Upcoming Mongoose Books?

[JoeGKushner]

I've cut out the stuff I'm not too interested in and have some questions for the following:

August 2003

The Quintessential Ranger: Fully 3.5? Does it include alternative core classes ala Monte Cook or the Mercenaries book by AEG?

The Slayer's Guide to Giants: Ah, another 128 page sourcebook. Great!

Ultimate Prestige Classes II: What way does this differ from the first one? There seemed to be some editing issues with the first one that actually added some errors on at least one PrC. Has the layout/art improved or same pattern?



September 2003

The Book of Strongholds & Dynasties: Similiar to Atlas' recent book? Something else?

Encyclopaedia Arcane: Tomes & Libraries: Now this should be interesting. Building on the wizard not by some type of magic, but by his materials. Is this going the Power Components route of Philip Reed or something completely different?

The Quintessential Halfling: Uh, halflings. Yeah. Should push this one back to 2004 Jan so that those hobbit freaks can get their fix.

The Slayer's Guide to Demons: Is this going to be another 128 page big boy or bigger?


October 2003

The High Frontier: Too vague a name to even know what system or setting. Could be for Slaine, B5 or standard d20. Potential though. I remember the Sun & Scale Grypon's Legacy tried to do something like this.

Book of Dragons: ?

D20 Cyberpunk: ?

Encyclopaedia Arcane: Components and Foci: Another material book like the libraries one. Should be interesting to see how it works when compared to standard resources.

The Quintessential Half-Orc: Ah, now here's another puppy I've been curious to see. It'll be interesting to see how it fares against previous Q books. After this one, are there any other Q's on the series? Still haven't seen the humans and I'd love to see one on half-dragons or something along those lines of Bastards & Bloodlines.

Ultimate Divine Spells: Should be useful. Hopefully more stuff by the time this one hits the shelves.

 

[Mongoose_Matt]

>>>The Quintessential Ranger: Fully 3.5? Does it include alternative core classes ala Monte Cook or the Mercenaries book by AEG?

It is indeed fully 3.5, and has been written by Ian Sturrock who has done a superb job of expanding the Ranger and giving a wealth of new options. We stayed away from the alternative core classes, as most people seem to treat them as 'unofficial', though you will find many of the options and abilities are just as easily applicable to them as to WotC's version.

>>>Ultimate Prestige Classes II: What way does this differ from the first one? There seemed to be some editing issues with the first one that actually added some errors on at least one PrC. Has the layout/art improved or same pattern?

Yes, yes and yes. Overall, people seemed to be very much taken with the first volume - this one will blow them away. This was the first book by our new writer, Adrian Bott, and as well as hunting down the very best in OGC, he has also created some _awesome_ new classes that you will actually _want_ to take (you know that problem with prestige classes?). He has rewritten every single OGC class, ironed out any (ahem) wrinkles and updated it for 3.5. This volume is the bee's knees. . .


>>>The Book of Strongholds & Dynasties: Similiar to Atlas' recent book? Something else?

A 256 hardback, and the first of the Classic Play series, this is the definitive book for anyone seeking to claim land, build a fortress (with special attention paid for those who like high fantasy) and run a dominion. Also features V2 of the OMCS.

>>>Encyclopaedia Arcane: Tomes & Libraries: Now this should be interesting. Building on the wizard not by some type of magic, but by his materials. Is this going the Power Components route of Philip Reed or something completely different?

No, something different - though we have EA Components & Foci on the way too. Basically, this book takes a good long hard look at how Wizards store their spells and arcane knowledge, perform research and deal with matters arcane that go far beyond spellcasting and magic item creation. Also by new writer, Adrian Bott, someone to watch out for in our stable. . .

>>>The Quintessential Halfling: Uh, halflings. Yeah. Should push this one back to 2004 Jan so that those hobbit freaks can get their fix.

Heh Had to be done, and we have resisted making it half the size of the other Quintessentials. . .

>>>The Slayer's Guide to Demons: Is this going to be another 128 page big boy or bigger?

128 pages

>>>The High Frontier: Too vague a name to even know what system or setting. Could be for Slaine, B5 or standard d20. Potential though. I remember the Sun & Scale Grypon's Legacy tried to do something like this.

For Armageddon 2089, takes the Armageddon War into low orbit and beyond. . .

>>>Book of Dragons: ?

Does what it says on the cover Also part of the Classic PLay series, this book has been done by Gareth Hanrahan and is _the_ definitive source for dragons. I'll provide some more details at a later date.

>>>D20 Cyberpunk: ?

A complete roleplaying game, for all your cyberpunk adventures.

>>>The Quintessential Half-Orc: Ah, now here's another puppy I've been curious to see. It'll be interesting to see how it fares against previous Q books. After this one, are there any other Q's on the series? Still haven't seen the humans and I'd love to see one on half-dragons or something along those lines of Bastards & Bloodlines.

Yup, Humans are on the way

Hope that helps!

 

[thundershot]

If Quint Human is in Nov (last I heard), then that would only leave Half-Elf as the only core race or class that hasn't been Quintessentialized. I hope you have a future in mind for the Quintessential books that sticks to the current format yet doesn't tread into redundancy (Quint Fighter II, etc). Hopefully you'll do more races and classes...



Chris

 

[Mongoose_Matt]

I hope you have a future in mind for the Quintessential books that sticks to the current format yet doesn't tread into redundancy (Quint Fighter II, etc). Hopefully you'll do more races and classes...

Chris

Already well in hand

 

[thundershot]

Good to hear! I just received Quint Bard, Druid, and Paladin this afternoon! So far, so good! For the most part, the Quint books will only need minor tweaking for 3.5.



Thanks
Chris

 

[JoeGKushner]

It's interesting to note that they've already redone the Q. Fighter. If the other books go out of print, when they're redone, they can make them 3.5 compliant. I'd be most interested in the Rogue, Wizard and Monk books. (Heck, to me their Q. Monk lead the way for customization of the Monks)

 

[thundershot]

GAH! I don't want to buy them again! Nice PDF documents with updates is fine with me.

But yeah, if they were to go into a second printing, I'd expect them to be 3.5-ized. And no, I wouldn't buy them again, nor do I think Mongoose would expect me to... (that's a lot of books!)


Chris

 

[philreed]

Re: Re: Upcoming Mongoose Books?

>>>Encyclopaedia Arcane: Tomes & Libraries: Now this should be interesting. Building on the wizard not by some type of magic, but by his materials. Is this going the Power Components route of Philip Reed or something completely different?

No, something different - though we have EA Components & Foci on the way too. Basically, this book takes a good long hard look at how Wizards store their spells and arcane knowledge, perform research and deal with matters arcane that go far beyond spellcasting and magic item creation. Also by new writer, Adrian Bott, someone to watch out for in our stable. . .

Put me down for a copy of EA Components and Foci. I actually have about 30 entries for 101 Magical Foci so it sounds like I need to move that project up on the list a bit.

 

[Mongoose_Matt]

Hi guys,

One way or another, you won't have to buy all the Quintessentials all over again - you are right, it would be an awful lot of books!

A lot of the more recent Quintessentials have been subtly following 3.5 anyway - they have, for example, the old skill names, but you will find that conversion takes seconds rather than having to sit down and figure entire rules systems out.

Phil: The material in EA Components and Foci is OGC, so pick and choose to your heart's content. I have a feeling we grabbed some equipment from one of your PDFs lately (I would have to double check) so by all means, return the compliment

 

[philreed]

Phil: The material in EA Components and Foci is OGC, so pick and choose to your heart's content. I have a feeling we grabbed some equipment from one of your PDFs lately (I would have to double check) so by all means, return the compliment

Well, I mainly wanted the book for gaming. I suspect my own foci supplement will be out well before yours (and there's probably a chance you'll get a chance to grab some more OGC . . . that is why I declare my own stuff 100% OGC after all).

I'd be curious to know which material of my design you used and what book it's in. I suspect it's in your massive spell book but I could be very wrong.