We'll be making an announcement about this a little later in the week but, for all you Lone Wolf devotees, this book is now in stock! Pre-orders will be going out tomorrow.
Magnamund Bestiary News
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lightmage81
Mongoose
Great news!
lastbesthope
Mongoose
I doubt I'll be picking this up, I have to economise somewhere and LW is the least likely of all the RPGs I have to ever get played.
LBH
LBH
Got mine today, and I like the info I briefly saw at work today. It's not a thick book (About the same as the other LW books) but in the few entries I looked at on Drakkar (many variants), Giaks, Helghast, Vordak there was some cool information that might not have been introduced in other places.
Zager Krahl
Mongoose
Did someone say Drakkarim variants? Care to post a teaser or two?
Without tooting my own horn, this is /the/ Magnamund monster book to get. If you want variants on Drakkarim, different kinds of Darklord minions and things that are specific to Joe's mind.
Well...I mined that mind extensively in writing this book. Joe was an incredible help in making this and Sommerlund a reality - Vincent was also a great help with many clarifications, edts and fact checks for the Magnamund Bestiary.
There's also a few things that were expanded from Joe's replies, such as the nature of Clockwork Constructs on Magnamund, how they came...and how to make your own.
Well...I mined that mind extensively in writing this book. Joe was an incredible help in making this and Sommerlund a reality - Vincent was also a great help with many clarifications, edts and fact checks for the Magnamund Bestiary.
There's also a few things that were expanded from Joe's replies, such as the nature of Clockwork Constructs on Magnamund, how they came...and how to make your own.
Random Code
Mongoose
... Still eagerly awaiting the arrival of my pre-order. Aaaargh! Really want to read this!
There is a range of CS/EP creatures, (some that are probably pitched for combined higher level characters to fight, or for GM level characters( and there was also a non-Helghast shapeshifter if that was the one that attacks you?
The darkspawn and even agarashi monsters are only a section each, there are normal animals, mutants, and human sections too. Even extra-planar creatures.
The Drakkar stuff is more the breakdown of ranks/positions in the Drakkar army with stats, so any teaser would basically be typing out those pages of the book!
The darkspawn and even agarashi monsters are only a section each, there are normal animals, mutants, and human sections too. Even extra-planar creatures.
The Drakkar stuff is more the breakdown of ranks/positions in the Drakkar army with stats, so any teaser would basically be typing out those pages of the book!
In fact, the Darkspawn are nearly all present, but their number is dwarfed by the others monsters, including the Agarashi (whose origins are completely different from the Darkspawn), the Mutants created by different dark powers (including Shasarak the Wytch-King of Shadaki, the Cener Druids, the evil Ancients, the Nadziranim, Lord Zahda of Kazan Oud...), the completely magical creatures, the extra-planar creatures, the Undead. One of the great issue of that book is that the monsters and beings of Magnamund are classified following their origins. There are the common creatures, the darkspawn, the Agarashi, the sentient beings, the mutants... Such a work would have been impossible only reading the gamebooks and Joe Dever provided many new data to classify the beasts. For example, the mysterious shapechanger (the bloodthirsty Deathstalker) YOU deal with in Voyage of the Moonstone is described and classified in the Magnamund Bestiary...Xex said:
A simple answer: YES. For example the Deathstalker you asked is such a beast, as well as many other Agarashi. You want to fight with the terrible minions of Deathlord Ixiataaga, who was even feared by the Darklords? They are present. Good luck!Xex said:
Zager Krahl
Mongoose
Would the Drakkarim army organisation in any way be based on the article Dever published in S&P 69?
Zorkaan said:Thank you Darren. That was a great honor and pleasure to work with you on that book. Thanks to Joe we learnt incredibly numerous new things about the monsters of Magnamund, and everybody will be able to discover them now the book is released!!
Indeed, it was a great pleasure to have your eye for detail so this book could be something truly worthy of Magnamund.
A true labour of love.
phantomdoodler
Mongoose
This is the best supplement by far! Its answered so many questions i have had for the past 20 odd years. Fantastic - thanks guys! And thanks for putting right the terrible mistakes of the d20 version. Itikars are eagles again!
