Monsters of Rend World is a can't-miss bestiary for fans of Monster Hunter, Shadow of the Colossus and Attack on Titan, plus dark fantasy like Elden Ring and Berserk, the ecological horror of Princess Mononoke, and the post-apocalyptic survival of Mad Max. Survival is in doubt on a planet that has already been destroyed, where you face brain-burrowing insects, colossi mistaken for mountains, and Titan Dragons that eclipse CR 30.

Welcome to Rend World!

Yes. It's broken. Glad you noticed. You see, a while back, a little thing happened. We around here call it The Rending. I'll tell you about it sometime. But all you need know right now is that the world was shattered. Now it floats as a loosely collected group of shards.

Each shard bears a unique signature, an ecosystem where monsters thrive. There's a jungle where almost everything is poisonous. A shard with caves so deep and old, light has never touched them. A glacial shard, ocean trenches, volcanic mountains, and more.

Let me be your guide. I, Melampo Horsk, am a Bard of the Sunken Song, and as such I can walk between shards, traveling the bridge of dreams. Did I forget to mention the Dream Realm? Yes. There's that too. But only the truly brave among you should visit such a realm. Once Nadir has sniffed your fear, you'll never sleep soundly again.

How does one survive such a collection of maleficent monsters? Glad you asked. Buy my book, of course. Your only opportunity for survival is to be armed with as much information as you can hold... and by hold, I mean these pages.

Monsters of Rend World expands boss monster capabilities!

Scaled action economy. The monsters that you'll face on the floating shards of Rend World are built to test any party. Legendary actions, milestone actions (actions triggered by certain events in combat), and expanded reactions ensure every battle is unique and an experience your heroes will never forget!

Each biome has prebuilt encounters with adventure hooks and tie-ins that you can drop into your existing campaign, or run as its own adventure.

Titans

These colossal monsters will lay waste to any group of heroes. Nine of them, all CR 30 or higher. Each is unique, an anomaly of monstrous power. Each has a story worthy of its own adventure! Among them the Trench Maw, a stone-armored whale big enough to be the Trench, the Break Crawler, consuming all in its path, and the Dragon Hunter: dragons hunt every shard of Rend World, but only one creature hunts dragons.

Classes & subclasses

Rend World is unlike any you've explored before, and rendwalkers are unlike any hero you've ever seen. Play the Unmade, a fully developed new class for 5th edition: an undead class stitched together from corpse and monster parts that pushes boundaries and subverts expectations. Plus subclasses for the bard, barbarian, monk, paladin and tinkerer, and playable lineages: the Caldarians, born in the ash and ember of Rend World's volcanic ranges, and the Scgoreth, a people whose form is more dragon than human.

Harvesting & crafting

That's right! The monsters in my monsterarium are packed with tasty and powerful components. Whether you're making a scourge out of the Spinewallow's quills or you want a lantern that cannot be extinguished, crafted with a Trench Hydra's kidney, you'll never run out of inspiration. All components and recipes are compatible with Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting crafting rules.

The hunt goes further with improved tracking for 5e (find the monster, learn what it is, choose how to engage it) and tables for what's inside a titan's pellet, a predator's stomach, or a picked-over kill. There's an egg in there. It's still warm.

Each biome has 20 or more unique monsters

Monsters of Rend World is an epic bestiary with chapters dedicated to each featured shard a rendwalker might set foot on. Each creature is deeply connected with its biome through in-world lore and careful attention to its biology, giving it a vital place in its ecosystem and giving your players unique loot and crafting opportunities. Every creature, from a CR 2 singing worm to our epic CR 30 titans, is built on logic. Over 210 monsters in all.

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Product highlights

The Rend World Primer is a full-color book, written by the melodious miscreant himself, and the perfect introduction to the broken world, the shards, biomes, and the peoples of those lands. This player-facing booklet also contains the classes, subclasses, and player options unique to this world.

These field notes are scribbles and observations taken by the crooning calamity while exploring the shards of Rend World. Handouts, recipe guides, lair sneak peeks, and other player-facing information that may make the difference between death and survival.

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Two STL packs: two apex creatures from each biome, 16 in all, sculpted and prepared for 3D printing by the artists at Dragon Trapper's Lodge, the studio behind the sculpts for Legends of Avantris's Neon Odyssey. Each has been test printed to ensure the best results.

This premium GM(onster) Screen is customized with all the charts and tools you need to terrorize heroes on game night. Its low-profile design keeps your tools at hand without blocking your view of your players. The creature deck makes it easy to jump between encounters: beautifully illustrated, full-color and tarot sized, in a convenient tuck box.

Our premium acrylic tokens are illustrated from above for a more tactically accurate view of your most intense encounters: hundreds of them, for all the monsters in the book, sized to 1 inch = 5 feet. All the encounter maps come as a set of full-color maps on heavy, glossy paper.

Play online? Everything is available on Foundry, Alchemy or Roll20, with maps and tokens for any virtual tabletop.

From the mind of Darryl T. Jones & Splattered Ink Games

Darryl is the founder of Splattered Ink Games, an independent tabletop publisher. Creator of A Time Traveler's Guide to Dinosaur Hunting, Seeds of Decay, Framework, and more. Darryl has been writing, drawing, and creating games since he was a kid.

Ryan Bittner, lead artist

Ryan is an illustrator and concept artist specializing in games and all things dark fantasy. From the Pacific Northwest, he loves designing moody environments, giant monsters, weapons, armor, and whatever other cool things you might stumble across on your adventure.

Altair, internet cryptid

Altair is Splattered Ink's community manager, with their claws in a little bit of everything: administrative tasks, editing, and content creation. They can be summoned from the virtual shadows if you have questions or need help.

Anti-AI policy

Monsters of Rend World is proudly 100% created by humans. Entirely human-made art, writing, and design. We never have and never will use generative AI to create any of our content.