Akira Whitlock
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Immortals Handbook: Gods & Monsters 5E Early Preview (Feedback encouraged)
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Hey Akira Whitlock amigo!
Absolutely awesome! I'm very close to getting into that "last 4 weeks phase". I'm hopeful I'll have it on sale sometime in February 2025...but don't tell anyone I said that yet...you guys know what I'm like.
I cut out a bunch of stuff that was really slowing me down, to (for the second time) trim the book to 400 pages. All the stuff that gets trimmed will show up in the subsequent books.
Lets say the stars align and its ready in February the plan would be:
GOD RULES - Player's Guide (400 pages)...pdf sometime in February
GOD RULES - Epic Bestiary: "Primer" (96 pages)...pdf around May/June
GOD RULES - Epic Bestiary: "Volume 1" (400 pages)...end of 2025 ish, Kickstarter for print versions of everything
Personally I'd just like to be able to Print 500-1000 books myself, have them kept at a Fulfillment Centre and then people can buy a Print copy and PDF together - but A. I've never done that before and B. Its a big risk financially. So the pdf route to start with seems like the safest plan at the moment.
I'm still not sure what price to set it at: $30 originally seemed fair for a 400 page pdf but I see companies on Drivethru selling 200 page books for that price. So I don't know. I wouldn't go higher than $35 though.
The idea of the Epic Bestiary Primer, is to get a monster book out as fast as possible. I already have the art for 90% of the monsters that would be included and about 15 or so are already written up. It would be around 40 ish monsters ( CRs around 8*-52 so nothing too crazy, "Volume 1" will go up to CR 120+)
*One or two 'minions'.
I put "Volume 1" in quotes because that might not be part of the subtitle, it might be
EPIC BESTIARY
-- Planes of Chaos --
...or something like that. I have so many monsters I need to split them by the Chaos/Law divide. ie. the first book would have Feywild, Elemental Planes (inc. Abyss, Genie Realm's), Outer Space; Far Realm and all my higher dimensional Chaos-leaning areas. A second book would have the Shadowdark (ie. The Underworld), Astral Sea (God Realms, Angelic Heavens, Ten Hells etc.), Inner Space, Byss and all the Law-leaning Higher Dimensions. I need 400 pages to do all the planes justice.
The Primer would largely be the Epic Monsters of the "Prime Material Plane" but these will still be super-cool, you'll just have to trust me - there are a couple of Country-sized creatures and all sorts of mad ideas, templates and characters.
...right I'll get back to work, I finish the Appendices today which has a neat overview of all the Known (and Unknown) Planes of Existence and seven NPCs. Given that I moved all of the Appendices content out of main chapters I'll be shocked if its not the best illustrated Appendices in any book in history.
Absolutely awesome! I'm very close to getting into that "last 4 weeks phase". I'm hopeful I'll have it on sale sometime in February 2025...but don't tell anyone I said that yet...you guys know what I'm like.
I cut out a bunch of stuff that was really slowing me down, to (for the second time) trim the book to 400 pages. All the stuff that gets trimmed will show up in the subsequent books.
Lets say the stars align and its ready in February the plan would be:
GOD RULES - Player's Guide (400 pages)...pdf sometime in February
GOD RULES - Epic Bestiary: "Primer" (96 pages)...pdf around May/June
GOD RULES - Epic Bestiary: "Volume 1" (400 pages)...end of 2025 ish, Kickstarter for print versions of everything
Personally I'd just like to be able to Print 500-1000 books myself, have them kept at a Fulfillment Centre and then people can buy a Print copy and PDF together - but A. I've never done that before and B. Its a big risk financially. So the pdf route to start with seems like the safest plan at the moment.
I'm still not sure what price to set it at: $30 originally seemed fair for a 400 page pdf but I see companies on Drivethru selling 200 page books for that price. So I don't know. I wouldn't go higher than $35 though.
The idea of the Epic Bestiary Primer, is to get a monster book out as fast as possible. I already have the art for 90% of the monsters that would be included and about 15 or so are already written up. It would be around 40 ish monsters ( CRs around 8*-52 so nothing too crazy, "Volume 1" will go up to CR 120+)
*One or two 'minions'.
I put "Volume 1" in quotes because that might not be part of the subtitle, it might be
EPIC BESTIARY
-- Planes of Chaos --
...or something like that. I have so many monsters I need to split them by the Chaos/Law divide. ie. the first book would have Feywild, Elemental Planes (inc. Abyss, Genie Realm's), Outer Space; Far Realm and all my higher dimensional Chaos-leaning areas. A second book would have the Shadowdark (ie. The Underworld), Astral Sea (God Realms, Angelic Heavens, Ten Hells etc.), Inner Space, Byss and all the Law-leaning Higher Dimensions. I need 400 pages to do all the planes justice.
The Primer would largely be the Epic Monsters of the "Prime Material Plane" but these will still be super-cool, you'll just have to trust me - there are a couple of Country-sized creatures and all sorts of mad ideas, templates and characters.
...right I'll get back to work, I finish the Appendices today which has a neat overview of all the Known (and Unknown) Planes of Existence and seven NPCs. Given that I moved all of the Appendices content out of main chapters I'll be shocked if its not the best illustrated Appendices in any book in history.
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