Dragon 334, Malhavoc's Surprise = Ptolus

[DaveMage]

*is betting the secret is he's finally redesigning Planescape.*

That would be great...

...as long as he had the budget to do it all proper-like.

 

[Nightfall]

Erekose,

That was then. This is 3.5

Besides while I thoroughly LOVED BCD, I just think if he did a complete guide to Planescape, people would be beating down WotC doors with a stick! Lots of thick bigs one too!

As for a mega Ptlous adventure...don't see it. Mostly because he's done Banewarrens and that, it appeared, was that.

Dave Mage,

Well he's got most of S&SS resources on tap, especially now that they've killed of Scarred Lands. (Note though if they DO get to do Planescape, I'll semi-forgive them.)

 

[Macbeth]

Huh. And here I was, thinking that Iron Heros was it. Well, I don't subscribe to Dragon, so I don't know, but I look forward to somebody enlightening me.

 

[DaveMage]

Well he's got most of S&SS resources on tap, especially now that they've killed of Scarred Lands. (Note though if they DO get to do Planescape, I'll semi-forgive them.)

Yeah, but if Monte gets Planescape, I want full color and super-cool artwork!

If not Planescape, I hope it's an adventure of some kind. He's pretty good at those.

 

[A'koss]

Huh. And here I was, thinking that Iron Heros was it. Well, I don't subscribe to Dragon, so I don't know, but I look forward to somebody enlightening me.

Iron Heroes is the biggee for this year, Monte's secret project acutally won't be out until GenCon 2006. I highly doubt it will be a Ptolus campaign however and somewhat doubtful it'll be a Planescape revival, though god knows I'd snap that up in a second. We'll know soon enough I guess...

A'koss.

 

[Shemeska]

somewhat doubtful it'll be a Planescape revival, though god knows I'd snap that up in a second. We'll know soon enough I guess...

In the event that he did, I'd refer to him as Monte H Christ or Jesus Cook from that point on. *chuckle* I doubt this will be the case, but damn it would be cool and I'd shell out the cash for it immediately.

 

[A'koss]

Some annoyingly vague quotes from Monte about this...

"I've just finished my umpteen-gagillionth stat block for the product I'm working on and I don't know what makes me sadder: what a pain they are for a designer to create or what a pain they are for a DM to use."

Q: "Will there be a big adventure book for Malhavoc?" (...)
A: "There's something big on the horizon. It's not quite that, but it does have a LOT of adventuring material in it, so the answer is... maybe kinda."

On comparing his new secret project to AE: "In that sense, the new product is going to be even snazzier [in terms of colour/layout quality]. Lots snazzier, in fact. But the products' contents are kind of apples and oranges. "

Cheers!

Addendum: Monte also made a comment (IIRC) that he figures this will be the single largest RPG product a single author has ever done.

 

[Axegrrl]

A bestiary for AE and Iron Heroes, perhaps? Has there been anything that would contraindicate a book-o-monsters?

 

[Troll Wizard]

Some annoyingly vague quotes from Monte about this...

"I've just finished my umpteen-gagillionth stat block for the product I'm working on and I don't know what makes me sadder: what a pain they are for a designer to create or what a pain they are for a DM to use."

Q: "Will there be a big adventure book for Malhavoc?" (...)
A: "There's something big on the horizon. It's not quite that, but it does have a LOT of adventuring material in it, so the answer is... maybe kinda."

On comparing his new secret project to AE: "In that sense, the new product is going to be even snazzier [in terms of colour/layout quality]. Lots snazzier, in fact. But the products' contents are kind of apples and oranges. "

Cheers!

Addendum: Monte also made a comment (IIRC) that he figures this will be the single largest RPG product a single author has ever done.

Hmm sounds like expansion material and/or 3.5 update to the epic level handbook or an epic level campaign setting. The stat blocks and flavor text would have be almost page size for each NPC and monster.

 

[A'koss]

A bestiary for AE and Iron Heroes, perhaps? Has there been anything that would contraindicate a book-o-monsters?

He said is was definitely not an AE product and there is already a (albeit, somewhat light) Iron Heroes MM we already know about. We know it'll have a lot of adventures in it but not be an adventure per se so it must be something like a campaign setting. If he's going to promote it a full year before it's release you can bet it won't be something mundane.

A'koss.