The Post-Kickstarter Discussion Thread: Bask in the Afterglow

[ChristianSt]

Plus there's "Dim Sun" to come at some point as well.

Is there a specific reason to highlight the Dim Sun story? There are multiple others on the "Kickstarter stories yet to be released"-list (To name them: Julio Scoundrél, Sir Francois and the CPPD)

On a related note, does anyone know if there's a plan to print all the Gygax magazine comics?

I would seriously doubt that Rich has the rights to do that--depends on private details of his contract with Gygax Magazine, of course, which he's not likely to tell us and nor are we entitled to know them.

I haven't heard any information on that topic, but seeing that the Dragon Magazine strips were published, I would assume that something similar for Gygax could happen (though I would not expect something as long as OotS still runs in Gygax). Since I haven't read them yet (and it is unlikely that I will start with the Gygax magazine) I would certainly appreciate such a release.

(But yeah, nothing we are really entitled to speculate about, and also something that is off-topic for this thread)

[Storm_Of_Snow]

Is there a specific reason to highlight the Dim Sun story? There are multiple others on the "Kickstarter stories yet to be released"-list (To name them: Julio Scoundrél, Sir Francois and the CPPD)

Yes, there was a specific reason - namely that I forgot about the other three stories.

[Shadowscale]

Not sure if this should go here. I'm curious, would anyone else had been interested if one of the pdfs were on Inkyrius and their backstory?

I find them immensely interesting and adorable, elves have to have long backstories due to age as well.

[Ted The Bug]

Eh, not really. I think that we know so little about Inky that it wouldn't feel like it was giving us any extra insight (compared to Therka's story, which felt like it actually really did flesh out an already rich character).

I think that a young (pre-lich, pre-redcloak) Xykon would actually be very interesting as a choice, however.

[Lissou]

Meh, I had enough of Xykon in Start of Darkness, personally. I would definitely have enjoyed a story about Inkyrius. Maybe with the kids while V is away, or something about how they met, or their relationship before they were married.

This being said, I'm happy with the choices people have made for the PDFs.

[Grey Watcher]

Meh, I had enough of Xykon in Start of Darkness, personally. I would definitely have enjoyed a story about Inkyrius. Maybe with the kids while V is away, or something about how they met, or their relationship before they were married.

This being said, I'm happy with the choices people have made for the PDFs.

Now I'm picturing some sort of Cat in the Hat parody featuring V's and Inky's children.

[dtilque]

Now I'm picturing some sort of Cat in the Hat parody featuring V's and Inky's children.

Starring Mr Scruffy? With Blackwing playing the fish?

Or rename it The Bat in the Hat and have Durkula as the title character... he'd have to borrow a hat from one of the gnomes, unless he happened to visit Hats and More during the shopping trip...

So who gets to play Thing 1 and Thing 2?

[Emanick]

Starring Mr Scruffy? With Blackwing playing the fish?

Or rename it The Bat in the Hat and have Durkula as the title character... he'd have to borrow a hat from one of the gnomes, unless he happened to visit Hats and More during the shopping trip...

So who gets to play Thing 1 and Thing 2?

Blackwing and Mr. Scruffy? Or perhaps Yekyek and Yakyak?

[Gift Jeraff]

Thog 1 and Thog 2.

[Lycunadari]

Not sure if this should go here. I'm curious, would anyone else had been interested if one of the pdfs were on Inkyrius and their backstory?

I find them immensely interesting and adorable, elves have to have long backstories due to age as well.

Yes! If I'd been one of the story backers, a story about Inky would have been my choice. They are my favourite secondary (tertiary?) character. I mean, the Therkla story was great, the Belkar story okay and I guess the CPPD story will be nice as well, I just don't find any of these characters that interesting. Way less interesting than Inky, at least.

[Peelee]

New wallpaper is up, in case anyone here doesn't get email notifications.

[Lord Torath]

Giant,

Is there a plan for a 2016 OotS Calendar? My wife wants to know if we can avoid another "Puppy and Kitten" year in our family, and feels The Order of the Stick is much to be preferred.

Many Thanks! (And really hoping!)

[Lissou]

Giant,

Is there a plan for a 2016 OotS Calendar? My wife wants to know if we can avoid another "Puppy and Kitten" year in our family, and feels The Order of the Stick is much to be preferred.

Many Thanks! (And really hoping!)

The previous calendar hinted to a villain-centered calendar for this year. Well, technically, next year.

[The Giant]

A thread for the new villain calendar is up now, stickied at the top of the forum page.

I'm going to temporarily de-sticky this thread since conversation has pretty much died and we're sort of drowning in stickies. If there's a topic that you need to discuss you can still post it here, or start a new thread when the time comes.

[BrooksSut]

I was just printing out a page of Kobolds to use in a D&D game, and I was wondering if the Autumn and Winter "Monster for Every Season" packs ever came out.

I love using these when I have a game, especially now that I'm playing a game with my kids and keep the tone more light-hearted.

Thanks for any info!

[NerdyKris]

Not yet, no. If you log into your kickstarter page, you can see his latest update with the listing of what is and isn't done and where it is in production. The first is conception, then planning, then the green bubbles are creating it, I believe.

[jere7my]

Not yet, no. If you log into your kickstarter page, you can see his latest update with the listing of what is and isn't done and where it is in production. The first is conception, then planning, then the green bubbles are creating it, I believe.

I believe Rich said in his latest update he was trying to draw one Monster for Every Season monster a day, as a sort of warm-up.

[Ron Miel]

To all Kickstarter donors: Note The Giant's comments here, and beware of scammers.

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...?481414-Fakery!

[King of Nowhere]

hey, since someone already resurrected this thread, I will need giant scorpions for my next adventure, but i can''t find them in the AMFES. did i miss them, or they are really not there?

[ChristianSt]

hey, since someone already resurrected this thread, I will need giant scorpions for my next adventure, but i can''t find them in the AMFES. did i miss them, or they are really not there?

Since the PDFs are even searchable with text I am rather confidant in saying "Yes there aren't there (in Spring/Summer)". Maybe we will see some in the other installments.

[NerdyKris]

Yeah, I looked through them and there aren't any.

[King of Nowhere]

is there any way to make slight modifications to some pictures from "a monster for every season"?

I'll explain my conundrum. One of my player will have his 18th birthday in a couple months. And I know he likes to massacre things with his character. So I was planning to separate him from the rest of the party, have him find a weapon made to exterminate large numbers of weak foes (gives cleave; if one already has cleave - which is the case here - gives great cleave; every time you kill an opponent, heals 1d4 hp) and then throw 180 goblins at him, while revealing a sign saying "happy birthday". I'm going to print them all and let them stay on the ground when they are killed, to form a massive pile of corpses.
Well, I thought it would be nice if one in then of those goblins also had a candle on them :)

[Dr. Gamera]

is there any way to make slight modifications to some pictures from "a monster for every season"?

I'll explain my conundrum. One of my player will have his 18th birthday in a couple months. And I know he likes to massacre things with his character. So I was planning to separate him from the rest of the party, have him find a weapon made to exterminate large numbers of weak foes (gives cleave; if one already has cleave - which is the case here - gives great cleave; every time you kill an opponent, heals 1d4 hp) and then throw 180 goblins at him, while revealing a sign saying "happy birthday". I'm going to print them all and let them stay on the ground when they are killed, to form a massive pile of corpses.
Well, I thought it would be nice if one in then of those goblins also had a candle on them :)

You could draw a picture of a candle and glue it to the goblin.

[NerdyKris]

Your best bet, unless you have a PDF editor or the ability to convert it into an image file, would be to just screen shot the page and load it in an image editing program to manipulate.

[mystcjohn]

One wonders if updates are yearly now.

I for one feel slightly dissatisfied with the lack of pdfs which were the main reason I backed this.

[Joerg]

I am extremely confident that we will get all the stories eventually, even if it takes a few years more. And though I'm awaiting them eagerly, the stories we've already got have been so long and so excellent that I don't see any reason to complain about the time it takes to produce them. Oh, and the monsters are great, too.

[Lord Torath]

Woo hoo! Thanks for the awesome Monster Minis! Great stuff!

[ti'esar]

Wow, this is an impressive collection!

The abishai are a particular favorite of mine - official art, to my mind, has always struggled with distinguishing them from other draconic humanoids, but the ones here don't have that at all. Creepy.

I'm on the lookout for easter eggs, but so far all I've found are

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the "Western Hag" and flying monkey.

[Porthos]

Wow, this is an impressive collection!

The abishai are a particular favorite of mine - official art, to my mind, has always struggled with distinguishing them from other draconic humanoids, but the ones here don't have that at all. Creepy.

I'm on the lookout for easter eggs, but so far all I've found are

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the "Western Hag" and flying monkey.

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The Roaches have their roachy commentary.

[Yendor]

Good to see the Giant continuing his pursuit of the record for Longest Time to Fulfill a Kickstarter Reward.

I'm on the lookout for easter eggs, but so far all I've found are

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the "Western Hag" and flying monkey.

Did you notice the

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tin golem?