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<blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 5002038" data-attributes="member: 326"><p>Hiya mate! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I really got a lot of work done on the Bestiary, but it all seemed to fall into the 'bottomless pit' of what needs done, partially because the book is now going to be 96 pages.</p><p></p><p>I don't see it being 100% art ready before Christmas at this rate (I'll try my best but its unlikely if I am honest).</p><p></p><p>On a more positive note I am off for a month and a half from the end of December to about mid-February. So if I don't get it ready for Xmas it will definately be ready by January.</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>Well they are directly based on them, but in saying that I've had to create all the stats out of thin air, the main inspiration has probably been Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...although I have done quite a bit of research into the Thuggee.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I had two initial starting points for the Varcolac, one was the moon swallower in Hellboy* (directly taken from the old legnds), and the other was the hybrid vampire-werewolf in Underworld. In 3.5e that might have posed a quandary, but in 4e its easy to have multiple versions of the same 'race'. So I have just been pulling all sorts of references and mixing it into a big stew. So there was some anime monster I remembered, its in there, I had an old monster used in the Creature Collection 2 (except they totally changed the concept) so its in there now in its original glory, a new version Garm (Exarch of Hel) is in there, Avagdu, etc. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>*Comics that is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Upper_Krust, post: 5002038, member: 326"] Hiya mate! :) I really got a lot of work done on the Bestiary, but it all seemed to fall into the 'bottomless pit' of what needs done, partially because the book is now going to be 96 pages. I don't see it being 100% art ready before Christmas at this rate (I'll try my best but its unlikely if I am honest). On a more positive note I am off for a month and a half from the end of December to about mid-February. So if I don't get it ready for Xmas it will definately be ready by January. Well they are directly based on them, but in saying that I've had to create all the stats out of thin air, the main inspiration has probably been Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom...although I have done quite a bit of research into the Thuggee. I had two initial starting points for the Varcolac, one was the moon swallower in Hellboy* (directly taken from the old legnds), and the other was the hybrid vampire-werewolf in Underworld. In 3.5e that might have posed a quandary, but in 4e its easy to have multiple versions of the same 'race'. So I have just been pulling all sorts of references and mixing it into a big stew. So there was some anime monster I remembered, its in there, I had an old monster used in the Creature Collection 2 (except they totally changed the concept) so its in there now in its original glory, a new version Garm (Exarch of Hel) is in there, Avagdu, etc. ;) *Comics that is. [/QUOTE]
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