Immortals Handbook Epic Bestiary (now available)

Knight Otu · May 27, 2006

Upper_Krust said:
Hello there!

Wait a minute...Knight Otu...no I'm sorry, never heard of you. Are you one of these newbies?

Alzrius · May 27, 2006

Upper_Krust said:
HI'm not sure what you are advocating here? Are you saying the Beta should cost less or shouldn't?

I did kind of waffle on the issue there. I suppose I'm advocating full pricing, since they'll get the updates for free. No point in undercutting yourself.

I'm not sure how pre-ordering works in the RPG Industry (with regards pricing), I'll have to talk to my contact at ENWorld about it.

As far as I know, most pre-ordering is at full price. But then again, that's usually for the full product also, not a Beta.

Did you even need to ask.

Good point, but I wanted to be sure.

historian · May 28, 2006

Hey U_K!

I appreciate all the help I can get matey.

I'll sort everything out for next weekend, consider your name down on the list.

Cool; I would be glad to help in any way I can.

Pssthpok · May 28, 2006

I for one would support and purchase a Beta release, art or no art, just for the sake of promoting your work and getting my mitts on the material. Keep up the good work, UK, and keep us posted on the Beta!

dante58701 · May 28, 2006

The templates are in their official section. Where they keep there official templates and stuff. Id post you a link but they banned my friend and we use the same computer, so by proxy Ive been banned too which sucks. Too bad nephillim are gonna be in the next book, but deities are more important. As for the picture for the nephillim, awesome idea. I love the concept. What other ideas have you been toying with?

GQuail · May 28, 2006

I'd also be keen on getting my hands on a Beta copy of this book. Sure, the great board crash wiped out everything I had to say on the topic of the Immortals Handbook, but I still think it rocks.

Then again, my campaign is going so slowly that I won't hit epic levels for another 2 years or so: so I'm maybe the only one unfazed by U_K's release schedule.... ;-)

dante58701 · May 28, 2006

If the Nephillim are finished...can I request a draft copy. I already know Im going to need the whole series to compliment the Epic Bestiary that I already have but, I really really really want a Nephillim. Pretty pretty pretty please with sugar and hot neked chick on top? Can I have a nephillim? LOL!!! My emails is pontoonpontoon2000@yahoo.com, if you can spare the time. If not, thats ok, Ill just wait and squirm in freakish anticipation for my all time favorite creature. Such is the life of a melodramatic nerd.

dante58701 · May 28, 2006

An idea for you...half-phoenix. Or phoenix related abomination ..spawned from an evil goddess of lust and a phoenix.

paradox42 · May 28, 2006

I, too, advocate a full-price Beta release, given that you intend to give people free updates (or to borrow another term from software sales, like Beta version, "upgrade"). And I'll certainly plan on getting one. My Epic game's party "down time" is nearly finished, and they're about ready to go on real adventures again instead of pursuing personal projects and adventure hooks dropped into those events (which is what I've had them doing for the last month and a half or so). I can't help but think that Ascension will spark a whole lot of plot ideas, even if it isn't the "Chronicle" book that talks about actual deity-level adventures.

So bring it on!

Fieari · May 28, 2006

dante58701 said:
An idea for you...half-phoenix. Or phoenix related abomination ..spawned from an evil goddess of lust and a phoenix.

When the apotheosis... er... ascention rules come out, I plan to be delving into this myself. The backstory for my campaign world includes a race of phoenii quite extensively, and while I've tried repeatedly to stat them out, without U_K's rules, I've fallen on my face repeatedly. Not the mere 20 HD creature in MM2, but something more along the lines of the cosmic phoenix entity from X-Men fame. Using dragon-styled age categories too...

Half-phoenii (I call 'em Phaetons, after the greek god), dark-phoenii, and varyingly elementally aligned phoenii too.

Fortunately, so far, my players haven't reached cosmic levels yet, so I can hand wave their abilities... but when ascention is revealed, oh baby.

Hrm. That reminds me of the other thing I might want to stat out... Stars, ala "A Wrinkle in Time"... pre- and post- fall stars.