One Bad Egg: "Hatching the Best Stuff for D&D"

madwabbit

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New 4e product publishing company:

One Bad Egg, LLC is a new venture from the folks at Evil Hat Productions and Blue Devil Games to rock your Dungeons & Dragons Fourth Edition experience. Over the next few years, you’ll see One Bad Egg produce a series of quality PDF products (including our Worldseeds™ line) with an eye on giving you lots of fun new options for your game. We’ll also be turning those PDFs into printed books when we achieve critical mass, whether by popular demand or quantity of ideas. So what might you get from a One Bad Egg product?


For one, you won’t see us churning out laundry lists of magic items and endless hordes of feats. At One Bad Egg, we’re committed to supercharging your game with non-stop story ideas. We are the company that looks at a Ring of Invisibility and is unsatisfied until that ring gains a story and becomes the One Ring. That’s the kind of thing we’re talking about here.


You’ll also see us rebooting the idea of what game supplements have to be about. We’re looking to collaborate with you as brother and sister gamers, not constrain you. As you’ll see with our Worldseeds™ line, we’re going for something highly modular here- a drag-and-drop setting material experience. Buy what you like, discard the rest. We won’t weigh you down with massive metaplots and huge settings that tell DMs “be careful: your story might diverge from ours.” We’re here to tell you, “Here is high octane fuel for the engine of your own story. Now go driving.


And whenever possible, we’ll invite you “behind the curtain” to see what we’re doing. There’s no old-school paranoia going on here. We welcome the public, and want to collaborate with you. Because at the end of the day, we game because we love it, and we know you do too. Join us!
 
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Release Schedules

We're still feeling our way around capacity (and ramping up), but we're hoping we can hit a (somewhat irregular) something-every-two-weeks-ish schedule, so you'll see two or three some-kind-of-PDF from us each week.

Thanks for your interest, and please do drop on by the site. :)
 


I took a look at your first seed, the Shroud, very, very cool.

When will it be out?

"It" won't be out so much as we'll be using it as a context for a number of PDFs we'll be releasing over the course of this year and next. The first PDF for it, "Races of the Shroud: The Apelord" will be out within the next couple days.
 



Just bought the apelord download and overall I like it. A few disclaimers. One, I have not yet read the whoe PDF. Two, I love monkeys/apes/etc. From what I have read, the race looks very playable. My gut feeling is that they would fit best in some sort of Swords and Sorcery game. I really like that OBE went so far as to include new racial feats as they put the apelord on par with the PHB races in a way that the MM appendix races are not (yet). I also love that several MM style entries are presented for the apelord. I suspect these will see more use in my own game than will the playable race itself. There are several adventure seeds that I have not read. Only three qualms with the product. One, the race gets a bonus to two physical stats (I'm not sure if other 4E races do or not, but to my memory they do not, and I am a slave to needless symmetry). Two, I would have loved some more artwork, and maybe something a little slicker (I am a slave to Paizo's top notch production values). Three (and this is not really a complaint), I'd love to see what they could do for other intelligent monkeys, you know, the little guys with tails.
 

Just looked at the apelord as well, and it looks good. Good production value, some useful material and a playable race. Much more for DMs than players really with all the monsters. Really llike the concept of the Shroud, but not so much the apemen. Not a big fan of apemen. But well done, guys, for a good first product! I'm hoping to get a review up on RPGNow in the next few days.

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