Goodman Games

Sounds like a blast, good luck with the game.

So DCC #35 has got an ad/review/thing in the latest issue (#349) of Dragon magazine. Check out Harley's weblog for a scan of it:

So click here.

That is awesome, thanks for linking that Jeff.

I don't suppose there is a chance this will be released in PDF format tomorrow or over the weekend?

My LGS said there's a good chance they'll have my boxed set in today.

Any of you guys that pre-ordered through your LGS have an ETA on your pre-order? Maybe some of you already have it?

Mine said they would have it on Tuesday.

**wOOt** Got mine just now! Well! Their goes my weekend.

Got your print version? Thats awesome man!

The link to the pdf version is here: http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php? ... =FrontPage

Man! That is a heavy duty box. The maps are too awesome. I do not want to use them. Will the maps come out as a seperate PDF for sale? I would hate to have to pay $39.95 for just the maps.

It is looking like we'll have regularly updated maps available.

And yeah, the box is heavy duty. Use it as a shield to block thrown dice.

//H

PeelSeel2 wrote:The maps are too awesome. I do not want to use them. Will the maps come out as a seperate PDF for sale? I would hate to have to pay $39.95 for just the maps.

Hopefully. I'm looking at a couple options. At the very least I want to have yearly "map updates" that will place all new DCC's on the world map. (Future DCC's will also include a sidebar showing where they belong in the world.) And hopefully I'll have something more immediate, too. More to come...

Renshai wrote:Mine said they would have it on Tuesday.

Dagnabbit! My LGS didn't have my boxed-set this past Friday. I'm hoping it arrives this week.

It will probably show up while I am out of town at a technology conference I have to attend this week. Typical.

By the way, I posted a report of my first session:

http://blog.myspace.com/jason_richardson

*grin* Just read your entry, Jason. Fun time. Any campaign that begins with the patented "death from above" move is okay in my book.

//H

The pdf is fantastic. Thanks for the low ink version. Makes reading infinitely easier on screen.

A question about hte southlands. What are the odds of the naga & drakon rising up and taking over the xulmec nations? It seems that with all their ancient might that this shouldn't be too difficult. Corrupt a leader or two, start some intertribal warfare and wait for the humans to out do one another.

Also, how strong is the Blackbriar presense in the colonies? Are they still loyal to the elves of their homeland, or have some gone native?

Has anyone run vault of the thief lord yet? I'm going to tackle it in the next couple weeks and I'd like to hear what other DMs did to make things easier/harder on their players.

It will be interesting to see how the pcs make out with the ending......

Just got the pdf version. As brillioant as I expected.

Having a problem with the maps though. They're huge. Will there be one available for download in the future that is shrinked to just 4-6 pages. Or even a jpg. Anything that will give me and my players a good overview of the realms.

I'm with Plague. How can my fearsome armies smash Leherti when I can't find directions to the darn place?!

A synthesized download would be great.

A question about hte southlands. What are the odds of the naga & drakon rising up and taking over the xulmec nations? It seems that with all their ancient might that this shouldn't be too difficult. Corrupt a leader or two, start some intertribal warfare and wait for the humans to out do one another.

If any of that fits your campaign, do it! If that makes for a good political or war-time climate in your campaign, make it so!

But in my vision of the Southlands and the history of Aereth, this isn't likely. The nagas are scattered, unorganized, and few in number compared to the drakon and the Xhulmecs. The nagas of the present time are like the nagas in the Monster Manual. Isolated, lairing in dungeons, territorial, and either aloof (like guardian nagas) or hateful (dark or spirit nagas). Gone is the golden age of the serpent, when they wielded race-dominating magic and "technology."

There's little chance of them uniting again or cooperating longterm with other creatures...especially the drakon, who are chiefly responsible for the final death throes of the old naga empire.

And the drakon? Far too arrogant to get their own kind to work together and conquer Xulmec, much less other creatures outside of their own slaves.

Also, how strong is the Blackbriar presense in the colonies? Are they still loyal to the elves of their homeland, or have some gone native?

I'd say both. The Blackbriars would have a pretty strong presence, a whole quarter of their own, with plenty of mixed offspring, so they've formed a culture of their own reminiscent of their homeland. Think of them like the Creole French in 18th century New Orleans. Not quite like the French, not quite American. Some have definitely gone native!

Thank you o' wizened Sage of the Ashes! I like that like evil is biting its own tail too much to do much damage but for my own uses they will rise up briefly (when the Xulmec threaten) only to collapse under their own depravity. cool!

Sage did you ever run an all naga/drakon campaign? it'd be cool to see a series or a gaz on the serpertine south

All this praise for the pdf version. I'm so torn. Spend $70 on the hard copy or $40 on the E-copy? I can't really afford both. The pdf is cheaper and I can look at while at work, but I WANT BIG MAPS!

*sigh* Decisions Decisions

Maybe wait to see if Goodman will just sell us copies of the maps. i'm in the same boat.

Sage did you ever run an all naga/drakon campaign? it'd be cool to see a series or a gaz on the serpertine south

Sage? Pish posh.

I've not had the time and fortune to run any such campaign myself; so far I've only been fortunate enough to dream some of it up.

But I agree, the snakey south would be a fun place to focus on.

Not the drakon per se, but I've run a campaign or two heavily based on the naga and other certain snake-like humanoids.

It made for some very cool gaming.

If you decide to go that route in your own games, keep us posted!

I finally got my boxed set today. Wow.. just wow. The PDF was one thing, but having this in hand is something else.

Adventure, here I come. Our first game starts this weekend and the PCs will be traveling from Archbridge all the way up to Wildsgate.

Glad it didn't disappoint.

Keep us apprised of the game!

//H

“Man! That is a heavy duty box.”

Try lugging it around GenCon all day.