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

Mechanical Monsters II has launched!
10 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! 

Mechanical Monsters for Pathfinder RPG and D&D 5E both now on Roll20!
11 months ago – Sat, Dec 23, 2023 at 12:40:19 AM

Hi all,

During our Kickstarter last January, we offered a Roll20 option of Mechanical Monsters 5E, which dozens of you ordered, but at that time we weren't sure on the status of a Pathfinder RPG version. Thanks to our terrific team working hard, you can now get Mechanical Monsters for PF1 on Roll20 too! Head on over to Roll20 and check it out!  

We also are churning along with getting a new version of Mechanical Monsters ready for release for Pathfinder Second Edition too, along with Mechanical Heroes, a companion volume of player options like ancestries, archetypes, class options, feats, spells, gear, and more! Mechanical Heroes is already finished in layout and Mechanical Monsters is in progress now, so we'll have both ready for you when the Quick-Starter launches in January! If you missed any 5E or PF1 items on the original Mechanical Monsters Kickstarter, or for new options like the PF1 Roll20 content we mentioned above, this is also a great chance to pick them up or recommend them to your friends and fellow fans! 

Thanks for your awesome support of the original Mechanical Monsters and we hope you have a Merry Mecha-Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

Preview copies are here, and six lucky backers get theirs soon! Plus PF2 coming soon!
12 months ago – Fri, Nov 24, 2023 at 09:56:47 PM

Hi all,

I just wanted to pass on the happy news that our box of early preview copies arrived today from the printer! 

The books look terrific and we are excited to share them with you, so I've gone into our backer spreadsheet and randomly selected six lucky backers to receive these early bird copies! Congratulations to backers Fortin, Laverty, Pardo, Guzman, Hunter, and Clark! I'll be putting your books in the mail on Monday to start heading your way! Our bulk shipment will be arriving early next year, and we'll keep you abreast of developments with estimated arrival dates so we can get them out to all you as soon as we can! Thanks again for your amazing support! 

We also are working on preparing the Mechanical Monsters 2 Quick-Starter, which should be ready to launch in either December or January, with an all-new Pathfinder Second Edition version of the Mechanical Monsters bestiary (plus anyone who missed getting the PF1 or 5E versions), plus a bonus book of Cyborgs & Clockworks, chock full of incredible options for mechanical characters! We will let you know as that project gets ready to launch! 

We are thankful for all of you and your support and look forward to many awesome projects to come! 

Soft proofs arrived from printer! Final proofing pass before the print run!
about 1 year ago – Fri, Oct 20, 2023 at 08:10:06 PM

Hi all,

I just wanted to update you on the latest in the process moving along. Our printer sent us digital proofs and plotters - essentially a deconstructed version of the book. In past years, this was a low-res printout on inexpensive paper, kind of an inkjet style with some bleed-through on the page. More recent proofs and plotters have become a lot higher quality, much closer to the final product. Along with them, you get a sampling of pages that are literally the digital proofs on glossy stock that appear exactly as they will in the final book.

This is the final stage before we got to the print run, and it's usually a good exercise because you can spot things on paper that your eyes just glide past on the computer screen. We've marked up the final proofing edits for layout and they'll be sending them back Monday to our printer so we can start the presses! 

Our other books from this year have been stuck in a massive container traffic jam overseas, which is frustrating, but I suppose the upside is that once these books get printed we can probably get them into the same container shipment as the other books. My storage is going to be an absolute mess when they all arrive, but all the more reason to get them out to you ASAP! 

In any case, the books are looking great and we look forward to letting you know when they arrive. We usually get a half-dozen pre-press copies airmailed to us by the printer, and when we get those we can share photos and draw some lucky names from our backer list to get their books early! 

So. Many. Edits. But just about there!
about 1 year ago – Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 05:16:59 PM

Hi all,

It's been a minute, but updates ahoy! 

1.  Mechanical Monsters 5E: There's been a lot of back-and-forth slogging through edits and proofing and edits and more proofing, because each time we reviewed the "soft proof" of Mechanical Monsters we just kept finding little things here and there that snuck through. We also went back, since we were doing these corrections, and added a Proficiency Bonus line to the stat block of all 140 creatures. Long story short: The book is finally done and ready to start printing. We thought we were ready before, but as I said, back and forth, back and forth. A lot of it just perfect formatting, making sure your bold and italics are in the right spot, proper spacing with + signs, and all that kind of thing. You can only be late once, but you can be wrong forever, and we always strive for Legendary quality. You're gonna love this book when it comes through, and as soon as we get our pre-press sample copies (our printer usually sends 6 over to us), we'll draw lucky numbers and some of you will get your copies early. We'll be posting up the final fixed PDFs by this weekend for you to enjoy while we await shipment.

2.  Alien Bestiary 5E: This one has been a much heavier lift than we anticipated, having to essentially rebuild the entire print PDF from scratch, but we are very nearly done with the full rebuild on this 440-page behemoth beast book. Our backup layout person has been hard at work with this as his only project for LG, slogging through *522* edits in the initial galley version, and he's almost to the finish line. We'll keep you updated once the final fixes are in and upload the new PDF once it's ready for you!