I've always loved the core 5e character sheets, but I'm also an irreconcilable perfectionist. After dabbling with Monster of the Week and realizing that their character sheets contain all the rules for their classes, I knew it was something I wanted to try. These character sheets are my ...
2020-06-01 05:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe're rounding the final bases on our "making every base class as watertight as possible" tour, and I'm not exaggerating when I say the warmage had some of the toughest design hurdles in the lineup. We spent nearly three months working on this on and off, but we think we've nailed it! (Or at leas...
2020-06-01 05:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostQuick reminder that the changes to our Patreon tiers are fully coming into place. To recap, these are:
It’s always tough to categorize catapillars, catbats, and catki in a catalogue without catastrophe.
Cats might not be man’s best friend, but we love them anyway. Even in our fantasy w...
2020-05-01 05:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostFirst and foremost, I'm sad to announce that three long time members of the Mage Hand Press writing team, the Palm, Thumb, and Knuckles are parting ways. When we started this project, it was a fledgling blog for a game sys...
2020-04-15 19:46:16 +0000 UTC View PostI hope everyone's keeping safe out there! This month has been a roller coaster for everyone, but at this moment, every member of the MHP team is safe, sound, and working on D&D stuff for you all. This month, we finally wrapped up the design for the Complete Witch redux, and made big strides i...
2020-04-01 09:12:40 +0000 UTC View PostSorry again for the delay. Here's the bounty of our work for February: a greatly expanded marshal and martyr, and a slightly expanded alchemist.
The Martyr is roughly complete, and will likely look much the same when it appears in the MHPPHB. We expect to add one or two more subclasse...
2020-03-04 02:54:29 +0000 UTC View PostHey, it's Mike!
The MHP crew is in Chicago for C2E2 at the moment, which means we're far away from our PDF-making desktops. Thanks to the remote desktop control software failing to work, we'll have to delay our March content until the 2nd, when we're all comfortable at home.
If you're...
2020-03-01 05:42:28 +0000 UTC View PostWe have a lot of plates -- arguably too many -- plates spinning in the run up to our next hardcover project. The biggest pile of spinning plates is making sure our base classes are hilariously watertight before they see print. As such, we're going back and reviewing every aspect of them with fres...
2020-02-02 14:33:15 +0000 UTC View PostAll these secrets, all this lore: what does it all mean if you only discover that the world is miserable and cruel? You already knew that before you took to binding.
We’re back!
In the month or so we’ve been off, we’ve done a lot of work in various directions: mor...
2020-02-01 08:41:39 +0000 UTC View PostWe're a bit overdue for a poll!
Largely, this is because I knew that we would need to take December off. Just like last year, we need this one month to rest, be with our families, and travel.
As a matter of fact, this year we'll be spending the first half of December trave...
2019-12-01 12:04:30 +0000 UTC View PostIt seems every evil thing was detailed in those pages; it was no surprise when I saw my own face staring back at me in his book.
As promised, this month on Patreon would be a month of wrapping stuff up. The Mimic Book of Mimic has all of its art and the Complete Investigator has tw...
2019-12-01 12:04:22 +0000 UTC View PostSurprise! A new base class!
It should come as no surprise that we’ve been fiddling with a chronomancy base class in the background for some time. In fact the Glitch represents the culmination of several ideas we’ve had bouncing around: clone mechanics, an advantage-based class,...
2019-12-01 12:03:57 +0000 UTC View PostGhosts and ghouls? I've got a remedy for that.
Hey folks! This month we've got the Complete Investigator, the definitive and reworked version of our investigator class. Or at least, we've got the majority of it. The class now has revamped and playtested core mechanics and eleven (1...
2019-11-01 07:16:42 +0000 UTC View PostWhoever told you that this book is a mimic was lying.
It's time to fear the dungeon again with Mage Hand Press's Mimic Book of Mimics. This tome (which is, incidentally, not a mimic itself) contains all which is known of mimickind to the realm of science, from its di...
2019-10-01 05:30:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I intended to get far more of this done this month, but with GenCon eating the beginning of the month and an unexpected injury leaving me unable to type at the end, we only have a few pages of real progress on the PDF. Moreover, it's still very barren, in spite of the fact that our artists have b...
2019-09-01 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis one was a bit unexpected. Ever since we worked out a (very) rough draft on Discord, this class has been gnawing at the back of my mind, begging to get finished. Ostensibly, it's an HP caster, but cloaks itself in a divine theme, rather than the cliched blood-caster archetype. I'm extremely h...
2019-09-01 07:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostTime for another poll!
We just released a small update for Insomnia (we have a lot more to do for that book), plus a surprise base class, the Martyr, which I hope you all enjoy. The beginning of next month, October, should have the Mimic Book ...
2019-09-01 06:59:38 +0000 UTC View PostI'm experimenting with releasing these at the end of the month, rather than in the middle. Let me know if this is better/worse.
From now until September 1st, we're working on our first pass on Insomnia, our new horror-inspired book for 5e. It's a big project, and we're not getting it done i...
2019-08-01 05:31:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe Lovecraft Redux has evolved into something a little more ambitious -- it's our Next Big Project now. I'll explain more about where we're taking the project in a bit, but first, let me explain what we're making:
Insomnia is Horror 5E. In this sup...
2019-08-01 05:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostHer shield was as stone ramparts, her axe concussive as battering rams; a siege engine in furious form.
The Complete Warden is the definitive version of our warden, an iconic tank/control class for 5th edition. Its complement of features is at once easy to learn, perfectly...
2019-07-01 09:51:04 +0000 UTC View PostWe haven't done one of these in a while, huh? Let's run a poll for the next book we work on!
We're wrapping up Complete Warden right now for the 1st of July, then on the 1st of August, we'll be showing off progress on what eventually came of the Lovecraft Handbook 2019-06-19 02:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
So this is long overdue, huh?
For those of you who don't know, the binder is one of our pet classes from earlier editions, which we've lovingly resurrected twice now, most recently via an aritcle series on the blog. I intended to bring this class to the Patreon fully-illustrated with all th...
2019-06-19 01:26:26 +0000 UTC View PostYou start in a tavern…
Nothing is more universal to D&D than taverns. Half of all adventures (maybe more) start there, nearly all stop at one along the way, and most successful ones wind up at the tavern for the after-party. This book, Taverns and Tankards, is your v...
2019-06-01 05:30:59 +0000 UTC View PostYou all meet up in a tavern…
Nothing is more universal to D&D than taverns. Half of all adventures (maybe more) start there, nearly all stop at one along the way, and most successful ones wind up at the tavern for the after-party. This book, Taverns and Tankards, is ...
2019-05-01 07:28:49 +0000 UTC View PostSuch a strange contraption: it resembled a cheese-grater attached to a forge on the end of a handle. Never again would I witness such a devastating weapon.
The Complete Craftsman is here, finalized, and polished to a mirror-sheen. Never before have we written a class with such cust...
2019-04-01 11:15:55 +0000 UTC View PostWe bit off a lot with this one. To rewind and talk about all the twists and turns: this release was originally supposed to be for Electric Empire, a new setting in a modern/near-future Japanese-inspired megacity. To better distinguish it from Dark Matter, we decided to shift the book slightly int...
2019-02-28 12:49:23 +0000 UTC View PostTime marches onward, and so does progress on the binder! Here's an unscheduled mid-month treat: the playtest document of the binder, extended out to 10th level.
If you're playing a binder right now, or just have a good eye for balance, feel free to chime in down in the comments and let us k...
2019-02-09 01:41:03 +0000 UTC View PostCascades of sparks leapt from his hammer as it beat the unruly iron into shape. The smith was always distantly aware of the irony that the crimson sparks were but a preamble: once finished, far more red would cascade from this blade.
The final craftsman redux is here! 2019-02-01 11:20:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I think it's safe to say that the Digits are feeling rested and rejuvenated, having spent most of December taking a break. Most of this month, we've been working on Modern Rules (we'll talk about what I mean by that in 2019-01-18 09:24:56 +0000 UTC View Post