February: Livestreams, new merch, villains & minions
🕑 Added 2023-02-09 20:00:39 +0000 UTCHey friends, hope your February is going well! A few quick updates.
- All rewards for 2022 have (finally) been completed! If you're missing anything from last year, feel free to shoot me a message.
- January's PDF downloads are up, the first in this new style. Check out Camp Sights and You Meet On the Road.
- The February Patron-only livestreams will be on Monday, February 20 at 9:00a MT (8:00a PT/10:00a ET) and 7p MT (6p PT/9p ET).
A few folks mentioned in the 2022 survey that they were unable to ever attend weekend streams, so we're doing a Monday this month in hopes of catching a few folks who haven't been able to attend before! (For those of you who can only attend on weekends, have no fear — we'll be doing a weekend again next month.)
Stay tuned for two new merch announcements coming this month!
As for the villains... let me know in the comments which of these sounds the most exciting/useful to you!
- Spooky corrupted "mother" villain with faceless living-doll children minions
- Amalgam undead villain with imp minions that leech your will to live
- Horror swamp ooze villain with gremlin minions who drag you into the mud
- Dog fey who defends the forest with minions who make toxic moss grow on you
Comments
Ginny Di
okay, I was reviewing these comments to tally votes and I just got ECO-TERRIER HAHAHAHA
ShadyFellowes
Either the Fey Dog thing, or Mother Knows Best
Vega
That twisted mother villain who controls an army of faceless doll children would be sUper helpful! that’s a similar idea to a character backstory I had and I’d love to see someone else’s take on it :D This faceless doll child is on the run from ~MöTHeR~
ChemGeek - Tim
Afternoon! The creepy mother one or the dog fey, both sound like neat and creepy ideas!
Joe Bogart
The creepy mother with golems can best fit within my campaign style. .
Ryan Ashley
Dog fey or swamp ooze
apollosukulele
Liking the creepy mother the best, but the fey dog would fit in so well with the campaign I'm running at the moment
fishbananas .
Mother villain! Thinking wicked stepmother meets 'Other Mother' from Coraline. And the Shademother from Bells Hells! 👻
Derek Bastille
The dog fey sounds pretty cool. "Who's a good doggy? Who's a good .. YAAARRGH!"
Josh Hall
Mother villain!!! But fey dog would also be a good one. :)
Kenzie
Oooh, that's a tough choice. Mother villain sounds creepy AF, but the Fey dog would be so great to like lure in a party and then SUDDENLY ATTACK!
Ginny Di
What if it was a baseball bottle and a water cap 😏
Kazuma128
I really like the mother villain. Something about that sounds kinda primal and uncanny valley to me at the same time. It would make a good horror theme villain ^_^.
Daniel Melican
Ooh dog fey for sure!
Luka Murphy
They're all intriguing, but...canine fey creature. You could develop a fantastic slow-burn sense of dread doing through the dark forest, passing moss-covered 'statues' in various poses of writhing agony or blind panic. You slowly come to realise these were all former adventurers that disregarded Forestlore and are left as living effigies, a warning to those that still choose to come.
Jonathan & Megan Pierson
Sounds like "The Lady or the Tiger." I think we now have the makings of a potential dungeon puzzle :-)
Steven Lanzarotta
The mother villain and the swamp ooze seem like really good fits to the CoS game I'm running.
Traveller Knight
The ooze or the dog
Adam Markle
Eco-Terrier FeyDog FTW !!!
Shalafina
Swamp ooze or dog fey
Sara J Wimmer
The mother one will haunt me in my nightmares, thank you
Dusty
Fey Watchdog sounds awesome, although in a game recently one of our players was chosen as a sort of surrogate by a "mother" figure and she's now being hunted and every time they get too close my dm puts on a minor/creepy rendition of "baby mine" from Dumbo and honestly I'm adoring the vibes.
James T. King
Horror swamp ooze sounds rad.
Ix
The mother villain sounds hella cool!
Jay
I would have to say Spooky Corrupted Mother + Horror Swamp Ooze are my faves!
Josh Dawson
Doggy!!!
Bennett Hobson
Horror swamp ooze sounds the most fun to me!
Kalcheus
Also, I wonder if the new merch is a baseball cap and water bottle, or if Ginny is throwing a little misdirection at us
Hayden Olson
Horror swamp ooze villain with gremlin minions who drag you into the mud
Kalcheus
The spooky corrupted mother
Aleph Sharp
Ah ok. I have a whole discussion about what golems are vs them being used for just fabricated humanoid creatures. I appreciate the care. thats much more interesting in that case, Id say as long as you dont use any of the language d and d uses vis-a-vi golems, Id put that after the dog fey, followed by the ooze. Also excited for the new merch, and to finally be able to attend a stream again!
Ginny Di
I don’t plan to call them golems, it was just easy shorthand for a fabricated creature animated by magic. My apologies.
Aleph Sharp
Definitely the dog fey, theres a lot to be careful of in regard to misusing golems that Im always wary of, not that I dont trust you, it could happen accidentally. Plus the dog fey sounds really cool. Im just always uncomfortable with a golem being used as a d and d monster to fight, especially specifically called a golem, made out of stone or clay. If not the dog fey, Id say the ooze.
Jonathan & Megan Pierson
Well, crap. I like the sound of all of them. If I had to rate them in order of interest though, I'd say 1: mother, 2: dog fey, 3: swamp ooze, 4: amalgam undead.
Michael Dahn
Spooky Mother sounds great for the adventure I’m about to start, but I also love animals as characters in a game. Those have my votes.
Schruka
I'm gonna be the first one to say dog fey because I love the concept of moss growing on players!
Captian Klown
Swamp ooze sounds pretty fun
Danny Faust
Ooo. Tough call. They all sound amazingly creepy. But, I'm going with the spooky "mother" villain because, well, children are creepy and faceless golem children are even creepier!
Iain
Horror swamp ooze sounds awesome!!
Kaitlyn Von Hausen
I also adore the sounds of a "mother" with her faceless golem children
Aisling Tanner
Oooh the undead and the mother sound cool!