Whenever you have an update on your work (limit yourself to "I've given up on it" or "I finished it"), post again and I'll update anew.
Important Note: If you are already working on a similar subject than one listed below (wheter the person as given up on the work or not), you might think about contacting the author to suggest working in concert with that person, so as to minimize potential problems such as working on something that has already been done by someone else, or seeing your work compete with that of another.
What everyone is working on
Banndon
Alternative gladiator class and some weapon style feats to go with it 05/2006
Bengeldorn
A Races of on Nikaals and Ssurrans 05/2006
brun01
Conversion of the Prism Pentad artifacts 05/2006
Conversion of some PAoA artifacts 05/2006
Conversion of non-epic NPCs from Prism Pentad 05/2006
Rules for life-shaped items 05/2006
Kalthandrix
Athasian vampire-like types of monsters (in concert with brun01) 05/2006
A compilation of pre-made encounters DMs can insert into their game 05/2006
A NPC guide (in concert with Wolfheart) 05/2006
A knight of the cleansing wars PrC 05/2006
Methvezem
Anti-psionic PrC (in concert with Pennarin) 05/2006
Elven tribal avenger PrC (in concert with Squidfur-) 05/2006
An aarakocra warrior PrC 05/2006
2E's Voice and Gatekeeper PrC 05/2006
Balikite silt skimmer captain/admiral PrC 05/2006
Thri-kreen related to hivemind 05/2006
PrC of a professional kineticist working for the Merchant Houses 05/2006
A "silt sail" monster 05/2006
An athasian genie 05/2006
Compendium of athasian flora 05/2006
Elven Lexicon 05/2006
MysticTheurge
A rogue/bard prestige class that would give spell progression with an illusion based spell list 05/2006
Pennarin
A PrC for assassins 05/2006
2E's Montare PrC - given up on it
A template for undead sometimes created when a truly ambitious creature dies unexpectedly 05/2006
Game mechanics for an athasian and 3E adaptation of the hive mind concept 05/2006
Radnovius
More cleric spells, domains, and PrCs 05/2006
A magical plant monster that resists defiling and likes to stalk and eat defilers 05/2006
Sysane
Pterran PrC that revolves around the Life Path 05/2006
More substitution class levels for the various races 05/2006
Zardnaar
Athasian Troll conversion 05/2006
Zmaj
A Dwarves of Athas project 05/2006
Post in this thread what you're working on at the moment, and what you seriously want to tackle in the near future, and I'll update the following list with your name and works.
I don't know if it's gonna be in the near future, but I'm considering to do something like a "Races of..." for Nikaals and Ssurrans [my project name for it is Races of Scales, but I'm not sure if, this is going to be the name for it]. Unfortunatelly there is very few information about these two races, so I'm working on a Question-Cataloge that would help me to get some insight how, others see those races. In addition, to not having that much time lately, the football/soccer world championship starts in two weeks, and I guess, this is going to reduce my precious time even more.
There has a lot of stuff going on, but... as it happen often, RL strike.
Have an eye.
Montare PrC - Penn sent this one to me and I will be finishing it up.
Obvoiusly I am working on the Appendix II, but my other projects include-
1. The nifolaetan (the Night that Eats), ǽfre-aetan (Endless Eaters), and whelp (better name to come)- this is the DS Vampire project that brun01 and I am putting together.
2. Crown of the Overmind- psionic artifact
3. Dangers of Athas - pre-made encounters DMs can insert into their game.
4. NPC Guide - the is with Wolfheart, I do not know how far he has gotten, but my end is on hold until the Appendix II is finished.
Personal comment: Weird names Kal, never hear the likes of them in DS, not even in Windriders of the Jagged Cliffs. One looks Latin, the other Norwegian.
The first of these will have appeared after the destruction of the fortesss on Morgazh - this of course is a bit of a tie in for another project that brun01 and I am thinking about, but those details are still under consideration at this time.
Kal, can you resume in one phrase the nifolaetan and ǽfre-aetan so I can list them?
Maybe is it because I just woke up and am not feeling very well this morning, but this sentance does not make any sense to me- sorry. Could you run it by me again please?
1. More cleric spells/domains, particularly for the paraelements.
2. Quasi-Elemental Cleric PrC - these clerics will be more adept at wielding pos/neg energy.
3. Verdant Avenger creature (nasty magical plant thing that resists defiling effects and likes to stalk and eat defilers).
4. Adventure campaign: loosely the campaign is set around a cleric trying to acheive elemental transformation. I like my adventures to have an element of intrigue (comes from GMing World of Darkness) so these can take a bit of time to complete.
A rogue/bard prestige class that would give spell progression with an illusion based spell list. Akin to the epic rogue as presented in Dragon Kings. Though my first big decision is going to be whether to make it an Epic PrC or not.
That's the only thing that's really in a place to even have a clear concept. The other stuff is just half-formed ideas.
1. The Trolls Hamanu wiped out in the Cleansing wars. Stats will e provided in the event PCs can timetravel, ressurect them, or to add undead templates to.
2. The mutant Troll in the bottom of Troll Grave chasm who survived the Cleansing Wars.
3. Modern Athasian Trolls descended from the mutant. In essence they're probably going to be standard MM Trolls maybe with some Psionics.
Maybe is it because I just woke up and am not feeling very well this morning, but this sentance does not make any sense to me- sorry. Could you run it by me again please?
Please describe to me, in few terms, what the nifolaetan and ǽfre-aetan do, like this:
A PrC about xyz, which allows a character to do abc.
or
A monster that does xyz.
Methvezem
As of 05/2006
PrCs:
- Elven tribal avenger (in concert with Squidfur-)
- Aarakocra warrior (not much details yet)
- Conversion of the 2e Voice and Gatekeeper kits
- Balikite silt skimmer captain/admiral
- Thri-kreen related to hivemind
- Professional kineticist that works for the Merchant Houses (3 levels)
Others projects:
2 unrelated creatures: the silt sail (pirolaxia) and the lords of the grey dephts (athasian genie, silhani)
A compendium of athasian flora – please everybody send me a description of any original athasian plant you create
An Elven Lexicon
Trying to help Grummore on his project about slaves ;)
Slowly developing the Brown Lands
And guess what… doing new items :P
Please describe to me, in few terms, what the nifolaetan and ǽfre-aetan do, like this:
A PrC about xyz, which allows a character to do abc.
or
A monster that does xyz.
I thought that by saying that is was an Athasian vampire project, that that would be a rather good description of what it was.
As of right now, I think brun01 and I are keeping this under wraps a bit, until we have a solid stat block in place with fleshed out and trimmed abilities. This way we have a semi-finished product to show.
But do not worry- when I say it is a vampire project, I do not mean the basic vampire. This and the two acompanying creatures will be very unique for Athas
Oh- and like I said, the two PrCs are basically finished, and the project with the vampires is being worked on with brun01 too- i did not see him listed above so I thought I should make sure that he is listed too
Kal, can you resume in one phrase the nifolaetan and ǽfre-aetan so I can list them?
Personal comment: Weird names Kal, never hear the likes of them in DS, not even in Windriders of the Jagged Cliffs. One looks Latin, the other Norwegian.
That´s about as Norwegian as the Super Bowl, in other words totally off.
I'm converting the non-epic NPCs from PP as well.
Also, rules for life-shaped items and using them to convert the ones from PAoA and the Windriders (rules for creating tissues are done, currently on creatures and after it, the tools).
I thought that by saying that is was an Athasian vampire project, that that would be a rather good description of what it was.
I had read badly: I thought the last part of the phrase only refered to the last of the three elements you mentionned, i.e. the whelp.
That´s about as Norwegian as the Super Bowl, in other words totally off.
What can I say! :D
Knight of the Cleansing - this will be a human only PrC (which will be a strange twist) and they would have risen up during the Cleansing Wars and maybe, just maybe have cells that are still active today.
Hey brun01 - it would be funnier if I knew what those word ment - of course I am sure that those who do know are getting an extra giggle out of it from my lack of language skill (I just do not spend any ranks in it). So a little translation would be cool!
Hey Pennarin - go ahead and add this class to my list of "To Do's"
Knight of the Cleansing - this will be a human only PrC (which will be a strange twist) and they would have risen up during the Cleansing Wars and maybe, just maybe have cells that are still active today.
Hey, I was thinking about doing something similar for the Twilight Soldiers. I am currently working on a space for them, with a small city and surrounding area. a small supplemement for a land far to the north. (D2 or so on Brian's maps).
Me and a couple of my friends (those playing Dark Sun) have been writing a revision of the complete (unofficial) Dark Sun rules for a year now (maybe more).
We changed all the classes, races, weapons rules, feats, skills, new psionics rules(more like those from 2nd.ed. AD&D) and umm
everything but the campaign setting(with just a bit of clarifications about Athas everyday life).For now everything is nearly complete (only clarescentience and a few druid spells are left undone) and I'll post a link here when I compile everything into one rulebook(there are at least thirty files of text) and I'll have to check(doublecheck) the grammer. I'll get myself and another artist friend to draw a few pictures to spice it up and one day give it a nice wrap-up
design.I'll even design a site when I'm done with college for the next year.
We are playtesting the rules on our second campaign. We have to playtest a few classes and a few races still,so there is still a third campaign waiting to be born(under my humble DMness_ship
).By the way,nice forum youve' got here. I still can't realize how I managed to miss it for a whole year I've been looking for it and it's right on the wizards site.. :whatsthis .
_Cheers
Bastion: A city to the far north, forgotten since the Cleansing Wars. Home of the Twilight hall, a place where undead walk among the living, psionics are still at their Green Age level and beyond, Sages voluntarily become guardians, and war is forever contemplated and prepared for.
Supplement: Cleansing Wars: I started a different thread for this, but this will be a massive undertaking at least 200 pages of info and insight into the Cleansing War, including races no longer walking on athas, new PrC's, new feats, new magic/psionic items, and stats for all of the Champions.
On the drawing board:
Volcanic Vapor Metaelementals: These sulfurous gaseous elementals will be hot, caustic, and nasty.
Magmacor: Kind of a magma based manticore. Not sure if I'm going with magical beast, elemental, or outsider for type yet.
It's designed to take my players from 7th to 12th (at which point we'll move into Dregoth Ascending probably) and I give half experience (because otherwise I feel like levels fly by too fast). I'd be happy to post it once I've got it in some semblance of presentability. If people are interested. Are people interested?
My players have started the adventure.
WtH - Working Too Hard - Project surrounding the slavery subject on athas.
PotH - Pterrans of the Hinterlands - Project on the Pterran civilization. (Sysane, if you wish to see what I have done, just look at my signature and see these threads. Btw, I would have some PrC in third ed that would need to be converted to 3.5. Maybe you wish to have a look at these?)
WotS - The Way of the Silt - Small adventure in the Estuary of the Forked Tongue.
HB - Hard Bargain - I like Traders and merchant Houses. I still want to do something about them.
Sound like this.
I've also been plotting out my upcoming campaign, which will start in Free year 2, shortly after the events of Verdant Passage, and follow the path of the Prism Pentad Novels.
It's designed to take my players from 7th to 12th (at which point we'll move into Dregoth Ascending probably) and I give half experience (because otherwise I feel like levels fly by too fast). I'd be happy to post it once I've got it in some semblance of presentability. If people are interested. Are people interested?
I am. I always considered doing it, but never had the time.
I've recently started converting the old adventure modules and I am working on a follow-up adventure to Road to Urik for my new players.
Creatures:
Volcanic Vapor Metaelemental (almost completed), Tar Metaelemental, Magmacor, Harrrati (plural Harrat, genie of Magma, from harrat, Arabic word for volcano), Sufrai (plural Sufra, genie of Volcanic Vapor, from sufra, word for yellow), Mummi (plural Mumm; genie of tar as an aside here the word mummy is actually derived from the Arabic word for tar), Magfly
Domains: (These may be a while in coming. I need to create a few spells before these will come to fruition)
Breath of the Volcano, Heart of Obsidian, Flow of Lava
PrCs:
Magmadon (male) / Volcanatrix (female) = Magma Warrior
Metaelementalists of Tar and Volcanic Vapor
Metaelemental Masters of Tar and Volcanic Vapor