Cough*announcement*cough*soon*cough*? ;)

[TheCap'n]

Not even a "still not dead"?

It's not dead...just sleeping....

[Tenzhi]

Seems more like it's in a "persistent vegetative state."

[Nikchick]

Seems more like it's in a "persistent vegetative state."

Until the new manuscript is in a form we can accept and that meets our expectations, we're just not going to release the book. I mean, after all this time we figure we might as well get it right.

Tony did some good work toward that goal, but it's not "there" yet. While it's still being developed there's just not that much to say.

[Tenzhi]

My feelings on that are balanced on the edge of a razor. On the one hand, I appreciate that Green Ronin is dedicated to giving us quality products (and their releases thus far are a good example of said quality); but on the other, after waiting long enough for dinner you get hungry to the point of just needing food and the quality be damned.

I believe some of us have waited so long that we're taking on a zombie-like pallor and shall soon be clamoring monosyllabically for "books" like the aforementioned undead do for "brains."

[Rubio]

*holding back tears, tries to soothe the fellow non-CWT survivor*
It's okay. You just have to let the healing begin. We just have to accept that we won't see a martial arts action game in CWT, and that's not our fault. We have to accept on faith that Green Ronin will deliver, we have to allow ourselves to have faith again!

[Pagan priest]

Until the new manuscript is in a form we can accept and that meets our expectations, we're just not going to release the book. I mean, after all this time we figure we might as well get it right.

Tony did some good work toward that goal, but it's not "there" yet. While it's still being developed there's just not that much to say.

I've got to agree, better "right" than "right now", but it's also nice to have an occasional word that it is still a work in progress... even if that word is only to say the great work continues.

After all, we've suffered in silence this long, what's a little more suffering?

[Tenzhi]

I wonder if it's naive of me to hope that they'll have some sort of useful info at GenCon...

[Nikchick]

I wonder if it's naive of me to hope that they'll have some sort of useful info at GenCon...

There is nothing to say about Dragon Fist. Nothing useful or otherwise. The work that Tony did on the manuscript isn't going to work for what we want. We have put it back into development. It is not on the schedule until the manuscript is in some sort of useable form.

[Tenzhi]

Hrm. Guess I'll have to make do with my own Jury-rigging skill. ::buys Book of Nine Swords and smashes it against True20 until something useable is formed from the aether::

[Rubio]

So, shelved until further notice? Well, that's something of an information update. Little depressing, but an update nonetheless.
Like old times, eh, Tenzhi? Now what in the bluudy drek is dis Book of Nine Swords you are saying?

[Tenzhi]

So, shelved until further notice? Well, that's something of an information update. Little depressing, but an update nonetheless.
Like old times, eh, Tenzhi? Now what in the bluudy drek is dis Book of Nine Swords you are saying?

Tome of Battle: Book of Nine Swords is a recent release from WotC that supposedly provides a better martial-artsy combat set for the game. I want to get a better look at it before I commit to picking it up, though. What I've seen of it has me thinking I might be able to modify it and combine it with True20 (itself modified a bit to work with HP or Wounds/Vitality) and maybe get the sort of fantasy martial arts out of it that I have been wanting for awhile now (but which I keep getting left without as official products from different companies fail to see the light of day - I don't blame any of them, it's just an irritating situation).

[Nikchick]

So, shelved until further notice?

As I've said repeatedly, it's back in development. It's not "shelved" (as in no one is doing anything with it and it's going to languish). But until the manuscript is in a publishable form, there won't be any previews and it won't have a release date.

Nicole

[Zapp]

Perhaps you should just expand upon and then publish the original rules? That would at least appeal to the nostalgics...!

[Pagan priest]

Now what in the bluudy drek is dis Book of Nine Swords you are saying?

You get to go up levels in a fighter-type class that gets "maneuvers" like a sorcerer gets spells. Once you use a maneuver in combat, it is gone until you have the chance to get yourself back into condition to use it again (which can be done in the middle of combat), and there are stances that you use and keep using until you change to a different stance.

I remember seeing a stance that lets you add 10' to the length of your jumps, and they always count as a running jump. There is a maneuver "ballista toss" (or something like that) that lets you throw an opponent for 60'. Not only does that opponent take 6d6 of damage, so does everyone that he hits!

Over all, it might do until the real thing comes out.

~~~~~

Hey... can we take turns flogging the author until he's done?

[Rubio]

Well strewth. One more book I have to buy on my dwindling supply of legal tender monetary units.

You flog, I'll kick. Someone else can read goth poetry. Each completed chapter earns a reprise for as long as it takes us to playtest. We could turn this into a business.

[Kommando]

Perhaps you should just expand upon and then publish the original rules? That would at least appeal to the nostalgics...!

As much as I would love to get my hands on that (as I lost my printed copies of the original PDFs), I think there are too much legalities for that to become a reality, unless of course Wizards gave the nod for some reason or another.

[Zapp]

Well, I wasn't entirely serious...

But I can't help wondering if it isn't time to make a new entry (and a new category too!) to this article...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_Hell

[madmonk]

Uh... sad but true. No offence intended, but man... With games like Weapons of the Gods, Qin, and Wuxia in stores (wuxia is still only available in french, tough), Dragon Fist will be a hard seller for people who are not fan of Green Ronin or the original DF.

Maybe Chris will make it for 4th edition rules when OA 4th edition is out...

Jokes aside, I will buy it if it comes out, but I'm not counting on it

Mad Monk

[Nikchick]

As the game is currently still being developed, and because frankly there's nothing to say about it and this forum is currently only being occasionally used (and then only to complain) I'm locking it up for the time being. The Dragon Fist forum will re-open when there's information about the game that can be shared.