RPG Superstar 2010 Top 8
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Hello!
My name is Richard Hunt and I've worked for TPK Games for a little over a year now. I've even had the unique opportunity to run one of my adventures at GenCon this year: Silvermote! It was both an honor and a real blast!
Our next project is just on the cusp of release and I'm really exited to tell you all about it! Our new product is called Rawr!: A Handbook of Monstrous Malevolence and I'm the lead designer/author. Our whole team contributed a little something to the whole stack though, including Mr. Tom Phillips also of RPG Superstar infamy! :)
Rawr! is a completely monster-centric product containing monster advice, new feats, traits, templates and, of course, new, original monsters in print nowhere else! If you like monsters, love adding some punches on the battlefield or in the dungeon, or just kicking your monsters into a little higher gear, then this book is definitely rocket fuel for your encounters. We originally conceived of this as major new source book, but it grew too large! So, we discovered a way to do so much more and so we are!
I would really like to invite everyone to check it out when it's released!
-Rich
Neat!
Yes, im very interested in this product.
In my Homebrewed campaign/Kingmaker, the players are all monstrous and own a small village where monsters can live free, however they're in the middle of a council session so they will be setting up laws...but it's great fun! I just hope there will be option that my players can use from this.
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RPG Superstar 2010 Top 8
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In my Homebrewed campaign/Kingmaker, the players are all monstrous and own a small village where monsters can live free, however they're in the middle of a council session so they will be setting up laws...but it's great fun! I just hope there will be option that my players can use from this.
What are some of the monster races they're playing? :)
We have... an Ogre,Sahuagin,Lizardfolk,Dhampir turned vampire,Fey character( i cant remember if shes an nixie, pixie,etc), Oread(technically not a monster, but different from the "normal races") and lastly an aberration that me and one of my players made, think of them like protoss mixed with mindflayer but much weaker ofcourse.
I tend to be very liberal when it comes to races(maybe it's because im Canadian), in all my years of playing i've never played any of the core races, I was always a monster, from lizardfolk and Minotaurs to Driders and elementals, even played a Lycanthrope for 4 long levels.
DSRMT: Well my good sir, I rightfully acknowledge your opinion And I formally accept your challenge..now have a pleasant day.
Well I would love to see stuff for lizardfolk... but as a theme I think savage races would be cool. So like something for Gnolls,Lizardfolks, etc. maybe some feats or archetypes to enhance their natural attacks... Or feats the grant "evolutions" to them, maybe granting them special abilities like stench or rend,etc
Anyways that's just my copper pieces, I hope to see the Rawr line grow.
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A series of feats to 'evolve' a character to develop stronger racial abilities, or even (shudder!) 'racial levels' that allow one to purchase 'an extra level of gnoll' or whatever, instead of advancing solely by class levels, could be funky.
Mystic rites and 'seekings' that allow an elf or dwarf to awaken ancestral abilities, becoming 'more elf than elf' sort of like how a noble drow is significantly more advanced than a 'common' drow, could be one way to represent the flavor of such racial progression.
Means by which a stone giant could become a 'stone giant elder,' or other giants (or ogres, or trolls, or even '1/2 ogres' or 'ogrekin') might also have 'elders' of their own, could be a different approach.
Means by which a stone giant could become a 'stone giant elder,' or other giants (or ogres, or trolls, or even '1/2 ogres' or 'ogrekin') might also have 'elders' of their own, could be a different approach.
Interesting. I think it would be nice to have different monster-strengthening templates (like "elder", "sub-chief", "chieftain", etc.) to represent more powerful versions of typical monsters. The Advanced simple template is nice in a pinch, but there is certainly an opportunity for some creative development here.
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Erinyes!
Everything I've seen so far has either been "devil version of the succubus" or "just like the mythology - punishers of transgressions."
They still don't seem to have a decent identity of their own.
Ooh, good one!
Making them more vengeance-y punisher types, deriving more from the Furies, perhaps being the ones who go to seek out contract-hedgers and drag them to their agreed-upon fates (tying them more specifically to an infernal role, than the Furies, obviously), could be neat.
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That actually reminds me of a really cheesy B-movie I saw once, Alzrius. The main character was a smoking hot devil girl who somehow found her way into the real world, and began to punish evildoers. And it's implied that the devils and demons of hell are actually working directly for God, to punish sinners.
Really bad movie. But interesting concept. And gorgeous devil girl.
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While this was a route not taken, it would be neat if Erinyes weren't just avenging furies who may or may not be fallen angels, but were explicitly made from fallen angels because their job in hell is to hunt down and punish *devils* who don't toe the line and follow hell's strict regimen. Their formerly angelic forms might retain the ability to bypass DR as if they were still good-subtype, allowing them to bypass the DR of most devils they would be hunting, and they'd have weapons and SLAs tailored to hunting down and capturing (or killing) fellow devils, including stuff like smite evil, that a devil normally wouldn't have. They'd be hell's enforcers, the 'internal affairs' of the archdukes, maintaining doctrinal purity and whatnot.
That actually reminds me of a really cheesy B-movie I saw once, Alzrius. The main character was a smoking hot devil girl who somehow found her way into the real world, and began to punish evildoers. And it's implied that the devils and demons of hell are actually working directly for God, to punish sinners.
Really bad movie. But interesting concept. And gorgeous devil girl.
You must linky teh hawtness. ;)