Nordic Monsters: A Bestiary of Scandinavian Legends

ANOTHER Stretch Goal at the Halfway Mark!
3 months ago – Wed, May 06, 2026 at 02:37:41 PM

Thanks to each and every one of our backers for making this project a signing saga of success so far in the first half! Lars S pushed us over the 600-backer mark, and we're already almost to 650, but we also want to salute Shank M. for pushing us past $30,000 and unlocking two more terrific linnorms! The smooth-scaled but savage shoal linnorm hunts the coastal seas, but where do all of these linnorms come from? They all hatch first and foremost as lindworms, their juvenile form, but slithering serpents grow swiftly as they drink in the power of the natural world and develop into their full, terrifying power! 

Next up in stretch goals is not so much new monsters but new monster rules for incorporating towering and titanic foes into your campaign. With all these jotuns and linnorms and more, you want to make sure that fighting big foes feels like a BIG DEAL, so we hope these will add some fun spice to your campaign! After that, we bring in Asgardian Steeds at $40,000, featuring the golden-maned gullinbursti and the thunderous tarngrisner! 

Keep spreading the word to all your friends and fellow gamers and let's make this Nordic Monsters book truly LEGENDARY!

ANOTHER Stretch Goal Down, as Scandinavia gets bigger!
4 months ago – Sat, May 02, 2026 at 08:09:21 PM

Hi all,

Thanks so much for your amazing support for Nordic Monsters, with a special blast of the Gjallerhorn for Jared S. (backer 500) and Ian T. (backer 550)! Just like my way-back ancestor Vikings set sail and settled the icy shores of the deceptively named Greenland, thanks to all of you (and especially backer Trocero, who pushed us over the $25,000 mark) so you too are getting two terrific monsters from this subpolar subcontinent (okay, it's really polar too, but work with me here)! 

I've got to get out some new art orders for the sermilik and quvdlugiarsuaq, and based on how things are going, I probably had better add in some artwork for the $40,000 stretch goal just revealed of celestial steeds with gullinbursti the golden boar and tanngrisner the thunder goat! That's a little down the road, though, because next up we've got two terrific new linnorms to unleash at $30,000, so spread the word to all your friends and fellow gamers and let's make this beautiful bestiary even more LEGENDARY!!!

P.S. Not all monsters in this book are vicious predators! Some are quite gentle and kind, like the bjarndýrakóngur, painted by Roland Brown!

A Wonderful Week... With Wicked Whales!!!
4 months ago – Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 11:21:01 AM

Hi all,

Thanks so much for each and every one of you who has supported Nordic Monsters so far, with special shout-outs to Antonio L (backer #400) and sayoney (backer #450)! We hope you are loving what you are seeing so far and are looking forward to making this book even bigger and better as we go along! 

Speaking of which, backer rempelstiltskin pushed us over the 400% FUNDED mark and unlocked our latest stretch goal, adding a pair of the sinister illhveli demon-whales to the bestiary! We showed off the early art for one of them in the last update, and this time around I thought it might be fun to show off some of the sensational sketch art we've got not just for the taumafiskur, the second illhveli we added, but also for some of the other killer creatures we've got coming like the original illhveli, the stokkul, as well as the glacier and flood trolls! Finished art is amazing, but I've always enjoyed the iterative process of seeing artwork come to life! In an age of AI slop, Legendary Games is always loud and proud of our support for real artists making your books look truly LEGENDARY!

As always, please spread the word about Nordic Monsters to all of your friends and fellow gamers!!!

A Second Stretch Goal Already!
4 months ago – Sat, Apr 25, 2026 at 12:38:44 AM

Hi everyone! 

Thanks for your wonderful support! We are excited and delighted to see so many folks jumping aboard Nordic Monsters, and we want to send a special shout-out to seravin as backer #350 and to Francis R, whose pledge pushed us across the $15,000 mark and unlocked ANOTHER stretch goal, adding the Rune Jotun and the Glacier Troll to this beautiful bestiary! Each time another stretch goal lands, this killer creature collection gets even better for everyone! 

Next up, we add two more of the illhveli, the demon-whales of Iceland, and as we have been watching progress and anticipating success we are pleased to report that we've already gotten one of the art pieces back for this goal with the sinister sverðhvalur by Herman Lau!That's not just a dorsal fin; it's a ship-wrecking saber-spike that will leave your heroes afraid to even LOOK at the water! I already know that next stretch goal is in the bag, so let's go out there and GET IT! 

As always, keep spreading the word wherever you can and help us get this magnificent monster manual out there for everyone! We hope you're looking forward to this book as much as we are, and have a Legendary weekend! 

A Delightful Day One!
4 months ago – Thu, Apr 23, 2026 at 01:40:14 PM

Hi all and thanks for becoming a part of Nordic Monsters! 

We are delighted with the response to this campaign and we hope that you will share the news about it to all of your friends and fellow gamers! By all means please share the link on your socials! If you see us posting, give us a reaction, a comment, a question, a share, etc. Every little bit helps to beat the algorithms and bring this beautiful book to gamers near and far!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/legendarygames/nordic-monsters-a-5e-bestiary-of-scandinavian-legends?ref=baqxip 

We like to give special shout-outs to our backers as the count keeps climbing, so everyone salute Quinton J.B. (backer 100), Mortepierre (#150), AJ L. (#200), Heather H. (#250), and Chad B. (#300)! We love each and every one of you and look forward to recognizing many more backers to come! 

We've got a special shout-out for David V., because his pledge was the one that pushed us over the line to $10,000, which unlocked our first Stretch Goal! This bestiary contains a number of linnorms, serpentine Nordic dragons with roots in the raw nature of the Fey Realms, and we've added two more terrifying linnorms to this book with the river-hunting gare linnorm and the titanic two-headed tarn linnorm! Check out the artwork for the latter from the amazing Arrahman Rendi!

Buckle up for our next stretch goal at $15,000, where we'll be adding a new jotun and troll to the book, with more bonus monsters to come! 

Thanks again for all of your support and help spread the word so we can make this monster book truly LEGENDARY!