Pip and Pawn - For D&D, Pathfinder, and Savage Worlds

Queen of Hearts Preview
about 1 year ago – Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 09:40:45 PM

Hello Pip and Pawn Backers,

We now have just one week left in our Kickstarter campaign, and we’re slowly closing in on the second book Stretch Goal. It looks like it will probably come down to the wire.

Queen of Hearts

For the monsters in This and That, I take inspiration from many sources, including myth, classic tropes, and things that I just make up. In Pip and Pawn, I also take some inspiration from classic literature, specifically Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.

Here’s the D&D 5e version. 

Queen of Hearts

Medium humanoid, chaotic evil

Armor Class 14 (armored gown) 

Hit Points 195 (26d8 + 78)

Speed 30 ft.

STR 16 (+3) DEX 13 (+1) CON 16 (+3) INT 10 (+0) WIS 9 (-1) CHA 19 (+4)

Saving Throws Con +7, Wis +3, Cha +8

Skills Intimidate +8

Resistances: See Bloody Rage

Senses passive Perception 9

Languages Common

Challenge 9 (450 XP) Proficiency Bonus +4

Bloody Rage

When Bloodied (97 HP) the queen flies into a rage. She gains resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage, she has Advantage on Strength checks and Strength Saving Throws, and her damage she deals is doubled (noted below).

Magic Resistance

The Queen of Hearts has Advantage on saving throws against spells.

Off With Their Heads!

All allies within 60 feet of the queen who can hear her add 1d4 to their attack rolls.

Actions

Multiattack. The Queen makes one worpal-ish sword and one flamingo attack.

Vorpal-ish Sword. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit:  7 (1d8 + 3) slashing damage or 15 (2d8 + 6) slashing damage when Bloodied. A target who takes damage must make a DC 16 Constitution saving throw. If they fail their head is severed from their body. This does not kill them, but it certainly makes life difficult. The head must verbally give commands to the body to get it to do anything, and any d20 Tests taken by the body suffer Disadvantage. The target can negate the disadvantage by placing the head on their neck and holding it in place, but this requires a hand to do so.

A severed head can be permanently reattached with greater restoration, regenerate, heal, or similar magic. If the head is not reattached within 24 hours, the target dies.

Flamingo. Melee Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft. one target. Hit:  (1d8 + 3) bludgeoning damage or 15 (2d8 + 6) bludgeoning damage while Bloodied, and she pushes the target 10 feet. 

Hedgehog. Ranged Attack:+7 to hit, range 20/60 ft. one target. 6 (Hit 1d6 + 3) piercing damage or 13 (2d6 + 6) piercing damage while Bloodied.

Reaction

Defend Me. Trigger:A creature targets the queen with a melee or ranged attack. Response:The attack instead targets an ally of the queen within 5 feet of her.

That’s all for now. See you next week!

-Matthew

Art Object Preview
about 1 year ago – Tue, Feb 04, 2025 at 09:26:11 PM

Hello Pip and Pawn Backers,

The campaign continues steady progress, though slower than at launch. It still think we’re in good shape to reach our next stretch goal for a second book.

Art Object Preview

Wealthy gamers have purchased fancy games and components throughout history. There’s no reason to think that a fantasy world would be any different. Pip and Pawn includes tables for art objects in all of the different categories in the core GM books. For this preview we take a look at the two highest value categories of art objects. 

(Prices are for 5e, other systems will have similar objects with adjusted prices.)

2,500 GP Art Object

1d4 Object

1 A pair of gold dice with ruby pips

2 A deck of dwarven cards, made from thin sheets of iron rather than paper. Face cards are decorated with flecks of gemstones. 

3 A marble backgammon board with moonstone and garnet pieces

4 A set of gaming darts (cannot be used as weapons). Three are gold inlaid with sapphire, and three silver inlaid with emerald

7,500 GP Art Object

1d4 Object

1 Chess set with gold pieces on one side and platinum on the other.

2 Deck of cards hand painted by an elven master

3 A gnomish device that uses paddles to hit a tiny ball, scoring points by striking key obstacles, and losing the game when the ball falls into a hole.

4 Board and tokens for a game so ancient, that none remember what is is called, inlaid with orichalcum

That’s all for now, see you next Tuesday,

Matthew

Off to a Great Start!
about 1 year ago – Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 09:48:13 PM

Congratulations! We reached our funding goal in less than five hours! Now well on the way to our first stretch goal for more art.

The first stretch goal is all but a sure thing at this point, and I think it’s very likely that we’ll hit additional stretch goals for at least one additional book during this campaign, so start thinking about topics you want to see.

Anything you can do to spread the word is appreciated and helps us reach our funding goals faster.

I plan to check in each Tuesday during the campaign with preview material and additional updates.

See you then,

Matthew J. Hanson