What is Heroes & Other Worlds?

Heroes & Other Worlds is a game of adventure inspired by Metagaming's classic Melee/Wizard/TFT system combined with inspiration from the Moldvay edited basic game. The rules are easy to learn and use standard six sided dice. The system is simple, sensible and flexible in the spirit of classic role playing games from the early 80's. Become a Hero, Other Worlds await!

Monday, September 29, 2014

Slaying the Hydra

Holy crap the monster section is complete.  I now have to tackle the treasure portion but it will feel like vacation compared to the hydra like battle to get through all the critters. Then comes editing the whole thing...

I am too blurry eyed to count how many different beasties are in this thing, but between animals, dinosaurs, demons, devils, hydras, hippogriffs, swarms, slimes, serpent men, yeti's and zombies? It's going to be one heck of mega monster-pedia!

These projects always feel like fighting a hydra in that as one task is done, two more crop up. I finished the monsters I had originally wanted in, but then kept on adding new foes.  Why? Because I cannot see myself doing a Tome of Terrors 2 so they need to be in here now. Enough typing, time for a beer and some baseball play-off previews! Game on true believer!
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5 comments:

  1. UnknownSeptember 29, 2014 at 7:53 PM

    Well, OK...you may have one break. ONE.

    ;-)

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  2. Tim KnightSeptember 30, 2014 at 3:45 AM

    Sounds like you've broken the back of this beast. Well done! I think you deserve a short rest ;)

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  3. Lee LawrenceSeptember 30, 2014 at 7:00 AM

    I'm always amazed at your output, I work sooooo slowly. HOW players are lucky.

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  4. Fenway5September 30, 2014 at 5:16 PM

    Thanks all very much! Once the treasure portion is done, then I add the treasure info to each creature so the work continues!

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  5. ewookieOctober 3, 2014 at 12:23 PM

    i am amazed that you are cramming all this into one book. i am not complaining but praising. it is good for us that you are putting it all in one book but i've thought that it would be easier and perhaps more lucrative if you published like 10-20 critters and their treasures per Cauldron and put out a Cauldron per month until you felt the list was complete. this would drive Cauldron readership, break the task into smaller, manageable chunks, and allow for reader feedback and editing corrections before being collected into one final, polished volume.

    i say all of that to express how daunting it would be for me to do it all in one fell swoop. props to you, brutha!

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