JourneyMon: Monster Trainer Roleplaying now live on Kickstarter!
Choose your monster partner and gather your friends—the Journey begins now!
Best-selling game designer Imogen Gingell is proud to present her brand new tabletop roleplaying game JourneyMon: Monster Trainer Roleplaying, now crowdfunding on Kickstarter.
Creator Imogen Gingell is known as a core design team member the record-breaking record-breaking Cosmere RPG by Brotherwise Games. Her other design and writing credits include Flee Mortals/Where Evil Lives and Draw Steel: Heroes by MCDM, and Frontiers of Eberron: Quickstone and Chronicles of Eberron in partnership with Eberron setting creator Keith Baker.
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.
Zero Prep, Episodic, Worldbuilding!
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, a key character, and a "monster of the week"! As you play, you’ll populate your world with a limitless encyclopedia of monsters unique to your table.
...with Monster Battles!
Mechanically, JourneyMon features a narrative system of genre-appropriate playbooks and moves familiar to players of Powered by the Apocalypse systems. Alongside that, JourneyMon's tactical monster battling system 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!
In anticipation of the campaign, the team has released a free Quick Start Guide for the game, available now on itchi.io and DriveThruRPG. The 32-page book 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.
- During the Kickstarter pre-launch, followers were also able to unlock a Booster Pack for the Quick Start Guide presenting two new playbooks: the Oldtimer and the Youngster.
Your Journey Awaits!
To make sure you can choose your first monster partner before your fierce Rival arrives, back JourneyMon now on Kickstarter! You can also follow designer Imogen Gingell on Bluesky and itch.io, and view her portfolio at imogen.space
JourneyMon's crowdfunding campaign lasts for only 30 days, starting on October 28th. Be sure to back soon to get your digital and print copy!
