We're #1! We're #1! We're #1!
over 2 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.

Parrot People Times Two and welcome to Area 72!
over 2 years ago – Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 08:06:20 PM

Hi all,

We just passed the halfway point of our Kickstarter on Wednesday and are rolling toward the finish line now less than two weeks away. We are looking forward to a fantastic finish, but you know we like a fun number and when I happened to click on the KS page before heading to bed I knew I had to toss it into the latest update! 

In looking forward, though, we also looked back to an event that helped launch Legendary Games in the first place, the RPG Superstar contest Paizo launched in 2007, where the founding partners of what would become LG first got together as finalists the first two years and that produced many contributors in the years to come. 

That contest relaunched in 2020, and out of that our friends like Stephen Gilmer and the gang at the Roll for Combat Podcasthave just launched the Battlezoo Bestiary project for 5E and Pathfinder 2E! This 3-book project includes not just a monster book with 100 creatures and a new monster parts system for creating characters and magic items but also a pair of books that would be terrific companions for a Boricubos campaign:

• Dragon Ancestries - Rules for playing 40 kinds of dragons as characters. Not half-dragons. Not dragon-born. Not dragon-blooded. Actual dragons!
• The Jewel of the Indigo Isles 3-part adventure path, conveniently located in a tropical archipelago near you! 

Even if they weren't cool people to work with and talk to, come on: What are the chances that we'd be launching two projects launching so close together, and both prominently featuring parrot people? We HAD to share the love! The two projects definitely work beautifully together and we hope you'll check them out at the link even as you keep spreading the word for Boricubos! 

Two Weeks In, 1200 Backers!
over 2 years ago – Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 11:28:25 PM

Hi all and thanks for your amazing support in the first two weeks of Boricubos! We've just hit our 1200th backer (thanks DD Mani) before even reaching the halfway point of our project, and we are so excited by the spectacular response. We also have a bit of good news to share. 

• Thanks to one of our fans, we've finally found a Foundry VTT person! We're trying them out on a smaller book, diving into Mythos Monsters for a test project. We'll see how things go before committing to a larger book like the current ones here, so Foundry will not be available during the Kickstarter as an add-on, but if things go well on the test book we may be able to offer it in Backerkit. We have confirmed that our Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds folks will be able to do the 5E versions of Latin American Monsters, so those will be available as VTT add-ons during the Kickstarter (and in Backerkit too, of course). Shard we're not sure about yet.
• We have some very cool spells and magic items coming your way in Boricubos, but magic items are something you can neve have enough of and our friends at Dungeon Scribe are rocking the house with their Magical Oddities Kickstarter going on right now, just cracking the $100,000 mark today! Like with Boricubos, you can get a free preview PDF to show off what you'll find in these decks of awesome items to dole out easily and empower your players and NPCs! If you like a little treasure in the palm of your hand, check them out! Plus they're very cool people too! 

• Speaking of Latin American Monsters, we're just over $1,000 from our next stretch goal, adding even More Magnificent Mexican Monsters, including a collection of mysterious serpents like the fate-linked chimalcoatl shield snake, the two-tailed tililcoatl, the deliciously poisonous velachif, and the strangely seductive xicalcoatl. That last one is one of the strangest creatures in the book (not in appearance - there are WAY weirder monsters in here - but its hunting methods), and a bit dangerous for anyone who just really can't resist their morning cup of joe. Check it out and keep spreading the word to make this project as amazing as it can be! 

Xicalcoatl:This strange serpent is only 2-3 feet long, with scales of brown, bronze, and black with variegated scales on its belly. Its strangest feature, however, is a rounded protuberance they develop in adulthood that looks like a jicara, a drinking gourd or cup, with a smooth surface and the appearance of painted designs and patterns. The xicalcoatl can release pheromones that simulate the scent of brewed coffee or cocoa, and they lie in wait either in the grass or floating just below the surface of a pool, using the jicara as a lure. Creatures curious to see or fascinated by the aroma may be drawn into the water, at which point the xicalcoatl surges through the water at great speed creating a vortex that drags its victim into the water, drowning it.

Another Stretch Goal down with MORE MAGIC!
over 2 years ago – Fri, Aug 27, 2021 at 12:01:52 AM

Your support level is over 60,000! 

We thank each and every one of you for raising the bar higher and higher, especially J. Ahjudah (backer #1000) and Xtine, who pushed us over the $60,000 mark and unlocked More Magic for all of you! We'll be creating a new set of magic spells for all three versions of Boricubos: The Lost Isles! 

We've also added several more Pathfinder Second Edition developers to the team to help push Latin American Monsters to the finish line. Work continues fast and furious with an incredible array of creatures, as I've been spending a lot of time this week collating and compiling and cross-checking both Pathfinder versions of the bestiary to see what's already in the bag and what still needs doing. You are going to have an awesome array of creatures for your collection when we're all said and done! In fact, our next stretch goal will incorporate More Mexican Monsters, as the myths and legends of that large nation and its diverse cultures offer a wealth of creatures to include. And now revealed, we also have to add at $90,000 more real-world monsters, with monstrous versions of some of the incredible creatures that inhabit Central and South America and can help bring your campaign world to life! Watching nature shows does bring inspiration sometimes too. Sometimes a creature is just plain cool and you've gotta write yourself a note to use that later! 

Onward and upward as we head into our second weekend and keep on soaring! Keep spreading the word to any friends and fellow gamers who might be interested! 

One week in, 11x FUNDED, and a special Limited Edition offer!
over 2 years ago – Thu, Aug 26, 2021 at 02:12:08 PM

Hi all,

We are at exactly one week into the project and just cracked 1100% funding, for which we thank each and every one of you (including J. Seiler, who pushed us over the $55,000 mark). We very briefly jumped over $60,000, maybe due to a fat-fingered typo on someone's phone, as a backer suddenly jumped in with a $5555 pledge this morning! Thankfully (for them - hey, we'd have LOVED to help them out with that), they realized their error and canceled that. Might have taken some explaining to the family how they had spent that much on a gaming book! :D

In any event, we did want to celebrate this first week by offering something back to our backers. We heard replies from a number of folks who liked the idea of the deluxe edition hardcover but felt like $99 was just a little too much. In response, we have created a new backer level, the Boricubos + Bestiary Limited Edition 5E. It's exactly like the $99 Boricubos + Bestiary Deluxe Hardcover 5E, but $10cheaper, with a max limit of 500 backers. 

• If you decide to upgrade from the softcovers to the deluxe edition, you can trade up to the $89 level.
• If you're already a backer at the $99 level, you can just switch your pledge to the $89 level!
• Of course, if you just love what we're doing and want to support LG's ongoing projects, by all means you can keep your pledge right where it is too! PLUS, when we send out the Backerkit survey, we'll also include a question just for your backer level so you can collect a FREE PDF worth up to $10 from the LG webstore. Backers at the Circle of Elders level can choose a FREE PDF worth up to $20. 

We love hearing your feedback and hope you are as excited about these books as we are! We are looking forward to 3 more weeks of awesome stuff, so please do keep spreading the word to your friends and fellow gamers, and check out our recent interviews in previous updates! Miguel and Jason will be on Dan Davenport's Q&A show on Tuesday, September 7. We'll have more details coming your way soon!