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The Mythic Hero's Handbook, Mythic Monster Manual, and Mythic Spell Compendium PDFs have been sent out to our Kickstarter backers, which means we are ready to begin offering them for sale to non-backers, along with preorders for the print version and print/PDF bundles!
Exclusive one-week presale! Starting this Friday, April 24, the PDFs for all three books will be available for purchase and download from the independent publishers who created these books! If you didn't back the Kickstarter, you can get all three at the Legendary Games webstore and from our partners at Kobold Press (Mythic Spell Compendium), and Rogue Genius Games (Mythic Hero's Handbook) before they are available anywhere else! You also get to support the companies that made these magnificent mythic manuals manifest! We love all our sales partners, but buying directly from your independent companies puts more money in the hands of content creators. If you always buy from an outside vendor, then by all means keep buying, but we invite you to consider making your purchase directly from us!
You can also preorder print copies and print/PDF bundles for each book. Print books are expected to arrive in late June, and preordered books will be sent via Fulfillment by Amazon once all Kickstarter backer copies have been shipped.
Wide Release for MYTHIC MAY DAY!!! Starting on Friday, May 1st, the PDFs for all three books will be available right here at Paizo.com as well as through our sales partners like the Open Gaming Store and DrivethruRPG! Print books and print/PDF bundles will also be available for preorder as above at Paizo and the Open Gaming Store; the PDFs will be ready for immediate download and the books will be shipped after backer orders. Print books will be available directly from amazon.com as well once the books arrive, though will not be available for preorder.
How much are the printed pre-orders going to cost as well as the pdf/print bundles.
Jason, I just wanted to say that, as a backer, these are three of the most gorgeous books I've ever seen. I haven't had a chance to sit down and really get into them, but the layout is great and the amount and quality of art is stunning! Though I dread the eventual international shipping costs, I think I'll have to start saving my pennies for hard copies. If there are any left by the time I have enough saved up, I'll definitely buy directly from Legendary Games.
(As an aside, I'm kicking myself for not picking up some of the dice from the kickstarter. Don't suppose they'll be available at any point in the future? :P)
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RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games
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Thanks so much for the kind words, El Ronza.
We poured an awful lot of blood, sweat, and tears (while leaving room for your players' tears as well!) into these books, and I'm very proud of what we've been able to accomplish. We had great partners in writing and artwork, and I should give a special shout-out to our talented layout artists. The immense size of this project means that everything was a lot more complicated in terms of layout and making sure everything worked right - over 2000 spells, over 1000 feats, over 220 monsters, and that's just the basic nuts and bolts, with a gazillion bookmarks and hyperlinks (internal and external). My hairline probably receded about an inch a month so far this year just going back over and over these files, trying to make sure that with well over half a million words that every one of them was right, every picture and punctuation mark was where it was supposed to be, and on down the list. And every time something needed a fix, it was back to the well for the layout guys. These three are well deserving of the title of mythic heroes:
Richard Kunz put together the Mythic Monster Manual, Rick Hershey the Mythic Spell Compendium, and Reece Ambrose the Mythic Hero's Handbook. Reece also designed the cover logos and layouts and page treatments that we used for all three books. Layout artists are kind of the unsung heroes of any RPG product. You can have great words and nice art, but somebody to put it all together and make it shine is a great member of the team, and deserve a hearty round of applause!
Kinda sad that I didn't have enough gold pieces to pledge for a physical copy of the Mythic Monster Manual. It's a gorgeous book.
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RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games
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The MYTHIC MANIA PDFs are available in 3... 2... 1... NOW!!!
The Mythic Monster Manual is available NOW exclusively at the Legendary Games webstore, as will the Mythic Hero's Handbook later today after a final tweak.
The Mythic Spell Compendium is available NOW exclusively at the Legendary Games webstore and the Kobold Press webstore!
You can also do your print and print/PDF bundle preorders now! All three will go on sale in wide release starting next Friday for MYTHIC MAYDAY through all of our usual sales partners at Paizo, DrivethruRPG, and the Open Gaming Store, but this week is just you and the creative team that brought you these amazing books. Ask any backer. These books will blow you away. They are a fantastic resource even if you don't play a full-on mythic campaign. If you want to take your Pathfinder game up another notch, get them. NOW! You will not be sorry.
Thanks to every backer and contributor who made these books a reality. Every bit of your efforts, no matter how large or how small, made this amazing project happen. And now let the Mythic Mania commence for EVERYONE!
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I'll reiterate Jason's assertions above. The Mythic Mania hardcovers, including the Mythic Monster Manual, Mythic Spell Compendium, and Mythic Hero's Handbook represent a seminal moment for Legendary Games. These books lay a foundation for how to enhance the mythic ruleset in ways that anyone who might have passed on them before should re-examine just how much they can enhance your game. Hats off to Jason and the entire design team, as well as our third-party team-ups with Kobold Press, Rogue Genius, and Dreamscarred Press. We really pulled out the stops on this one...
...and we're not done yet.
While this Kickstarter may be winding down, we're also on the verge of launching another--one which we alluded to during Mythic Mania and then teased at last year's PaizoCon. It'll involve our very first Adventure Path using sword-and-planet themes, and eventually usher us into a brand new campaign setting down the road. You'll have a chance to not only hear more about this endeavor at the "So What's New With Legendary Games?" panel at this year's PaizoCon, but also experience some of it with 10 tables of gaming which we've sponsored across Friday, Saturday, and Sunday--including the open gaming slots during the afternoons as Pathfinder Society play takes a break.
So, there are some BIG things happening at Legendary Games. Please help us spread the word, and come out and see us at PaizoCon and GenCon in the coming weeks.
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Here's to the layout artists, and the amazing job they did!
Huh, turns out the shipping on these books is significantly less than I was expecting. That's a nice surprise!
Oh man, a Legendary Games adventure path? How broke are you planning on making me??
Trying to buy from Legendary Games (told you I would), print and PDF bundle, but I've really got to ask: as a resident of England, Great Britain, UK, what shipping destination should I use? (UK, Britain, Great Britain, and England are all absent, but I was pleased to see Antarctica was there.) Please tell me I'm not going to have to do shenanigans.
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Chatted with Chemlak and we're working out what the issue is with the webstore. Nonetheless, necessity is the mother of invention and we worked out a direct buy through Paypal, so he's got his PDF download codes now and is on the ship list for when the books arrive!
Let it never be said that our customer service is anything but Legendary! :)
Is it too late to submit print typos? Because I only just now noticed a doozy.
EDIT: Never mind, it's gone -- must have been a glitch in Adobe Reader, not actually a paragraph's worth of gibberish. :)
Chatted with Chemlak and we're working out what the issue is with the webstore. Nonetheless, necessity is the mother of invention and we worked out a direct buy through Paypal, so he's got his PDF download codes now and is on the ship list for when the books arrive!
Let it never be said that our customer service is anything but Legendary! :)
Just to put in my 2cp: Jason, you've been an absolute star helping me out with this, glad we could work around the problem, and I hope the issue with the store gets sorted soon. That right there is some top-notch customer service, and creative use of capabilities to help me out (of my hard-earned money :p).
And even the quick skim I've done so far (haven't even cracked open the Monster Manual, yet) makes these books well worth the (short) wait!
Can't wait to run another mythic game, now.
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RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games
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Is it too late to submit print typos? Because I only just now noticed a doozy.
EDIT: Never mind, it's gone -- must have been a glitch in Adobe Reader, not actually a paragraph's worth of gibberish. :)
One of our sharp-eyed readers did notice a gibberish glitch in the Genius path under the Analytical Eye ability (it was correct elsewhere, like under the Trickster path), which we jussssst managed to fix in the final page fix files sent to the printer today. We'll be uploading the corrected PDF to the dropbox once it finishes compiling.
Ever the relentless pursuit of perfection!
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RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games
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Chatted with Chemlak and we're working out what the issue is with the webstore. Nonetheless, necessity is the mother of invention and we worked out a direct buy through Paypal, so he's got his PDF download codes now and is on the ship list for when the books arrive!
Let it never be said that our customer service is anything but Legendary! :)
Just to put in my 2cp: Jason, you've been an absolute star helping me out with this, glad we could work around the problem, and I hope the issue with the store gets sorted soon. That right there is some top-notch customer service, and creative use of capabilities to help me out (of my hard-earned money :p).
And even the quick skim I've done so far (haven't even cracked open the Monster Manual, yet) makes these books well worth the (short) wait!
Can't wait to run another mythic game, now.
Happy to be of service, and that's just the reaction we hope everyone has when they read these books!
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RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games
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Jason, what about the (apparently) missing page in the Monster Manual PDF? It goes page iv with a left margin, page v with a right margin, then right to page 1 with a right margin. Is there just a missing page in the pdf or what?
Interesting. I just checked the print PDF and it's correct there. I hadn't noticed that in the regular PDF the page borders are flipped in the frontmatter pages.
I'll talk to layout about swapping those borders.
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RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games
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Now available right here on Paizo.com and elsewhere in wide release!
The Mythic Hero's Handbook, with over 1000 mythic feats and hundreds of path abilities (including four new mythic paths), mythic psionics, mythic class features for dozens of classes, as well as mythic skills, traps, curses, magic items, and more!
The Mythic Monster Manual, with over 220 new mythic monsters, including over two dozen brand-new monsters with complete ecologies, plus dozens of mythic monster feats, universal abilities, and more!
The Mythic Spell Compendium, with over 2000 mythic spells and dozens of mythic metamagic feats!
Make Yours Mythic Today!
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I love the Legendary Games stuff. I ordered the Hero's Handbook print/PDF bundle last Saturday. I am greatly looking forward to the actual print book. Just this year alone, I think I've purchased 10 products from them. Even in the age of torrents on the internet.
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Anyone who does not by all three will be eaten by a
Midgard serpent CR 30/MR 10
Eater of Magic (Su)
God-Eater (Ex)
It's pretty good at eating stuff, as you can see (and no, I'm not gonna spoiler what those abilities actually do, you have to get the book to see!)
If you somehow escape from the wrath of the Midgard Serpent, you'll still be eaten by a Mythic Tarrasque!
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RPG Superstar 2008 Top 4; Contributor; Publisher, Legendary Games
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Anyone who does not by all three will be eaten by a
Midgard serpent CR 30/MR 10
Eater of Magic (Su)
God-Eater (Ex)It's pretty good at eating stuff, as you can see (and no, I'm not gonna spoiler what those abilities actually do, you have to get the book to see!)
If you somehow escape from the wrath of the Midgard Serpent, you'll still be eaten by a Mythic Tarrasque!
CR 30/MR 10 FTW!