Hi Alzrius mate!
Alzrius said:
An idea that is certainly intruiging, if nothing else.
Appreciate the interest mate.
Alzrius said:
The thing to consider is that epic creatures are themselves something of a "niche" product.
Agreed.
I anticipate about 20-25% of DMs own the Epic Level Handbook and of those about 20-25% actually play such a campaign.
Alzrius said:
Most campaigns don't make it to epic level (I've seen some DMs even say that dislike epic material altogether).
Thats all fair and well.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
Alzrius said:
Given that, most DMs will only need so many epic creatures to begin with...64 seems to fill that need quite nicely, putting in more...well, I don't know...
Well like I said those 64 are in the Immortals Handbook itself (in the bestiary section).
Additional Monsters would require another supplement...think along the lines of a Legions of Hell/Armies of the Abyss sized supplement (maybe a bit bigger than those actually but you get the idea).
Alzrius said:
This isn't to say I'm not interested in such a product...I'd love to see it, especially since your work seems to be top-notch, I'm just trying to objectively ascertain how much of a call for even more epic monsters there'd be.
You could be right, although I would like to think that if the monsters were interesting enough people would buy it.
We will see how the Immortals Handbook Bestiary section is greeted.
Alzrius said:
It really depends on several factors that we don't have yet. Your IH could drum up interest to the point where people would be scrambling over themselves for more epic monsters.
I hope it will do its part.
I imagine we will see a number of epic based products once the SRD is updated (at least I am hoping so because I want to buy some that are not of my own pen).
Alzrius said:
Likewise, it also depends on price, the CRs of such monsters (low epic? high epic?), etc.
There is a good pyramid of Monsters in the IH Bestiary from around CR 30* to around CR 1000+. Obviously there are more monsters of the relatively lower CRs. Though I still have a decent amount of monsters around CR 100+ since the ELH also caters for monsters between about CR 20 - 100.
*For the record my CR 30 is akin to WotCs CR 20...you just divide by 2/3 to get the WotC comparable CR.
I would engineer any future supplement in a similar fashion.