We Did It! Next Steps for Forge of Foes
about 1 year ago
– Fri, Mar 31, 2023 at 02:17:24 PM
Thanks to you we just finished an outstanding campaign for Forge of Foes!
We’re hard at work sending out art orders, revising chapters, and getting the layout locked in. We can’t wait to get this book in your hands.
What Happens Next
First, the most important thing to note:
All products for this Kickstarter will come through BackerKit.
Please keep an eye out for a BackerKit email to fill out your BackerKit survey in three to four weeks.
The Delivery Timeline
In about three weeks the funding for the Kickstarter comes to us. In the meantime, we’ll prepare the Backerkit survey where you lock in your orders, add any add-ons, and pay the shipping price for physical books, including Forge of Foes and the other Lazy DM books if they’re part of your pledge or add-ons.
We’ll test the survey for a few days to make sure it's working as intended and then send out the BackerKit Survey to all backers. This should be late April to early May.
The BackerKit survey will be open for a couple of weeks to let everyone make their selections. At that point, probably mid May, we’ll begin locking orders and sending out digital products for everything except Forge of Foes (which we’ll still be working on).
Please note that all physical books will be shipped together when Forge of Foes is printed and ready. This saves you paying shipping twice. We expect this to happen later this year. At that point, we’ll ask you to confirm your address when we’re close to shipping the book.
We’ll send future updates as we get new news and to let you know about each part of the process as it occurs.
Thank you all once again for your outstanding support. This book couldn’t have happened without you.
Teos, Scott, and Mike
Final 48 Hours and Videos of Forge of Foes!
about 1 year ago
– Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 12:55:02 PM
Hello friends!
We’re in the final 48 hours of the Lazy DM’s Forge of Foes Kickstarter campaign! Thank you all so much for supporting our work, and please tell your friends by sharing this link anywhere you wish:
Throughout the campaign, we’ve had some awesome interviews and posted videos about Forge of Foes and what you can expect from the book. Here’s a list to enjoy!
When the campaign comes to a close this Friday, we’ll have an update about what you can expect from here on in.
Thank you again for your support!
Teos, Scott, and Mike
Releasing Forge of Foes Material under a Creative Commons License!
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Mar 21, 2023 at 09:16:41 AM
First off, thank you all for the fantastic support for The Lazy DM’s Forge of Foes! We couldn’t be more excited about what we have in store for this book.
Like everyone, we were riveted to the whole OGL situation at the beginning of the year, and were extremely happy to see the 5e System Reference Document released into the Creative Commons. Many other publishers followed suit, releasing more of their material under various open licenses.
While we don’t have stretch goals for this project, one of the things we’ve all talked about was releasing material from this book into the Creative Commons as well. Our intent is to offer up some of the key concepts and mechanics from the book to help other publishers benefit from our work, and to use these ideas and concepts to create their own material.
Thus, once we’ve released Forge of Foes, we’re going to release parts of it in our own Forge of Foes SRD under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 4.0). This means anyone can use the material we release in the FoF SRD in their products, digital tools, or interpretive dance performances as long as they attribute it to us and to Forge of Foes (details on how to do so will be included in the FoF SRD).
Right now, these are the things we’re considering releasing under the FoF SRD. It’s not a complete list, and we won’t know for sure what’ll be in it until we’re done with the book, but here’s what we’re thinking we’ll include so far:
The Monster Statistics by CR table in the Quick Monster Builder
The instructions for using the above
The Common Monster Type Templates in the Quick Monster Builder section
The Common Monster Powers found in the Quick Monster Builder
The Common Reskinnable Monsters list in the Reskinning Monsters section
The Spell Effects list in the Reskinning Monsters section
The Fifteen Engaging Environments list in Building Engaging Environments
Material from the Lazy Tricks for Running Monsters section
Material from the Monster Abilities and Theater of the Mind section
Material from the Building Legendary Monsters section
Material from the Running Minions and Hordes section
Material from the Dice Rolling Options section
The general-use stat blocks from the section of the same name
Material from the Monsters by Adventure Location section
Material from the Combat Encounter Checklist section
Material from the Lazy Encounter Benchmark section
The above can change, of course, as the book continues to go through final development and editing. But we’re definitely interested in offering material to help other publishers build off of our work.
What aren’t we including? Much of the guidance and advice we’ve written won’t be released under the CC. That’s really our words for our book. The ideas, of course, can certainly inspire other products, and we’re hoping the material we do release under the CC helps build off of that inspiration. We’re including a solid list of monster powers and monster type templates, but not all of them. Our goal is to give enough to be directly useful and to help creators build their own awesome character powers and monster-type abilities.
We’re extremely excited to offer this material up to the RPG community under an extremely permissive license, allowing our work go beyond the three of us and strengthen the entire hobby. And we can do this because of the fantastic support you’ve given us.
Thank you again,
Teos, Scott, and Mike
Forge of Foes – Share with your Friends, Videos, and a Download the Cover Art!
about 1 year ago
– Thu, Mar 09, 2023 at 05:13:27 AM
Friends, thank you so much for your outstanding support for the Forge of Foes!
Share Our Project
If you’re really digging this project and want to help out, please share it with your friends on any network or platform you choose with the following link:
During these weeks in the middle of the Kickstarter we can use all the help we can get to get word of it out far and wide.
Download the Cover Art
Jack Kaiser, who’s done the covers of nearly all of Sly Flourish’s books, did two incredible pieces for the front and back covers of Forge of Foes. Here’s a link to download both pieces in a high-resolution JPEG for your personal use. Enjoy!
We hope you enjoy these walkthroughs of the book we’re so eager to get into your hands!
Thank you all again for your outstanding support!
Teos, Scott, and Mike
Thank You!
about 1 year ago
– Thu, Mar 02, 2023 at 09:00:07 AM
It has been a remarkable first 24 hours for the Kickstarter campaign, with over 2,300 of you showing your support for The Lazy DM’s Forge of Foes. Thanks to every one of you who are looking forward to getting your hands on this book just as much as the three of us are looking forward to bringing it to you.
Extra thanks to everyone who’s shared the campaign on social media, and for letting us know how much you’re enjoying the free preview. If you’re as excited about this project as we are, please tell your friends! It makes a huge difference.
Over the coming month, we’ll post more updates and videos to take you behind the scenes as we put this book together and show you what’s inside.
We’ve added a few questions to the project FAQ, and will continue to do so as queries arise.
Again — thank you. That sound you hear is the Forge of Foes being fired up for the creation of some awesome monster-building guidelines and advice!
