"Dog Lord" Modern/War Lords are our next projects.

[Fenrir the Dog Lord]

Okay, so, hopefully this will be enough to jemp strat any sort of activity back on this site in developing our little game, an email will be sent to all members reminding you that we are still here.

Anyways...

After a long sleepless night after my drama production, I decided on two expansions for the next set of books. As the first edition Shadow of the Dog Lord Player's Handbook is nearing completion, it is time to start thinking of stuff for the next books to keep the players happy with new creatures and monsters and other jazzy stuff.

First, War Lords. This was planned as an expansion since the beginning, so it's not going to be tossed aside. Basically, War Lords is going to have everything that the Player's Handbook did not. Prestige Classes, Magical items, new creatures (hell, any creatures will be more than the Player's handbook had...), the whole shebang, complete with new artwork and prose to fill in the gaps. I'm hoping that I can get someone else to write this one (GrumbleGuy perhaps...interested?), so I can work on...

"Dog Lord Modern." Well, this is only the working title. When I get a better one, I'll replace this one. Here's the gist: The Lord Fenrir has risen again. Nowolf knows how he did it, they just know he has returned, and things are bad. Guns, cars, motorcycles, and speeders are all used by the forces of light and dark, and this dark time calls for a more...brusque way of dealing with evil. Basically, a darker, and ruder twist on the whole Dog Lord story. Some background will be needed, and designs for ships, speeders, guns, cars, and all other kinds of new "high-tech" stuff is required, so...

Yeah, that's all the news so far. Hopefully we can kick our team effort up a notch, so we can get more books out to our future players. Thanks a lot guys!

[Grumble Guy]

To be honest typing out a book doesn't sound like too wonderful a thing to me. Hooray for carpal tunnel syndrome!

Is the first book entirely finished yet even? During the playtest I don't think everything was totally worked out (e.g. too many spells per day... ph33r /\/\y pr|sm@t|c \/\/@rdr0b3! ).

Also, I still think that a staff takes more than one hand to wield effectively.

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OK, in any case... I don't even know what all is actually in the first book, so I don't exactly know what I would be added to the game in an expansion set. More details would help.

[Fenrir the Dog Lord]

Well, the basic rules all worked out just fine. Due to personality conflicts, I was unable to do more sessions, but I got all I wanted out of the few times we played (yes, there were more before this newer draft...way back in November and December).

As for typing a whole book...what do you think I got, a bunch of happy flowers? Eight months of audacious hard work. Whew...

Spells per day isn't a problem, as if you don't think about everything carefully, you may just end up with only 9 or less spells to use per day. As for the staff being used in one hand...all I can say to that is Gandalf did it, so why can't everyone else. To be quite honest, if I can swing around a five foot wooden pole one-handed (yes, I've actually done it...), then a bunch of canids who have trained for their entire lives can certainly do it. Another thing I didn't like about D&D...

And as for the book, it is almost finished. As for what is in it...well, you can wait two-three weeks and pick up a copy for free in New Frontiers (yes, you, Alex, Colin, Little Ben, and Caitlynn all will recieve free copies for your help in rules/playtesting. I only need to finish the classes, equipment, and spells, of which I have one and a half weeks in art class until school is out where I can spend at least 6 hours typing and drawing, so it WILL be finished.

That's all I can think of now. More details will be given in due time!