Bow before the mighty dragon gods...
The Draconis Fundamentum puts a magnifying glass on everyone's favorite scaly, flying, (and often fire-breathing) predators. This book's archetypes, feats, spells, and monsters are designed to give players and GMs their dragon fix, finally fulfilling o...
2017-04-01 05:30:05 +0000 UTC View PostDragonbook is coming together for April 1st and the Palm is working feverishily on the Craftsman for April. June is officially the MFoV Expansion Pack (there was never any doubt in my mind), and the jusy is out on July. Vote now to pick which book we create for July!
2017-03-17 01:33:54 +0000 UTC View PostHowdy, partner. What brings ya' 'round these parts?
The Weird West is hands-down my new favorite setting. It's not just the focus on guns and cowboy boots, it's the idea that you can take everything you love about fantasy and have it live in the West, with all the Western trappings ...
2017-03-01 06:30:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey all! We're steaming towards our March 1st book, the Weird West Update. The month after is the dragonbook, Draconis Fundamentum, and the month after that, the Complete Craftsman (which you all selected in last month's poll.)
So how about the month after that?
Vote below for your ...
2017-02-16 05:32:15 +0000 UTC View Post
A thousand stories live in the West, and a thousand more are yet untold...
The Weird West is the best campaign setting you never knew you wanted to play in.
For people who want to dive deep, the Weird West is a setting of swords, sorcerery, and six-shooters, where the wide and...
2017-02-16 04:57:38 +0000 UTC View PostBoom, headshot.
Risk is in a gunslinger’s blood. They are bold renegades, bucking tradition and forging a new path with dangerous and inelegant firearms. Gunslingers are infamous for surviving by their wits, relying on split-second timing and a considerable amount of luck to survive.&nb...
2017-02-01 06:30:16 +0000 UTC View PostWater, Earth, Fire, Air…
The Shugenja are elemental masters, unlike anything you've seen for at least an edition and a half. Rather than casting spells normally, shugenja are scroll-casters, preparing and casting their magic through ink and parchment alone. This radical departure from c...
2017-02-01 06:30:16 +0000 UTC View PostSwing your hammer wide!
This Craftsman revision is really something special. We took a class that we already loved and restructured top-to-bottom it to be simpler to digest, easier to play, and more interesting at the table. Some of the first changes you'll notice are that we've changed t...
2017-02-01 06:30:16 +0000 UTC View PostHello all!
As of right now, we have books lined up in some form or another for the next few months. This month (which releases on Feburary 1st) will be a collection of classes including the Gunslinger. Next month (March) will be the Weird West update, which mixes swords, sorcery, ...
... we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
- HP L.
Question your own sanity with the Lovecraft Handbook, an essential for DMs and players of campaigns which feature aberrations, the Far Realm,...
2017-01-01 06:30:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Something stranger this way comes
We're giving the gift of alienation this holiday season; the gift of a creeping existential terror that swells to the surface when you think you're finally alone, but aren't. That's right, we're bringing you the gift of Lovecraft.
And check out ...
2016-12-17 06:41:50 +0000 UTC View Post
--Edit: open for everyone!--
The Digits, in their infinite wisdom, have decided to go resurrect the Class Packs.
In addition to our Monday, Wednesday, and Friday posts, and our monthly Patreon books, we'll be creating semi-regular Class Pack collections, which feature a curated list o...
2016-12-11 03:03:43 +0000 UTC View PostWinter is Coming. Light a fire and stay warm, for there are far deadlier things awaiting you in the ice and snow.
The Tundra Update provides players and DMs alike the resources to stage adventures in the icy north and in other landscape of eternal winter. This book includes new arch...
2016-12-01 07:38:32 +0000 UTC View Post
It's getting cold outside…
When a certain witch dooms the land to eternal winter or the party travels to the icy north, you need the Tundra Update.
This one is coming at the end of the month, appropriately on December 1st, and I'm really excited it. Not just because it's just in t...
2016-11-17 16:37:12 +0000 UTC View PostWe here at Mage Hand Press love our warlocks, our monster movies, and our spooky October holidays. This new book, All Patrons Eve, brings these loves together in a collection of new warlock Patrons, Pact Boons, Invocations, and spells. If you're looking for a new warlock, there's no better book to r...
2016-11-01 05:04:58 +0000 UTC View PostThe warden was a mountain, his feet immovable and his shield unbreakable.
Wardens are vigilant guardians, and unbreakable defenders of the weak. They are nature’s shield, and the watchers of the realms of men. When the world cries out for a champion, wardens heed the call.
The...
2016-11-01 05:00:27 +0000 UTC View Post
The warden cannot be slain, and cannot be felled.
You guys asked for a martial class, and we aimed to deliver. Some of you might be thinking, of all the classes, why did we choose the Warden, a relic of everyone's most hated edition, to adapt? Because the warden brings yet another dimension...
2016-10-16 17:59:33 +0000 UTC View PostEvery campaign has a big bad guy, and every hero has an evil side.
Mage Hand Press presents Evil Archetypes, a book containing the most wicked flavors of every class, alongside a host of villainous characters to terrorize your heroes. Villains come complete with NPC stat blocks, additiona...
2016-10-01 05:11:58 +0000 UTC View PostIn Manifest, gnomes keep a secret language, and dwarves sail about the world in trade. The elves are nowhere to be seen. But what about dragonborn? Thri-kreen? Tieflings? In this bonus chapter by Mage Hand Press, we talk a little more about the major races in Manifest, and probe a little more deeply...
2016-10-01 05:11:04 +0000 UTC View Post
This month, we're bringing you another ambitious one: a collection of 12 archetypes, one for each base class, each packaged with fully fleshed-out Big Bad Evil Guy. Villains will come with their own statblocks and backstory, to make them as easy to pick up and use as possible.
Oh, and I absolutely...
2016-09-17 21:48:26 +0000 UTC View PostThe witch gestures at the charging orc, as a tendril of black energy reaches out and seizes it by the neck, bringing it to its knees.
Witches are cursed -- stricken by magic so dark it imprints a lasting shadow upon their essence. Through force of personality alone, they can spin this dar...
2016-09-01 05:17:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I haven't been keeping this one much of a secret -- but what I haven't told everyone yet is that the Witch is one of my favorite classes we've written so far. I penned almost the entire class in one sitting, and it came out as a great merger between the pathfinder witch, and our own MFoV take...
2016-08-14 06:31:49 +0000 UTC View PostOftentimes, your adventurers measure their progress and worth strictly by the quality of their loot. Higher levels are nice, but they're not quite as tangible as an enchanted great maul.
Your adventurers deserve the best loot. So we here at Mage Hand Press have written up 50 Magic Items to surpris...
2016-08-01 05:18:32 +0000 UTC View PostRook to king-4. Checkmate.
Warmages wield magic the same way a fighter wields weapons: swiftly and efficiently. It's no accident they've claimed the names of chess pieces for themselves. Chess is a game of strategy, where greater pieces trump lesser ones, and everything is done in service...
2016-08-01 05:17:56 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-07-31 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View Post
It's finally ready! The Complete Warmage has had a crazy development cycle, as it actually involved polishing up the base class and making some big changes to the way we did things in the past. This one will come with a suite of cantrips for all classes, a heavily modified list of tricks to go with ...
2016-07-17 21:44:32 +0000 UTC View PostHowling winds, scorching sands, and the blazing desert sun.
The Waste Update is a must-have book for DMs and players alike of a desert-themed campaign. Containing 7 exclusive classes, the Waste Update has a desert option for any player, regardless of class. For DMs, it comes with a slew o...
2016-07-01 06:54:24 +0000 UTC View PostThank you so much for the support this month!
2016-06-30 23:59:00 +0000 UTC View PostIt's definitely been some time since the last preview, so I thought I'd give you guys an interesting one: the dvati, a race which allows one player to control two characters as one.
In other news, the Waste Update is coming really soon, and I think you guys are going to like it. It's got a...
2016-06-29 20:13:16 +0000 UTC View Post
The Waste Update is coming at the end of the month, and I'm super excited to share it with you! It'll include monsters, magic items, hazards, and of course, a subclass for each class. Here's some of the amazing, fantastic, incredible art provided for us by Martin Kirby.
2016-06-21 17:47:49 +0000 UTC View Post