Mage Hand Press

Mage Hand Press

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An eclectic group of writers and artists from around the world creating top-of-the-line 5E expansions! Makers of the Gunslinger class, Book of Extinction, Valda's Spire of Secrets, and Dark Matter https://magehandpress-links.carrd.co/

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Discover 13 subclasses and 27 spells in Expanded Wizard, out now! Evolve your custom companion as a Familiar Master, manipulate smoke as a Fumaturge, or summon cheese as a Tyromancer! Fill your spellbook with Chronomancy, Protospells, and Spellhacks magehandpress.com/product/expa...

magehandpress.comExpanded Wizard - Mage Hand PressUnlock the secrets of the arcane with the Expanded Wizard! This collection of 5.5E subclasses and spells offers only the finest wizardry for your next character.

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Player Pack 2 has subclasses, feats, and spells to make your #dnd game feel like never before. Let me introduce your next character, and brag on the human artists who make our work so incredible. You have to see our new Heroic Sorcerer, a gish subclass brought to life by Noa Kriukova:

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We learned a lot about familiars from our Witch base class, and some of the best are in this pack. Summon a Pet Rock, a Flying Book, a Winter Wolf Pup, or a friendly Fright to join your adventure! This little ghost by Moniek Schilder will put a smile on your face:

You can meet every subclass we've released through @dndbeyond.com and see the human-made art we've commissioned for each one in this round-up article. Subclasses are a character concept in a bottle, and I want you to get weird with yours: www.dndbeyond.com/posts/2207-g...

dndbeyond.comGet Weird with Your Next Character in Valda’s Spire of SecretsDiscover 13wild subclasses—from the Muscle Wizard Barbarian to the Magic Missile Mage—in Valda's Spire of Secrets. Meet them all here!

Player Pack 2 has subclasses, feats, and spells to make your #dnd game feel like never before. Let me introduce your next character, and brag on the human artists who make our work so incredible. You have to see our new Heroic Sorcerer, a gish subclass brought to life by Noa Kriukova:

Subclasses are a character concept in a bottle, capable of imbuing a campaign with humor, horror, or heroism in a few features. That's why we went so weird with the subclasses we put in Player Pack 2 for Valda's Spire of Secrets. We've got one for each class now! www.dndbeyond.com/posts/2207-g...

dndbeyond.comGet Weird with Your Next Character in Valda’s Spire of SecretsDiscover 13wild subclasses—from the Muscle Wizard Barbarian to the Magic Missile Mage—in Valda's Spire of Secrets. Meet them all here!

Brand new base class incoming! The Dancer is a nimble and deadly martial class that kills with D4s! Juggle Daggers as a Harlequin, riddle your enemies with holes as a Fencer, or dance with the dead as a Danseur Macabre. Check it out for free on our website right now!

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Finally we have a cover that explains Dark Matter in a glance: it’s sci-fi, it’s fantasy, and it’s not too saccharine – a giant space skull means there’s peril and stakes! I could not be happier with Kirby’s work and thankful he’s stuck with us for all these years.

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Around our first Kickstarter, Kirby asked for another crack at it. I’m glad he did! This version zooms out to see the entire skull and adds splashes of red within the portal and burning out of the eyes. The teeth still act as a frame to the logo, but the perspective gives it better breathing room.

After all these years, the Maw station’s skull is an iconic symbol of Dark Matter. Most recently, when I asked Kirby to return to the cover, he really wanted to show off the skull from a new angle, highlighting the space station behind it and the universe beyond. And wow! He was absolutely right.

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He’s also created the same cover for Dark Matter three times over the years, which neatly chart his development as an artist. It also serves to highlight the advantages of keeping the same art team and fostering their creativity over the long term.

Already you can see the familiar Maw station, the Void portal, and the tech detail that remind you that it’s sci-fi. In this piece the teeth act as a wraparound frame on the page without much inside. It’s also greener than you might expect, which I believe bothered Kirby shortly after handing it in.

His earliest pieces were the Space Marine fighter and Void warlock, which represent some of the things I love about the setting’s art: it’s high-tech, but not too harsh or angular; alien doesn’t need to mean tentacles and gore; and the characters should make you want to play them!

Escape a prison ship bound for the freezing edge of the ‘Verse, join the Firm and embark on criminal adventures in Contractor Corps, one of two hardcover campaigns in the Dark Matter Mega Box. In this criminal campaign, you play a crew of Contractors working for a crime syndicate known as the Firm.

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Mothership Down. After an amoeboid mothership crash-lands on a Low World, the characters must rescue the crew and repair the ship. Soon the characters learn that the mothership has landed in Roswell, New Mexico, and that there’s far more deadly things aboard the ship than Low World soldiers.

Escape a prison ship bound for the freezing edge of the ‘Verse, join the Firm and embark on criminal adventures in Contractor Corps, one of two hardcover campaigns in the Dark Matter Mega Box. In this criminal campaign, you play a crew of Contractors working for a crime syndicate known as the Firm.

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Heist at Squengis. To prove their worth to the Firm, the party must infiltrate a ship/diner named Squengi’s to raid its safe. Little do they know, other Contractors are hiding throughout the restaurant on the same job and willing to kill to secure the heist for themselves.

Every Life Worth Saving. An S.O.S. from the hospital ship Caladrius sees the characters descending to the surface of Kiron, a planet infested with a swarm of deadly psi-worms. It’s a mad dash to find survivors aboard the ship and escape before the worms overrun the ship!

Escape a prison ship bound for the freezing edge of the ‘Verse, join the Firm and embark on criminal adventures in Contractor Corps, one of two hardcover campaigns in the Dark Matter Mega Box. In this criminal campaign, you play a crew of Contractors working for a crime syndicate known as the Firm.

The Deal. In a prison ship en route for the distant colony of Blackpost, the characters must break free of their cells, find weapons, and make a break for the escape pods! But beware, the Bronze Skeleton “Screw” stands between the party and freedom.

@czepeku.bsky.social makes the highest-quality battlemaps in the world, bar none. The Dark Matter Mega Box includes a set of 50 dry- and wet-erasable sci-fi battlemaps by Czepeku, in print for the first time. Each is a beautiful and creative backdrop for whatever adventure you can imagine!

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Many of the other maps in the collection fall into two camps: urban sci-fi streets, or the floorplans of compelling buildings. Explore a bounty hunter’s tavern, a digital holodeck, or a film set for the moon landing (yes really!)

@czepeku.bsky.social makes the highest-quality battlemaps in the world, bar none. The Dark Matter Mega Box includes a set of 50 dry- and wet-erasable sci-fi battlemaps by Czepeku, in print for the first time. Each is a beautiful and creative backdrop for whatever adventure you can imagine!

Dark Matter’s in-depth ship combat system lets every player participate with unique roles and build a home base unique to every party. The ship battlemaps included in the collection give you compelling maps for a home base, a derelict ship dungeon crawl, or a hostile boarding action!

When your ship touches down on an alien world, pick a map and boom – instant adventure! But these aren’t “generic desert #6” and “rocky outcropping #11.” There’s a high-tech base built on that river, strange alien machinery within the crystals of the desert, or a crash site in the lake.

You've unlocked the $175K stretch goal on the Dark Matter Mega Box Kickstarter! This is a brand new Mega spell for ship combat that creates a giant mech suit made out of hardlight, using a scaling statblock similar to spells such as Conjure Dragon. It's an amazing way to spice up ship combat!