10 more creatures added to the CC

[Cleon]

Absolutely. We should probably stick with Shade's batch of 10 per week, which means we can catch up in about 1/3 of a year! Well, as long as we're still doing these weird slow conversions.

I don't mind posting my batches faster than that, assuming I can find the time, if it's OK by you.

Still, it's not like it's a race or anything.

 

[freyar]

I had thought the same thing, just to clear out the backlog. But there's a good reason to wait a week between batches, which is to let each new conversion spend enough time in the "Last 10 Conversions" list and consequently on the CC homepage. I think we should continue that policy. As long as we can keep up with weekly updates, I think we'll get caught up.

 

[Cleon]

I had thought the same thing, just to clear out the backlog. But there's a good reason to wait a week between batches, which is to let each new conversion spend enough time in the "Last 10 Conversions" list and consequently on the CC homepage. I think we should continue that policy. As long as we can keep up with weekly updates, I think we'll get caught up.

Well, let's see whether we can cope with 10 a week before worrying about making it faster!

 

[Echohawk]

Ten per week is good release rate for me. Even at that rate, the backlog will shrink rapidly!

 

[Cleon]

Some Fine Furry Friends!

Racing into the creature catalog comes a batch of wild animals and magical beasts native to the Prime Material Plane.

Stalking in the lead come four felines: the prehistoric spotted lion, the jungle-haunting jaguar, the cunning giant lynx of the taiga forests, and the small but ferocious wild cat. Swimming behind them is the lissom "water beast" potamotherium and its giant cousin the dire otter. Crashing through the jungle thickets comes the elephantine onco, watched from the branches by the dawdling tree sloth. Scurrying at the tail-end are two supernatural rodents: the desert's water-dowsing jarbo and the illusion-weaving spectramouse.

 

[Cleon]

Beware The Were!

This week we unleash a pack of lycanthropes. The first of these terrible beasts lurks within the dire lycanthrope template, the dire werewolf. The rest are the earthy werebadger (including the dire werebadger); the thick-skulled werebison; the stoic werecamel; the noble werelion and the malevolent dire werelion; the ox-sized weresheep; the deadly sabre-toothed weresmilodon (with the mighty sabrelord); the shaggy-coated ground weresloth (including the giant weresloth) and its arboreal cousin the tree weresloth; and finally, the lissome wereweasel and the bloodthirsty dire wereweasel.

 

[freyar]

Fire!

Don't yell it in a crowded theater, but that's what these critters are about. Blazozoids roam space, living ash blend fire and negative energy, and flame ropers guard the palaces of efreeti. This batch also includes magical beasts (flame swallows and gaunds), a plant (the firethorn), and elementals for summoning (the fire phantom and the least, lesser, and greater flame spirits).

 

[ksbsnowowl]

Did the Creature Catalog crash and burn? I haven't been able to load it for over two weeks now. I've tried from multiple computers.

 

[Cleon]

Did the Creature Catalog crash and burn? I haven't been able to load it for over two weeks now. I've tried from multiple computers.

The ISP who hosted it switched the relevant server off.

Darjr had a backup of it and put it on a different server, but it was only a temporary measure while he transfers it to somewhere more permanent.

Once he's finished reviving the CC I'll post a news item on it to explain what's happened and add some housecleaning updates that have been waiting for some time.

There's some more info on the What To Do About The Creature Catalog Being Down thread.