Pointy Hat Cooks Up A Monster Kickstarter With “Wild Hearth”

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If you’ve ever slain an owlbear or decapitated a demon and wondered, “What would this actually taste like sautéed with some garlic and butter?”, you’re not alone. Popular TTRPG animator, designer and YouTuber Antonio Demico (better known to the community as Pointy Hat) has officially brought his culinary and kingdom-crafting dreams to life with Wild Hearth: Cooking Monsters & Building Towns in D&D.

The Kickstarter – which is inspired by franchises like Delicious in Dungeon, Breath of the Wild and Studio Ghibli – has already racked up over $2.5 million USD from tens of thousands of hungry backers. Fully compatible with both the 2014 D&D 5E rules and revised 2024 D&D 5.5E rulesets, Wild Hearth flips the script on traditional downtime. Instead of glossing over rest periods between dungeon delves, the project’s two supplements transform foraging, monster harvesting, farming and construction into core gameplay loops.

Below, we sharpen our cleavers, stoke the hearth fires and take a look at what’s on the menu.

What is the Wild Hearth Kickstarter?

Wild Hearth is a two-volume supplement system designed to give adventuring parties a tangible stake in the world around them. Instead of hauling sacks of loot back to generic taverns, characters can butcher felled monsters, harvest magical ingredients, cultivate living crops, cook transformative dishes with mechanical buffs, and build an entire settlement from the ground up.

The project itself is split into two books:

• Wild Hearth: A Recipe for Heroes (240+ pages): The player- and GM-facing core rules book. It introduces modular mechanics for harvesting and monster cooking, a dynamic farming engine (where you can even cultivate botanical combat companions), new ancestries, backgrounds, feats, culinary magic items, fresh spells, a lineup of 15 brand-new subclasses, and an entirely original Necromancer class.
• Wild Hearth: A Blueprint for Adventure (300+ pages): A GM companion packed with town-building mechanics, wilderness exploration frameworks, an extensive bestiary of new creatures to hunt, streamlined “Cooking Lite” rules and eight full-length adventures tailored to test both combat prowess and domestic prowess.

To make settlement development even more immersive, the campaign also features modular, screen-printed wooden buildings and terrain props that physically snap together and align directly to standard 1-inch tactical battle maps.

What are the backer options for the Wild Hearth Kickstarter?

While the two supplements are the core draw of the project, like other high-profile Kickstarters there are also a number of bonus accessories. Key backer options are as follows:

• PDF ($60 USD): Includes digital versions of both A Recipe for Heroes and A Blueprint for Adventure.
• Dual Book ($99 USD): Standard hardcover editions of both core books, along with their matching PDF versions.
• Game Ready ($159 USD): Includes both physical hardcovers and PDFs, as well as a GM screen, map pack, printed player handouts and DM combat cheat sheets.
• Digital Deluxe ($199 USD): A complete digital bundle featuring both book PDFs, printable handout packages and pre-configured VTT integration for your platform of choice (Alchemy, Foundry VTT, Roll20, or Shard Tabletop).
• Core ($299 USD): Includes both core books, full map packs, item card decks, combat cheat sheets, the Cakewalk bonus book, a custom set of “Azulejos” dice, and your choice of one wooden Town Origin set (such as the Heroes’ Hamlet) with screen-printed modular wooden buildings and props.
• Deluxe ($495 USD): Everything in the Core bundle, upgraded with faux-leather foil-stamped Deluxe Collector’s editions of both hardcovers, a physical Art of Wild Hearth book, GM screen and matching themed dice and chopstick sets.
• All In ($795 USD): Contains every physical and digital accessory created for the project, complete VTT packages, all modular wooden town origins and miniature sets.

Who is Pointy Hat?

Pointy Hat is the online alias and creative brand of Antonio Demico, a popular TTRPG content creator, animator, writer and game designer. Demico first gained widespread acclaim across the tabletop community through his highly produced YouTube channel, where he combines animation, comedic storytelling and thoughtful game critique. His channel is widely celebrated for its unique D&D homebrew content, which features custom game rules, monsters and character options

Notably, Demico also operates an online store that sells a variety of merchandise, including apparel, accessories, TTRPG supplements and original art. Wild Hearth, however, marks the very first crowdfunding campaign for Demico and the Pointy Hat brand.

Final thoughts

Pointy Hat has earned a well-deserved reputation for mixing TTRPG art and design in unique and flavorful ways. And while other supplements have explored crafting, cooking and settlement building before, Wild Hearth feels like it has the potential to be serve up something truly special.

We’ll be keeping a close eye on the project in the weeks ahead. In the meantime, you can back the campaign from now until October 19, 2026 on Kickstarter.