Thanks for the info Clark!
Why have substitution classes gone out of vouge with WOTC?
I can hardly wait.
Why have substitution classes gone out of vouge with WOTC?
They're a little clunky. Alternative class features provide most of the same benefits without worrying about a table, messing with saving throw bonuses and/or base attack bonuses, etc. Essentially, it's "switch out X feature for Y feature" and that's it. We group them under common themes - the kirath, for example, is a set of alternative class features, some for different classes - and this makes it more than a feat but less than a prestige class, which works very well indeed.
Cheers,
Cam
So then, if I understand this correctly, you could have clerics, druids, rangers, wizards, who are kirath with the alternate class features?
Not all classes are represented. Essentially, there are a handful of classes which work well with the kirath and therefore we picked some of their class features to switch out with new ones.
Cheers,
Cam
Clark, are you working on the project? If you, since I have a pre-order from MWP can u autograph it for me as well?:D
I appreciate the support - I did work on it, but I do not live in Wisconsin, so I'm not able to autograph copies ordered through MWP.
If you bump into me at GenCon, I'd be happy to, though!
Has there been any update as to when this book and the Bestiary will be out?
You'll see any announcements posted on www.dragonlance.com, so keep watching there and it will save you from having to ask.
Cheers,
Cam
I appreciate the support - I did work on it, but I do not live in Wisconsin, so I'm not able to autograph copies ordered through MWP.
If you bump into me at GenCon, I'd be happy to, though!
Aaah, the land of cheese.
Sadly, not the land of milk and honey. I guess since the Israelites spent forty years in the desert, 70 in Babylon and there is 2000 or so years from Abraham to the coming of Christ, and it has been 2000 since the Resurrection, we really do not have that much of a wait for the book. "We wait in joyful hope"
You'll see any announcements posted on www.dragonlance.com, so keep watching there and it will save you from having to ask.
Asked and answered already.
Also, any word on the Revised Beastiary? That has been out on pdf for about 3 or so months and still has not been published in a regular means.
What does that mean? Final layout?
It means they're working on it in InDesign to get the layout of the pages, artwork, borders, all the pagination, etc complete so the book is ready to go off to WotC to get reviewed and to the printers.
Also, any word on the Revised Beastiary? That has been out on pdf for about 3 or so months and still has not been published in a regular means.
It's currently at the printers. Quite frequently the print cycles used by printers are on the order of several weeks, and thus it can occasionally take a while for a print order to come up on the queue and get done. Look for the Revised Bestiary of Krynn sometime mid-April at the distributors and then in stores etc after that.
Cheers,
Cam
I thought that the Klar were Neidar who lived in Thorbardin at the time that the Dwarfgate Wars happened.
This is one of the most highly debated dwarven topics. According to history prior to the writing of the dwarven nations trilogy Klar were thought to be Neidar who were trapped in Thorbardin during the closing of its gates during the Dwarfgate Wars.
The true story, the Klar are a seperate culture of dwarves who have been around since Thorbardin was once called Kal-Thax. These dwarves were the farmers of Thorbardin and often ventured outside to oversee at first the Einer and then later the Neidar farms. During the Dwarfgate Wars many of them were unable to leave the Thorbardin and some of them were trapped outside. Those who were outside became part of the Neidar while those inside grew to show signs of craziness with the loss of their loved ones. Not to say that the Klar weren't always a little bit crazy would be an understatement but this drove them to new levels.
Any idea when the Bestiary will be shipped to those who pre-ordered it
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Second, they are so damn hard to find in gaming stores... atleast around where I live and I honestly don't like reading the books on the computer... But this is all IMHO of course... Just wanted to add my two copper.
For instance with the fact that Mina is really a god the Holy orders of the Stars is kinda out the window...
You never know, she might get killed. :D :D
The Bestiary is out according to some. I pre-ordered mine in September and have yet to receive it. And they wonder why people get frustrated.
It hasn't hit stores quite yet, but those who pre-ordered them are getting theirs in the mail as we speak.
Don't worry, a few more days and you're good. Shipping takes time.
Any idea when the pdf for Races of Ansalon will be out?
After final layout is taken care of, thanks to the speedy powers of Digger Hayes, our layout expert, it goes to approval at Wizards of the Coast. This can take a short amount of time or a long amount of time, depending on what WotC is doing, etc etc. The PDF gets uploaded to DriveThruRPG at the same time the approved book is sent to the printers.
All things going well, I expect you should be able to see it in the next couple of weeks. But if you hold me to that, I'll have to replace all of your Raistlin stats with stats for Finkle of the Green Robes.
Jamie or somebody else from the company will make an announcement, which will be official. Until then, it's all guesstimates.
Cheers,
Cam
Cam, I am really interested now, in looking at the rules for the half races. I did notice that in RBOK the half-ogre entry did not have the stats and info for playing the Krynnish hal-ogre. Will this be rectified in ROA?
The Revised Bestiary of Krynn doesn't have any half-ogres in it. It's got a half-giant, but we didn't include those in Races of Ansalon. They're more powerful than ogres! Half-ogres are in both the DLCS and reprinted in RoA.
Cheers,
Cam
Any idea if the book is still on schedule for next month's release?
We're waiting for approval from WotC at the moment. Once it's approved, it will be sent to the printer, and at the same time will be posted to DriveThruRPG for those folks who want the PDF.
Cheers,
Cam
Are there going to be illustrations of the different racial weapons, i.e. hoopak. chapak, lajatang?
Don't you own Tales of the Lance? You've seen all of these before.
Cheers,
Cam
I do BUT I dont want to haul another book to the table if it is not necessary. Oh, and the question was not answered.
I don't think we have art for the weapons, no. You could always haul your older book to the photocopier...
Cheers,
Cam
I like it alot!!!
Glad to hear it! Anything in particular stand out as being good? Anything you wish we'd done differently?
Where are the damages for some of the weapons in the book? Soris and some of the kender weapons at a cursory glance are missing.
They are double weapons or combined weapons that deal the same damage as the weapons they are made up of. It says as much in the text; find out what the weapon may be used for (such as a quarterstaff or hand axe) and then use those statistics.
Cheers,
Cam
Dont get me wrong, I love it. It looks like the best thing MWP has put out for Dragonlance.
So that couldnt even be put in the book?
You have to keep in mind that for somethings like the hoopak, it could be used as three different weapons (staff, spear, & sling), so which stats would they list? All three would take up too much room.
Excellent book, in particular I love the kender pouch rules and the Gully Dwarf feat Gassy. I noticed they listed the weapon familiarities for each weapon, but where does it list the rules for that? I don't remember how exactly that works.
So if a dwarf is a fighter (and he therefore has proficiency with all martial weapons) and he has racial weapon familiarity with the exptoc weapon dwarven maul (don't know if that weapon actually, so excuse me if it don't. Just using it for example) then he is proficient with it, where a human would need to take the exotic weapon feat in order to use it.
If I am wrong about how racial familirity works, someone will point it out. But I believe that is how it works.
Kender weapons are considered simple weapons for them.
Where did you get this? I've seen nothing to back this up.
Where did you get this? I've seen nothing to back this up.
It's in the kender racial traits included in Races of Ansalon. They may treat any kender weapon as a simple weapon.
Cheers,
Cam
Quick question, can afflicted kender becomes handlers?
Yes. Any prerequisite of "kender" automatically includes afflicted kender unless there are other requirements that can't also be met (such as being fearless). The same is true for gnomes and mad gnomes, etc.
Cheers,
Cam
It's in the kender racial traits included in Races of Ansalon. They may treat any kender weapon as a simple weapon.
Cheers,
Cam
Ah, I didnt see that the racial traits had been changed to include that. Thanks Cam!
On a side, I noticed that in Knights none of the kender used kender weapons. Was that done on purpose?
Does the PRC fit an afflicted kender though?
I'd certianly say no, but thats just my instinct.
I would say the same thing, unless they used their abilities for offense rather than mischief that a normal kender would.
That would be up to the individual kender (and player).
We also don't want people to think kender are only capable of using kender weapons, hence the NPCs in KOoA that don't. The whole point of our sourcebooks is to expand and unburden old ideas, which I believe Races achieves.
Cheers,
Cam
That is very much true but people dont always see things that way. For example on some other boards people were giving mystics levels in PRCs reserved for members of the Holy Orders of the Stars.
Right. And, of course, they're allowed to do that with those prestige classes.
It isn't quite what I intended, but it's their game.Cheers,
Cam
Excellent book, in particular I love the kender pouch rules and the Gully Dwarf feat Gassy.
Yay, another satisfied customer.
The kender pouches were fun to develop. I'd love to hear some day what a high level kender handler ended up finding in their pouches in a time of need.
Plus, I'm a little surprised Gassy made it through all the reviews, hee hee. :D
Yay, another satisfied customer.
The kender pouches were fun to develop. I'd love to hear some day what a high level kender handler ended up finding in their pouches in a time of need.
Plus, I'm a little surprised Gassy made it through all the reviews, hee hee. :D
Yeah, I love it. A discussion during chargen has led to me needing to develop a feat called "Mighty Hurl". I'll just let that sink in now.
What happened to half-irda?
There aren't any! We didn't include half-minotaurs, either.
Cheers,
Cam
Half-kender are rare, but there are two known cases - Tarli Half-Kender and Scrounger. Some kender may look more mature than normal specimens of their race, perhaps enough that they look like young teenager. Enter in an adolescent boy with extreme hormone issues, and you get a half-kender. ;)
And, if we have those combinations, why not a half-gnome or a half-goblin?
Some kender may look more mature than normal specimens of their race, perhaps enough that they look like young teenager. Enter in an adolescent boy with extreme hormone issues, and you get a half-kender. ;)
See, I was picturing a overly questioning male kender stumbling upon a naked female human and pestering her with so many questions she just decides to do the one thing that shuts any man up.... that or a teenage female that just thinks the kender is sooooo cute, being chibi-like and all.. :D
There have been no half-gnomes in any of the novels that I have read.
The one in the book that I say looks very much like Gimble the iconic 3.5 gnomish bard in the PHB and other works.
Why was nightstalker made a 20th level class as opposed to the PRC from the Age of Mortals?
I liked it better that way?
Cheers,
Cam
I kind of like the 20 levels of progression but I dont really see it anymore as a unique kender class.
:D Cam, you answered almost 12 hours after I asked the question! :D
I kind of like the 20 levels of progression but I dont really see it anymore as a unique kender class.
There's nothing stopping you from limiting it to kender only - base classes typically aren't, and in fact opening it up to other races is a pretty cool idea (why should kender be the only nightstalkers in the Age of Mortals? They're just the first ones to follow that path), but you can easily require them to be kender.
I was delayed in answering the question because I've relocated to Wisconsin this past weekend and I've been offline. Now I'm back to work on Dragons of Krynn!
Cheers,
Cam
I was delayed in answering the question because I've relocated to Wisconsin this past weekend and I've been offline. Now I'm back to work on Dragons of Krynn!
Awww, and I used to like you so much; but now that you're a "cheese-eater"...
HAHAHA, just kidding! :D
Since it is Dragons of Krynn, will there be information on the dragons clans of Taladas?
It's extremely Ansalon-centric, sorry.
Cheers,
Cam
Also, are the dragons from Otherlands, the brine dragons, going to be in the book Dragons of Krynn?
Is there any information on when the hardcover book of Races will be available?
The book is at the printers, after we corrected the PDF version (which is going to be updated at DriveThruRPG) and should be sent off to distributors in a few weeks. It's a busy time of year for printers!
Also, are the dragons from Otherlands, the brine dragons, going to be in the book Dragons of Krynn?
Nope. Banished to the land of obscurity.
Cheers,
Cam
Those dragons were kind of neat. I was reading the Otherlands the other night and am glad that the lesser gods of the Dargonesti were taken out of the official canon yet they are still referred to in the Races book.
Absolutely. I regard them as aspects of the core gods, not true gods or demigods.
Cheers,
Cam
Is the Sea Witch and her sister, the 30th level cleric of Mishakel, who were part of the same person split by Takihis still canon?
Like aspects of Abbaku?
Is the Sea Witch and her sister, the 30th level cleric of Mishakel, who were part of the same person split by Takihis still canon?
We're not mentioning her. I doubt anybody is a 30th level cleric of Mishakal, however.
Cheers,
Cam
Any update as to when the hardcover book will be in our hands?
We're expecting to sell copies at ComicCon San Diego this week, and then GenCon Indy, so it'll be in the distribution channels soon afterward. Dragons of Krynn will also be at GenCon.
Cheers,
Cam
http://www.gencon.com/2007/indy/
Don't worry, though. They're bothans. It's what they do.
Bad Clark, no death sticks for you!
You want to go home and rethink your life.
Cheers,
Cam
Unfortuntely, with MWP's history going against them, I hightly doubt that the book will be ready. Races still isnt on shelves. I hope that AI will be proven wrong though.
Dragons of Krynn was approved by Wizards of the Coast today, as a matter of fact. We just have a couple of more things to do and then it'll be up on DriveThruRPG within the next week or two and off to the printers.
Races of Ansalon is here at Comic-Con San Diego. I was reading a copy of the book today after I picked up the boxes, and it goes on sale tomorrow.
Cheers,
Cam
Dragons of Krynn was approved by Wizards of the Coast today, as a matter of fact. We just have a couple of more things to do and then it'll be up on DriveThruRPG within the next week or two and off to the printers.
Woot!
Weldon