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Systems & Settings => HARP => Topic started by: NicholasHMCaldwell on July 21, 2016, 02:28:27 PM
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To track my progress on Bestiary stat blocks, I have decided to resurrect the Heisenberg uncertainty countdown on this process.
Undead Chapter is NOW DONE
Apparition Done for Lesser and Greater
Blue Men Done
Corpse Candle Done
Gaunt Done for Lesser and Greater
Ghost Done for Lesser Ghost, Greater Ghost and Ghost Lord
Ghoul Done for Lesser and Greater
Lament Done for Lesser, Greater and High Lament
Lich Done for Lich and Lich Lord
Mummy Done for Lesser Mummy, Greater Mummy and Mummy King
Phantom Done for Lesser Phantom and Greater Phantom
Sandspirit DONE
Skeleton DONE
Skeleton Lord Done for Lesser Skeleton Lord, Greater Skeleton Lord and High Skeleton Lord
Sorcerous Head DONE
Spectre Done for Lesser Spectre, Greater Spectre and Spectre Lord
Vampire Done for Lesser Vampire, Greater Vampire and Vampire Lord
Wight Done for Lesser Wight, Greater Wight and Wight Lord
Wraith Done for Lesser Wraith, Greater Wraith, Wraith Lord
Zombie DONE
Elementals Chapter is NOW DONE
Elemental Servitors DONE
Elemental Steeds DONE
Elemental Destriers DONE
Elemental Hunters DONE
Elemental Savants DONE
Elemental Warriors DONE
Demons Chapter (written but responsibility for stat blocks given to John Duffield)
Archdemon
Battle Demon
Demon Tree
Demonic Spirit
Faceless One
Forger Demon
The Formless
Hell Hound
Ice Demon
Imp
Lava Demon
Mere Demon
Midnight Steed
Mist Demon
Plague Lord
Rock Demon
Sand Demon
Shadow Demon
Succubus / Incubus
Swamp Thing
Thorn Demon
Vermin Demon
Water Demon
White Lady
Best wishes,
Nicholas
(updated again)
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What, no Nightlords from the previous HARP iteration?
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What, no Nightlords from the previous HARP iteration?
Not Undead, not an Elemental, not a Demon, so not on my todo list.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Oh ok, so it may be on someone else's todo list....
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What about dragons? In the previous printing of HARP, dragons were in the core book. I am fairly certain I heard something about dragons being in the Beastiary as they are no longer in the core book. Thank you.
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What about dragons? In the previous printing of HARP, dragons were in the core book. I am fairly certain I heard something about dragons being in the Beastiary as they are no longer in the core book. Thank you.
There is an entire chapter on Dragons in Bestiary. That chapter has already been written by John Duffield.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Nicholas,
Will there be any information on elemental or demonic half-breeds/blood talents? Such as the monstrous templates from Cyradon?
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There are elemental and demonic heritage talents for use by player-characters. There is advice on making creatures elemental.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Excellent! Thanks for the quick reply. Now I am really looking forward to this coming out.
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Hi folks !
If there are demons, angels (or other good oriented planar creatures) will be in the new bestiary too?
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Hi folks !
If there are demons, angels (or other good oriented planar creatures) will be in the new bestiary too?
Good-oriented planar creatures will potentially appear in HARP Beyond the Veil.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Hi folks !
If there are demons, angels (or other good oriented planar creatures) will be in the new bestiary too?
Good-oriented planar creatures will potentially appear in HARP Beyond the Veil.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
What is this product ?
Tank IOU for the answer ;)
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Hi folks !
If there are demons, angels (or other good oriented planar creatures) will be in the new bestiary too?
Good-oriented planar creatures will potentially appear in HARP Beyond the Veil.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
What is this product ?
Tank IOU for the answer ;)
HARP Beyond the Veil is the future religious and divine sourcebook for the fantasy line.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Hi folks !
When the Bestiary will be finished ?
I've got the old bestiary (HARP version of 2003). The new bestiary will have got more monsters hidden in the pages ?
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Hi folks !
When the Bestiary will be finished ?
I've got the old bestiary (HARP version of 2003). The new bestiary will have got more monsters hidden in the pages ?
I won't be able to get back to my chunk of the work until I have cleared a new teaching module at work.
It will have many more monsters than the original.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Thanks for the update Nicholas.
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I hate statting high-level Undead. Lich complete. Folkways layout draft has arrived so need to attend to that before dealing with Vampires and Wraiths.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Looking forward to both of these products, but I must admit the Bestiary is on the top of the list - I need it to make xenos for my HARP SF game :hal:
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Question: are the new beast/creature creation guidelines/rules vastly different from what appears in the old Monsters: a field guide?
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Nicholas,
I know you have been getting asked this a lot, and I understand you all are busy. But can you give us an estimate when some of the new HARP Fantasy products may be released, such as the Bestiary, Something Wicked, and Beyond the Veil? The reason I am asking again is that I am still planning on starting a new HARP campaign this spring and would like to have access to at least the bestiary. If it is not out soon, I guess I will continue to use the Role Master Monsters.
Thanks in advance for any information.
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I will be buying all HARP expansions in both PDF and dead tree format. That's part of the reason I'm resistant of yet another printing. There comes a time in life when one has to ask "why am I buying the same game again?".
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I am currently trapped by semester 1 marking. Once I clear my marking and the associated admin, my weekends and evenings should normalise, and I can get on with stat blocks and indeed commissioning the new art required.
Somerhing Wicked should be easier for me to complete than Bestiary has been. I cannot do complex spreadsheets on my tablet apps but Wicked only needs very simple spreadsheets for spells and rituals and those I can do on tablet and hence in train time, and I can write text on the train easily.
(Answering forum queries is hard work on a phone with iffy 3G/4G.)
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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I will be buying all HARP expansions in both PDF and dead tree format. That's part of the reason I'm resistant of yet another printing. There comes a time in life when one has to ask "why am I buying the same game again?".
We don't have any plans for new printings. There's not enough errata to justify it.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Nicholas,
Thanks for the update. :)
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I'm actually looking forward to more Battle Demons than the rank and file from the core.
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I am a player who has a cleric of a god of life and death, and my gm has been on me about not being able to use my summon undead spell as we don't "officially" have anything that is lv 15-20(my character is level 10 now btw). I cannot wait to see what happens in the new monster manual hell I would be happy to help with any equations or making a program to compute the stats of attacks and such. x.x i just need the undead in my life. zombie army ftw!!!
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Staked the bloodsucking Vampires. Wraiths next and then I'm done with this Undead chapter.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Staked the bloodsucking Vampires. Wraiths next and then I'm done with this Undead chapter.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
Awesome! I hope there is the possibility we will see this book this year!!
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Undead chapter is now completed.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Cool. Can't wait for this to come out! Thanks for the update Nicholas.
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Yes, this will be an amazing addition to the library! Looking forward to it.
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Working on the stat blocks for the Elementals in an assembly line process, so doing 72 stat blocks in parallel (hence the word DONE has not started appearing against any of them yet)
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Out of Curiosity (OOC) - What would you estimate your % of completion at? Do you have a target date in mind? I am aware these things are not "hard dates" nor would I hold any publisher to them (I'm more than aware of the challenges small publishers face...).
I appreciate your thoughts,
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^^What he said!
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With the Elementals, I have spell and language ranks to allocate, skill bonuses to adjust by stat bonuses, totals to copy across to headline rows, BMRs to calculate, and then the master summary tables to collate.
I have delegated the construction of Demon stat blocks to John as he has finished all his draft chapters. Colin has some tidying up of his chapters to complete.
I am hoping to transition Bestiary into editing and art commissioning phase in next couple of months.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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That. Is. Awesome.
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I am very excited to hear that Bestiary is coming along! I've been really looking forward to it. I'm hoping to be able to adapt a bunch of the monsters into my Harp SF game as well.
Regards,
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Quick question from the gallery - If I run HARP now with the books I currently have at the moment (HARP Core book 2011 printing, HARP Martial Law 2004 printing & HARP College of Magics 2013 printing) can I use them with the HARP Monsters: A Field Guide 2004 printing or should I use a version of RM Creature Law for the animals and monsters until the HARP Bestiary is released?
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Quick question from the gallery - If I run HARP now with the books I currently have at the moment (HARP Core book 2011 printing, HARP Martial Law 2004 printing & HARP College of Magics 2013 printing) can I use them with the HARP Monsters: A Field Guide 2004 printing or should I use a version of RM Creature Law for the animals and monsters until the HARP Bestiary is released?
I believe that Martial Law was also updated with the 2011 versions.
Basically you have no choice but to use Monsters: a Field Guide if you want more than what is just in the core book or what you may find in the Guild Companion ezine. You could develop some of the monsters yourself but I'd find that time consuming and probably not accurate because we do not have the new monster creation rules.
I have used two creatures in that guide in my HARP game so far. The Nightlord and a dragon. The dragon was more of in the mind of one of the PCs family and they had to enter her mind to get her to come out. The PCs are only 10th level and could not have defeated that dragon on their own, especially without the mage being present. But the person subverting the family member was knocked out by someone else.
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Thanks Bruce for the reply & help.
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Do a search on the Guild Companion past issues and you will find half a dozen or more monsters that have been excerpted from Bestiary.
Beyond that until Bestiary is released, just use Monsters a Field Guide. Yes, the numbers will not be consistent with the new HARP Fantasy (2011 &2017) but given the monster will only appear in the game long enough to be defeated, it won't make that much difference.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Thanks Nocholas I appreciate the info.
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Nicholas is there any projected idea when the Bestiary will be published? Late 2017 or early to mid 2018? After finally reading HARP I really want to run it but I want the updated creatures & info.
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I've just completed the stat blocks for all of those Elementals, so I'm now off the critical writing path. In terms of when it will be complete, John and Colin have to finish their portions and we need a full editing pass through the manuscript. As we know what all the creatures are now, it will be possible to commission the art at any point, which means we will try to organise that as soon as possible. I am not willing to make any statements about projected dates yet.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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I've just completed the stat blocks for all of those Elementals, so I'm now off the critical writing path. In terms of when it will be complete, John and Colin have to finish their portions and we need a full editing pass through the manuscript. As we know what all the creatures are now, it will be possible to commission the art at any point, which means we will try to organise that as soon as possible. I am not willing to make any statements about projected dates yet.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
Sweet! Closer and closer!!
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Are there going to be some guidelines as to how powerful the creatures are related to PCs level? I mean something along the lines '5 PCs of X lvl can normally handle this monster'. Like Challenge Ratings. I haven't run a game in several years so sometimes if find a little hard to gauge exactly what a party can or can't handle.
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The monsters are developed using Development Points at the same flat 50 per level available to characters. All skills and all talents paid for using DPs. No freebies for monsters (ok, unless there's been a mistake in our sums). Some monsters are constructed using standard professions; some use the monster " profession". So we don't have Challenge Ratings in the d20 sense, but you have level that is directly comparable to your characters.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Oh, that's a common sense approach, great. Can't wait! I *need* this book, I don't think I can start my HARP campaign without it.
Thanks for the quick answer.
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Glad to see we are getting closer to getting our hands on this! :)
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I hope and strongly suggest that every special ability / talent would have a DP cost so it's easy to compare monster power with characters one.
I'd like to have monster stats and description in the same page, so to speak. I find boring to skip manuals not once but a lot of times to find all the stas I need.
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I hope and strongly suggest that every special ability / talent would have a DP cost so it's easy to compare monster power with characters one.
I'd like to have monster stats and description in the same page, so to speak. I find boring to skip manuals not once but a lot of times to find all the stas I need.
I will second adad's suggestion.
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Any status update? I'm still looking forward to this... :-D Go Team IC!!
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Getting myself back into full editing mode by doing a sweep through the HARP Subterfuge manuscript first and then will be booking a day or two for spreadsheet checking. Still getting to grips with working on the new tablet.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Any updates???
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It's been a decade or so since I've played HARP, and with computer changes and some misfortunes, I've lost all my old files. Since the Bestiary looks like it's on a George RR Martin pace, is there a chance of getting access at least to the old Monsters: A Field Guide? I've bought the new files from DriveThru RPG, but M:AFG doesn't seem to exist over there. Am I missing it, or is it not available?
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Any director briefing for July?
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I was hoping for a July Directors briefing. It is one of the good things I look forward to each month.
Jason
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So last update was in 2017 any idea when the book will be available. same question on all the book currently in the works.
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Bestiary is having its artwork commissioned now.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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Sorry for the thread Necro. Any updates. I really need to sign up for the director's briefing after I post this.
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Definitely sign up to the briefing but here's a quick update:
All artwork is now complete and layout has just started
I'm afraid I don't know how that translates into release dates but we're definitely in the final stretch.
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Sweet. I cannot wait.
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In the layout queue.
Best wishes,
Nicholas
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It is weighing in at 468 pages now that everything is in place
from director briefing.
It's a lot more than I expected. How many creatures in so manypages?
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That'll definitely be a PDF only book for me.