May 13th and the truck is on its way and scheduled to arrive sometime next week. We'll get the books processed and pallets broken down but then should be to start shipping soon for orders including that book! 

For our international backers, those who also backed and have been following our Ultimate Treasury or Ultimate Faeries Kickstarters, you may have heard we've been having all kinds of trouble with Amazon, UPS, DHL, and so on with lost and returned orders, outrageous customs fees, etc. Shipping strategies that worked fine for a decade have fallen apart AND skyrocketed in price in the last two years, so to that end, we had a great online meeting with the fine folks at Spiral Galaxy in the UK and are getting set up with their system for international fulfillment. It should be cheaper, more reliable, faster, and much better able to deal with problems when they do occur. We are looking forward to working with competent people who actually want to solve problems instead of create them! Instead of sending out individual packages directly from us, we'll be shipping Alien Bestiary, Mechanical Monsters, and other books to Spiral Galaxy and having them handle the fulfillment directly to you. 

Last but not least, it's the FINAL DAY of our latest project, A Tale of Two Seas, with just 5 hours left to set sail on A Tale of Two Seas! 250+ killer creatures from the Caribbean and Mediterranean for 5E, Pathfinder 1E or 2E, plus adventures, campaign settings, & more! We hope you'll check it out!