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Ooooh... any chance I could get a copy as well? I'm just about to hit a place in the first draft of book 5 where I was planning on using it for research! If it's small enough to e-mail, I'm at dorian //dot// hart //at// comcast //dot// net. Thanks!

I don't think I ever explicitly revealed it, but in my mind, it was because he knew his banishment was inevitable, and he wanted to go on his own terms, taking as much of his strength/magic/power with him as possible. It was a bit hand-wavy, admittedly.

Hey there, Teflonknight! First off, for your benefit and that of anyone else still following this thread: I've just today put up on my website chapter-by-chapter summaries of The Ventifact Colossus and The Crosser's Maze. That way, when book 3 comes out, readers who don't have the time to go...

Hey there! It's difficult to tell from the way you phrased it, but in case you don't know: Book 2 -- The Crosser's Maze -- is already out and available on Amazon. The stats for Null Shadows are included in StevenAC's PDF compilation of the Story Hour. If you go here...

The books don't map perfectly to the campaign, since I changed a bunch of stuff, dropped some side-quests, etc., but Book 1, The Ventifact Colossus, goes through (shockingly) the summoning of the eponymous beastie. Book 2, The Crosser's Maze, covers the entire journey across Kivia to find...

Glad to hear you're enjoying the book! (And please consider leaving a review on Amazon/Goodreads when you're done. :) ) The original campaign started in 2nd Edition D&D, moved through 3rd Edition, and finished up in 3.5E. As of early February, I'm about 40% done with the first draft of Book 3.

I think you just have enormous thumbs. :) I hope you like it!

So glad you enjoyed it! But I'm afraid waiting for the next one is mandatory, as I'm nowhere near done writing it. :)

Hooray! I'm so glad you liked the book, and very appreciative that you left a review. (Reviews are a big deal for self-published authors, since they can open doors for promotional opportunities down the line.) Guess I'd better get cracking on Book 3! :)

Thanks, SolitonMan! I just came on here to announce that I had finally published The Crosser's Maze, but you've beaten me to my own punch! :) I hope you enjoy it!

So glad to hear you enjoyed it! The good news for you is that Book 2 should be out in October, so you'll have much less of a wait than my readers who grabbed it 20 months ago. Also, if you feel like leaving a review (which can be short!) on Amazon or Goodreads, I would be very much obliged...

Yes... for certain values of imminent. :) I'll be sending the draft to my proofreaders within the week. They should take about three weeks, after which my formatter will need another two weeks to get the book into its final form. My best guess now is an early October release. The only...

In theory, my editor should be delivering her edits within the week. Given the likely time it will take to incorporate those edits, then get the book proofread and formatted...let's say an August publication date would not be out of the question. I'd ask you not to quote me on that, but you'd...

Sorry for the delay in answering your questions; I only just noticed they were here! Alas that I'm not certain I can answer all of them, as I ran some of the games in question almost 20 years ago! 1. The stuff beneath Gohgan's shop was meant to foreshadow that Tal Hae was built above the ruins...

I changed Aravis to a woman because I wanted a more gender-balanced set of protagonists. Nothing more than that. And "Ysabel" was actually the original preferred spelling of the player whose character she was. I think you will best served reading the book without carrying any specific...

I appreciate the votes of confidence, both regarding the story hour and the book. And thanks for the review! I imagine that the book-version is going to be jarring for many Story Hour readers, as I made many changes for many reasons (most notably for pacing). Best for such readers to think of...

Sorry not to have noticed this question before now! The Mordenkainen's Cube was an item of my own invention. My recollection is that it functioned like a rod.

I did map out a large section of Slices that I thought might be relevant to the party's interests. :) You can find it in Part 2, Chapter 13 of StevenAC's amazing .pdfs. Page 27. As for maps of Charagan and (for Book 2) Kivia, I would have loved to include them with Book 1, but didn't have...

Sorry, I should have been clearer. The review was plenty long, no worries about that. I meant the proportion of words in the review dedicated to things you did/did not like. But that's neither here nor there; it was an excellent review, and much more useful to me than something that just says "5...

Sorry if I got the wrong impression! (I've read before that if you want to know what a reviewer really thought of a work, count the words spent on positive/negative feelings about it.) It's interesting: I've gotten feedback from many, many readers at this point, and I've noticed a very clear...