Gods help me...

[MrNexx]

But I did it. I proposed a book to Wizards of the Coast.

No, I am not drunk. Crazy, perhaps, but I've had this book knocking around in my head for about a year, and I figured it was time to own up to it.

AVE CAESAR, MORITURI TE SALUTANT!

[Zincorium]

The obvious questions being:

1. What is the general theme/gist/summary of the book?

2. Have they in any form agreed to it?

3. Do they have actual editors there? All signs point to no, but they could be there, locked up in the basement and fed on stale TPS reports...

[MrNexx]

I just sent in the proposal, so I don't have a response, yet. The general gist of the book is a Races of book on goblins, hobgoblins, bugbears, and orcs.

[Kyace]

Good luck.

[MrNexx]

Thanks .

[BardicDuelist]

Best of luck to you.

[Zincorium]

That sounds really useful, actually, although since I don't hold to the standard presentation of those races I'm not sure how much mileage I could get out of it as a DM.

Honestly the 'races of' books are more for players, getting to know the ins and outs of the race and have PrCs, feats, etc that actually represent the race and make it somewhat unique. Or at least make it less likely that everyone is human.

[KIDS]

Best luck to you, and I'm sure the famed SHELA agrees with you!

[Morty]

Best luck to you. I always belived that orcs and goblins don't get enough spotlight.

[Yeril]

The complete goblin?

[Xuincherguixe]

Yeah, seems to me they need a book on some of those guys. A lot of the races have little to no flavor. It wasn't until Shadowrun that I thought Orcs(or Orks) had the potential to be interesting, and Warcraft until I thought fantasy Orcs could be cool.

Bugbears I frankly haven't got a clue about, save for that they are closer to Tolkein's Orcs than the current incarnation of D&D's (they used to be smaller didn't they).

Every race should be awesome, unless it's a just a joke. And even then they should still try and make it good.


And Gruumsh totally kicks Corellon's butt. In Deities and Demigods he's even better looking! Proving that just because you're androgynous does not mean you have to be attractive.

[The New Bruceski]

Tucker's Kobolds: a how-to guide.

[Ranis]

Races of Slime?

[The Glyphstone]

Races of Brutality? Races of Monsterness? Minions of the Dark One?*












*hehehehe..

[cody.burton]

Sounds good. If it doesn't break any agreement with WotC, could you tell us how you are planning to portray goblinoids? Are they going to be truly evil? Or are you going to do what Races of the Dragon did with Kobolds, and make them a good, but insular and misunderstood society?

[AslanCross]

I think that's a great idea. I always wanted to see them as more than smelly and angry flunkies.

[Tengu]

Would Goblins happen to be your source of inspiration?

Ah, Goblins, the webcomic where all humans are evil and all humanoids are simply misunderstood, so they are justified to kill those humans by dozens. It's like teaching equality by showing that homosexuals, women and afro-americans are better than the White Caucasian Heterosexual Male.
(Take the above description with a pinch of salt. I like Goblins. Though the webcomic was much better when there was more plot and humor and less boring full-page battles.)

[Volug]

someone in my school is going to post a book. its mostly on dragons and such. dont now much about it, but i do know that the person HAS NO LIFE. he said it himself that DnD is his LIFE. hes freakin weird.

best of luck be with you any way

[Ranis]

someone in my school is going to post a book.

Huh?

...............

[Castaras]

...but i do know that the person HAS NO LIFE. he said it himself that DnD is his LIFE. hes freakin weird.

Real Life, you mean? That's very dangerous, isn't it?

And what's the problem with being weird?

[slexlollar89]

i wanted to submit a book of my campaign world, but i dont have all of it written up. but i degress, Races of the Orc will be awesome, kudos for having the gonads to submit man!!

[MrNexx]

The working title is Races of Savagery. Goblins, believe it or not, will not be too much of an inspiration (though I love the webcomic and y'all should immediately catch up on it). Since I don't currently have an agreement with WotC, I'm not going to say too much about the approach I plan to take, though if you look at the character "Ghoruk Ulkrunnar" on my webpage (www.editors-wastebasket.org/nexx/), you'll see some of the things I've done in the past with such an idea.

And thanks for all your support, guys.

[Neon Knight]

This has the potential to be the single most awesome supplement, ever. Hobgoblins and orcs are my favorite races, both as enemies and as characters.

If this becomes reality, I will most likely worship MrNexx as a deity.

[MrNexx]

This has the potential to be the single most awesome supplement, ever. Hobgoblins and orcs are my favorite races, both as enemies and as characters.

If this becomes reality, I will most likely worship MrNexx as a deity.

Hey, 9,999 more and I'm GOLDEN! ;-)

Thanks. I have high hopes for it.

[Wraithy]

races of savagery? nice. before I read that name I was thinking of names like races of the tribe or races of the hoard (the latter sounded too WoW though), races of savagery sounds great, I've allways wanted a book on gobbos 'n' orcs.
make it 9,998

[tarbrush]

Complete Git? Complete B***** was reserved for the half breed book :)

[slexlollar89]

but seriously, simply having the nerve to send something... nice one! i am not a huge fan of orcs and gobs, but after you r book gets published you could get another follower 9997 !

[MrNexx]

Complete Git? Complete B***** was reserved for the half breed book :)

No, that's reserved for the expansion on politicians. ;-)

[Matthew]

Good luck with this proposition.

[Shhalahr Windrider]

Hm.

If that makes it to the shelves, it might just wind up being the first Races of... book I buy.

Best of Luck.