Creatures of Distant Worlds: Sand Cobras and Subscription

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  On distant worlds in the deepest regions of space, unknown creatures await unwitting explorers. Close to home, devious politicians and gangsters lure native wild life to carry out their dirty work while maintaining denyability. On a frontier outpost, primitive life forms walk the uninhabited regions hoping claim the civilized place as their new home. Be prepared no matter where your players go. Be ready with the Creatures of Distant Worlds.
  
  Sand Cobras borrow through deserts and beaches. Their venom slows the mind and their strength pulls those they grab under the sand to their doom. Stand up to the challenge and save the day, or fail to defend yourself and become this creature's next meal.

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  The Creatures of Distant Worlds Subscription bring you a new creature every two weeks. Within each issue is an exciting and dangerous creature to surprise your players. With details like their physical description, combat tactics, habitat and stats for several variations, each unique creature provides a new challenge for different worlds. Additionally, plot hooks describe how the creature fits into Sector Nothart, an upcoming setting from Jon Brazer Enterprises and can easily fit into your home campaign.
  
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[rust]

I am already looking forward to the Krakodarans.

 

[dmccoy1693]

I am already looking forward to the Krakodarans.

That one arrives in 2 weeks.

 

[qstor]

I think a creatures book is a great idea. But I'd prefer not to pay for a 5? page pdf of each one. And I'd strongly prefer one from Mongoose with conversions of prior CT and MT critters with real ones thrown in for good measure. Just my two credits.

Mike

 

[dmccoy1693]

I think a creatures book is a great idea. But I'd prefer not to pay for a 5? page pdf of each one. And I'd strongly prefer one from Mongoose with conversions of prior CT and MT critters with real ones thrown in for good measure. Just my two credits.

Mike

I'd love to do a creature book. Right now I'm testing demand for such a product. 32 pages, 64 pages, 100+ pages. I don't know.

If you'd like such a product, I highly recommend taking an indepth look at the Creatures of Distant Worlds. Give them a run in your campaigns. Tell me what you think. Could I do better with less details, would a 2nd page for each creature be a better length, did I totally miss the mark on a creature, did I nail it perfectly.

Feedback from these initial six are going to help me gage how much/little interest there is for and how much/little detail to put into a larger product. A wise podcaster once said, "The supply is limitless; the demand is up to you."

 

[rust]

I'd love to do a creature book. Right now I'm testing demand for such a product. 32 pages, 64 pages, 100+ pages. I don't know.

I would prefer shorter PDFs for specific environments (e.g. arctic, desert,
ocean, perhaps certain hostile environments) with some additional infor-
mations on the interrelations (I hope that word exists ...) of the species,
which could provide me with creatures as well as with a plausible ecosys-
tem, allowing me to either use single species or to introduce the entire
ecosystem into my setting.

 

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[qstor]

I checked out the sand cobra. Nice artwork. I still don't think one creature per pdf is worth it. One creature per page in a larger .pdf maybe 64 pages? Is cool. Along with MGT conversions for real critters like aligators.

I was wondering I don't have the book in front of me, why a huge cobra moves faster than a smaller one?

Mike

 

[dmccoy1693]

Thank you for checking out the Sand Cobra.

I was wondering I don't have the book in front of me, why a huge cobra moves faster than a smaller one?

Simple size. Equivilent to who can walk faster, me or my 6 year old daughter. While a child can maneuver faster, the adult has more developed muscles than the kid and a larger step. With snakes the slithering motion is larger with the adult than the young. The speed given is a combat speed, not simple walking around.

 

[rust]

I was wondering I don't have the book in front of me, why a huge cobra moves faster than a smaller one?

I just tried to look it up, and Wikipedia says:

Lateral undulation is the sole mode of aquatic locomotion, and the most
common mode of terrestrial locomotion. In this mode, the body of the
snake alternately flexes to the left and right, resulting in a series of rear-
ward-moving 'waves'. While this movement appears rapid, snakes have
been documented moving faster than two body-lengths per second, often
much less.

A speed of "two body-lengths per second" would indeed mean that a sna-
ke of the same species would become faster when it becomes longer.
I suspect that there are some restricting factors that limit this increase in
speed somewhat, but the basic idea seems sound to me.