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1. How long before DTNW gets back from the printers? 2. What is your estimate on how long till it hits the stores? Here's the latest news: 1. It has shipped from the printer. I mailed all pre-orders earlier today. 2. It still has to make it from our warehouse to the distributors and then to the ret...

That's weird. The file must have been lost when we updated the forums. I've uploaded it again -- you can find it here:

http://www.goodman-games.com/images/Pimptree.jpg

I didn't ink this before scanning it, and it's pretty obvious. You know, the first thing I noticed when I saw this (even before I read the post) was the scratchy quality to the lines. I thought, "Wow, that's cool... makes it a little rougher and more dangerous." I like that look. It didn'...

Very cool! I will throw up a link to it later today...

Kane wrote:That's about the time I start the player as just waking up from a mugging and being completely naked.

Heh heh heh...

I know that the colors on the webstie are correct and why they are supposed to be weird. It's just that i would see how the printer might accidentally miscolor a part of the cover. That's all. Tim Yeah, I see what you mean. I've had covers before where they had the ink slightly off so the colors we...

So what was wrong with the cover? taking one look at the cover for 'Dinos that never were' and my guess would be incorrect coloring (I mean just look at the mutli-'ceratops'-like dino). Tim The colors as shown on the web site are OK -- the wacky colors are supposed to help get across, "Hey, th...

I was just about to post an update today! The printer finished it, but made a mistake on the cover. To make a long story short, they had to reprint the covers. That is currently underway. I hope to have copies available for filling online/mail orders within 2 weeks tops; the book should make its way...

That's a cool idea. It might be hard to implement... you'd have to have some serious weather rules! And a good set of "evolution rules" to determine how creatures adapt. Maybe you could explain it with different gods, each representing an aspect of humanity that is personified in weather. ...

Mike Ferguson, who wrote the upcoming Complete Guide to Liches, loves jungle adventures. He kept trying to persuade me to do a Jungle Adventure Guide. He told me he played a long-term campaign featuring yuan-ti in a rain forest/lost jungle sort of setting. I don't know the rest of the details, but I...

Kane wrote:Nothing is better for building up strange and intresting people then real life.

That's for sure! Another great inspiration is literature. I'm a fan of Dickens and some of his villains are too devious not to be adapted into an RPG...

Over here they showed a Dipotopia miniseries then did an extended series, but it bombed. Personally, I didn't like it. Aside from the dinosaurs, the acting sucked and the plot seemed aimed at 10-year-olds. Not that the books are aimed at adults, but they sure seemed to do a better job of reaching bo...

Those are some cool ideas. If I ever kill off all the PCs in my campaign, maybe I'll have them reanimated as something. Did you ever read the comic Rogue Trooper? It was about these genetically engineered supersoldiers whose personalities and minds could be transferred to computer chips when they di...

That is pretty cool. I'm doing something similar but it doesn't go so far as to include the PCs history or past villains. Among the treasure the PCs have been finding lately are carved, stylized dwarven heads. The first one they found was ignored as worthless (it's nonmagical and basically just a 2&...

I love James Gurney's stuff. He's great. I have all of his Dinotopia books.

Ben's right -- there will definitely be more! The next one scheduled for release is "Monsters of the Boundless Blue: the Wanderers Guild Guide to Aquatic Organisms," which is scheduled for July. After that, there's a Wanderers Guild book scheduled for September that is tentatively code nam...

Somehow I missed this post before -- I think was at the GAMA Trade Show when it was posted. So, retroactively speaking: HA! That's pretty funny. And I think it's deserving of an illustration. Does the dodgeball cannon fire those dimpled red balls we all used in grade school? And is Doppelpopalus in ...

That's an interesting idea. Does WotC's upcoming Ghostwalk cover any of that? I know it lets you run campaigns with ghost characters. Also, I think the premise of Dungeonworld (from Fast Forward) is that it's an alternate plane that characters go to when they die. A book exploring these in more deta...

Very keen observation. :wink: If you look in the front of the Cretasus Adventure Guide, you'll see the raptor book listed as "Dino Hunter's Guide to Velociraptors." That was the original title... but I later changed it to lay the foundation for the CG series. "Dino Hunter's Guide to D...

Sounds like a good review to me. Glad you liked the book.

That's a lot of good stuff. Thanks for the links!

The characters are the barbarian decendents of a colony ship that crashed on a planet several hundred years ago. This planet is populated by creatures that appear to be prehistoric beasts from earth's past. Wow! That sounds really cool. It's exactly the sort of thing that Frazetta would illustrate....

Hi Kane! Welcome. Sounds like you've got a lot of great experience. I'm interested in hearing more on your advice for giving plot twists to players. Personally, I like adventures with twists, and it definitely helps the players get involved if they have to think about what's going on. What are some ...

I'm sure everyone heard the news that Goodman Games will be working with Zeitgeist Games to bring Blackmoor d20 to print. It will be released in August as a 224-page hardback. In the meantime, a fan has started a Blackmoor mailing list. If you'd like to stay up to date and talk to the developers as ...

I lived in California for three years and somehow never made it to Vernal, but I always wanted to go. It sounds like a fun trip. I've seen pictures of the bad dinosaur statues before... and yes, they ARE bad! But at least they don't have mullets.