[KoK] Monster list for upcoming book

[DragonLancer]

Thanx for explaining that. Good to hear.

 

[kenjib]

Beholder, Gauth
Demon, Shadow
Eye of Fear and Flame
Forlarren
Guardian Familiar
Hound of Ill-Omen
Mind Flayer Servitor
Mite
Sprite, Brownie
Sprite, Leprechaun
Yuan-Ti, Shafanivar

Putting that D&D license to good use, I see. Looks great. I want to see a bunch of these, and I'm glad to see that the habitat range feature made it in.

 

[Gez]

Demon, Shadow
Eye of Fear and Flame
Forlarren
Giant, Woodland (Wood Giant)
Golem, Hard Wood (Wood Golem)
Golem, Ice
Golem, Soft Wood (Wood Golem)
Golem, Wax (Tallow Golem)
Hound of Ill-Omen
Mite
Piercer, Tellenian (Piercer)
Sprite, Brownie
Sprite, Leprechaun
Troll, Arctic (Ice Troll)
Troll, Cave

All these are, or may be, duplicates with Tome of Horrors creatures. Note that the ToH don't make difference between hard and soft wood for golems. When names differ, I parenthesed the ToH name next to it.

A question: Is the wax golem the same as this one ?

 

[BOZ]

KoK is d20 right, not official D&D? so for those non-OGL monsters they're probably using their own versions...? how about the ones that are OGL, are they just reprinting them and maybe dressing them up a bit?

 

[Darth Shoju]

KoK

Kingdoms of Kalamar is an official D&D world as far as I know. It has the Dungeons and Dragons logo on the front cover anyway.

 

[Mark Plemmons]

Re: Re: [KoK] Monster list for upcoming book

All these are, or may be, duplicates with Tome of Horrors creatures. Note that the ToH don't make difference between hard and soft wood for golems. When names differ, I parenthesed the ToH name next to it.

A question: Is the wax golem the same as this one ?

Nope, we didn't base our monsters on those in the ToH, and the wax golem is also different. It's just coincidence. With so many publishers simultaneously producing monsters in books, magazines and on the web, it's nearly impossible for anyone to avoid having some similar monsters.

(For example, WotC's "Unapproachable East" book contains a monster with the same name as one you say appears in ToH. It's also one we were working on and had finished when our copy of UE came in this week. Since I'm not sure if UE has officially hit any store shelves yet, I won't say which monster.)

As an official D&D licensee, we try to avoid duplicating any already printed WotC creatures simply to stop confusion. For example, our swordwraith appeared a couple years ago in a Kalamar module. But to avoid confusion with the newly-released Fiend Folio, our updated 3.5 swordwraith became the Skarrnid swordwraith. I also added a sidebar explaining to DMs how to use both or either in their campaigns.

Since I've gotten some new info this week about recently released or upcoming WotC monsters, it's extremely likely that 3 or 4 more of our monsters will also see some name and text changes before the book goes to print within the next couple weeks.

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Mark Plemmons
Kenzer and Company
www.kenzerco.com
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[BOZ]

Re: Re: Re: [KoK] Monster list for upcoming book

(For example, WotC's "Unapproachable East" book contains a monster with the same name as one you say appears in ToH. It's also one we were working on and had finished when our copy of UE came in this week. Since I'm not sure if UE has officially hit any store shelves yet, I won't say which monster.)

taer? oh yeah, my bad, NDA.

 

[Mark Plemmons]

Re: Re: Re: Re: [KoK] Monster list for upcoming book

taer? oh yeah, my bad, NDA.

*chuckle* Nope, not that one.

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Mark Plemmons
Kenzer and Company
www.kenzerco.com
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[DragonLancer]

Any chance that closer to the release date you could put a couple of previews up on your website?

 

[Gez]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [KoK] Monster list for upcoming book

Taer?

*chuckle* Nope, not that one.

Well, the "duplicates" with the ToH in UE are Juju Zombi, Taer, and Ice Troll.

So, it's the Artic Troll! Tadaa! Have I won something ? Just joking of course.


I don't know if any NDA may still hold, anyway, since GamingReport has published the complete Table of Content for UE: [First Page] [Second Page]