Silver's Monster Girl Manual

🍀Lamia, Patreon News, & Progress Updates!
10 months ago – Sun, May 04, 2025 at 02:42:49 PM

What's up!

Enjoy the lamia sneak peak as we get ready for another project update! It's been another month, so what's been cooking???

Silver's Monster Girl Manual 2!

We're dropping TWO monster girls every month on Patreon, each with their own lore, personalities, height charts, gift art, and preferences! 

Not only that, but we've begun to make D&D rules for these monsters to play or fight them in 5E/2024!

These monsters won't be included in book 1, and will be exclusive to Patreon until book 2 drops, so if you love the series and want even more monsters, consider supporting the development for tons of early goodies!
https://www.patreon.com/c/BlaineSimple

No, this is not slowing production down on book 1! 
It's actually speeding things up, as Patrons still get awesome content, and our team can work on future projects for Silver's MGM at the same time!

Progress Updates!

• ALL the art is now finally done, thank god.
• 90% of ALL of the text in the book has been revised!
• Backer reviewers just need to have their reviews added and revised into the book, which will be a pain, but shouldn't take too long!
  
  As you can see from my trusty completion doc below, there's a TON of green! Green means that I've finished those parts of the book, and orange means it needs a look over! 

Doubt it'll take longer than another month to wrap things up, so expect to get your hands on the completed PDF super soon!

Thanks for checking back in on the book so far everyone! We're nearly ready to offer the rest of the digital goodies and get started on the truly painful part: fulfilment!!!

🍀Kitsune Sneak Peak!
11 months ago – Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 07:51:27 AM

Promised I'd be dropping new pages a lot now, so here's another! 

Happy to finally have some personality lore designed for kitsune, as they're super interesting, but a lot of creatives make them really one-note. Hopefully you can all start giving yours more fox-like flair!

I've been SLAMMING through revisions for the book!! Really excited to finish so you all can get your hands on the printable PDFs soon! 

Progress:

• We're only missing two monster girl designs! (Realized we were missing harpies, and redoing our 'fear' monster design to be scarier!)
• About half of all monster detail text has been revised!
• 70% of all gift text have been revised!
• We've begun revising backer reviews!

Thanks for checking up on things, and stay tuned for more drops!

🍀Monster Sneak Paak!
12 months ago – Wed, Mar 05, 2025 at 02:38:31 PM

Here's a look at one of the first monsters designed for the book, bonsai dryads!

 They were initially introduced in my first ever D&D book, and are here now fully fleshed out with monster details!

Progress on the book is consistent as always. The finish line is close, and I'd love to be able to get to the far more time-consuming part of organizing fulfilment ASAP so we don't waste too much time!

Thanks for popping in this month! Will share more pages soon!

🍀Happy Anniversary to Silver's MGM!
about 1 year ago – Sun, Feb 16, 2025 at 12:29:22 PM

🎉Happy Anniversary to the Silver's Monster Girl Manual project! 🎉

It's been a productive year since the Kickstarter launched back last Valentine's Day. 97% of all the art in the book is complete, and revisions on all the text has been underway for the last few months now.

Having improved my writing skills over the last year has caused some issues. Going over old monster descriptions, I feel a serious need to revamp them. The revision process has sometimes gone from making sure sentences flow better, to full on overhauls. The book will be way better by the end of it all, but will no doubt make wrapping up this final stage a real time sink.

Dealing with Burnout 🔥

Who woulda thought that grinding out writing a book for almost a year and a half would get tiring after awhile? I've always had Silver's MGM at the forefront ever since the Kickstarter launched, but sometimes prioritize other projects like new YouTube videos or D&D Patreon content whenever the workload gets monotonous. The sucky part is that, as the only writer on the team, me recharging through other types of work leaves Silver's MGM benched. It's an unfortunate reality no artist ever considers when putting a timeline on a project, and is also the case here.

New Estimated Completion Date!

Just as a reminder, the Kickstarter page mentioned that completion dates were VERY rough. I tried to circumvent that through finding writers, but nobody I found could fully match the vision. It's been a one-man front in that regard, and delays were inevitable. 

I do, however, like attempting to gauge when this book and all its addons will finally be in people's possessions! I'm now expecting the following:

Finish Writing: 4-5 months 
Manufacture & Ship Products to Distributors: 2 months
Documents and other Legal Cumbo Jumbo: 1 month
Shipping Products to Backers: 1 month

To make up for the wait, I'll be releasing free pages from the book more occasionally on Patreon, Reddit, and my website's mailing list, so stay tuned!


- Blaine

🍀We're Enhancing The Monster Girls!
about 1 year ago – Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 04:37:56 PM

Writing in the base book is nearly 100% finished! We're moving onto the revisions and polishing up everything so there's less pointless bloat text and juicier monster and date spot details!

That's also the case with a few art pieces. Some locations weren't given enough personality during their original conception early into designing and are being redone with a better vision on the full project!

Hothot springs was one of those art pieces. The old piece (on the left) didn't show enough of the main structure that locals in the area use to protect themselves from volcanic eruptions!

The new piece (on the right) offers a better view of the main volcanic attraction and cements the spot better as an actual lived-in destination. Sure, one picture has monster girls and the other doesn't, but the perspectives emphasize different traits!

Re-doing Some Monsters!

Devil dealers, toads, cerberus, and salamanders have all been visually re-done as well! Many were changed to make them more monstrous and less human! That's not to say EVERY monster needs to look super monstrous, some can very much have more human appearances, but these ones didn't feel very special and had to be redesigned.

Backer Reviews!

Now that the book is basically fully understood, we can finally get to work on backer reviews! I may be keen on asking those backers to write up their own reviews for me to use in their entirety, or as inspiration! 

Music!

The compositions for our dating tracks are complete! I'll be getting to work on distributing the music to everyone in the coming days. Enjoy setting the scenes of your games with a blissful, tense, and steamy selection of tracks!

That's all for this month! Time to start putting the finishing touches on things!