Another Immortals Handbook thread

[Upper_Krust]

Hey Ulitharid_Lord matey!

I like it. Though I was expecting Netronium Golem or Nexus Dragon, but Seraphim and Amiliciti are good too.

Basically wanted to represent the two main groups of dimensional guardians detailed within the Bestiary. Unfortunately the Elementars won't appear until Volume 1.5, so that meant I had to represent an Angel and one other. Of course I wanted something that says epic in terms of scale and a unique look, and the Seraphim does both I think. It also pretty much covers the dragon side of things. With the Seraphim being good, I sort of wanted the opponent to be evil, and it also had to be able to match the Seraphim hand to hand (in the illutration at least, if not the stats themselves). So I needed something approx. 200+ feet tall and evil. The amilictli seemed the obvious and perhaps only choice.

The Tarrasque being steped on is a nice touch.

The Amiliciti brings a new meaning to losing your temper.

I forgot to pack his angry eyes, but hes quite an interesting looking monster.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hiya mate!

Don't let my underenthusiastic post fool you, I think it's awesome. Angels rock, esspecially angels as actually described in the bible, which tend to be FAR cooler than mere people with wings. Albeit, you've swapped the descriptions of Cherubim and Seraphim, but still.

There are so many iterations of these angels and their hierarchies that you could write a book about them.

I simply chose the most widely accepted forms for those angels.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey Sledge mate!

So does that mean, it's done? Finished? Ready?

Not quite. If I had an uninterrupted Friday things could get finished tonight. But alas I am going to be unavoidably out of the house most of today, so I'll probably only get 3-4 hours done at best and I probably need about 12 hours of work to finish everything.

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey all!

Can anyone tell me if they can see the website okay? Specifically the

http://www.immortalshandbook.com

and

http://www.immortalshandbook.com/immortalshandbook.htm

pages.

 

[Ulitharid_Lord]

Hey all!

Can anyone tell me if they can see the website okay? Specifically the

http://www.immortalshandbook.com

and

http://www.immortalshandbook.com/immortalshandbook.htm

pages.

I can see it okay. I checked the art galleries too, and the pictures are showing up fine.

 

[Zoatebix]

It looks good to me. The preview of the cover image makes loading http://www.immortalshandbook.com/ a bit lengthy on dial-up, but they're both displaying a-okay.
-G

 

[Pssthpok]

We have visual.

 

[Sledge]

It's up! Yay!
So is it done yet?

 

[Upper_Krust]

Hey all!

Okay I am glad the website is working again. Sorry about having such a big picture on the main page Zoatebix mate. I'm just so used to broadband, and the people I asked about the site on msn all said it loaded virtually immediately, so I never thought much of it.

Basically all I need to do is copy up the last notes I made tonight and we are virtually there, except for the following details.

1. I cannot update to the new Dungeon magazine/DMG 2 format. Even though someone was kind enough to send me the previously requested fonts (ScalaSans Bold and ScalaSans Italic), and they worked great, it then became apparent that they did not integrate well with my ScalaSans LFRegular. LFRegular looks identical to ScalaSans Bold - how was I to know.

So if I don't get ScalaSans tomorrow you will all have to wait until a revised version is done before I can change the format for individual characters.

This may be something to undertake with regards an update. So if there is a version a few weeks down the line fixing any errata I can always update the unique character format too.

2. The cover needs a background to diffuse the flat colour. At this point in time I am thinking of having a black cover with gold text. With the image roughly across the middle. However I need some sort of appropriate background image which I can make 50% grey and set on top of a flat black.

This raises the issue of whether or not a very black heavy cover is a good thing for a pdf to have. Its a bit toner unfriendly for anyone wanting to print it out, but then again how many people print out the covers to their pdfs at home? What do the rest of you think about this point? I tested every colour against the illustration and black background with gold text easily looked the best. For the Immortals Handbook itself I am think more along the lines of a predominantly white cover, but the current incarnation of the Bestiary appears to work best with black.

3. As yet I have not changed the Adamantite and Mithril Dragon names to Titanium and Platinum respectively (sorry Alzrius mate). It may still happen, but only if I get everything else sorted to my satisfaction first sometime tomorrow.

So basically I have about 2-3 hours of typing up notes. Then sort the cover background out and basically thats it.

The revised format change is out of my hands, and the Dragon name change may happen but thats also optional.

With regards where its going on sale. I think as of Monday morning I will have it on sale at my website, and hopefully by Monday afternoon I can have ENworld and RPGNow sorted as well.

I have emailed Drivethrurpg, but as yet have had no reply. I couldn't find any links on their website about becoming a vendor so I was forced to email customer service and ask them how to go about it. With this unorthodox approach they may not have taken me seriously (I emailed them a week ago)? Maybe I should post in their forums. Does anyone know anything about becoming a drivethrurpg vendor? Its weird, because the other sites have easy to follow details but I just couldn't find anything about it on drivethru.

 

[Alzrius]

3. As yet I have not changed the Adamantite and Mithril Dragon names to Titanium and Platinum respectively (sorry Alzrius mate). It may still happen, but only if I get everything else sorted to my satisfaction first sometime tomorrow.

Don't give up on that U_K! Of all the points you listed, that one is the easiest to tackle! I still hold that those are the sorts of subtle changes that'll help make the product a great one!