Open Grave Excerpts: Kas the Betrayer

[theria]

No way, this guy is way too scrawny and wimpy to be Liefeld's work... but the picture doesn't really seem to fit with what I think of when Kas comes to mind. Bad enough they recycled a piece for him, but they definitely picked the wrong one.

I guess they couldn't fit or didn't like the picture of Kas that was in Dragon back when they did the Vestige article for him. That was a full-body pic of him with sword and everything.

 

[thundershot]

Since the Draconomicon had the stats for Tiamat, I wonder if we'll get the stats for someone like, say, Vecna himself in this book? Hmm...

 

[theria]

Since the Draconomicon had the stats for Tiamat, I wonder if we'll get the stats for someone like, say, Vecna himself in this book? Hmm...

Yeah, Vecna is in it. He's listed in the table of contents.

 

[catsclaw227]

Not a big fan of the art either, though using some recycled art isn't a big deal to me. I mean, I look at an article like the creature incarnations article. How much does it cost to pay artists to bang out the four pieces there? It can't be cheap. This is an 8 page article with four well detailed pieces.

I am not an artist, so maybe one of you can tell me. How long does it take to do one from idea to finished product (man-hours and calendar days)? How many rounds of "show it to WOTC and then make revisions" before you are done?

 

[Mortellan]

You'd be surprised.

Now that I know the art on this is recycled I'm less impressed. Ari did you write that Kas? If so or not, giving Kas a magic mask is an interesting development that I like.

 

[thundershot]

Yeah, Vecna is in it. He's listed in the table of contents.

Ah, thanks! I hadn't noticed the TOC posted there before. It'll be interesting if they slowly give us the stats for all of the gods over the course of the next few years. Bahamut's pretty much a given then for Draconomicon 2.

 

[catsclaw227]

You'd be surprised.

Now that I know the art on this is recycled I'm less impressed. Ari did you write that Kas? If so or not, giving Kas a magic mask is an interesting development that I like.

Yea, the one piece of art isn't that good, but the write-up on a whole is really cool.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Ari did you write that Kas? If so or not, giving Kas a magic mask is an interesting development that I like.

Nope. Much as I wish I had been, I wasn't on Open Grave in any capacity.

But at least it means I get to be surprised in a few more weeks.

 

[malraux]

I don't see any picture on the PDF i downloaded. Weird.

Open it in adobe reader instead of preview. I dunno what it is between adobe illustrator and preview, but sometimes a few thing just don't show up.

 

[Eytan Bernstein]

Nope. Much as I wish I had been, I wasn't on Open Grave in any capacity.

But at least it means I get to be surprised in a few more weeks.

I get to be surprised too, and I DID work on it Darn late author copies.