Wow! That is incredible work!
I noticed a few missing items in the descriptions, however:
- There is no damage listed for the radiance quasielemental beam attack.
- There is no description for the radiance mephit's breath weapon.
Denizens of the Inner Planes
Creature Codex Vol.2: Denizens of the Inner Planes has been released! Post your reviews, comments, suggestions, or errata here.
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Thu, 2006-03-16 11:14
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Missing info for radiance creatures
Thu, 2006-03-16 12:57
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Not a huge deal, but the thing that was supposed to be an ash mephit and the thing that was supposed to be a smoke mephit got switched. I know how it happened, since I mislabled one of the files, but I tried to point out which one was supposed to be an ash mephit in the forum.
The one that looks like a grinning shadow with smoke in the background is a smoke mephit. The ash-gray one with with the round head and gray all around it is an ash mephit.
Thu, 2006-03-16 13:13
#5
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Page 145: It's Citadel Cavitius, not Vavitius.
Thu, 2006-03-16 13:22
#6
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Page 148: Any reason you didn't include the glimmerskins from MMII as positive energy creatures?
Thu, 2006-03-16 13:28
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Page 143: Should probably read, "Frostburn contains many creatures and expanded rules suitable for the Plane of Ice."
Thu, 2006-03-16 13:57
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By the way, whoever heightened the contrast on my lightning mephit - it looks MUCH better now. Well done.
Thu, 2006-03-16 16:35
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Great work by everyone involved.
The layout is good and the creatures are more than can be expected from a fan release. I applaud the effort and hope to see much, much more.
Fri, 2006-03-17 06:13
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- There is no damage listed for the radiance quasielemental beam attack.
- There is no description for the radiance mephit's breath weapon.
The beam damage for radiance quasielemental is already in the table on the same page (p.98 ). Remove breath weapon for radiant mephit. It's not supposed to have one.
"Oops!" about everything else mentioned so far.
By the way, whoever heightened the contrast on my lightning mephit - it looks MUCH better now. Well done.
All I did was to use "Auto-Levels" in Fireworks MX to get more contrast on some pics. Not exactly expecting that result though. 
And a preview with M. Martin's art contribution... Click for a larger view.
Fri, 2006-03-17 07:07
#11
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I like the ash mephit.
The thought of an emo ash mephit regaling a low level party with its woes and putting them to sleep is just hilarious.
Sat, 2006-03-18 03:55
#12
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I can't download it in PDF. All I could find was Zip and I don't have that.
Can someone help me?
Sat, 2006-03-18 06:14
#13
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The Vacous has conflicting text as to what happens to the people it swallows, and who it can swallow to begin with.
Sat, 2006-03-18 07:16
#14
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I can't download it in PDF. All I could find was Zip and I don't have that.
Can someone help me?
The PDF has been packaged as a zip file to make it a smaller download.
But worry not!
Winzip is available to mere berks for a three stingers... but a savy cutter may note that there is a free demonstration copy available at http://www.winzip.com/
Mon, 2006-03-20 21:38
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Page 5
Apparitions speak all languages they new in life
Tue, 2006-03-21 13:36
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Page 5
Apparitions speak all languages they new in life
What?
Tue, 2006-03-21 20:07
#17
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Page 5
Apparitions speak all languages they new in life
What?
Square Root seems to be talking about Denizens of the Transitive Planes rather than the Inner Planes book, and pointing out that the sentence said "new" when it should have said "knew."
Tue, 2006-03-21 21:17
#18
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a ha I was confuzzled XD
Wed, 2006-03-22 07:09
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Codex
Both of Vol. 1 and 2 are fantastic!!
Wed, 2006-03-22 09:25
#20
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great book, I really apprectiate all your work 
Fri, 2006-03-24 14:11
#21
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I really like the layout and presentation. Well done, guys!
On the Creature Codex main page, you might want to edit the flavor text about the halfling sneaking "pass" people instead of past them.
Sun, 2006-03-26 18:46
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eh, I hate to be a naysayer (particularly with my first post!) but i'm really not digging the layout. I find the barebones appearance of the chapters 1-7 much easier to read than the image heavy borders here. My copy of adobe actually has trouble handling the file due to the images, and i'd hate to see how much ink it would use.
Sun, 2006-03-26 21:02
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Perhaps we can get two copies up then? (It IS a pdf after all) - one with images and one image-lite?
Tue, 2006-03-28 13:45
#24
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I found another typo.
On the table at the top of page 136, the associated negative quasielement of Fire should be Ash, not Salt.
Contrariwise, the associated negative quasielement of Water should be Salt, not Ash.
Otherwise, I think that table's a very neat thing.
Wed, 2006-03-29 03:56
#25
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On the table at the top of page 136, the associated negative quasielement of Fire should be Ash, not Salt. Contrariwise, the associated negative quasielement of Water should be Salt, not Ash.
No. That's not an error. That table is not about element and its associated para/quasielement. It is about elements & their associated/opposed energies. Ash (being the end of fire) is associated with cold, opposed by fire. Whereas Salt (being the end of water) is dehydration-based, which is closest to heat/fire energy.
My copy of adobe actually has trouble handling the file due to the images, and i'd hate to see how much ink it would use.
What kind of "trouble" are you talking about here? Which Acrobat version are you using? You shouldn't have any problem with version 5 onwards. I suppose I can make a text-only version...
Any more errata to go?
Edit: Found a minor one myself...
p.68 - Lightning mephit breath weapon "Con-based" should be "Constitution-based"; mineral mephit italicises "glitterdust".
p.136 - Paraelemental table Large Ice "DC 17" instead of "Dc 17".
Page Background
What do the rest of you think? Which would you prefer?
1. Current background
2. Yellow pillar with "spear" - WOTC Core Web Enhancement background (copyright issue?)
3. Yellow Paper - WOTC FR Web Enhancement background (copyright issue?)
4. White background with lots of wriggles - classic Planescape background
5. Translucent half lady of pain face - /codex/files/facebg.pdf
6. Others?
Wed, 2006-03-29 07:43
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Page Background
What do the rest of you think? Which would you prefer?
1. Current background
Fine with me, though I can see how someone might prefer the no-borders version. I too found the borders too large at first, but I got used to them.
2. Yellow pillar with "spear" - WOTC Core Web Enhancement background (copyright issue?)
3. Yellow Paper - WOTC FR Web Enhancement background (copyright issue?)
Bah, no. I especially dislike 3., I remember those used to take a second or two to load.
4. White background with lots of wriggles - classic Planescape background
Maybe. That "classic PS" layout even had some pages without any wriggles.
5. Translucent half lady of pain face - /codex/files/facebg.pdf
This one looks nice and simple.
If we keep the current layout, we could put up a text-only version in addition to that?
Wed, 2006-03-29 08:26
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You will still have some requests for a No Images background - part of the reason there are folks who want that is b/c having the images makes it hard for them to read without getting eyestrain headaches. I'd suggest doing 2 versions and just leaving it at that.
After all - the layout we currently have gives us a very professional feel for the download (which people have indicated they appreciate). And the people who *don't* like the layout aren't going to be satisfied with anything short of no background images at all due to physical readability issues.
Wed, 2006-03-29 20:44
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What kind of "trouble" are you talking about here? Which Acrobat version are you using? You shouldn't have any problem with version 5 onwards.
I was using adobe reader version 7 for linux. i'm sure it's not the fastest version of adobe reader. it also apparently shifts the borders images to much greener than they should be (oversaturates, maybe?), which i didn't realize when i first posted.
(this is what i saw. looked maybe a little garish.)
Is it easy to do two versions of a pdf if one's just the other stripped of borders? i can understand it being prohibitively time consuming if you'd have to maintain two separate versions, but a stripped-down version would be nice to have if it's easy enough to do.
Thu, 2006-03-30 06:41
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Layout is nice as it is. I havent tried printing it but it looks lik it could be read well on b/w
Fri, 2006-03-31 09:53
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I was using adobe reader version 7 for linux. [...] Is it easy to do two versions of a pdf if one's just the other stripped of borders?
I'm not sure about Linux... can't comment on that since I don't use it. But yes, I can just delete the background and export it without saving the master file. Should the lite version be without page background or without all art pics? In other words, should it be a plain text-only version without the interior art contributed by our artists?
Any more errata? I'd do the lite version together with the errata integrated... (along with errata'd version of the full one).
I especially dislike 3., I remember those used to take a second or two to load.
The lag in pic-loading is actually a matter of Adobe version. PDF saved in v6 or v7 has this lag in loading time because of its better compression. I usually save in v5 format as I dislike the lag as well.
So you people prefer the current layout to the "half-face" version then? Okay...
Fri, 2006-03-31 11:27
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*nodnod* I know I do at least - looks shinier. The half face concept is ok, but I like the framing better - at least for these releases. That and I actually don't like the half face image actually being used - it's too blurry and chunky for my tastes - I like crisper images of the Lady.
I should probably sit down with all of the managers sometime and help everyone develop a 'look' for each of the section downloads, so our 'product lines' have a coherant look.
Errata:
- Encounter Lists: Element creatures missing for the Quasi and Para planes.
- Page 118, Sandstorm sidebar: "If you uses Sandstorm..." Drop an "S" there.