[PR] Troll Lord Games - Book of Familiars

[der_kluge]

Yes, that's all good - but 190 pages?!?

 

[Crothian]

Yes, that's all good - but 190 pages?!?

Are you thinking that is too many or too few?

 

[Mixmaster]

Davis,

Les Foster here (your convention demo DM). I can loan you the books if you want. And you could do anything you want with them (within reason). Just return them when you're done.

 

[der_kluge]

Are you thinking that is too many or too few?

Far too many. I could see having a 64 page book on familiars, and maybe even a 96 page book on familiars. But 190 pages? Good lord! I wouldn't mind buying this book if it's done right, but I don't want to pay $35 for it! I mean, it is just familiars after all.

I was team lead for the Netbook of Familiars at the FanCC for a brief stint, and I don't think any of us ever anticipated that that book would ever be very large. Don't know if that project died, or not.

 

[2WS-Steve]

I thought I read somewhere that the book would also include expansion rules for steeds and animal companions. If you add in those features I think the page count can get out of control pretty easily. There must be all sorts of nifty bits you can add with steeds.

 

[Inzae]

Fleas Fleas and more Fleas

Heheh

I think there are nearly 500 varieties of fleas (stat bocks) and nearly twice as many ticks....

There are animal companions, warhorses and steeds of all types and makes - the difficulty is actually in maintaing control of such... there is a lot that can be done with this.

i think the title is a little misleadin - we just wracked our heads for a better one but this seemed to at least get the central grasp of the concept...

But it covers animal companions also...

Mixmaster, thanks for the offer but I think we should (???) be able to afford these and it supports our local retailer (plug plug)

A battle ooz companion for pixies - how does that sound??

davis

 

[trancejeremy]

You should consider adding a "Beastmaster" class. And you could get Marc Singer to write the intro.

Or not.

 

[Crothian]

You should consider adding a "Beastmaster" class. And you could get Marc Singer to write the intro.

Or not.

Just as it's not Beastmaster 2. That was a truely bad movie.

 

[DungeonKeeperUK]

Looks interesting guys..

Quick question, have you looked at larger sized familiars for say giants etc in there.. ???

Great to have met some of you guys at GenCon too..

 

[JoeGKushner]

Will psions have more optons for their little stones?