Bastion Press News

[Jim Butler]

Greetings! Here's what we've been up to at the salt mines of Bastion:

VILLAINS ON SALE NOW!
Villains is now on sale at the Bastion Press website. If you're looking for a rogues' gallery of evil that will fit perfectly into your campaign, you won't want to miss Villains.

Shipping is free anywhere in the world. Just select the Ground option.

http://www.bastionpress.com/Products/villains.htm

e-VILLAINS ON SALE
e-Villains, the online companion to our full Villains product (written by James Jacobs), is now available for download! This 24-page, full-color PDF includes four more villains that are a perfect fit for your campaign. Ranging in Challenge Ratings from 4-20, these villains are the perfect complement for your campaign and an exciting challenge to your world's heroes.

24 pages, full-color, 371k PDF; $5.99

https://www.swreg.org/soft_shop/2258/shopscr5.shtml

ARMS & ARMOR ERRATA ONLINE
It’s one of those inescapable facts of the publishing business that no matter how hard you try and release a perfect product, forces conspire against you to ensure that mistakes creep into a product. Some of these errors crept in during typesetting, while others were just missed by both us and our playtesters. We apologize for the inconvenience of having to refer to this errata, and we’ll work to correct these errors in the event of a reprint of Arms & Armor.

http://www.bastionpress.com/Products/armsandarmor.htm

STREET DATES FINALIZED
We've finalized our street dates with Osseum Entertainment, our fulfillment partner. Here's when you should expect to see Bastion Press products in your favorite local hobby store:

Alchemy & Herbalists: May
Spells & Magic: June
Oathbound: Domains of the Forge: September
Guildcraft: November

BASTION PRESS TO BE AT GAME STORM
Stop by and visit us at Game Storm (Portland, OR) next weekend, March 8-10th. For more information about Game Storm, visit their website:

http://www.pdxgames.com/

ONLINE PDF CURRENT RELEASES
e-Minions, by Wolfgang Baur, Jim Butler, Greg Dent, and more! Bandits, by Rhys Hess [Adventure for levels 2-4] Danger in Deadwood, by Brannon Hollingsworth [Adventure for levels 4-6] e-Villains, by James Jacobs

http://www.bastionpress.com/PDF store.htm

PDF RELEASES COMING SOON
February: Where Dark Elves Rule, by Steven Creech [Adventure]
April: Bloodhollow, by Steve Montano [Adventure]
April: The Lore of the Gods, Book One: The Greek Olympians, by Steven Creech and Kevin Walker [Sourcebook}

PRODUCTS AVAILABLE NOW!
Minions: Fearsome Foes, by Greg Dent
Arms & Armor, by Greg Dent
Villains, by James Jacobs

http://www.bastionpress.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=BPS

PRODUCTS AVAILABLE SOON
May: Alchemy and Herbalists, by Steven Schend
June: Spells & Magic, by Joe Crow, Lee Hammock, and Sam Witt
September: Oathbound: Domains of the Forge, by Greg Dent, Jim Butler, and Todd Morasch
November: Guildcraft, by Wes Nicholson

For more information about our upcoming releases, visit us at our
website:

http://www.bastionpress.com/products.htm

 

[Kaptain_Kantrip]

Review of Bastion Press Releases

Hi! Bought "Arms & Armor" today and enjoyed it very much, except for having to hand-write in all the errata in the book's margins... DOH! The errata wasn't too bad, although I can't find the iron brush on the weapons chart to change it to iron comb... Was this omitted?

The book, while pricey at $24.95 for 96 pages, is justified by its full color interior and slick glossy paper, as well as the sheer *amount* of information crammed in between its covers. In fact, there is so much new stuff, I don't know what to use first! I really liked the Executioner's Sword (1d12, 20/x4) and Bloodaxe (2d8, 20/x3). The War Fork (1d12, 19-20/x2) looks a bit like the staff of the deathsong in the DMG. It looks great!

My only gripe (except for the errata, LOL) is that some of the weapons and armors were not illustrated. I know, you can't squeeze 'em all in, and some don't need a picture as they are easily understood, but some of the weird ones were not depicted.

I'm looking forward to your Alchemy and Spells books!

 

[Jim Butler]

Thanks for the kind words!

We had a long talk about how much artwork to include. I think we finally ended at 127 illustrations. Todd Morasch (my art director and lead artist on the project) had wanted to put in more, but there just wasn't room without micro-sizing the type or dropping entries all together.

 

[Kaptain_Kantrip]

You're welcome! Praise where praise is due, after all. The book delivers everything it advertised and more (a rarity as always in any business). I'm plugging Arms & Armor for ya in a poll in the General Forum, Jim!

 

[JoeGKushner]

E-Collection?

Will there ever be a collection of the various E-supplements? I'm interested in them, but don't want to buy 'em and then print 'em out. I'd rather just have some type of collection preprinted and prebound.

 

[Jim Butler]

Re: E-Collection?

Will there ever be a collection of the various E-supplements? I'm interested in them, but don't want to buy 'em and then print 'em out. I'd rather just have some type of collection preprinted and prebound.

Wel, I'm too wise to say the 'never' word, but we don't have any plans to compile them into a product right now. Many of our e-releases are designed to augment the print releases, and they'd make for pretty small supplements on their own (and they wouldn't fit seemlessly together, either).