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I would also be down for an interview!
Bret Boyd
Tricky Owlbear Publishing
Thank YOU, sir! Any time that someone devotes time and effort into a review for one of our products (especially to the magnitude that you do!) is an honor. Your reviews help bring people into the realm of 3PP use and we thank you for it and your continued service for as long as you are interested in doing it!
This was great fun to write! Thanks to Dale and Jon Brazer for turning my meager words into this cool little pdf.
Beyond Countless Doorways was pretty stinking cool. I'd love something that combined a theme like that with some sort of planar causeway on par with, say, the World Serpent Inn.How about some unique demiplanes, the likes created by wizards or abandoned by dead gods? Personally, I think it would be cool to see some new unique planes with cool twists as smaller adventuring locales.Full alternate/optional planes (such as in Beyond Countless Doorways) or more limited, smaller scale demiplanes? I've been *seriously* thinking about writing up a Stargate-to-fantasy ripoff that I used in my home campaign to good effect. Glad to see there might be some interest in it.
Both. Red for the monsters and blue for the other info.
They are all going to be at GenCon. Did I win? Nope! That takes money and time that I don't have.
This effort turned out great! You'd never know that you guys hadn't been producing magazines before this. The look is good. The articles are good.* It's all good. *DISCLAIMER: I wrote an article. I guess it was ok. :)
Quite excited to see the final product and very proud to be a contributor!
I'm tempted to do the $100 level but it doesn't mention if I actually get the book or not. :)
All the praise is well-deserved here, End! Congrats and thanks from me as well, as a publisher and a gamer, for taking the time necessary to not only read all of that material but to comment voluminously on it in an insightful manner. Cheers!
Sounds ambitious. Sounds awesome. Godspeed!
And don't pitch above your ability. Everyone wants the next big thing but don't sell what you don't have. Another bit of advice when dealing with publishers is to be friendly and communicative (don't suddenly drop off the face of the planet after making a pitch as I've had writers do to me). Our corner of the industry is small and everyone pretty much knows everyone else. Thus, if you make someone happy that information gets around while, of course, the opposite is also true. Bret Boyd
I am fond of the idea that, if such a collaboration were to occur, and it was focused around campaign settings, that it'd have some sort of setting-hopping feature, like the old World Serpent Inn, or Redhurst. Agreed. Something like this would be a necessity if that idea went forward.
I didn't have any thoughts when I mentioned it, but now that it's had time to digest wouldn't an adventure path type of thing work well? Maybe this has been done already but... An ancient vault of a long-lost empire is uncovered. This empire was set to rule everything until it decided to mess around in the multiverse's playground. Opening a portal to an alternate Prime Material Plane, the empire's wizards inadvertently allowed an even greater threat to begin colonization of this plane! The chidahn, super-aggressive, militaristic dragonfly-men who have conquered there own plane now have a door opened into fresh feeding grounds. History only records that the lost empire suffered some sort of inner calamity before collapsing. In truth, it took all of its might to fight the otherworldy aggressors and seal them and the portal to the other plane within a magical vault and then bury it. At the adventure path's start, unfortunate treasure hunters have unearthed that vault and broken through its time-weakened magical seal. This world suddenly needs heroes...every one of them it has. The crux of the path is that the lost empire did find a way to close the portal and draw all chidahn back to their universe but didn't have the time to gather the components. Instead, they had to opt for entombing the open portal or suffer extinction. The PCs encounter the chidahn threat at the start and stumble upon knowledge of how to permanently seal the portal. To do that, they need special items--items each publisher highlights in their own adventure (be it magic item, monster part, etc). Can the PCs gather the items in time to save everyone and everything they hold dear or will the folly of a long-deceased empire doom the plane to extinction? And then again, maybe I'm just typing nonsense here. :)
Agreed! It's pretty much the best group of publishers around--very respectful and interested in what the other is up to. But why bother teaming up with just one other publisher? Let's get 4+ together and have an Avengers-like crossover event!
I don't have a horse in this race but I'm happy to see anyone who has grappled with depression once again step confidently into the light; especially a fellow writer (and especially one so celebrated in the past). Welcome back, Nic. Bret Boyd
Hey, everyone! Sorry the Owlbear has been so quiet as of late. I've posted a rundown of some of our upcoming releases which you can read on our newly redesigned website: www.trickyowlbear.com As always, thanks to everyone for their patience as our tiny company chugs slowly along.
Since word seems to be getting out about this release, I thought I'd put up a central thread for questions and comments. Here's the official scoop: Tricky Owlbear Publishing, Inc. is producing a monster book called Forgotten Foes which features between 110 and 120 monsters for your Pathfinder game. At first, the project started with just the classic monsters Paizo couldn't fit into its Bestiary but it has since filled out a bit with other interesting creatures the writers felt needed the PF treatment. This means you'll not only get old-school monsters like the aerial servant, flail snail, and slaad (which we renamed "chaosiic") but also newer favorites like the multiple types of inevitables, formians, and sin dragons! Each monster will be illustrated and come with its own Lore table. Forgotten Foes is being written by Mark Gedak (OGL Wiki) and Stefen Styrsky (Kobold Quarterly/Open Design) with some additional tweaking by yours truly. Artwork is being handled by Axel Carlsson and his company, Headless Hydra Games. Axel is already out pimping his end of things HERE. This book promises to be the next big thing for your PF monster needs and we plan on its release this summer in both pdf and print forms (the latter through Lulu and OBS' new POD program which starts next month). Bret Boyd
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