Creature Catalog to be Published

[Grazzt]

Basically the compilations are offline for now due to various reasons, one being the new conversion policy. Even though the site is 99% compliant now, there are still a few things I am working out with WotC and such. The compilations are NOT one of them, but I just don't feel comfortable putting them back up until I am sure the CC is 100% compliant.

 

[smetzger]

Basically the compilations are offline for now due to various reasons, one being the new conversion policy. Even though the site is 99% compliant now, there are still a few things I am working out with WotC and such. The compilations are NOT one of them, but I just don't feel comfortable putting them back up until I am sure the CC is 100% compliant.

Scott, has WOTC said you can use a link to the OGL on your website? I know that WOTC does, but both the Conversion Agreement and the OGL don't allow you to do this.

 

[Gez]

Si, instead of a one-pdf compilation, why not offering a one-zip (I prefer the rar format myself, BTW) compilation ? It's easier to manage (with Windows and WinRAR, simple, each time there's an update, you just select the directories with a mouse-made box, right click, "Add to archive...". Or you can make a batch file that do that and just run it. Same thing with Linux: "tar -czf cc.tgz cc/" inside a .sh file, and here you go) than remaking a single PDF each time, yet it's more convenient to download than having to grab each file individually from the browser (which I did for the HTML version and images, since I'm not a fan of the slow PDF format).

 

[Grazzt]

Scott, has WOTC said you can use a link to the OGL on your website? I know that WOTC does, but both the Conversion Agreement and the OGL don't allow you to do this.

Can't really dicuss things exactly, but suffice to say that the click-through to the Conversion pages is sufficient and brings the CC into compliance as stated to me by the WotC people.

 

[Orcus]

I think you all will be happy with the published version of Scott's Creature Catalog. We are coming along. The product is not 100% go yet, but it is real close. I am working a few final things out with WotC.

Here are a few things:

*New Name: The Tome of Horrors (subtitle: A Fiendish Folio of Creatures)
*hardback
*Over 400 total monsters (thats right)
*Single page layout per monster (for all monsters except animals and hazards, etc)
*Over 40 new monsters not even on Scott's site
*There will be NO overlap with the MM2. We are working with WotC and there wont be anything in ours that is in theirs, and vice versa.
*All original monsters from Necromancer Games products (about 20) will be there.
*It will all be open content with instructions on how other publishers can use the monsters and do the legal stuff properly
*All original authors will be credited and a nod will be given to original source material.
*Chock full of juicy 1E goodness bringing conversions of all your favorites that WotC left out of 3E from the original MM2, the original MM, the original FF and even some from some old modules.

Clark

 

[kenjib]

(subtitle: A Fiendish Folio of Creatures)

Hehe - nice nod to the old skoolers. This sounds like a heck of a book. Now for the true FF litmus test - will it have the flumph?

 

[smetzger]

Hehe - nice nod to the old skoolers. This sounds like a heck of a book. Now for the true FF litmus test - will it have the flumph?

And will it be malevolent or benign?

 

[Grazzt]

And will it be malevolent or benign?

LOL- yeppers, it will definately be a "Tome of Creatures Malevolent and Benign"