MazzelDazzle
Villager
As a Non-Regular, I'll happily pay my way. I've been a long time admirer of your work. Even if you're selling them at-cost, I definitely want to support the history of IH past and future 
DefinitelyYou have to take the good with the bad and roll with it amigo.
Nice!Ascension is 162 pages but might bump it up to 168-176 ish. Have some extra artwork.
Np!I appreciate it Beefy!![]()
Yeah you'll probably need to condense that, a few pages is fine, but unless it's like the various Starshadow, Quasar, Firmament, Mirrorwarp etc dragons or something, generally no one wants to read 15 pages of "Skeletons" for example. Much less 30.What annoys me is that in 1st Ed. the Monster Manuals and Deities & Demigods would have 4 monsters or gods per page. Now, if lucky I can get one epic monster onto 2 pages.
Imagine I do a book that includes the Umbrals...its going to be 30 pages of shadowy blob monsters, whereas in the past you could probably squeeze that into 5-6 pages in 1st Ed.
You know, I agree to a degree, but I think there is a solid niche market for people who really enjoy the long character sheets with incredible power. The main issue I've seen and had to deal with running multiple IH campaigns is a lack of counterbalance.Those two books will be amazing...eventually. Just hoping I don't turn it into three books in 2023.
But 5E does appear to be extremely playable at crazy levels* - whereas in contrast I just think 3.5E has WAY too many feats/divine abilities/spells/skills/metamagic and its just going to put typical gamers off...and I know you guys are not typical gamers (neither was I back in my pomp).
*You see a lot of threads where someone says 5E is unplayable at high level, but if you examine what they are saying; 75% of the time its that the monsters are not challenging...mine will be.
Yeah you'll probably need to condense that, a few pages is fine, but unless it's like the various Starshadow, Quasar, Firmament, Mirrorwarp etc dragons or something, generally no one wants to read 15 pages of "Skeletons" for example. Much less 30.
You know, I agree to a degree, but I think there is a solid niche market for people who really enjoy the long character sheets with incredible power.
[/QUOTE]The main issue I've seen and had to deal with running multiple IH campaigns is a lack of counterbalance.
And sometimes abilities not working with pre-established conventions.
So, for example, the 3.5 Epic Handbooks half cocked magic system and the Ascension magic system in tandem allows for hundreds of spells to be cast per round, and it can get extremely pedantic and game breaking, or the 7th 8th 9th etc Sense powers.
I've had to totally rewrite those to make them playable, and invariably you get "clever" players who think they'll make some unstoppable cheese character by going down that path and I'll have to argue with them and they get disappointed.
So that's mainly what I've seen, people, once they're in really like the system, and I've had no issue getting a solid player base, it's mainly just reining in the broken powers and redefining and redesigning them that's been problematic I find.
Wow awesome! I look forward to it.I have the Ascension text ready except for page 2. The Contents page which I will need to redo when I add the new artwork (which will bump the page count up slightly). Should get Ascension all done for Sunday/Monday. Got one of my 5E digital artists working on the cover for Immortals Handbook: GODS and that will likely draw my attention a bit (no pun intended) as the devil is always in the details.
Oh that's fucxing wicked man! I love it!View attachment 270027
Minor update to show the art I am adding to Ascension (Above is the Epic Cleric of Thor - which replaces the original Mortal Viking image). Progress is going good but it's taking about 40-50 minutes of repainting each illustration and there are 30 new illustrations so going to take an extra 2-3 days (as I am working tomorrow), I have about 15 already completed - including the one above. But very smooth sailing, adding 8 new pages of illustrations to the Portfolio chapter which was a mega text dump so it really needed some illustrations to break up the wall of text.
Sounds good man, let us know.I ordered the mailers and some bubble wrap pouches. So the books should be well protected in shipping. Still not sure what the postage costs will be. I assume most of you are in North America? Once I get the books I can wrap one and take it to the post office to get weighed and see what the cost is.
Wow, that's crazy! I wonder why that is; I've ordered books from across the pond before (via Blackwell's, albeit only for a small paperback), and the shipping was nowhere near that much (in fact, looking back, it was free shipping; even if that was factored into the cost of the book, though, it was still less than half of the figure quoted here).North America: $30...yes 30. I knew they were high but not that flipping ridiculous.
Wow, that's crazy! I wonder why that is;
I've ordered books from across the pond before (via Blackwell's, albeit only for a small paperback), and the shipping was nowhere near that much (in fact, looking back, it was free shipping; even if that was factored into the cost of the book, though, it was still less than half of the figure quoted here).
It was four months ago, back in August.Was that recently or pre-2020?
It was four months ago, back in August.