It's always interesting to see how people interpret themes, as oftentimes game designers find themselves mining similar territory for...

One of the things the Swords for Hire crew really enjoys about running contests is seeing what kind of entries we'll get. While the ...

Look to the skies, for there are monsters coming! Here Be Monsters III: From Beyond the Stars , the third season of the annual ...

Gabriel Almer's anomiak protean got roughly one third of the votes cast, winning this year's Here Be Monsters design contest. Congra...

The Top 6 monsters have been revealed! Now it's time to vote for your favorite monster! We are using the Poll Maker website for v...

Intense, glowing red eyes are the only visible contrast on this humanoid, walking heap of crumbling metal and filthy black dross. The punge...

A four-armed, humanoid torso sits fused to an emaciated equine body with ebony wings. The neck ends in a bloody stump, and each hand grips ...

This  oversized  bulbous worm is covered in pale corpulent faces with sealed shut lips, erratically sputtering fetid flames from its many n...

This slim-hipped, broad-shouldered man has flawless skin and shoulder-length, dark hair. A pair of white-feathered wings sprout from his ba...

Steel fangs and jagged shards of flint protrude from the cavernous maw of this monstrous rhinoceros. Obsidian scales cover most of its toug...

Strings of ever-shifting symbols run across this serpentine creature's scales and disappear in a flash as they converge at its horned ig...

The submission deadline for the Here Be Monsters 2 open call was last Thursday. We received a total of 29 monsters, and the judges spent a f...

Below are some useful links for people thinking about submitting a monster! Please note : Some of the advice below was originally written ...

Here Be Monsters is a Pathfinder RPG monster design contest. The second season began on Thursday, 21 January. Theme: Hell Breaks Lo...

Download the monster template by clicking one of the following links:  Microsoft Word  or  Open Office . When submitting your monster, ...

Here Be Monsters 2 begins today! Before we reveal this season's theme and other important details, let's have a look at the con...

The judging panel for Here Be Monsters consists of three freelancers and RPG Superstar veterans, who select six finalists from among t...

Here Be Monsters is a Pathfinder RPG monster design contest. The second season of the contest begins Thursday, 21 January 2016. Co...

Paizo's Adam Daigle mentioned that each year he judges the monsters contestants submit, he makes a spreadsheet to track things like CR, ...

If you're interested in creating villains for the Pathfinder RPG and seeing them published, consider submitting something in the Villain...

Advice : If the premise of an ability is your interpretation of how the rules should work rather than what is actually written in the rules...

Last year, I blogged about a monster design tool I designed for D&D 5th edition. Using some of the same ideas, I started designing a spr...

Earlier this year, Jacob W Michaels and I founded Swords for Hire Development , a studio that runs projects for third-party publishers that ...

It's been a while since my last blog post. I've been traveling and generally busy with a lot of things, but I'm back and it'...

A Sword for Hire interviewed lead developer Neil Spicer about the epic interplanetary adventure saga Legendary Planet! The Kickstarter cam...

I interviewed Richard Moore, editor for Jon Brazer Enterprises. He discusses JBE's products, working with freelancers, and more!

Better late than never! Here are some of my personal highlights from PaizoCon 2015! (Yes, it was awesome!)

At PaizoCon 2015, besides having a blast, meeting great people (including the First Sword himself, Mikko Kallio), and learning a great dea...

Last year when I was writing my round 5 adventure pitch for RPG Superstar, I bought the Chase Cards deck because I wanted to include a chase...

Remember this contest? The earth will shake and tremble, When the monsters return. August 2015. Stay tuned!