Who is Keyser Söze?
Oh wait…wrong…anyway…let me introduce you to the ever elusive C. Apollo Preston, mystery man of game design.
Now someone may call me out on this but my Google-Fu is pretty good and yet I can find out almost nothing about this person and the 3.5 SRD build he has unleashed on the world.
Doing a lot of fiddling with content arrangement and taking advantage of other OGC material, over the course of 8 volumes, has created a very playable system with lots of breathing space and compatibility with almost everything and certainly anything with the core mechanic.
After taking some time to work out a link glitch at Lulu I can now say that for a gamer with a budget, someone wanting to power back up with a 3.5 system or someone looking for something familiar but with some interesting innovation this may be just the thing.
(from Lulu)
In Gauric Champions, the first book in the Gauric Myths series, you will find: • The basic character creation rules for making a fantasy hero. • Rules for 21 fantasy races. • Rules for 19 base classes, 7 NPC classes,and 13 prestige classes. • Information about alignments as well as 16 deities useable in any fantasy setting. • Rules for playing multiclass characters starting as early as 1st level. Before you can be a hero, you must first know who you are.
Priced $5.75 to $7.25 for the print copies (and free pdf versions for an overview of the system) I recommend starting here:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/gauric-myths-gauric-champions/17512605?productTrackingContext=search_results/search_shelf/center/8
Will the real C. Apollo Preston please stand up.
(Seriously, if you see this, email me. I had found a more extensive entry about your work at Live Journal but it seems to have disappeared).
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