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Steve Conan Trustrum

Wooly wrote:Steve any chance you would submitt this to the Rifter?

Not in this lifetime.

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Good to see some people are still getting some use out of this.

I'll probably be retooling some of the concepts into my Pathfinder releases because I don't want them to die the slow death of Internet obscurity.

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Nothing aside from the unfinished Wormwood 2 manuscript from may page.

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Glad you like it. It's more than just the web site, though. There's stuff in there that was being worked on and so never made it online.

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Nope, it's real. The FAQ was also discussed with Kevin when it was intended to become an official book so, except for anything he's come out and contradicted since, one can consider the answers therein to be somewhat official.

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Duck-Foot: I've provided stats and my own version of her background in the Wormwood netbook, which leads to ...

Dargo83: I've just made said netbook available from my website @ trustrum.com

Steve Conan Trustrum

I recently found the raw and unfinished manuscript I had been given the green light to work on had my 2 HU and 2 Nightbane books been completed. Unfortunately things fell apart with Palladium before this manuscript was completed and so it disappeared into the deep, dark corners of my hard drive. So,...

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The link showed in its truncated form, probably because I copied and pasted from the post after it was up rather than while it was still in code format. Let's try that again.

http://www.trustrum.com/downloads/Steve ... ailure.zip

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A thread over at RPG.net reminded me of my old Systems Failure material. Although I don't have any links up for it, I was surprised to find it's still sitting on my server (with '90s web design style still intact and all!) so I thought I'd share it here. m It even has a link to my old guestbook (whi...

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I just came across this ooooooooooooooold post in a random Google search. Odd, that.

I guess it's nice to have an academy bearing my name

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Well, we've had someone kindly volunteer their time and artistic talent to the project so we'll see how that turns out. I much prefer putting out something that looks complete than just text, so I'm happy for the help!

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Jefffar wrote:Thanks Steve. I hope I can hit echoes off this event for a while in the future.

Hopefully the full manuscript will give you even more material to get creative with.

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I'll admit I shamelessly ripped some elements from TotM for use in my ongoing story arcs from Lazlo Society. Not perfectly, but definite influence. My main character on the boards recently had an encounter with a rough equivalent to a Donathir (sp). The Donathir thought that my character's penchant...

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any news on this, Mr. Trustrum? I'm taking a break from a final re-read of the manuscript in order to reply to this I was hoping some artists would hop on board, but no such luck. This means the PDF will be almost entirely art free. I have a few contributions and appropriate stock art, but not much...

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they will not last long against most foes in that world. And yet I managed to run more than a few Nightbane campaigns where they did just that. How long a character survives against an enemy isn't just determined by how their stats appear on paper in terms of a stand-up fight. It's also determined ...

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I don't think Werewolves should be included in Nightbane because their not powerful enough to stand up againt even a first level Nightbane. The Rifter had a bunch of with superpower, but that seemed lame. Our group has had a few ruins with a bunch of predator-like Nightbanes called the Blood Moon T...

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To put it mildly, the full manuscript I'd like to release as a free PDF netbook has a LOT more stuff than the Rifter article. Never mind just all-new stuff, but it also expands on what was in the Rifter.

And, of course, if we add on the Nations of Blood material ...

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El Magico: I'd definitely like it if you could put some stuff together for the project. Email me at trustrum@misfit-studios.com and we can talk about it in greater detail. Thanks!

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Some artists willing to volunteer their time is about all I'd need.

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Just thought I'd pop in here. Yes, I'd still like to get the TotM and Nations of Blood out as free netbooks, fully illustrated and everything, but I had some problems with keeping my volunteer artists on track (lost communications with several, while the one turning in most of the work now gets paid...

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The latest from Matt: the werefox!

http://www.trustrum.com/img/werefox_Matt_test.jpg

I'm not entirely happy with the woman, especially her face, so that will likely get touched up in the future. Up next is coloring the first piece from Ben Gonzalez: the Assimilated Child OCC!

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I don't see much of a difference. Reducing the saturation makes them less vibrant--more in line with what you'll find in reality whereas the higher saturation is more akin to the base colors in a pallet. In other words, the reduced saturation makes the colors seem more ... worn ... I guess is a goo...

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..The materials room and the light room are far beyond my understanding right now. All I do is click on the texture of choice and usually use the stock light set. ..It's got a big learning curve but the work I've seen others do when they get the hang of it blows my mind, so it will be worth the eff...

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If I could make one suggestion on the coloring: tone back the color saturations a bit and you'll get a lot more realistic display instead of the high-saturation associated with a standard color palette.

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One of our volunteer artists is asking to undertake the OCCs, so hopefully I'll be able to post some examples in the weeks to come.

By the way, we're still interested in bringing in some mroe playtesters and certainly wouldn't turn away any artists looking to volunteer some time.

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Marrowlight wrote:Wolf's edges look a lil soft for some reason (art style I imagine)

It's the backlit glow.

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Although it will likely be refined with time, here's what I'm currently planning to go with for the cover.

http://www.trustrum.com/img/totm_cover_test.jpg

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Specter wrote:You are the man! I've been trying to put together a playtest group for over two months but people aren't as interested as I am.

Playtesting also includes reading it over and pointing out concerns, ideas, typos, problems, etc. The "play" part of PLAYtesting is just more fun.

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Uh...Steve... Isn't that stuff all property of Palladium Books now? Nope. They own the copyright to the Rifter articles, but once a manuscript is declared dead by Palladium they must relinquish all claim to it. That means all the new material that was to be in the TotM book is entirely mine, minus ...

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As I mentioned a while back, because of constant requests to re-release the TotM netbook, I'm going to put it together as a PDF. To that end, I've had some artists generously volunteer their time to illustrate it. This thread will be used to post status updates, answer questions, display art example...

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In Wormwood, apoks are sometimes erroniously called confessors.

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Rallan wrote:You could've saved a lot of time by saying "I'm not utterly retarded, I'm trying my best to work around an utterly retarded rule without contradicting canon"

Just as you could have saved a lot of time to begin with by looking up the Land Navigation skill.

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One: their entire ruling on the Navigation skill is UTTERLY RETARDED. The setting has a sun, two moons, several constellations, and a good flat horizon. It also has distinctive landmarks like mountains, towns, spires etc that can be used as points of reference for working out the distance and direc...

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Oh, no doubt at all TotM wasn't everyone's cup of tea. You won't get any arguements from me there. As I said, it seemed to be something that people either went for or against at either end of the spectrum without much room in between.

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RockJock wrote:The fact that the slayer girl is an ex-girlfriend is scary enough. I like and have used the TOtM in my game. Nothing major, just an encounter here and there.

Just imagine how the ex's sister and parents felt when they found out I'd killed them off

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Tyciol wrote: that werebeast slayer girl that was in one of them, it was neat.

Who was based off the girl I was dating at the time

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Ah yes, that was it. From the beginnings of Image when there were a lot of ideas that sounded cool but really terrible follow through.

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although in the combat section for each of the werebeasts in conversion book one revised it says that in beast form or man beast form they do dmanage as supernatural ps. From this i would say that palladium have now decided that in human form no supernatural ps , in man beast or full beast form sup...

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Stattick wrote:I'll have to check it out later. I want to complete my write-up on the Inquisition before I do, so I (hopefully) won't be accused of stealing any of your ideas.

No worries.

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If you check the Nations of Blood PDF I have on the downloads section at trustrum.com, you'll find some info I wrote up for ancient Nightbane starting at page 116.

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Citizen Lazlo wrote:Personally I realy liked ToTM and still use it in my Nightbane universe.

It was really well done Steve.

Thanks. If you're interested, check out my thread here about a netbook proposal. I'm still looking for more people to help playtest the full manuscript.

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Has it . then let me apologise . Perhaps i should have said it just seemed similer to WW. that been said i only played werewolf once No worries. It's just one of those things I find funny because the closest I've come to reading any non-d20 product put out by WW was the first page of the Werewolf c...

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The initial files are now up in the playtesting list.

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Bastionbane, I've sent you an invite for the yahoogroup I've set-up for this purpose. Also, I look forward to hearing from your friend.

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BTW, it should be noted that I no longer own any Palladium products save those I have credits in (or appeared in as a character), so it would also be helpful if anyone wanted to volunteer as playtesters. This would entail looking over the manuscript for errors, especially those related to the game s...

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By all means, spread the word to people you know in other forums on these boards or in real life you think may be interested. Give them my email and see what happens.

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Some of the older Palladium fans may recognize me as someone who once, briefly, did some minor work with Palladium. If you know that, you may also know that I was slated to put out two Nightbane books in '99-2000 (I believe it was): "Tribes of the Moon" and "Nations of Blood." Th...

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Glad to say it. Have you gotten your ToTM site back up? Nope, haven't had time. I've been way too busy with Misfit Studios, especially since I've started up other ventures like working on licenses with Eden Studios. It still sits in the back of my mind as something I want to get done, though. Too b...

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Glad you liked it, Bastionbane. I've learned one fact about TotM since it was first released: for every person who screams either "WW clone" or "do we need more factions?" there is someone who really enjoyed it. In a way, it's comforting to know that one, as a writer, has created...

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www.trustrum.com and then go to the downloads section to get the Nations of Blood PDF. TotM hasn't yet been put into a PDF (I'm too busy with PDFs that pays the bills at the moment.) As I said, though, I hope to do proper editing and layout for both one of these days.

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