WotC 2006 September to December Catalog info, updated with novels

[Mark CMG]

Why such a large increase, especially for the red dragon?

One might call it a "Colossal" increase, even.

 

[Jedi_Solo]

Wait a minute... Star Wars Starship Battles has the Super Star Destroyer Executor as a standard fig that is supposed to be in scale with tie-fighters and s, right?

That is what they are claiming. I definately want to see these *cough*minis*cough* as well. I don't remember all of the details for this story but in one of the old WEG Star Wars game books there was a comparison of ship sizes using the startship's silouettes. The labels for the X-Wing and TIE Fighters were larger than the images themselves. The Executer's image was at least four pages long. In the Decipher Star Wars card games - there was a reason the photo of the Executer when down the whole card length-wise (besides the joke factor).

 

[thalmin]

The catalog copy says "relative scale", whatever that means, maybe just the bigger ships are bigger than the smaller ships.

 

[RodneyThompson]

That is what they are claiming. I definately want to see these *cough*minis*cough* as well. I don't remember all of the details for this story but in one of the old WEG Star Wars game books there was a comparison of ship sizes using the startship's silouettes. The labels for the X-Wing and TIE Fighters were larger than the images themselves. The Executer's image was at least four pages long. In the Decipher Star Wars card games - there was a reason the photo of the Executer when down the whole card length-wise (besides the joke factor).

Well, if each square represented, say, 1 km , then all they would have to do in relative scale is have them sized to fit in those squares. So a 13 km mini would take up 13 squares. Not THAT outlandish. It looks like it's going to be the equivalent of a "Huge Set" anyways, so...*shrug*

I always love it when the new catalogue comes out so I can finally talk (a little) about those projects I worked on.

 

[Frostmarrow]

The catalog copy says "relative scale", whatever that means, maybe just the bigger ships are bigger than the smaller ships.

Just in case you are interested in starship dimensions (and haven't seen this yet):

Starship Dimensions

Here you can even compare Serenity 63, Sulaco 385, Millenium Falcon 27 and the Rodger Young 550 if you are so inclined!

 

[Kanegrundar]

Nothing for D20 Modern? That makes me sad.

Edit: Now I see info on D20 Spectactulars (here's hoping it works well with RPGObject's supers rules) and Dark Matter...however, at least with D*M, this is confirmed by being in WotC's catalog yet.

 

[Nightfall]

I'm just looking forward to Faiths of Eberron and Complete Mage. We'll see about the rest. (Oh yeah almost forgot, Dragons of Faerun too! )

 

[glass]

And Monster Manual II, where I think the OGC was from Sword & Sorcery Studios.

'Our two exceptions are UA, and d20 Weapons Locker...and MMII. I'll come in again!'


glass.

 

[glass]

Ah, but it is included within their products. They just don't declare it within their products. Most OGC, save for within notable exceptions, they release through the SRD. Though you bring up a good point, my question was phrased, as it was, precisely for that reason.

No, they don't. There is no text in WotC's books (with the above mentioned exceptions) that is OGC. The fact that similar (or even identical) text might also appear in other sources has no bearing on that fact.

As the copyright holder, WotC can license their text to anyone they like (including/especially themselves) under terms that have nothing to do with the OGL. The OGL is a non-exclusive licence.

As a matter of fact, I do. Check out the free demo while you're there.

That's a CMG product, not a WotC product.

Diclaimer: IANAL.


glass.

 

[Sammael]

Colossal red dragon price increase (AKA "ripoff") was announced a while ago and handled pretty badly by WotC. Those who have placed preorders on Amazon hope that Amazon will honor the original price, although they'll be at a loss if they do so.