Mage Hand Press

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An eclectic group of writers and artists from around the world creating top-of-the-line 5E expansions! Makers of the Gunslinger class, Book of Extinction, Valda's Spire of Secrets, and Dark Matter https://magehandpress-links.carrd.co/

A banjo-playing ghost smiles a chubby-cheeked grin in this square image. The ghost resembles a tattered sheet with spectral blue eyes and hands peaking out from underneath. A scattering of toys are falling from under the sheet, including a deck of playing cards, hard candies, a theater mask, and thick-spined books. The text reads Valda’s Spire of Secrets: Player Pack 2, and includes the D&D Beyond and Mage Hand Press logos.
A male adventurer opens a thick wooden door in a dark and dingy dungeon. His leather armor and curved dagger may not be enough to protect him from the demon hidden just over the arch of the doorway. Its clawed fingers grasp both sides of the door, and its three glowing red eyes stand out ominously in the dark. The text reads Valda’s Spire of Secrets: Player Pack 2, and includes the D&D Beyond and Mage Hand Press logos.
A portrait of a D&D character. She is wearing gold-trimmed plate armor and a billowing cape over white tights. A glowing longsword points toward the viewer as the character drives the point downward from above.
The event's cover slide with a background of hexagonal tiles and text that reads "Do Beholders Have Buttholes?"
A map of the Gen Con exhibit hall floor showing the location of the Mage Hand Press booth.
A hammer-wielding dwarf ventures into a darkened, red-carpeted hallway surrounded by petrified adventurers in this promotional image. The text reads "Valda's Spire of Secrets: Player Pack 2". Logos for D&D Beyond and Mage Hand Press appear in the lower right.
In this cover image for the Foundry VTT module, a green-skinned, tusked orc in a greasy white tank top stabs a dagger into a map spread out on a tabletop. His eye-patched face is smug as he twirls a lit cigar. He is flanked by two companions, a robotic Vect and a bird-headed avia-ra. The text reads "Grax's Club: A Dark Matter Adventure"
A life-sized statue of a warrior owl holds the hardcover print proof of Dark Matter.
A hero image showing a small lizard-like humanoid with angular features. It wears a space suit fit to its body and carries a futuristic, glowing harpoon gun. The text reads "Space Kobold: Asteroid dwellers and starship scavengers”
A hero image showing a desiccated corpse wearing a cracked space suit and shambling toward the viewer in the cramped metal hallway of a spaceship. The text reads "Husks: Suffocated space undead for Dark Matter”. Art by Augustine Marceillac.
An illustrated cover for the Dark Matter hardcover
A cover illustration for Dark Matter
Two illustrations of futuristic D&D characters.
A graphic showing a jagged, black-and-purple monster stretching into the frame
A TTRPG battlemap showing a circular ship like a classic UFO with a central cupola.
A TTRPG battlemap showing a ship crowded with medical bays and equipment.
A TTRPG battlemap showing a ship built in the style of a 1950s diner, complete with check-patterned floor and windowed atrium.
A TTRPG battlemap showing a prison ship.
A hard-bitten male bartended covered in cyborg augmentations holds a burning cigarette in the futuristic bar known as Yokai Flux. Art by Lucas Ferreira CM.
A neon-soaked futuristic street viewed from the top down.
Crystalline boulders dot a landscape of sand dunes, seen from the top down.
A battlemap showing a top-down view of a football-shaped spaceship dotted with green equipment.
A top-down view of a scaffolded rooftop in a futuristic city. The name Czepeku is just visible in the background, identifying the artist.
A big green suit of armor illustrates this web graphic for the stretch goal. The text reads "Stretch Goal Unlocked: $175K - Mega Spell: Hardlight Battleframe. Summon a Mecha Battleframe made out of hardlight to crush your enemies underfoot!
The box for a card game. A pair of witches flank a heavy black cauldron overflowing with baked goods. The text reads "Witchy Cakes: towering game of cakes and chaos!"
An upright owl stands in front of a massive, orange-leafed tree watching spaceships launch pursued by laser fire. The owl is wearing a power-armored space suit, wielding a broadsword and shield which crackle with electric blue energy.
A stretch goal graphic showing a robotic priest. The text reads "Stretch Goal Unlocked. Cleric Subclass: Machine Domain. Become a cleric of the Dei Ex Machina and perfect your allies with magical automation."
A hero image showing a four-legged robotic turret. The text reads "Circle of Configuration: A Robotic, Transforming Druid Subclass for Dark Matter.” Art by Noa Krinkova.
A hero image showing a dark-haired woman in a high-shouldered, purple-and-black dress. She’s surrounded by floating, translucent orbs, each containing a constellation. The text reads "Cosmic Magic: A Sorcerer Subclass with Galactic Power for Dark Matter.”
A hero image showing a leaping warrior with mechanical armor and a glowing, colorful sword. The text reads "Cyber Ninja: A futuristic, katana-wielding Rogue subclass for Dark Matter.
A simple graphic reads Valda's Spire of Secrets Class Update
A hero image showing a futuristic in bulky, futuristic armor. A visor fully obscures their features. Their left arm ends in an integrated energy weapon with a wide muzzle. The text reads "Dreadnought: A Doom-Slaying Barbarian Subclass for Dark Matter.”
A hero image showing a fighter in bulky, futuristic armor. A visor fully obscures their features. The armor is rising with a fiery jet pack and a blazing weapon. The text reads "Space Marine: A rocket-jumping, bug stomping Fighter subclass”
A hero image showing an undead wizard covered in the technological implants, wires, tubes, and lights that keep them alive. The text reads “Cyberghoul: A Technological Necromancer Subclass for Dark Matter.”
A hero image showing a mechanical disc-like object with blue lights and etchings like circuit boards across its surface. The text reads "Un’s Codex: A universe-warping artifact for Dark Matter”
A hero image showing three different adventurers appearing in a hologram projector; one has the head of a bird, one is a human woman with a scar below her right eye, and one is a dark-eyed alien with a flat nose and a gem-like stone in the center of their forehead. The text reads "New Origin Feats for Dark Matter."
A hero image showing an imposing suit of armor, arms long enough to drag its knuckles on the ground by its heavy feet; it looks more like antique diving gear than the sophisticated survival apparatus it is. The image text reads "Nautilid: a hulking, fishlike species for Dark Matter"
Hero image for the vect species option. The text reads "a living construct species for Dark Matter." Vect are Humanoid in shape but unmistakably mechanical, with large air intakes, protective shoulder plates, toothless jaws, and glowing eyes.
A blobby, cell-like humanoid summons elemental fire in one flexible pseudopod. The text reads "Amoeboid: A fluid, shape-shifting, oozelike species for Dark Matter"
A deeply mysterious mustached man, has a hat on covering his eyes, only a blond mustache visible on his face. He sits on a bar stool with a gun in one hand and a drink in the other.
Leomund, a brown and white pitbull mix, sleeps with a tennis ball next to his nose and a green plastic toy under his paw. A copy of Valda’s Spire of Secrets lays next to him with four d20s scattered on the cover.
A tiefling House of Bishops Warmage stands at the center of this square formatted image casting a blade cantrip. In large letters above it reads, “House of Bishops” and in small italic letters under that “Warmage Subclass”. Below the Warmage is the Mage Hand Press logo.
Witch vs. Warmage | Final Round of Mage Hand March Madness Afflicted by a sinister curse, witches can spin dark magic into hexes, which they use to debilitate foes. The undisputed masters of cantrips, warmages turn the most humble spells into deadly weapons via an array of tricks.
Witch vs. Warlock | The ultimate battle of wills as Charisma casters face off, one last time! Our most popular base class ever and the first to be updated to the 2024 ruleset, witches can spin dark magic into hexes, which they use to debilitate foes. They are also accompanied by their familiars, loyal magical companions that they use to deal the killing blow. Warlock already defeated a cornerstone of the Mage Hand Press catalog, the gunslinger, and the bracket’s biggest upset, the binder. Now this bonded spellcasting class pits its pact-fueled fury and flexible play style against another charisma-based caster.
Two hardcover copies of Valda’s Spire of Secrets float in Valda’s hallway. A magical sphere hovers next to it with the words “10th Anniversary Giveaway”.
Our logo, the severed hand and eye of “Valda”, hovers in the center of this square formatted image. “10th Anniversary Sale” hovers next to it in a blocky silver distressed font. The background is a distressed version of the staircase in Valda’s spire.
Valda, an evil lich, guards his special spire of secrets. An ornate staff in his right hand and a glowing moat of fire in his left. “Valda’s Spire of Secrets: Player Pack” is written at the top of the image with the D&D Beyond and Mage Hand Press Logos at the bottom right. A gold boarder surrounds the entire image.
Gunslinger vs. Warlock | A dark power gives you what you need to win – but is it black powder or a black-hearted patron? Narrowed eyes, smoking barrels. Gunslingers live on the edge, brandishing a special resource called risk dice to keep them alive by the skin of their teeth. Sworn and beholden to an otherwordly entity, warlocks skirt the boundaries of wisdom and propriety to stay one step ahead of their patron in their never-ending quest for power.
Warmage vs. Wizard | Two entirely different schools of thought – but in spellcasting, a thought can rip the world asunder. The undisputed masters of cantrips, warmages turn the most humble spells into deadly weapons via an array of tricks. Wielding a full arsenal of leveled spells, wizards wrest their power from the interwoven magic of their world by wit and rote study.
A floating calendar with April 1st circled sits in the upper half of this image. At the bottom left, there’s a mimic sticking its tongue out. A sign on the left side of it says, “Totally Not A Mimic!!!” and “Free Gold” is written on the right side of it with an arrow pointing at the Mimic. The Mage Hand Press logo sits in the center and a kobold runs off the right side with a large sack of gold.
A Large heading in the top of the image says, “Green Magic”. There’s a small italicized heading says, “Witch Subclass” below that. In the center, a cat like creature standing on two legs holds an outstretched arm for a magical bird to land on it. They’re wearing an evergreen leather shirt and a very large pointy, but floppy hat. They are carrying a small basket filled with foraged items in the left hand. A small leather bound spellbook is strapped to the left hip. At the bottom of the image is the Mage Hand Press logo: a severed hand clenches an eye, the middle finger is highlighted in red.
Paladin vs Martyr | Holy warriors called to entirely different kinds of servitude. Will you fight for what you worship, even unto death? Chosen by the gods to complete a task, martyrs are set upon a harsh, predestined path, requiring constant sacrifice. Bound by oath to stand against the forces of evil, paladins draw power from their own devotion and channel it into their weapons.
A Warmage stands heroically on a rock jetting out from the earth. They have a spectral pink sword in their right hand and a glowing pink flame in the left. They wade into battle with a golden banner floating around them.
In the center of this image is a white square, a dark green ooze is contained within. The ooze is in the shape of a sphere with objects suspended inside of it. A book with a mage hand, the skeleton of an adventurer, a shield, a skull, and some gold coins stay suspended within the Gelatinous Sphere. Above the sphere large text says “Gelatinous Sphere”. Below that, in smaller text, it says “Large Ooze, Unaligned”. Under the sphere is the Mage Hand Press logo.
Barbarian vs Warden | The heaviest slug match in our tournament pits the core game’s raging mountain of hit points against our dedicated tank class! Warriors driven by primal instinct and animal rage, barbarians face every fight head on and aren’t afraid to take one on the chin. Wardens are tanks of the battlefield that refuse to give an inch. When overwhelming enemies bear down, wardens hold the line for the party and single out targets from the crowd until the tide turns in their favor.