[PR] Troll Lord Games - Book of Familiars

[Morrus]

TROLL LORD GAMES PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

CONTACT: Stephen Chenault
Troll Lord Games
Phone: (501) 661-0449
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The Book of Familiars

LITTLE ROCK, AR __ August 21, 2002 __Troll Lord Games
is announced today the addition of "The Book of Familiars." to their
Winter release schedule. This book promises to bring retailers and
consumers a truly valuable source book for their gaming needs.

The Book of Familiars brings together a host of talented writers and
artists to bring you a new groundbreaking look at the eleven core
classes.
Herein we expand the horizons of familiars and have developed a fully
functional, well balanced approach for each character class to gain a
familiar
or animal companion.

The Book of Familiars is 150+ pages, priced at $29.95 with a new cover
by
acclaimed artists Daniel Horne. For ordering information contact Aldo
Ghiozzi
at Impressions Marketing and advertising.

About Troll Lord Games
Troll Lord Games debuted at Gencon 2000. Alongside it's hallmark
d20 line and The Codex of Erde, TLG publishes Fiend Games, Gary
Gygax and Rob Kuntz. For more information, visit our web site
www.trolllord.com. Copyright 2001, Troll Lord Games. "d20 System"
and the d20 System logo are Trademarks owned by Wizards of the Coast
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[JoeGKushner]

Sounds like an interesting book. WIll it be making use of any OGC that already includes familiars like Liber Beastrius or Minions? Both have some different types of familiars that I'd like to see covered in one book.

For $29.95 I'm hoping this is either full color or hardcover though. Also hoping that the layout is better than Canting Crew...

 

[Inzae]

hey ho

The Book of Familiars is to be hardbound, 170-190 pgs (+/-), there is a much tighter margin and font size, layout is much better. None of the mechanics from the other books are used - to my knowledge.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Well since the material is OGC, any chance that might change? It would probably only add a few pages of material as the Minions book didn't provide full page layouts for the familiars and if people are already using them in their campaign, they'd probably appreicate having new rules that updated them as well as the new material found in the book.

 

[Inzae]

we can certainly check into - care to send us the books - - hint hint wink wink

davis

 

[JoeGKushner]

You'll pry Minions out of my cold dead hands and since Liber is hardcover, I can use that as my secondary weapon.

 

[der_kluge]

Not to sound callous (actually, I'll probably buy this book), but HOW can you fill up 170-190 pages of information on Familiars?

I just have one request - FLEAS!

I want to have a whole mess of FLEAS as a familiar.

Actually, any group of insects as a familiar is just damned cool an idea. You'll get my bill later.

 

[der_kluge]

Bumpity bump bump

 

[Inzae]

Lots of work

we decided to completely reexamine the idea of the familiar and explore it in a little more detail.

So, there are new feats, skills, and spells for use in acquiring a familiar - rituals as well. This offfers numerous avenues of approach to acquire one depending on DM and player needs.

Then there are the classes - each class is dealth with individually. Each class has familiars or animal companions peculiar to that class. This includes amgic users on down to fighters.

Races are considered such that there are familiars peculiar to (though not exclusive of) a race.

Then there are the familiars and their stat bloks/descriptions. Imagie anything from mammoth/sabertoth tiger to unicorns to bats/hawks.

There is a lot of information.

The idea behind the book was to bring these animals - which are more often fodder in combat (warhorses) or just elaborate trap detecting devices (bats what have you) into greater focus and allow the PCs to genuinely integrate them into a game.

Hmmmmmm

then there are pics - there are a few pics.

any othe questions feel free to ask.

davis

 

[Crothian]

Any information on an Ooze familiar?