Boricubos: Latin American Monsters and Adventures

27 hours left and over $100,000 at last!
over 4 years ago – Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 01:45:19 PM

Hello to each and every one and thank you for your amazing support in making this project soar to unprecedented heights! We so excited to see what the final day brings but we also want to celebrate passing this milestone with you! We especially want to thank Steven H as backer #1700 and Ruga Qwarrcall as backer #1800, along with Nathan S. for taking us to $95,000 and the immortal AbessiaMalktho for breaching the $100,000 barrier! This is a first for LG in our long Kickstarter history and we are so happy you are here to share it with us and make it happen! 

I'm off to dinner to celebrate with the family and we'll be back to check in later, but keep spreading the word and let's soar to a terrific tomorrow to finish it off! 

56 hours left and ANOTHER Stretch Goal down!
over 4 years ago – Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 02:29:54 AM

Thanks to each and every one of you for your amazing support with a special thanks to Jamie as backer #1600 and for T. Kilby for pushing us over $90,000 and unlocking REAL WORLD MONSTERS! We already sent out a lovely spread of carnivorous plants in the last update, but you'll find giant geckos, iguanas, horned lizards, and beaded lizards alongside jaguars, pumas, margays, and ocelots and more besides! Adding a touch of real-life flora and fauna helps really set the mood of the Amazon and Andes, Mesoamerica, and the Antilles. 

But there's plenty of fantasy to be had as well. Remember we told you we had a missing piece of monster art? Well, the luison is a horrifying beast that haunts graveyards and has a most peculiar method of spreading its demonic curse. If this haggard wolf-man drops to all fours and runs between your legs, you may contract its fell contagion, causing your body to rot from within until you join its midnight hunts as a luison yourself! That was a pretty fun ability to create and we think you'll enjoy seeing how we put it together for each of the three game systems, but I'm attaching below the near-final version of the artwork we just got back this morning. A few tweaks and it'll be ready to drop in the book and be heading your way very soon! 

Into the final week!
over 4 years ago – Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 03:16:40 AM

Hi everyone, we've got just 4 days left to go, and we are looking forward to a fantastic finish! It's been a slow but steady climb the last two weeks, as the middle of Kickstarters often are, but we want to thank you again and again for helping push us higher, farther, and faster, with a special thanks for backer #1500, the ever-truthful Veritas0506, and for the mysterious M, who pushed us past the $85,000 mark! 

Now stretch goals come every $10,000 at this point, and while we're not quite there yet to the $100,000 mark, this is also not our first Kickstarter rodeo. We know the usual shape of things so, barring a very strange turn of events, we are fully confident that we'll get there and farther still in these final days before we end on Thursday night. To that end, we wanted to show off the layout galley for carnivorous plants! Now let's get out there this final week and keep spreading the word so we can make things GROW!!!

8 Days Left, over $80,000!!!
over 4 years ago – Wed, Sep 08, 2021 at 10:36:23 PM

Thanks so much for your ongoing awesomeness in making this our biggest and best Kickstarter project ever! We appreciate all of your killer contributions, with a special thanks to the awesomely named Danielbutt72 for making our ticker hit exactly $80,000 this morning while I happened to be looking at my phone! Plus thanks to Jennifer M who was backer #1400! 

With over a week left to go, things are racing to the finish. I just reviewed the completed layout galleys for Latin American Monsters (5E), and it's looking good, though we have to tweak some spacing and formats and placement. Might need to add a little text here, remove a little there to make things fit nicely. And it looks like we are missing a piece of art! Off to the artist bullpen to see who can pitch in with a quick piece! Sometimes editing six books simultaneously makes me feel like this guy!!!

We're #1! We're #1! We're #1!
over 4 years ago – Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 11:27:28 PM

I'm a big football fan (USA style football), and this week is the big kickoff for college football teams with the professional NFL to follow next weekend. Fans are all decked out and rooting for their teams to be #1, so best of luck to any sports fans out there and I hope your favorite teams do great (except when they're playing MY favorite teams)! 

Cheering for #1, though, has a special meaning today because backer Ryan H increased his pledge just a few minutes ago which pushed Boricubos (now at $75,752) ahead of Asian Monsters (final total $75,739) as our #1 most-funded Kickstarter ever! We still have a ways to go to break their all-time backer record, but with 12 days to go I have no doubt we'll get there! Thanks to all 1330 of you for your amazing support (shout out to D Wendt, backer #1300), and we implore you to keep spreading the word to all your friends and family and fellow gamers! 

To celebrate, we're going to preview below just one of the special abilities of one of the stranger creatures in Latin American Monsters, a headless monstrosity from the myths of Mexico who issues a challenging call to heroes daring them to seize its heart and win the favor of the gods, or turn away and be cursed! The mechanics are, of course, different for each system, but previewed below are the Pathfinder RPG mechanics for the creature's special abilities!

Cursed Wake (Su) A humanoid creature within 60 feet of the yohualtepoztli that can hear its cacophonous clatter feels a mental call to approach it and to at least attempt to touch its wooden body (a successful melee touch attack suffices), if not attack it outright or try to steal its heart. A creature that rejects this call must succeed on a DC 13 Will save or be affected as bestow curse for 7 days. This is a mind-affecting curse effect. The save DC is Wisdom-based.

Heart of Courage (Su) The yohualtepoztli has a heart in its chest cavity that is loosely covered by two door-like flaps. A creature can attempt to grab the heart with a successful steal combat maneuver, but each time they attempt this maneuver they must first succeed on a DC 15 Will save or become frightened and forced to flee from the yohualtepoztli for 1d4 rounds. A creature succeeding on this saving throw is immune to this fear effect for 24 hours.

    A creature that is not frightened can then attempt to steal the yohualtepoztli’s heart. To do so, they must succeed on a DC 15 Reflex save to reach inside the chest. If failed, the chest lids slam shut before they can grasp the heart, dealing 1d6+3 points of bludgeoning damage and causing the steal maneuver to automatically fail, wasting that action. If successful, the steal combat maneuver may proceed.

    After resolving the steal combat maneuver, the yohualtepoztli’s chest lids slam shut immediately, and the heart-thief must succeed on a second DC 15 Reflex save to snatch their hand back without getting caught. On a failed save, the heart-thief takes 1d6+3 points of bludgeoning damage and is grappled. If the attacker is Medium or smaller, the yohualtepoztli does not gained the grappled condition and can maintain the grapple on its turn as a swift action, dealing 1d6+3 points of damage on each successful grapple check.

    If the heart is retrieved from the yohualtepoztli’s chest, the creature disappears at the beginning of its next turn and its heart shrivels into 1d4 palm-sized thorns. Each thorn functions as a single-use magical item called a thorn of courage. If a yohualtepoztli is destroyed by normal hit point damage rather than by retrieving its heart, it likewise disappears when destroyed but does not leave these thorns behind.