My current work is on Volume II: Sorcery. Adding new spells, the cryomancer spell list, and other sundries. Something I've worked on today was a series of "monster type summoned" tables for monster summoning I, II, III, and IV. This is something I've wanted in my home game for a while.

mabon5127 wrote:

Ghul wrote:

My current work is on Volume II: Sorcery. Adding new spells, the cryomancer spell list, and other sundries. Something I've worked on today was a series of "monster type summoned" tables for monster summoning I, II, III, and IV. This is something I've wanted in my home game for a while.

New spells for the older classes as well?

Had you mentioned previously expanding the madness table as well?

Thanks
 

I'm talking about the cryomancer spells, mostly. I think there are only a few other new spells. However, some of the new cryomancer spells are usable by other classes.

No plan to expand the madness table, Morgan. 
 

One thing I wanted to recall to your attention was a possible clarification of the required alignments for warlocks, legerdemainists, and shamans, as discussed in a thread last year.  I don't think the fact that these classes must also meet the alignment requirements for their "school" of magic is really clear from the current text.

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Just asking like that, is there any link to that Cryomancer class?

Any news you can share since this update from November, Jeff?

Ghul wrote:

Chainsaw wrote:

Anything new you can share, Jeff?

It's on! I've been working on it, and others have, too.

ART! 

• Charles Lang is working on the cover. He has sent me several conceptual sketches. Things are coming together nicely on that front!
• Val Semeiks will be doing six full-page frontispiece illustrations that will mark each of the six "volumes" or chapters of the game. He starts in December.
• Johnathan Bingham is working on interiors. He is doing a series of full-page class illustrations -- of which there will be 26 in total! After that he might be taking on some larger scene pictures.
• Del Teigeler will be doing several monster illustrations.
• Glynn Seal is going to tackle the world map. 

WRITING!

I've got contributions from Ben Ball, Michael Haskell, and Colin Chapman (has anyone seen or heard from him?). Some of these contributions will be worked into the hardback alongside the three new subclasses (cryomancer, huntsman, purloiner), as well as a fourth subclass that I'm still fiddling with. It was going to be a seer, but I've been experimenting with another subclass, and I'm liking it more -- a Viking-style runecaster. 

EDITING!

David Prata will edit the whole, tidying up the new material and combing through the original material. 

It's a work in progress, I'm happy to say, but I'm also working on something else, too. Never a dull moment in the hoary wastes of Hyperborea! ;)

Cheers,
Jeff T.

Sounds great - thanks!

Splendid - great clutch of artists.

R

Looking good!

I have a request for this project, but I don't know if it is a major or minor request.

I'll certainly buy a copy of the hardback, but I am not a fan of all-in-one hardbacks.  I'd like to be able to print the 6 volumes individually from the PDF and bind them as appropriate.  So, I'm asking if it is possible to layout the PDF so that the 6 volumes start on the "right hand page", so to speak.

DMPrata wrote:

francisca wrote:

I have a request for this project, but I don't know if it is a major or minor request.

I'll certainly buy a copy of the hardback, but I am not a fan of all-in-one hardbacks.  I'd like to be able to print the 6 volumes individually from the PDF and bind them as appropriate.  So, I'm asking if it is possible to layout the PDF so that the 6 volumes start on the "right hand page", so to speak.

I'm sure Jeff will jump in to correct me if need be, but I believe what you describe is still the plan. We're still looking to make a separate, perfect-bound Players' Manual available, containing only VOLUMES I–III, in addition to the complete hardcover containing VOLUMES I–VI. The Players' Manual will be laid out identically to the first half of the hardcover so that page references remain consistent (i.e., page 56 of the softcover will be the same as page 56 of the hardcover; the hardcover will just have more pages).

Exactly so! Although I'm not 100% on perfect-bound, as spiral-bound has been so popular and well received, I may stick with that format for the Players' Manual.