Hey guys!
RuleMaster said:
Regarding the hit dice I've got a question: The Half-Dragon Template mentions the following line: "Increase base creature’s racial HD by one die size, to a maximum of d12." With your rules, would this maximum be abolished, so the hierarchy gets expanded to d12->d20->d100->d1000->d10000 etc.?
The maximum for a half-dragon would still be d12 though.
historian said:
Hey U_K!
Hiya mate!
historian said:
Of course not and, ironically, as long as the mistakes are obvious enough they have no substantive import.
Nevertheless I hate mistakes.
historian said:
Many folks will clamor that these "overpowered" critters have no practical value because they are overpowered. I tend to disagree. For one thing you have littered the work with general ideas about how to include these things in lower-powered campaigns.
Net, net, I'm not sure you can go too powerful unless you can't explain why the hell the thing exists in the first place. Seeing that you have that covered I say fire away.
Of course, I'm also sympathetic to the fact that the neutronium golem's entry came at the sacrifice of some likely less powerful and arguably more useful entry. But it seems as though everyone has taken to it rather well.
The Neutronium Golem is an exercise in stretching the imaginations of what people thought was possible with d20.
If you only give people monsters up to CR 66, then many people will see that as a parameter/threshold of power. I remember reading threads over in wizards epic forums where people believed that the only being more powerful than the Great Wyrm Prismatic Dragon was GOD.
historian said:
I'd been meaning to needle you about that one for some time. Well done I must say. I might slap on the Paragon and Dire templates to approximate our buddy from another genre.
Or you could just give him lots of levels (about 100 maybe).
historian said:
I will admit to being puzzled by the alignment previously. I just failed to mention it.
How I missed that I'll never know.
historian said:
Oh, and another irony, the quality of the work is such that you have created additional demand for forthcoming products. While this is good for you in both the artistic and hopefully financial sense, it is likely to result in additional pressure to complete all projects by your loyal albeit enthusiastic (rabid) fan base.
I hope you're ready for the push dude.
Well I'll be looking to turnover new products in a matter of weeks not months.
Eversius said:
I think the listing for damage reduction for a Wyrmling Nexus Dragon is a little wacky.
You're not wrong, flippin heck that needs attention.
jmucchiello said:
No, no. It's the "by virtue of being in the SRD or some other OGC source" in you OGC declaration. I don't think it passes the "clear designation" required by the OGL since I have to read all other OGC sources to know if something is OGC or not. But there are several other Publishers who use that phrasing and they haven't been sued by WotC yet. As I said it was esoteric.
Why would that impede you from wanting to purchase it though?
jmucchiello said:
Well, like I said, I was just wanting to have one product out there, to have something to show for myself and then, talk to publishers about future products.
jmucchiello said:
Especially since you've already acquired artwork and layout.
Well I didn't 'acquire' it as much as I...did it all myself.
jmucchiello said:
Wouldn't have been much for me to do except a quick edit and make corrections to the legal stuff.
Regarding legal stuff, would you mind if I emailed/private messaged you to double-check I have 6.0 sorted properly this time.
jmucchiello said:
Though I haven't done print yet, I do have a project (in production nearly as long as the IH) with another writer that I will have printed.
Good luck with that.
Alzrius said:
A few things on that note. One, it'd be nice if the templates had level adjustments listed for the template entry itself. That is, tell us how much of a level adjustment the entire Amidah template is, not just Alabaster's ECL, for example.
Okay, I'll sort that out.
Alzrius said:
I'll also reiterate my desire that you use the blank (save for the dedication) second page as a way to input more text. It's largely wasted space now when you could be telling us more about Alabaster and his swords.
Thats meant to represent the inside cover, so that when people print it out, the majority of the double-page monster entries are on facing pages.
I'm not sure what I could put on the inside cover. I can't really expand Alabasters entry onto it without making a dog's dinner of the layout.
Alzrius said:
Alabaster is able to have his natural weapons (and have his melee weapons) strike as epic for purposes of overcoming damage reduction...how?
Alzrius said:
Nimrod has the Evil subtype. I can't see what's granting that to him.
Oops.
Alzrius said:
The Flaga template itself should mention in the "Size and Type" line that it adds the Extraplanar subtype also, and that the creature is now a native of (one of) the Upper Planes (though I wonder if "Upper Planes" is WotC IP also). It should also say that it grants the Augmented subtype.
Indeed.
Alzrius said:
Alabaster is listed as being a "Medium Undead (Undead)". Needless to say, the Undead subtype is superfluous. Ditto for Nimrod.
Okay.
Alzrius said:
The adult titanium dragon above Table D-27 still has a Special Quality called Adamantite Traits.
Sorted.
Alzrius said:
Syzygy's alignment can be listed as "Chaotic Neutral" instead of "always chaotic neutral" since there's only one of him. Ditto for Belias ("Chaotic Evil"),
Thanks a million dude!