It's a project for us, but a contest for you! The Free Gaming Association, in conjunction with it's Prometheus Gaming System[tm] has been working on a project called "Conlectio Beastia" (roughly collection of beasts) which is our equivalent of the Monster Manual. The Conlectio Beastia is make up of the hundreds of monster entries from the SRD, creatures released as 100% OGC from d20 publishers, and a growing number of completely new creatures to throw at your adventurers when you need to spice things up.
So to help finish up this project, the Free Gaming Association and eight sponsors are throwing a contest for the best descriptions and illustrations of old and new creatures. All entries (illustrations included) will be published in our free online version of the Conlectio Beastia as 100% Open Gaming Content. We think this is a great opportunity to finally create a complete reference of illustrations, descriptions, ecologies and legends for the myriad of creatures out there, that any and all publishers will be able to access for free to include in their projects. So if you always thought kobolds should be little dog creatures, rather then little lizards guys (horns, scales, and everything.) Where their back story says that "they were once regular dogs, that then got magically transformed by a sorceress to serve as her slaves. But some of them escaped and (since pups breed so quickly) pretty soon they were ... well, everywhere. And looked like little 3-foot tall (long) Pekinese walking on their hind legs. Stupid little pushed-up-noses made them more fun to bash!" Or if you simply hated the way that TSR totally twisted all your traditional mythology to create copyrightable characters for it's profit making machine. Then this contest is for you. Now is your chance to go through all the classic creatures and describe them the way they "should have been." And you may even win cool prizes from Eden Studios, Second World Simulations, Noble Knight Games, Living Imagination, Troll Lord Games, Thunderhead Games, Battlefield Press, NIOGA, Bizzaro Games or the Open Gaming Exchange. So for more information on the contest, please check out http://theFGA.com/Contest.php?contest_id=1 or contact me on or off list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, -- Michael Cortez Managing Director, The Free Gaming Association _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
