Wow! We are really close to 3k! By the time this update hits live it might have already passed! Are you tired of me being surprised yet? Because I still am! I wont say if... WHEN we hit 3k that unlocks the Webcrab tunnels. In the adventure I allude to the Webcrabs being such a problem that Mr. Ringtail puts iron webbing underneath the exhibit to keep them from burrowing out. But ever the clever, these creatures found a way and have made an impressive network of tunnels below.... I wonder just how many are down there where its hard to count?
Who's Yer Con - Storytime
This past weekend I went down to indinapolis for Whos Yer Con! Its a much smaller convention compared to the likes of Gen Con and that made it really lovely! I got to hang out with tons of friends! Tyler Stroud manning the Goodman Booth, Janet and Marc at Dirty Woods, Bug with 9th Level Games, and Dale at Duck & Crow Press, among MANY awesome players I sat across from and next to! Too many to name!
Indiana Gongfarmers Group Photo!
I got to play 10th Level Doomstar by Julian Bernick and let me tell you, it was AMAZING. I turned Tyler who was playing a halfling into an god-like dragon using polymorph! But that was after I was stabbed in the back by Janet! (Don't worry, I forgave her when my familair who I also turned into a dragon ate her) If you have not given this adventure a play yet, you NEED to. It is unlike anything ive ever experienced in DCC.
Judge Spellburn taking a selfie with us! Im the one with the Kobold!
That game was ran by the excellent Bryan Spellman (or Spellburn for those in the know) and you'll see a trend of most photos being taken by him! He also ran me through WHPA. Weird Heroes of Public Access. There is nothing I can say here that will do this game justice. You just gotta trust me on this. If you see a Spellman WHPA game, join it. Do not hesitate. Ive never been at a table full of like-minded roleplayers in such a way as this. It was such a joy playing weird public access tv hosts solving mysteries.
Did I run any games? You bet your sweet bippy I did! I ran Mr. Ringtail's Menagerie! The last playtest before the campaign! It went awesome. Everyone had a great time exploring the Menagerie and discovering the dark secrets below! Now I am not gonna spoil anything here! You will just have to see what's in store for you!
Hey! I took this one! Look at those awesome adventurers after completing my adventure!
I tell you what though, one particular booth stole my attention! 9th Level Games was at the con and I got to make fast friends with Bug! They did not even need to sell me anything as I came ready with cash and bought half their table! Check it out below! I got Kobolds Ate My Baby and Thunder Road Vendetta RPGs! These look so fun to play and I cannot wait to dive head first! Who knows... maybe I'll write or draw something for these one day. Whatcha think?
9th Level Swag!
Bug (Front) and I (Back)! I love these Lil Kobolds! ALL HAIL KING TORG!
Who's Yer Con was such an awarding experience. I cannot thank enough the wonderful people who I hanged out with all weekend, who gave me a warm bed at night and threw dice with by day! Check out your local cons and give it a try. Who knows what your con family will look like! Its always about the people.
Thank you again for such an awesome day 2! We have a few hours til the end of the day and I cannot wait to see what day 3 and the weekend brings! Please keep sharing this campaign so we can make Mr. Ringtial's Menagerie AWESOME!
One of the stretch goals you all smashed was the "Funky Dice" comic page!
This comic strip series is meant to be tales of relatable and true ttrpg stories. This first comic is going to be about how I joined a game of Savage Worlds that had already been playing for one session prior. Amd the GM did not introduce my character for two hours! I had to force my character into the story and once I did, I died 15 minutes in. And that was it. That was the entire session. Its funny to look back on but dang did I not have a fun time haha!
What kind of crazy, funny, ridiculous ttrpg stories do you have? Perhaps it will end up as a Funky Dice comic strip one day!
Today has been whirlwind! I had trust that the DCC community would come out to support my project but to blast through all the way to 2k and beyond was out of my scope. I set $300 to be my goal because that is what I needed to physically make the product. Two thousand felt like a dream before but now...now I want to see how far we can go!
BUT I'm not gonna ask for that unless I'm giving you something cool to go with it. So I have spent the last few hours (not refreshing the page) coming up with stretch goals! I hope you like these!!
P.S. Please give more suggestions! I may add extra slots between these goals or make them beyond 4k. Who knows! I love your input!
Holy! That is alot of new stretch goals! But what do they all mean? $1500 - Virtual Tabletop Tokens of NPCs & Monsters - Ready to play! $1800 - Custom Character Sheets with Pre-Gens! $2000 - Artwork of the Menagerie's giftshop! Players can buy all kinds of junk/memorabilia! $2500 - One of the items in the giftshop will be "Gragon's Breath" Hotsauce! The label will be the sticker! $3000 - A brand new encounter area added to the dungeon! $3500 - Mr. Ringtail bookmarks! $4000 - A brand new encounter area! The hidden back entrance to the menagerie.
As this is my first backerkit I wanted to make sure I can keep everything in scope without blowing the budget, extending fulfillment timeline, or making shipping too hard on ya'll! You deserve the best! As such, the goals are a little bit further away than the early ones. But I made sure to make them EXTRA spicyyy~ Let me know what you think about these!
STORYTIME - WHO AM I?
Many of you came here because you know me in the community but I know a lot of you found me through other means and I thank you both for putting your trust in me. Let me tell you a bit more about who you are backing!
Way back in the year 2022 I had just rediscovered art. I spent most of my childhood drawing and I even went to an art middle school! (I had to apply and everything!) But I fell out of it. I ended up trying to fill that gap with other creative measures such as filmmaking or painting miniatures, and other non-creative endeavors such as teaching or astrophysics?!? (Idk how I thought that was gonna happen). Finding art again renewed my passion tenfold and one of the first things I drew was this crappy DCC concept cover. If you were on the facebook DCC RPG rocks back then you might recall it! I was really into DCC RPG and had been a judge since 2018. The likes of Doug Kovacs and Stefan Poag and so many others inspired me but then I just... stopped. I have no idea why. I just did not attempt to make another old school style piece of art again. I tried following trends online to get popular. I made anime art because I thought that was what you had to do. Right? That is the only way to make it as an artist online! To be an...influencer. yuck. After a couple years I got burnt out. The only reason I kept up with my art were my close knit group of friends but I lost a good bit of the passion. Then I saw a video.
There is a youtuber called MapCrow and let me tell you, one of the best in the biz that one. He put out these videos on how to draw isometric maps and all of that love for drawing old school rushed back to me and I instantly took out my pencil and sketched up a map. That map would end up becoming the dungeon of Mr. Ringtail's Menagerie. But not yet because I said "Yeah this was fun!", put it away, and did not touch it for a year.
A year later MapCrow, like a guardian over my shoulder pops back into my feed. "OH YEAH! I SHOULD INK THAT MAP!" I exclaimed to myself very annoyingly. And I proceeded to do just that. I inked the entire map in one day and when I was done I said to myself "Yeah this was fun!" but this time instead of putting it away I thought... "What If I made a monster for this map and put it online?"
That was in 2025. And that begun one of the most rewarding and amazing paths in my life so far. I wrote up 10k words (something I never dreamed I could do, even though I also wanted to be a writer) and drew a pretty cool cover If I do say so myself. I embraced my love of DCC, Old School D&D, and Cartoonists to find an art style I actually love and am proud of. I got back into DCC RPG full force, making a local road crew spot again and reengaging with a community I lost touch with. Then somehow I found a job listing for Goodman Games and they actually picked me for it! (HAHA suckers! NO TAKEBACKSIES) I moved out of my parents house and traveled across the country vertically from Florida to Indiana. I now have several books coming out with my art in it! Delicious in Whiterock by Witch Pleas Press, Seekers Ov the Other Worlds by Owl Knight Published, The Old Hunger by Girls@Computers, Battle of the Bands by Critical Hit Parader and MORE!
And to top it all off, I finally, finally, have brought you Mr. Ringtail's Menagerie. After delays of "just not feelin' it" to moving to the middle of a bunch of farmland It is finally complete (almost! Look at all those stretch goals!) and I feel like I have finally found my tribe. If you see me at a local game store or at a convention please come say hi! Please tell me about the awesome adventure you had in the menagerie and sit down to game with me.
Anyway, thank you for listing to me ramble on about how I got here! I hope you like the book and all the extra flourishes that are being added. And here is to the future with many more adventures to come!
Rock on reavers! - Judge Tahlia
P.S: Eagle eye viewers might recognize the reference to my first DCC cover in the Road Crew poster! If you like it you can add it on as an art print!
Holy cow!! I had graphics ready for first day and first hour but first EIGHT minutes?!?!
You all are AMAZING! Thank you so much for supporting Mr. Ringtail's Menagerie! I really hope it brings all of you joy at your gaming tables!
I will put out an update with a lot more information soon but I just wanted to get on here and thank you all so much! I really appreciate each of you making my dream come true!
What a long road to get here! I am so excited to finally bring to you Mr. Ringtail's Menagerie! This adventure has been a huge aspect of my life for the past year and is the result of finally finding what kind of creative work is my true passion!
I hope this adventure inspires your imagination and I cannot wait for you to play it at your table! As the campaign unfolds I will share with you what led to this point and made Mr. Ringtail possible!
If you back this project at any level, thank you! Now lets fund this debut!
Today has been whirlwind! I had trust that the DCC community would come out to support my project but to blast through all the way to 2k and beyond was out of my scope. I set $300 to be my goal because that is what I needed to physically make the product. Two thousand felt like a dream before but now...now I want to see how far we can go!
BUT I'm not gonna ask for that unless I'm giving you something cool to go with it. So I have spent the last few hours (not refreshing the page) coming up with stretch goals! I hope you like these!!
P.S. Please give more suggestions! I may add extra slots between these goals or make them beyond 4k. Who knows! I love your input!
Holy! That is alot of new stretch goals! But what do they all mean? $1500 - Virtual Tabletop Tokens of NPCs & Monsters - Ready to play! $1800 - Custom Character Sheets with Pre-Gens! $2000 - Artwork of the Menagerie's giftshop! Players can buy all kinds of junk/memorabilia! $2500 - One of the items in the giftshop will be "Gragon's Breath" Hotsauce! The label will be the sticker! $3000 - A brand new encounter area added to the dungeon! $3500 - Mr. Ringtail bookmarks! $4000 - A brand new encounter area! The hidden back entrance to the menagerie.
As this is my first backerkit I wanted to make sure I can keep everything in scope without blowing the budget, extending fulfillment timeline, or making shipping too hard on ya'll! You deserve the best! As such, the goals are a little bit further away than the early ones. But I made sure to make them EXTRA spicyyy~ Let me know what you think about these!
STORYTIME - WHO AM I?
Many of you came here because you know me in the community but I know a lot of you found me through other means and I thank you both for putting your trust in me. Let me tell you a bit more about who you are backing!
Way back in the year 2022 I had just rediscovered art. I spent most of my childhood drawing and I even went to an art middle school! (I had to apply and everything!) But I fell out of it. I ended up trying to fill that gap with other creative measures such as filmmaking or painting miniatures, and other non-creative endeavors such as teaching or astrophysics?!? (Idk how I thought that was gonna happen). Finding art again renewed my passion tenfold and one of the first things I drew was this crappy DCC concept cover. If you were on the facebook DCC RPG rocks back then you might recall it! I was really into DCC RPG and had been a judge since 2018. The likes of Doug Kovacs and Stefan Poag and so many others inspired me but then I just... stopped. I have no idea why. I just did not attempt to make another old school style piece of art again. I tried following trends online to get popular. I made anime art because I thought that was what you had to do. Right? That is the only way to make it as an artist online! To be an...influencer. yuck. After a couple years I got burnt out. The only reason I kept up with my art were my close knit group of friends but I lost a good bit of the passion. Then I saw a video.
There is a youtuber called MapCrow and let me tell you, one of the best in the biz that one. He put out these videos on how to draw isometric maps and all of that love for drawing old school rushed back to me and I instantly took out my pencil and sketched up a map. That map would end up becoming the dungeon of Mr. Ringtail's Menagerie. But not yet because I said "Yeah this was fun!", put it away, and did not touch it for a year.
A year later MapCrow, like a guardian over my shoulder pops back into my feed. "OH YEAH! I SHOULD INK THAT MAP!" I exclaimed to myself very annoyingly. And I proceeded to do just that. I inked the entire map in one day and when I was done I said to myself "Yeah this was fun!" but this time instead of putting it away I thought... "What If I made a monster for this map and put it online?"
That was in 2025. And that begun one of the most rewarding and amazing paths in my life so far. I wrote up 10k words (something I never dreamed I could do, even though I also wanted to be a writer) and drew a pretty cool cover If I do say so myself. I embraced my love of DCC, Old School D&D, and Cartoonists to find an art style I actually love and am proud of. I got back into DCC RPG full force, making a local road crew spot again and reengaging with a community I lost touch with. Then somehow I found a job listing for Goodman Games and they actually picked me for it! (HAHA suckers! NO TAKEBACKSIES) I moved out of my parents house and traveled across the country vertically from Florida to Indiana. I now have several books coming out with my art in it! Delicious in Whiterock by Witch Pleas Press, Seekers Ov the Other Worlds by Owl Knight Published, The Old Hunger by Girls@Computers, Battle of the Bands by Critical Hit Parader and MORE!
And to top it all off, I finally, finally, have brought you Mr. Ringtail's Menagerie. After delays of "just not feelin' it" to moving to the middle of a bunch of farmland It is finally complete (almost! Look at all those stretch goals!) and I feel like I have finally found my tribe. If you see me at a local game store or at a convention please come say hi! Please tell me about the awesome adventure you had in the menagerie and sit down to game with me.
Anyway, thank you for listing to me ramble on about how I got here! I hope you like the book and all the extra flourishes that are being added. And here is to the future with many more adventures to come!
Rock on reavers! - Judge Tahlia
P.S: Eagle eye viewers might recognize the reference to my first DCC cover in the Road Crew poster! If you like it you can add it on as an art print!
Wow! We are really close to 3k! By the time this update hits live it might have already passed! Are you tired of me being surprised yet? Because I still am! I wont say if... WHEN we hit 3k that unlocks the Webcrab tunnels. In the adventure I allude to the Webcrabs being such a problem that Mr. Ringtail puts iron webbing underneath the exhibit to keep them from burrowing out. But ever the clever, these creatures found a way and have made an impressive network of tunnels below.... I wonder just how many are down there where its hard to count?
Who's Yer Con - Storytime
This past weekend I went down to indinapolis for Whos Yer Con! Its a much smaller convention compared to the likes of Gen Con and that made it really lovely! I got to hang out with tons of friends! Tyler Stroud manning the Goodman Booth, Janet and Marc at Dirty Woods, Bug with 9th Level Games, and Dale at Duck & Crow Press, among MANY awesome players I sat across from and next to! Too many to name!
Indiana Gongfarmers Group Photo!
I got to play 10th Level Doomstar by Julian Bernick and let me tell you, it was AMAZING. I turned Tyler who was playing a halfling into an god-like dragon using polymorph! But that was after I was stabbed in the back by Janet! (Don't worry, I forgave her when my familair who I also turned into a dragon ate her) If you have not given this adventure a play yet, you NEED to. It is unlike anything ive ever experienced in DCC.
Judge Spellburn taking a selfie with us! Im the one with the Kobold!
That game was ran by the excellent Bryan Spellman (or Spellburn for those in the know) and you'll see a trend of most photos being taken by him! He also ran me through WHPA. Weird Heroes of Public Access. There is nothing I can say here that will do this game justice. You just gotta trust me on this. If you see a Spellman WHPA game, join it. Do not hesitate. Ive never been at a table full of like-minded roleplayers in such a way as this. It was such a joy playing weird public access tv hosts solving mysteries.
Did I run any games? You bet your sweet bippy I did! I ran Mr. Ringtail's Menagerie! The last playtest before the campaign! It went awesome. Everyone had a great time exploring the Menagerie and discovering the dark secrets below! Now I am not gonna spoil anything here! You will just have to see what's in store for you!
Hey! I took this one! Look at those awesome adventurers after completing my adventure!
I tell you what though, one particular booth stole my attention! 9th Level Games was at the con and I got to make fast friends with Bug! They did not even need to sell me anything as I came ready with cash and bought half their table! Check it out below! I got Kobolds Ate My Baby and Thunder Road Vendetta RPGs! These look so fun to play and I cannot wait to dive head first! Who knows... maybe I'll write or draw something for these one day. Whatcha think?
9th Level Swag!
Bug (Front) and I (Back)! I love these Lil Kobolds! ALL HAIL KING TORG!
Who's Yer Con was such an awarding experience. I cannot thank enough the wonderful people who I hanged out with all weekend, who gave me a warm bed at night and threw dice with by day! Check out your local cons and give it a try. Who knows what your con family will look like! Its always about the people.
Thank you again for such an awesome day 2! We have a few hours til the end of the day and I cannot wait to see what day 3 and the weekend brings! Please keep sharing this campaign so we can make Mr. Ringtial's Menagerie AWESOME!
As a kid I loved the zoo! Animals that seemed almost alien at every turn seen in person? What a thrill! Please share with me what zoo animal scared you when you were a kid! Or perhaps just a crazy zoo story!
One of the stretch goals you all smashed was the "Funky Dice" comic page!
This comic strip series is meant to be tales of relatable and true ttrpg stories. This first comic is going to be about how I joined a game of Savage Worlds that had already been playing for one session prior. Amd the GM did not introduce my character for two hours! I had to force my character into the story and once I did, I died 15 minutes in. And that was it. That was the entire session. Its funny to look back on but dang did I not have a fun time haha!
What kind of crazy, funny, ridiculous ttrpg stories do you have? Perhaps it will end up as a Funky Dice comic strip one day!
Holy cow! Talk about something worth putting in a locked cabinet, especially in this community: a bespoke cover, drawn **on the book** just for you?!
Tahlia. That's just bonkers. I love it!
