BEASTS Kickstarter is now LIVE!!
5 months ago
– Tue, Feb 24, 2026 at 08:10:53 AM
Hello all you beautiful Koboa backers!
I'm so excited to inform you that the crowdfunding for my next big project, BEASTS, is live now!
BEASTS is a Powered-By-The-Apocalypse Tabletop RPG about teenagers with the power to transform into animals fighting a secret war against secret invaders. The game is heavily inspired by stories like Animorphs, and a bit also by other stories of resistance such as Colony. Players play conflicted teens, struggling between keeping true to their convictions and doing what they know they must do to win the war. As they break their convictions they metaphorically "Feed the Beast", forcing players to rip pieces out of their character sheet to become stronger. The parts you rip out are the parts of moves that represent your character being a teen rather than a soldier.
The Enemy is a secretive organization, covertly taking control of people’s minds, bodies, and will. Should the Enemy’s invasion ever become known to society at large, they would shift their strategy to full-out war against humanity, something you know that would result in the loss of a staggering amount of lives. You and your friends have the power to transform into animals. Will this power be enough to turn the tides of the invasion? Probably not, but you are our only hope.
How far will you go to win this war? And what will be left of you when it is over?
Back the project here!
February 2026 Update
6 months ago
– Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 07:49:34 AM
Hi all!
Layouting continues.
Francita's Chapter 2 (player options) first layout pass is up to 92 pages, which is maybe 8090% of its content. We have forms, classes, subclasses, and backgrounds laid out and now need to lay out spells, magic items, and feats. Its shaping up to be about half of the book which is why we're splitting it into clearer subsections. We expect to have the first pass of chapter 2 done in a couple of weeks.
Meanwhile, Manchae made some beautiful page borders to decorate separate chapters:
Sadly, both Manchae and Francita (our layout people) have had some health issues crop up this month so we've made a bit less progress than we'd been hoping for. However, we are all still optimistic we can have the PDF ready in a month or two.
We've also added some customization tables to our forms, and some extra adventure hooks to our gazetteers, courtesy of Daniel Delgado's writing and Elizabeth Banerjee's editing.
Thank you for supporting South American projects, dreams, and excellence, particularly in times such as these.
Adrián Mejía
January 2026 Update
7 months ago
– Tue, Jan 06, 2026 at 07:05:53 AM
Hi everyone!
Happy 2026 to everyone on the Gregorian calendar!
Updates:
We have a preview of the Koboan pantheon of deities for y'all .
As always, join our Discord server to give us any feedback, comments, or general notes you'd like to share!
Progress Updates:
Chapter 2 continues, we've got most of the classes and subclasses laid out. It's looking awesome.
Appendices are almost finalized, so is chapter 4 (Wisdoms) and chapter 3 (Gazetteers). Chapter 3 has gone through a final proofreading pass and just needs a few things to get finalized.
We're hoping to have a PDF ready by late February or early March. We're still looking at options for printing and manufacturing physical things.
That's it for today
Adrián
December 2025 Update
8 months ago
– Mon, Dec 01, 2025 at 06:02:09 AM
Hi all!
Thank you for being amazing backers!
This month the main layout pass for chapter 3 (Gazetteers) got done! We even have a preview for y'all, the entire Novpo Gazetteer, which you can access here . The discord server members voted on which gazetteer to preview and Novpo won. If you want to participate in future votes of this kind and get previews early, you can join the discord server with this link.
On to updates. I will write down the status of every chapter, when each chapter is done the pdf is done and ready to get out to you. I've had a few questions about updated release dates, I've been hesitant to come up with any because it is such a difficult task and I hate giving new dates that we then have to keep pushing back. Instead, I've been trying to keep you updated each month with the exact status of the project. Please let me know if that works for y'all.
Chapter 1, Intros: Text finalized, layout not started yet (this chapter is very short and we don't expect it to take too long so we're saving it for last)
Chapter 2, Player Options: First layout pass is 30% done. This chapter is extremely long and will probably be the last thing we complete, but progress is going fine with it.
Chapter 3, gazetteers: First layout pass is 100% done. Editors are taking a look at the result and giving feedback for the second layout pass.
Chapter 4, wisdoms: First layout pass is 90% done
Chapter 5, creatures: This is 99% finalized, just some minor adjustments we need to make in the final layout pass.
Appendices: First layout pass is 90% done.
As you can see we are all working hard, Manchae and Francita are finishing their layout passes and then Ben, Elizabeth, Kaithzer, and myself are looking over the results, giving feedback, and then Manchae or Francita apply the feedback.
Hope y'all have a good December and enjoy the Novpo gazetteer! Would love to hear any feedback or reactions you have!
Adrián
November 2025 Update
9 months ago
– Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 06:04:53 AM
Hi everyone!
Progress continues on layout. Chapter 2 (player options) is very long so we are focusing on that right now. Here is a sample for our progress on the subclasses section, focusing on the barbarian
Also, we released another one of our articles from Chapter 4 (Wisdoms) on our discord.
We're nearing the finish line, excited for you to see it all.
Adrián
