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Mortasheen is a monster-collecting setting I've developed for over twenty years, it has been in development as a tabletop roleplaying game for over fifteen years, and I have spent more than the last five years laboring on this first book alone. Credit to Morgan Mullins for the gameplay system, @gutsygills for every single playable monster build, rules expansion, testing and enormous amounts of other editing work.

History of the project here A condensed guide to the setting itself here

Expanding and co-managing a new tabletop gaming "brand" out of this setting is MY SOLE CAREER PROSPECT and potentially my entire new livelihood for the foreseeable future. This is literally now more than half my life's work. If you can't afford such a LARGE AND CONTENT DENSE new gaming book (a fair chunk of the price is only the raw printing cost!) you can help me survive and get this life-consuming project off to a good start by signal boosting and spreading the word. Miscellaneous Book Information:

This is a special variant on a book exclusive monster you can also see as a preview page! The original monster was designed by me but one of many in the book with a final illustration by @biomechanicalmush !

Link goes to a teaser with further details, followed by two more introductory pages, which I will also link here:

What is Mortasheen? How and why did I start it almost 25 years ago? When did it become a Tabletop RPG project, and why did that take as long as it did?? It certainly involves a lot more Neopets than you probably assumed, I'll tell you that much.

What is this setting like? How does it work? Who lives there other than hundreds and hundreds of googly-eyed parasites? I explain not only the basics of the setting and a condensed canon history, but the key elements of the TTRPG including the eight primary "player races" (we just call them biotypes), some environments, some of the "scientific disciplines" that rule the setting and a recap of every current monster class, so you can already start planning your character and what they specialize in should you find that interesting or can see yourself playing the game! QUICK THINGS ABOUT THE BOOK:

The kickstarter copies are now printing and shipping to me from the factory in batches, which is the only way it was feasible and is going to continue all the way into September, so backers will be getting their books anywhere from late October to mid December. There is no faster, safer service for this many books at once, but the orders were placed!

The general public will get to order copies for thirteen days as a "soft release," which will also take some weeks to print and ship out.

I'm splitting profits with the gameplay dev team and we each want about $20 per book for all this hard work. Softcover in standard color quality costs $15 just to print, so the cheapest physical copies will be around $60 shipped.

On October 31st I'll announce and link to every way you can order a copy, everywhere I can.

Digital will also hopefully be available in some way (it isn't all 100% just my call)

Sales will open up again every couple months or so after that, until final details of long-term full release are worked out.

Oh shit, did anyone else ever have this old set of wildlife fact cards??

The photos of modern species were just alright (70s camerawork) but the PAINTINGS for prehistoric animals....oh my god

Theyre so old they use an obsolete name for dunkleosteus but this was where I learned of dunks and was already portrayed with "lips" hiding the teeth:

Its also incredible how accurate some of them still are, and then there's this:

This one ENTHRALLED me as a baby, I assumed for some reason that it was like like 15 feet long:

Heres all of them:

https://www.dinofan.com/Collectibles/CollectiblesSetDetail.aspx?IID=2533