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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Upper_Krust" data-source="post: 5956225" data-attributes="member: 326">I appreciate the support Deinos mate......and the kind words.Glad you liked them. I imagine they have been detailed somewhere before (?) but I think there are a lot of monsters in the book which very few people will have seen before.Peter (Szmer) is an incredible artist, he has done all the art for parts 2 and 3 (I think part 2 needs 2 more illustrations from him and part 3 needs about another 6 at this point). I can't thank him enough, he really gives the book its own identity.The Uktena illustration was actually commissioned as a half page spread, but Peter packs so much detail into his art that I was able to use that as a Double-Page Spread.For all the Solo monsters I set out the plans early on to have full page art with the solo monster fighting a bunch of adventurers (actually my iconic adventurers from the cover of Ascension).Okay, this was one of those last minute problems that just arose. When I put in the WotC GSL information I found that I couldn't fit it all on the Credits/Contents page. So that meant I had to add a new Page <a href="http://www.enworld.org/forum/usertag.php?do=list&action=hash&hash=1" target="_blank">#1</a> . However, all my layouts are done with specific facing pages. That meant I had to add two pages. So I was struggling for what to put on the second page and I just thought of Peter's fantastic "Young Dracula/Vampire Lord" illustration that is technically meant to be in Vampire Bestiary - Castle Dracula (part 3 in other words). One problem I had with the Young Dracula illustration was that there is a lot of 'noise' on the image. I spent hours and hours cleaning it on photoshop and I still don't think I caught everything. I'll have a think about it and maybe I can add some stuff for the update. Off the top of my head, concentric circles of the enemy 'tightening the net' when the alarm is raised might work as a basic structure. With 'no short rests' zone, 'no extended rest' zones and so forth based on the size of the stronghold and enemy numbers.I tried to do the cannibals justice. Plus, in the adventure, I really wanted the sense that while the cannibals were generally weaker than the PCs, with cunning and good use of terrain, traps and so forth, they would be a dangerous threat.There are a few 'Easter eggs' in the book nodding towards Italian cannibal movies of the 80's. But the inspirations were manifold (Resident Evil 5; King Kong; documentaries on the Viet Kong - for many of the traps; Jackie Chan's Armour of God movie) including lots of historical (and mythological) details about different tribes and their practices and society.Glad you liked it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I still love my 'epic' of course, but it was a nice change of pace. Plus sharp sticks are cool...hopefully adventurers will get to see the point of them (pun intended). <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />That's still the plan although I will need a few collaborators for that project.</blockquote>

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