[DreamReality Press] Encyclopedia of Creatures Vol. 1 Preview!

[Y.O.Morales]

Amazing picture, uh?

Then click here to download this dragon's statistics in a 10 pages (1.3 MB) preview of Encyclopedia of Creatures Vol. 1, which will feature over 40 highly-original monster. The e-book will available in a month or so. Meanwhile, feel free to browse our website or to send your comments to contact@dreamrealitypress.com

[Krug]

Some comments:
Do without the gradient at the back and just use plain black and white text. The monsters can still be in colour. Or have a B&W version as well with your PDF.

Needs some tighter editing and some of the sentences don't flow very well. eg: Page 5, you call the Graveworm a Gravemole, unless the Gravemole is some other creature you're refering to.

The Nebula Dragon description looks sparse. Is that it? Even the Robonite gets more pages than that!

[Kitsunekaboom]

I like the Robonites, they might see some play sometime perhaps.

[JoeGKushner]

Editing and proofreading need to be kicked up a notch.

I may be mistaken, for example, but undead is both singular and plurar isn't it? undeads just sounds so wrong as on page 4 of the graveworm description, "Both adventurers and undeads..."

Sense Corpse seems a little off too. "Not only graveworms..." Is that supposed to be "Not only are graveworms" ?

Outside of that, the art seems colorful, remdinds me of Minions.

[thundershot]

Pros: I love the format! I wish all monster books had as much info as this! The creatures are, for the most part, unique. The art is superb and colorful. Reminds me of Oathbound.

Cons: Definitely needs some editing. Also, you might want to avoid using Beasts, since they're going to end up getting turned into Animals or, more appropriately, Magical Beasts. The worst thing I can possibly say is that I would MUCH rather have a book like this in print rather than PDF.


Chris

[jmucchiello]

This belongs in the D20 publishers thread. It is a press release, after all.

[Y.O.Morales]

(Its good to have your old computer working again. Sorry for not being able to reply soone,r but here I go

Krug:
The preview that everyone saw was the screen version. We are planning to do a B&W version with no page background or headers and no color fonts, as we did with Scales and Furs.
As for the gravemole, that was the previous name of this monster. It accidentaly slipped in this preveiw.
The nebula dragon's description looks sparse because the rest of the info (organization, treasure, etc,) is explained in the Cosmic Dragon's general desc.

JoeGKushner: We ARE needing a better editor. If anyone is willing to do some freelancing editing for us, then email contact@dreamrealitypress.com

Thundershot: We also wish to have this book in print, but with a sole version that compiles all four volumes. For now, the POD (print on demand) version is the closest thing that you can get.

(Thanks everybody for your good comments)

[Y.O.Morales]

One more thing:

The cosmic dragons are 10 in total, and they take approx. 25 pages together. Here is the list, from the less powerful to the most, um, intimidating:

Good dragons:
Moon
Pulsar
Nebula
Star
Sun

Evil Dragons:
Meteor
Comet
Nova
Supernova
Darkmatter

[thundershot]

No offense, but I'll seriously wait for the print version. Something like this would get a lot of use, and it wouldn't be feasable for me to just get the pdfs.

Can't wait though!


Thanks!
Chris

[thundershot]

Just checking in to see how progress is going with this book.



Thanks
Chris