not-so-newguy
Legend
My brother owned this, and has since been lost or buried in storage. Can anybody provide a synopsis or elevator pitch?
D&D (2024) OAR 10 City State of the Invincible Overlord
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Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
I believe it was the first city setting published for D&D. It's also the first appearance, as far as I know, of urban versions of monsters like ogres and goblins. The city is wicked and in the control of what I believe they'll stat out as an LE or CE overlord, so PCs can't completely run wild and get away with it -- overthrowing the overlord would be the work of an entire deadly campaign -- but it's an extremely dangerous urban environment, the city as dungeon, as well as a more traditional setting.
That said, it's also a pretty conventional 1970s setting in the sense that the monsters are the sort of things you'd find in the OD&D monster lists, and not truly strange things like you'd find today in Into the Cess & Citadel.
el-remmen
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Is there gonna a KS? I said Shadowdark was gonna be my last one, but I probably can’t resist this.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Which convention are you at?
Nikosandros
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Another bazillion dollars down the drain for me...
I would assume (and hope) that they bought the IP. The owner is radioactive, to say the least.
darjr
I crit!
I’m not there.
Dungeon Con at the GG warehouse
der_kluge
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FYI, I moderate a Wilderlands of High Fantasy fan group over on Facebook. We're all watching this thread with bated breath. 
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I would just add that GG did a KS for Caverns of Thracia. I backed that, and have all the PDFs for (of which there were many). Still waiting on the physical book. But that's also a Judge's Guild license. It does make me wonder if GG is just slowly buying up all the IP of Judge's Guild.
It is my sincere hope that the family would sell the IP, as the family name is super toxic.
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I would just add that GG did a KS for Caverns of Thracia. I backed that, and have all the PDFs for (of which there were many). Still waiting on the physical book. But that's also a Judge's Guild license. It does make me wonder if GG is just slowly buying up all the IP of Judge's Guild.
It is my sincere hope that the family would sell the IP, as the family name is super toxic.
Whizbang Dustyboots
Gnometown Hero
Dark Tower and Caverns of Thracia were owned by Jennel Jaquays, who sold the rights to Goodman Games several years ago. So the two aren't necessarily connected.
That said, it would be a no-brainer for Goodman to want to buy all the Judges Guild IP. Fingers crossed.
Seems likely. I backed the Thracia one last year.
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