Bestiarum Games Unveils Toadmother Brood Collection With Modular Terrain for April

Tepozotli, Matron of the Mirewoods, is the centerpiece of Bestiarum Games' April lineup: a collection named the Brood of the Toadmother that fields Anuran Hunters, Warriors, Shamans, tadpole figures, and a set of modular Anuran Totems built to function as both scenic scatter terrain and gameplay objectives.

The company opened its March 30 preview with a direct call to atmosphere: "This month, the horrors of the Lost Continent are swelling up from the Mirewoods in the form of the Brood of the Toadmother." Tepozotli herself is described as "a grotesque swamp sovereign whose brood sprouts from the gaping holes in her back," a detail that signals the kind of visceral organic sculpting painters working with wet-blend glazes and textured basing compounds will want to sink serious bench time into.

The modular totem pieces are a particularly interesting callout. Bestiarum positioned them explicitly as both cultural markers and objective terrain, which gives painters a built-in reason to unify a paint scheme across the entire project: what reads on Tepozotli as a centerpiece can carry through to the large totems and scale all the way down to the smallest scatter pieces. That range of scale in a single thematic release doesn't come along often in boutique indie publishing.

Alongside the miniatures, Bestiarum is shipping the Lost Continent Compendium, a Faction Pack the company describes as "your one-stop shop for any lore or encounter-building related to the expedition to the Lost Continent." The compendium bundles 5e-compatible statblocks, narrative compositions, and optional rules, including an in-depth disease mechanics system. That last detail has obvious visual implications for painters leaning into the rot-and-ritual aesthetic; diseased flesh tones and thematic basing that echoes compendium content is a natural pairing.

The April Painting Competition runs on Bestiarum's standard three-week model, giving painters a window to work through the new minis before posting entries. That tight release-to-contest cycle consistently produces a fast wave of community-painted examples, which is useful for anyone still deciding how to approach a swamp-scheme before committing.

Technically, the collection hands painters a full mirewoods toolkit: amphibian skin textures, saturated ritual pigments played against muted organic tones, gloss wet-mud basing effects, and enough repeating motif work across the totem range to build weathering consistency from large centerpiece to small terrain scatter. The Anuran Shamans in particular invite the contrast-heavy ritual detailing that makes narrative miniatures worth the extra hours.

For painters who want a project that pairs directly with playable campaign content, Tepozotli's brood arrives this month with the compendium rules already matched to the sculpts.