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The (new) Immortals Handbook Thread

I've been planning to state the samething, only to get to my computer now. Knowing that I stated DF I didn't want my words to reflect anything of the site itself.
 

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Hey Serge mate! :D

The Serge said:
Dyson's... special, U_K. He's not a moderator or an admin at DF, so don't take his comments as a reflection of the entire site. It's best to just ignore him when he's being silly. :)

His points were probably valid, his manner a touch heavy handed, but I appreciate his passion on the matter nonetheless.

The Serge said:
I can assure you that we are all very interested in The Immortals Handbook.

You know I think when the Immortals Handbook (Bestiary preview even) comes out and Chapter Nine of Gates of Hell is done we can have some interesting discussions on the hierarchy of the Hells my friend. I do have fond memories of threads we used to be involved in, many years ago over at the wizards boards about the nature of the outer planes.

I stopped posting in such threads when I started working on the Immortals Handbook (which says how long ago it was!), but I have this universal theory, the seeds of which started back then, a sort of theory of everything you might say, kosmically speaking, that ties everything together that I think people will get a kick out of. It ties in the kabbalah/sephiroth; quintessence; the book of Enoch; sanskrit spiritualism and chakras; the occult ages of man (eg. Atlantis); real world dimensional theory (I kid you not); the celestial order; the zodiac (people will love what I have done with this); elements of the Devachan; the Guardian Wall; Karma; the quartenary/ternary; Tarot, and a few other surprises all wrapped up in one simple package. ;)

A small portion of which outlines how you determine the hierarchies of each plane using numerology and the relationship between councils (political groups of gods), pantheons (social groups of gods), dynasties (racial groups of gods), the hierarchies (aligned groups of immortal spirits, eg. demons) and so forth.

I hope people will find it as useful a philosophical building tool, as the challenge rating stuff was a mechanical tool. :)

Like I said, it will be interesting, for me, to be involved in such debates again. I love all that stuff, and its something I have missed a bit.
 

Sledge said:
Now we just need to apply the cat'o'ninetails to the editor. ;)

Please don't. The editor doesn't have a very good Con, and he might not be able to do his job properly under those circumstances. :confused:

Cheiromancer said:
Who is the editor? Do we know this, or is it still hush-hush?

I will be the editor for the Immortal's Handbook. I'm a real perfectionist when it comes to the rules (and to grammar), but I'm also reasonably fast.

You can see some of my past editing work at Silverthorne Games if you're curious.

Dyson said:
Ya know, I don't even think there's a book anymore and this whole thing is just a hoax.

:D

Let's put some money on this, shall we?
 

CRGreathouse said:
Please don't. The editor doesn't have a very good Con, and he might not be able to do his job properly under those circumstances. :confused:
Kitten of 3 fuzzy tails? ;)

So are you done yet?
 

Hey Sledge! :)

Sledge said:
Kitten of 3 fuzzy tails? ;)

The tickling might distract him.

Sledge said:
So are you done yet?

If I can answer this one for him, we (meaning me and the editor) are guestimating about 10 days time or thereabouts. So while hes working on the editing, I can finish off the art.
 

I say June 20th for the Preview, June 2006 for the Bestiary. And I'll stake a cat with nine fuzzy tails on that. :]
 

Okay well I guess I get to start mining the thread for stuff for the game on tuesday or wednesday. I'll let you two work at it for a few days without more threats of cartoon violence. ;)
 

Sledge said:
So are you done yet?

There are still things that need to be done, both on my side and on Craig's. He wants to rewrite some prose and make other minor changes, and I don't know how far he is on the illustrations. (My editing copy is art-free.)

Ordinarily, a product like this might take 3-4 weeks from where it is now to sale as a PDF. In this case the layout is already done, which will halve the time needed (more or less). Assuming there are no serious delays, we should be able to put the preview out by the 20th -- although this depends on Craig as much as me.
 

Hmmm..... :\ ....As I was going to say, the consequences of this topic slipping off the front page frankly do *not* bear thinking about. Therefore, I am putting in a Bump to help support it.
 


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