Monday, November 28, 2011

Compendium's Tentative TOC

In the comments to my recent post on the artwork of the Lands of Ara Compendium 2011, Peter Regan (of Oubliette fame) asked:

"Can you give us an idea of the page count and a table of contents at this stage?"

To which I replied that "so far it's a loose list that my Editor-in-Chief (Spawn of Endra) hasn't yet vetted. But I will post a list of the likely Compendium contents as soon as I can."

And now I honor that promise! Note that what follows is neither a comprehensive list -- more stuff may be added -- nor (on the other hand) an accurate representation of how much total stuff will make it in -- I suspect that the final Compendium will have a shorter TOC than this one. But this will give you an idea of what I've been thinking about in a general way . . . .

LANDS OF ARA COMPENDIUM 2011
Sample Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION by Spawn of Endra and Carter Soles

RULES MODIFICATIONS
Arandish Horse Movement Rates

MONSTERS
Trolls of Ara
Demons of Ara
Dragons of Ara
Horned Cyclops
Sleestak
Dimetrodon, Fire-Breathing
Dimetrodon, Aquatic
Dimetrodon, Flying
Blaag
Swamp Tiger
Mind Flayer for LL (ROCC psionics)
Undead Yeti
Undead Stirge

TRAPS and ITEMS
Ogre Acid Pool
Triple Fire Trap Room
Holy Water Bolas
Gunger Beykr's Chime of Infallible Wayfaring
Alaxxx's Penny of Retrieval

NPCS
Rogath the Swamp-Ranger
Dalgoop of Minoch
Toran (N. Achelonian ogre fighter)
Rabbit-Head
Elzar the Horrid
Hokka and His Crew
Grel Kalorian, elf mage
Gorgo of Gannar
Beastarr the Bobcat
Hobart the Ambiguous

UPDATE:
ERSTWHILE PETTY GODS
St. Ainless of Inocks, Patron Saint of Metal Accoutrments
Dozentit, Goddess of Perfunctory Inquiry

ALTERNATE PC RACES AND CLASSES
Rodians (race as class and advanced versions)
Ogres as PCs
2d6 Bardery / Basic Arandish Bard
Bard Variant: The Jongleur
2d6 Rangery

SPELLS
Scumbrella
Stickyfoot
Troglodyte Stench Burst
Cannibal Curse
Vomitus Deluge
Alaxx's Zib Flobble
Alaxx's Zib Floogle
Dunce-Face
Symbol of Porn

ADVENTURES
One-Hour Dungeon Map
Sark's Cave, an Expansion for Wraithstone Isle

IDEAS AND INSPIRATIONS
2D Barcode Maps
Aleister Crowley, Master of the Random Table
random d30 table(s)
d30 rule retrospective

That's all I've got on the list so far, plus numerous illustrations by Kelvin Green. As I say, I suspect we may need to trim this down a bit before it goes to press, or it will be too big to be easily usable.

4 comments:

  1. Hey Carter. That's quite a list. Looking forward to the Compendium even more now, and will put it on my review list for Oubliette 8 in the Spring.

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  2. You are too kind sir! We have an advantage this time, collecting material from 2+ years of blogging. I hope the 2012 Compendium will be this copious!

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  3. Just remembered my two Petty Gods entries that were too late to submit. Duly updated.

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  4. Well done old bean! I can see a few of my entries that can be cut IMO -- we'll talk soon.

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