Bighara (me) gets interviewed by Samwise on his RPG video blog.
Posts Tagged Ruins of Mor
Interview
May 4
Lots of doings
Apr 1
Things have been busy behind the scenes here in the monkeycage, but progress continues to be made. The first printing of Lesserton and Mor nearly sold out! But another run has been ordered. The new copies will be clearly labeled “2nd printing”, so if want to hang out with the cool “1st” kids on the OSR playground, place your order soon!
In other news, Realm of the Technomancer copies should be arriving any day now. This module not only lets you play a cross-genre adventure with fantasy or post-apocalyptic future PCs, but it also gives you a basic tool-kit for mixing science and magic in your games. Not to mention the purdy pictures by Steve Zieser and Mark Allen!
Video preview of MOR
Feb 25
Mor goes GOLD!
Feb 25
It’s finally here!
We’ve gone gold and launched a web store here at FMG! PDFs and hard copies are available and ON SALE now! Check out the Lesserton and Mor page here or our products page for more juicy info!
A year gone
Feb 10
Faster Monkey celebrates its one year anniversary this week (thanks, Editrixie for reminding us!)! With all the running around getting Mor ready to ship, we kind of forgot about the fact. It’s been a great year and we want to thank everyone who has helped us along the way. The folks at RPGNow, Black Blade, the artists, the many kind reviews, and –of course– you the customer.
This would be a great time to announce some cool anniversary sale, but frankly, it snuck up on us so we haven’t planned it YET. Keep your eyes open, though. We will do something soon to commemorate this milestone.
More Mor news
Feb 4
Big news for us Monkeys. The final changes to Lesserton & Mor’s proof have been sent back to the printers. We expect it to go to press within the next day or so and be finished before the end of next week. As soon as the copies arrive at Black Blade, we’ll let everyone know that it is available. Here’s the basic description:
Lesserton and Mor: A Place to Risk Your Life… and a Place to live it up
Once, the vast city of Great Mor stood as mankind’s proudest achievement, civilization’s farthest outpost, impregnable to any invasion… or so the Dukes of Morland believed. But when the mighty Half-Orc Lord unified all the barbaric humans and humanoids of Eastern Valnwall into a single giant army, and the Wood Elf King abandoned the humans to their doom, Great Mor fell. Something more than warfare tore through the city, destroying invader and defender alike, laying waste for miles around. The survivors clung to a bit of rock in the swamp and slowly built up the town of Lesserton: home base for any who dare enter the Ruins of Mor and hope to return with treasure and their lives.
And some more about what to expect:
BIG
As previously mentioned, Lesserton and Mor is over 110 pages in three separate volumes, all fitted into a full-color wraparound referee screen with a fantastic cover painting by Pete Mullen. The screen has Mark Allen’s exquisite map-illustration of the town of Lesserton on the back and a double-sized color map of the Ruins of Mor inside. The whole packages comes shrink-wrapped together, so buy two: one to play and one to maintain in pristine, collectible freshness! 
DETAILED
All three books are packed with info, giving you tons of resources, adventure seeds, random tables, new magic and monsters, and more, all without bogging down in excess description.
Player’s Guide to Lesserton: A separate booklet suitable for handing to the players, with popular shops, inns and prices, rules for making your own local PC, and how to earn experience points through good living!
Referee’s Guide to Lesserton: With a quick, readable style, this tome covers everything a sinful town of 7,600 can offer: Neighborhoods and racial intolerance, haggling, begging, muggers and pickpockets, bribes and the law, cost of living (poorly or well), rumors and hirelings, massive celebrations and their aftermath, entertainers, services on the street, gambling and drinking, finding adventure, searching for love, and 65 shops and establishments peopled with over 140 quirky NPCs. Plus a bonus adventure by Jeff “Bighara” Sparks, DEADLY CHANCES!
Referee’s Guide to Mor: From getting past the giant walls in the first place, to the many deadly beings who lurk in the Ruins, to the peculiar habits of the Vermin Tribes, this guide holds everything the referee needs to run adventures in the Ruins of Mor. The double-sized map covers two square miles, framed and seeded with set locations and foes, and offering plenty of room for random Weirdness, wandering monsters, and the referee’s own ideas. Tables cover day and night encounters, Hazards, Hauntings, Excavations, Lairs, Pits, orkin clans, the Curse of Mor, and much else besides. Includes BELOW THE JADE TEMPLE, a bonus adventure by Jeff “Bighara” Sparks!
CHEAP AT THE PRICE!
Now to the nitty gritty. Pricing:
Hard copy: $34.95
Complete PDF only: $15
Hard Copy + Complete PDF bundle: $39.95
You can also purchase the pdf of just the Player’s Guide to Lesserton for only $4.95, so every player can have his own.
Watch this space to find out when LESSERTON & MOR goes on sale!
Keeping you -aha- posted
Jan 25
We’ve approved the electronic proof for Lesserton & Mor and requested the hardcopy proof to be sent to us for final review. We hope to see it in the next few days. If it looks up to monkey cage standards, then we’ll order the print run. As soon as the copies arrive at Black Blade, we will let everyone know. We will be releasing the pdf simultaneously with the hard copy and there will be a pdf+print bundle available from Black Blade. The pdf will also be for sale at RPGNow.
We’re all very excited about the upcoming release. This is the biggest product by far we’ve done yet and the most detailed. Even though it’s taken longer than planned, we hope you find the wait to have been worth it.
Home stretch now!
Sneak Preview!
Jan 20
Check out an excerpt from the Referee’s Guide to Lesserton over at the EVTS. With a cool pic by Stevie Z!
MOR is at the printers!!
Jan 18
Only for a proof copy (for now), but PROGRESS IS BEING MADE!
We’ve gotten the print quotes for Ruins of Mor and layout is progressing. We’re waiting on one piece of artwork, but it should be here any day and there’s still stuff to do besides that. With a little –ok, maybe a lot of– luck, the whole shebang will be at the printers within a week. In the meantime, I thought I’d post a little teaser pic from the players’ guide by our bud, Stevie Z:
(Click thumbnail for a bigger image.)
