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JourneyMon: Monster Trainer Roleplaying Launches Free Quick Start Guide

JourneyMon kicks off its crowdfunding campaign with a free 32-page rules preview and one-shot module.

Imogen Gingell

Imogen Gingell

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JourneyMon: Monster Trainer Roleplaying Launches Free Quick Start Guide
JourneyMon: Monster Trainer Roleplaying is coming soon to Kickstarter!
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Best-selling game designer Imogen Gingell is proud to announce that her brand new tabletop roleplaying game JourneyMon: Monster Trainer Roleplaying, is coming sooner to Kickstarter. In anticipation of the campaign, the team has released a free Quick Start Guide for the game, available now on itchi.io and DriveThruRPG.

An old man with an amber cane is sat atop a giant turtoise with amber protrusions from its shell. Next to them is a hardcover JourneyMon handbook.
JourneyMon is building towards a crowdfunding campaign to release print and digital formats.

Creator Imogen Gingell is known for her writing and design for the record-breaking Cosmere RPG by Brotherwise Games, Flee Mortals/Where Evil Lives by MCDM, and Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone and Chronicles of Eberron with Eberron setting creator Keith Baker.

The world and characters of JourneyMon are brought to life by artist Juno "Crowva" Kurtin.

What is JourneyMon?

JourneyMon is a game about travelling with your friends, making new ones, and (of course) engaging in exciting monster battles. Though JourneyMon is directly inspired by monster taming/creature collecting video games, the design draws as much on the Saturday morning cartoons and anime that derive from them. 

A woman in silver armor and a purple cape stands defiantly in front of her companion, a gazelle with a glowing, ethereal eye between its horns.
Commander Sidra of the Knights Cosmos prepares for battle with her companion Gazealot!

To evoke its themes and inspirations, JourneyMon works with an Episodic session structure that places collaborative world building front and center. The "Prologue" of every Episode invites players and the GM to create a brand new location and a "monster of the week"! As you play, you’ll populate your world with an encyclopedia of monsters unique to your table.

Mechanically, JourneyMon combines a familiar narrative system of genre-appropriate playbooks and moves with a monster battling system that emphasises environmental effects and flashy powers. While their monsters engage in combat, trainers might even tip the balance by exploring the arena or cheering on their friends.

Play Right Now!

The 32-page JourneyMon Quick Start Guide includes everything you need to run your first one shot game:

  • The basic JourneyMon rules.
  • 4 pre-generated player trainer playbooks: the Ace, the Rival, the Researcher and the Caretaker.
  • 10 monster powers to bring your battles to life.
  • A sample one-shot Episode of JourneyMon for 2-4 players: Mount & Manta. In this Episode, player trainers must avert a volcanic disaster at the Mon Loa holiday resort.
A tablet computer with the cover image of the JourneyMon Quick Start guide, depicting two people and their monster companions hiking in a mountainous terrain at sunset.

Keep Up to Date

To make sure you’re among the first to know when JourneyMon is released in full, follow the game’s pre-launch page on Kickstarter. You can also follow designer Imogen Gingell on Bluesky and itch.io, and view her portfolio at https://imogen.space

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