Phoenixes of the Realms is our newest title on the Dungeon Master’s Guild. The book is a comprehensive collection of phoenixes and phoenix related player options, including seven phoenix subspecies. And you know how much we love phoenixes. Here’s what you’ll find inside: The Desert Phoenix (Huge, Challenge 10) The Desolation Phoenix (Gargantuan, Challenge 18)…
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WizKids Deep Cuts Familiars — Mini Monday 23
It’s Mini Monday, where I share customizing, scratch building, kitbashing, and miniature painting projects for your roleplaying and tabletop gaming. This week I’m painting the Pathfinder Battles: Deep Cuts Familiars, produced by WizKids and NECA. Deep Cuts is my favorite RPG mini range right now, because the detail, variety, and price are spot on. The…
Mini Monday #15: Painting Yochlol
It’s Mini Monday, where I share customizing, scratch building, kitbashing, and miniature painting projects for your roleplaying table. This week we’re painting Yochlol from Dungeons & Dragons: The Legend of Drizzt Board Game. We’ve already painted a few minis from this great game, and we’ll be painting loads more in the weeks to come. Yochlol…
Tentacles of the Deep – An Undersea Monster
What do Cthulhu, an octopus, and many politicians have in common? Tentacles! That’s right, tentacles! As roleplayers, we kind of love tentacles, don’t we. Evard’s black tentacles, Day of the Tentacle, mind flayer chins, and the Japanese porn industry – tentacles have dipped their slimy appendages into every part of geek culture. Today, I’ll share…
We are the Stitched!
They came in a deadly whirlwind of steel and spell, annihilating all within the catacombs. In the aftermath, you awoke, gaining sentience from residual magic they’d left behind. Battered and frail, you creep forth. Last week I wrote about flexing your game design muscle, which is where Stitched comes in. In Stitched, you play the…
Merry Christmas
To all our fans, friends and family in roleplaying, a very Merry Christmas! 2016 has been quite a year, and 2017 promises to be even better. We couldn’t have done it without you, so to say thank you, here’s a copy of Baleful Strix, a beautiful Field Guide illustrated by Bob Greyvenstein and written by…
Chilling Curiosities—A Field Guide
Our newest book, Chilling Curiosities—A Field Guide is out! This time we’re covering a bunch of new, low level monsters instead of the standard fantasy monsters like we’ve done before. I’m interested to see how well this does compared to Griffins and Phoenixes. Also, we’re trying the horror angle, so we’ll see if that’s a…
Happy Thanksgiving
We’d like to wish all our US and Canadian customers a very special Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is not a custom where I’m from, but I’m blessed to have joined my American friends in Japan to celebrate this special holiday before. Personally, I’m thankful that I’m running Rising Phoenix Games full-time now, and that wouldn’t be possible…
New Monsters and Free Books
We’ve been hard at work on THREE new monster books, one of which will be available as a free download to subscribers. Our production schedule looks like this: Griffins—A Field Guide TBA—A Field Guide (Art done, writing almost done) TBA—A Free Field Guide (Art done, writing done, currently in proofreading) TBA—A Field Guide (Art done,…
Griffins — Designing the Beasts
Griffins — A Field Guide, our first monster book, went up on Drive Thru RPG last week. The book, beautifully illustrated by Bob Greyvenstein, features six different griffin species, from a small griffin familiar to the large noble griffin and a terrifying evil griffin. Designing the half-lion, half-eagle creatures presented a unique challenge. The beasts…