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Poll: Weak Points of the Roster (Patreon)

Published:
2024-01-29 03:14:01
Imported:
2026-06

Poll

Poll: Weak Points of the Roster

  • Environment/Biome Monster Tables (More usable than the ones I have now) 59
  • Something in the Table of Contents that visually distinguishes old work from more recent things 18
  • Updates/expansions to older designs 50
  • More beast options 13
  • New adaptations of earlier edition monsters 55
  • New adaptations of recent/adventure-specific 5e monsters 18
  • New adaptation of folkloric monsters 43
  • New original monster collaborations with artists 19
  • 2024-01-28
  • multiple choice
  • 275 votes
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Content

Hey, so the nature of this project is that a lot of it was done by a version of me who's a worse designer than the version we've got now. I don't normally like doing polls because I feel like it creates an obligation I'm not sure I'll be able or willing to satisfy, but I think it's important to take the temperature on the community feeling about this.

Also, I think I gotta stop doing the master PDF. At this point my computer is regularly crashing when I try to download or compress it, and the process of manually adjusting every page number in the ToC takes a full day away from other work each month. I wanted to wait until 2k pages before giving up, but I haven't the strength to go on. That said, there'll be one more of them for this month's update.

Here are my general thoughts about what I could devote more focus to going forward, let me know what feels like you'd benefit the most from it. Feel free to choose multiple, but remember everything's on the to-do list so this is more to help with priority:

Comments

Weston Kennedy

With the Master PDF being discontinued, does that include the Individual Links page?

Edward Long

Thanks for all your hard work!

Weston Kennedy
>>128199676

Oh thank goodness! Had me worried we'd be scrolling through individual posts to find stuff 😅

Dan

The Master PDF is super-huge, not great to use. If it's causing you problems (and I can totally believe it is!), please drop it! Finding the monsters I want to use is often my biggest issue. I'm mainly using the json format as it's quick, searchable, and filterable. Better biome tables would be interesting, especially if you could add more biome-lore and creature faction suggestions (admittedly thinking here mainly of the under dark which is what I'm prepping now), and perhaps some quick descriptive notes against creatures in the tables – we all know what a red dragon is, but a lot of the more interesting creatures I would have to look up to get the faintest idea what they are from the name alone; e.g. "Earth elemental" against Xorn would immediately indicate what it is? If I can throw another into the mix? Whilst artwork is gorgeous, it rarely makes it to my table on the night. Quick text descriptions would be super helpful though. For example looking at an Ixzan, a description like "Large manta-ray like creature, with a powerful harpoon on its tail; swims or flies" would give me something immediate rather than rely on googling everything!

Zerglingdad

Is it possible to break the pdf into smaller sections? Like table of contents and the rolling tables in one pdf. Alphabetical A-C as another, etc?

Ron Price

I primarily use the master lists, but I don't think that splitting them into volumes by year (or any other category) would make them less useable. Saying "everything from this point goes into Volume 2" would be the easiest way to move forward with them, as opposed to having to update volumes by letter or category.

Isaac Minarik
>>128220661

That would solve the problems I'm having now, but would multiply the amount of work I need to devote to it each month. I think I'm going to try Ron Price's suggestion of doing pdf for old work and a PDF for newer stuff, though.

Asherett

I answered "Updates/expansions to olde designs here", but what I'd most of all like to see is more NPCs! Your Necromancers, Conjurers, Cultists and Enchanters are awesome, and I'd love to see more in that vein for all kinda of NPC types (melee and non-magic ranged too!)

Asherett
>>128339884

Hey, I wish to report a bug, I can only add ONE heart to this comment