Just Got New Art: Dagger Fangssssssssssss!

Hey, I just received this color image of the Dagger Fangssss, previewed in the last post, from Amanda Webb. I originally envisioned the snake dudes as having brownish or gold scales, but I really like this alternate colorscheme. The shocking blue really fits in with the MOTU toyline's color palatte. One thing you'll notice- those leather straps on Snake Dude's feet. I asked Amanda to add those, and they increase the image's He-Mannyness by at least 20%.

Fun, fun, fun project.
CHRIS

Upcoming: Modern Magic and Anthros of Endara

Okay, I thought I'd show you some art from my upcoming Anthros of Endara sourcebook. This is a Dagger Fang (the plural is Dagger Fangssss, and yes, the elongated ESSSS is mandatory). Basically, the race is a Kobra Khan or Snake Men analogue. Anthros of Endara is going to be the first Endara book out, and it will spotlight several races built with Fursona, since half-animal hybrids were such a big part of the original He-Man toon's cast. It's a neat example of what you can do with the Fursona toolkit, while being a standalone fantasy race book. Most of the races have optional elements where you can swap in or out different Fursona traits to create different subspecies. It's very modular, very kid-fantasy, and very reminiscent of the MOTU world.

The other day, I posted the spell list for the Modern Grimorie, and as of today the spell list stands at 91 items. So that thing is progressing rapidly. I'm going to pull some of the content I expected to include in the Modern Grimorie into a separate release, entitled Gods of the Otherverse. Gods of the Otherverse will include Pathfinder deity stats for all the 'space gods' of the setting, will include updated statblocks for all the space gods, like Genesis and Artemis from Guide to the Known Galaxy, and maybe some revisions to Lifechained abilities as a whole. I also figure I'll include some bonus content in that one, in the form of Culture and Blooded Ghosts for Psi-Watch and alien deities for Galaxy Command, though the core focus of the book will be the space gods of Otherverse America.... and deities closer to Earth.

I just made a last minute tweek to the Modern Spellcaster. Some of the paragraph headers were ugly, and I went in and cleaned them up. Look for that in a couple of days, along with Free20: Fight for Choice. Modern Grimorie will likely hit a week or two later, since I will be illustrating it mostly with stock art, and don't have to wait on art. Anthros of Endara still needs some art done for it, as does Gods of the Otherverse.

Talk to you later,
CHRIS

Modern Spell List

 Okay, the Modern Spellcaster will be coming out very soon, and I'm already working on a sequel/add on book, the Modern Grimorie. Modern Grimorie will naturally be a spell book aimed squarely at modern or futuristic magic campaigns. To preview it, I thought I'd show you the spell list for this book as it stands today. Naturally, I'll be adding more spells to the roster, and when the book is released I want it to have 75-100 new spells, as well as other cool content. 

Some of these spells are revisions of spells that originally appeared in Black Tokyo, the Digital Sorcerer Advanced Class, or the D20 Modern SRD, but most are new.

Zero Level

1. Date (accurately determine the age of a touched object)
2. Fertility Control (magically prevent or ensure pregnancy for a day)
3. Illusory ID (create a randomized fake ID of a specific type)
4. Infographic (read a lengthy text as a full round action)
5. Tweet (send very short message to electronic device)
6. Weathering (you age an inanimate object)

First Level

7. Ballistic Talons (fingernails become deadly missiles inflicting 1d6+1 slashing per two caster levels, to a maximum of five independently targeted talons)
8. Child Ward (prevent children from entering a warded area)
9. Dataread (perceive machine readable data by merely touching the storage device)
10. Datawipe (purge the data stored on a computer or device)
11. Electronic Inventory (gain a complete list of all electrical devices worn, carried or implanted on a character)
12. Know Lusts (determine a target’s sexual orientation and other sexual preferences)
13. Lesson in Manners (punish a target for rude behavior with a mystic slap that inflicts 1d6 points of non-lethal damage/level)
14. Metal Stealth (hide a Medium or smaller ferrous object, up to 10 lbs per level, from detection by metal detectors or other sensors)
15. Pride of the Collection (summon art objects from a parallel world)
16. Smart Meal (encode a luck bonus equal to your ranks in a chosen skill into a meal that can be shared by multiple creatures)
17. Xeno-Study (gain anatomical and biological information about a single alien creature, act is if you had the Xeno-Medic feat in regard to that creature)

Second Level

18. Anti-Tank Dog (transform an animal into a living, seeking bomb that inflicts 1d6 points of fire damage / caster level)
19. Bumper Sticker Curse (vehicle fails to operate until a specific decoration is removed)
20. Cock Like a Piston (sexually merge rider and motorcycle for increased maneuverability and control)
21. Geo-Political Awareness (long term spell provides +1 or better on certain knowledge checks and +1 on Initiative checks against a particular threat group)
22. Open All Night (create phantom employees to briefly reopen a closed business)
23. Reflect the Camera (reverse the angle of a photograph to see additional details)
24. Visual Feast (immune to hunger and thirst as long as you watch others eat)

Third Level

25. Bird Flight (increase an aircraft’s maneuverability and speed, and allow it to be healed as if it were alive)
26. Cop Ward (prevents police officers and informants from entering a warded area)
27. Electronic Sweep (gain a complete list of all electronic devices within a 60 ft cone)  
28. Fire Focus (magic laser initially inflicts 1d8 fire damage, but this doubles each round the laser beam is trained on a single target)
29. Fuel the Engine (provide fuel for a touched machine for 1 hour/3 caster levels)
30. Internalized Knowledge (sacrifice 4 ranks and class skill status in a particular Knowledge to permanently gain +1 Intelligence)
31. Millionaire’s Scourge (damage target in proportion to its wealth)
32. Penetrating Energy Weapon (touched energy weapon temporarily deals damage without a specific energy type and not subject to energy resistance)
33. Photomapping (know the exact location where a photograph was taken)

Fourth Level

34. Arcane Capacitor (store Spell Points in an object for later use)
35. Arcane Leech (steal 1d8 + INT mod Spell Points from a victim and recover the same amount of Spell Points yourself)
36. Copperblast (Copper sheath reduces target’s speed by 10 ft, causes them to become heavily encumbered and Vulnerable to Electricity)
37. Ghost Chassis (summon an ectoplasmic automobile for one hour / level)
38. Identify Subject (learn the name of a photographed creature)
39. Liquidize Wealth (destroy a valuable object to permanently increase your Wealth bonus)
40. Nerve Fire (mental version of fireball inflicts 1d8 points of fire damage / level and is resisted with WILL Save, not REF save)
41. Techno-Allergy (spell’s victim becomes allergic to the modern world, suffering increased armor check and spell failure chances in artificial armor and suffering 1d4 points of acid damage when touching metal or plastic)  

Fifth Level

42. Cyber Surgery (implant cybernetic implant in a creature by touch)
43. Gene Shift (genetically re-engineer a creature by touch)
44. Thin the Atmosphere (transform a huge area into a low oxygen environment for one round)

Sixth Level

45. Mecha-Genesis (create one or more Star Droids from computer components)
46. Rain of Artillery (powerful spell inflicts 6d6+1d6 per level fire damage on targets up to several miles away)
47. Techno-Allergy, Greater (as Techno-Allergy, but increased penalties and damage)
48. Viral Meme (create a magical logo that aids you in diplomacy and business)  

Seventh Level

49. Cyber Surgery, Offensive (implant cybernetic implant in unwilling creature, who is also fatigued for number of hours equal to your caster level)
50. Techno-Allergy, Mass (as Techno-Allergy, but affects one creature / level)
51. Undo Extinction (create a small breeding population of a long extinct animal, plant or vermin species)
52. Warp Envelope (shunt a single starship into hyperspace for a single journey)

Eighth Level

53. Kinetic Kill Weapon (depleted uranium spear inflicts 10d10 +1d10 per 2 caster levels damage on target, knocks target and adjacent characters prone and creates difficult terrain)

Ninth Level

54. Grand Terraforming (transform a planet into a duplicate of the caster’s homeworld)
55. Rain of Artillery (Heavy) (very powerful spell inflicts 6d10+1d10 per level fire damage on targets up to several miles away with no maximum damage cap!)
56. Segregating Fog (cold magical fog temporarily shunts an entire city to the Plane of Shadows)
57. Speciate (grant a geographically isolated species new racial abilities to create a new subspecies)

Tenth Level (epic)

58. Singularity Lock (seal an entire solar system, preventing FTL travel to or from the system)
59. Uplift (permanently increase an entire species’ intelligence and grant the Psionic subtype to all offspring)

Good Art during Crappy Days

Guys, this last week has sucked to a truly professional degree. Illness, money worries and a truly nasty family argument that barely avoided becoming a cops called brawl.....

 So all I've done for the last couple of days is keep my head down and make art. I've just put Synths up for sale. After watching the entire Aliens quadrology, I decided to basically allow you to build an Ash or Bishop player character for Galaxy Command. It just came up for sale this morning, and I hope its as well received as Sentai Sequel seems to be. 

Next on the release roster, I've got Free20: Fight for Choice. It's a 15 page look at life in the Choicer military, with tons of world information, the Choicer rank structure, starting talents for Choicer military characters, and a generic Choicer Soldier NPC statblok, at CR 2, CR 5 and CR8. I had Amanda do a new image for the cover, which I justified because I was getting a cool piece of art I'll probably reuse several times in other Otherverse America products. And did I mention this thing is free? Look for it soon.


After that, I've got The Modern Spellcaster Basic Class on deck. It's a new 20 level core class for D20 Modern, similar to 
the Powered Hero and Sentai Hero basics, which allows you to use full nine level, Pathfinder style spellcasting in D20 Modern. She's a Spell Point based caster with ENORMOUS flexibility. You'll like her.

I'm working on a grimorie for the Modern Spellcaster to support this book, which will include spells specifically designed for Otherverse America, Black Tokyo, Galaxy Command and Psi-Watch, as well as a deeper look at magic in each of these campaign worlds.

Blessed Be,
CHRIS

Good News on the Reproductive Rights Front

Okay, I just saw this story on MSNBC and other similar stories on other sites. The clinic operated by Dr. George Tiller, which has been closed since his death in 2009, is poised to re-open.

Kick ass! Kansas has been mostly without access to abortion care since Dr. Tiller died, which exemplifies the anti-abortion strategy of using pin-point force combined with legal and political pressure to close all clinics in a state, effectively fucking over Roe v Wade on a state by state level.

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/27/14125194-murdered-kansas-doctors-abortion-clinic-sold-to-abortion-rights-group?lite

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/26/abortion-clinic-run-by-slain-doctor-bought-will-re/

Anyway, I hope the re-opening goes swiftly and isn't as grueling a process as I fully expect the bastards to make it for the Trust Women Foundation.

CHRIS

Amanda Webb Can Draw Anything

http://www.mandapandarawks.com/otherversegamesindex.html

I hit up Amanda's webgallery today, and thought I'd encourage all of you to do the same. On this page, you've got every piece of art she's done for Otherverse Games. It's a pretty diverse body of work. On one single page we've got powered armor, realistic military, fantastic creatures like fairies and minotaurs, kid friendly sentai, explicit sex, suicide, violence, realistic and recognizable figure work and some decent background stuff.

Anyway, go check it out.
CHRIS

Sentai Sequel

I just sent Sentai Sequel off to Mark to post on RPGNow and DriveThru. The book tops out at 38 pages of crunchy, cartoony goodness. From the sell text:

This short supplement provides some new
options to be used with Otherverse Game’s Sentai
Spectacular! campaign guide (2011). Inside, you’ll
find some additional content to make your Sentai flavored game even more interesting: some new Sentai colors, amazing new gear, some dangerous new weapons.

You’ll also find the suave male counterpart
to the Lunar Princess Talent Tree, and new starting talents that provide expanded support for variant Sentai campaigns built around the Lunar Empire or Children of Gaea. Plus, you’ll finally be able to merge your Mecha-Kaiju into a single hyper colorful and indestructible war machine!

Finally, you’ll get a littlesupport for integrating material from Fursona into a
Sentai campaign.

It should be up soon, and I think you'll enjoy it.
Blessed Be,
CHRIS