Blood & Treasure ... I'm Kinda Done

Over the weekend I finished writing Blood & Treasure. Yippee!

Up next is the final editing, which I'm beginning now (I also have a few illustrations I'm waiting on - and thanks to Jon Kaufman and Ndege Diamond for their work in this area, and of course Tanner Yea for his editing prowess) and hope to finish in about a week. After that, I create some PDFs and begin selling them while I wait for a hard copy to review - I'm trying to use the thinnest margins possible to keep the overall page count of the books as low as possible, but if the result is hard to read/use, I'll have to fix the layout.

Anyhow, I though that people who are interested in the project might like to the a quick and dirty version of the table of contents (note: not actual TOC - I can't really do that until I have something physical to work out the page numbering) for this beast:

I. Getting Started

II. Characters
Ability scores
Races (human, dwarf, elf, gnome, halfling, half-elf, half-orc)
Classes (assassin, barbarian, bard, cleric, druid, duelist, fighter, magic-user, monk, paladin, ranger, sorcerer, thief)
Multi-Classing
Changing Class
Feats (optional rule)
Equipment
Henchmen & Hirelings
- Adepts
Character Details
- Alignment (3-fold and 9-fold)
- Alignment languages
- Personality and description
Strongholds
- Selecting a domain
- Clearing a domain of monsters
- Designing a stronghold
- Establishing your rule (includes random events)

Web spell by Jon Kaufman

III. Magic
Arcane Spells
Divine Spells
Spell-Like Abilities
Arcane Magical Writings
Spellbooks
Spellcasting
Magical Research
Spell Descriptions (627 spells)

IV. Rules of Play
Time
Movement
Encumbrance
Saving Throws
- Item saving throws
Survival
- Starvation and thirst
- Light
- Falling
- Disease
- Poison
Conditions
Heroic Tasks
- Bend Bars
- Break Down Doors
- Balance
- Climb Sheer Surfaces
- Decipher Codes
- Escape Bonds
- Find Secret Doors
- Find Traps
- Hide in Shadows
- Jump
- Listen at Doors
- Move Silently
- Open Locks
- Pick Pockets
- Remove Traps
- Riding
- Survival
- Swimming
- Tracking
- Trickery
- Skill Points (optional rule)
Encounters
Combat
- Initiative
- Combat Actions
o Melee Attacks
o Ranged Attacks
o Hitting in Combat
o Charging
o Fighting Defensively
o Tactical Advantage
o Special Attacks
o Fighting with Two Weapons
o Running Away
o Mounted Combat
o Underwater Combat
o Turning Undead
Damage and Death
- Hit Point Damage
o Alternate Dying Rules
- Ability Score Damage & Drain
- Energy Drain
- Healing
Mass Combat
Naval Combat
Example of Play

V. Adventures
Dungeons
- Mapping
- Dungeon Walls
- Dungeon Floors
- Dungeon Doors
- Dungeon Rooms
- Dungeon Corridors
- Other Dungeon Features
- Cave-Ins
- Slimes, Molds & Fungi
- Traps
- Running Dungeon Adventures
- Random Dungeon Chamber Generator
Wilderness
- Designing a wilderness
- Wilderness encounters
- Wilderness movement
- Wilderness combat
- Wilderness dangers
- Random Wilderness Hex Generator
Civilization & Settlements
- Vistas
- To map or not to map
- Goods for sale
- Rulers
- The long arm of the law
- The dogs of war
- Notable citizens
- Random encounters
- Urban adventure hooks
- Random Settlement Generator
The Planes
- Planar traits
- Elemental and energy traits
- Alignment traits
- Magic
- How planes interact
- One possible cosmology

VI. Monsters
Monster Size
Monster Type
Monster Intelligence
Monster Organization
Other Stats
Special Attacks and Abilities
Making Monsters
- Reskinning
- Modifications
- Creating a new monster
Monster Encounters
Monsters as Characters

Xaoc by Ndege Diamond

Monster Descriptions (538 monsters)
A – Aasimar to Azer (31 monsters)
B – Baboon to Burrawog (35 monsters)
C – Cecilia, Giant to Cyclops (32 monsters)
D – Dark Creeper to Dwarf (79 monsters)
E – Eagle (Hawk) to Eye of the Deep (15 monsters)
F – Flail Snail to Frost Worm (6 monsters)
G – Gargoyle (Kapoacinth) to Grue (41 monsters)
H – Hag, Annis to Hyena (26 monsters)
I – Ice Giant to Iron Cobra (8 monsters)
J – Jackalwere to Juggernaut (3 monsters)
K – Kobold to Krenshar (2 monsters)
L – Lamia to Lynx, Giant (27 monsters)
M – Magmin to Mushroom Man (19 monsters)
N – Naga, Dark to Nymph (15 monsters)
O – Ochre Jelly to Owlbear (9 monsters)
P – Pegasus to Purple Worm (23 monsters)
R – Rakshasa to Rust Monster (16 monsters)
S – Sahuagin to Sylph (50 monsters)
T – Tarrasque to Turtle, Giant (21 monsters)
U – Udoroot to Uvuudaum (5 monsters)
V – Vampire to Violet Fungus (5 monsters)
W – Walking Slime to Wyvern (14 monsters)
X – Xaoc, Achromatic to Xorn (9 monsters)
Y – Yeth Hound to Yrthak (3 monsters)
Z – Zombie (1 monster)
Templates – Beastman template to pseudonatural template (12 templates; 40 sample monsters)

VII. TreasureCoins
Gems
Art Objects
Magic Items
- Using items
- Size and magic items
- Charges, doses and multiple uses
- Creating magic items
- Magic Armor
- Magic Weapons
- Potions and Oils
- Rings
- Rods
- Scrolls
- Staves
- Wands
- Wondrous Items
- Intelligent Items
- Cursed Items
- Artifacts