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I'm sure there will be an expansion for the Unknown West -- it may be modular, allowing GMs to mix and match geographic features to create their own custom map of the western half of Northern Crown. Is California an island or attached to the mainland? Is there a River of the West or a maritime...

Dear Gareth, I just sent you the cover art for the free Northern Crown intro adventure... ...now get back to work already! ;)

Our daughter arrived on Valentine's Day this year, and we haven't gamed since. Too tired, too busy. Last game we played was the Northern Crown game at Boston ENWorld Game Day back in January. We are going through serious game withdrawal!

Bobitron asked, Any plans for a pdf? I assume you mean a PDF version of the core books, and I'll let John Nephew answer that, but I did want to pipe up and mention that Adamant Entertainment will be producing support materials for Northern Crown on a regular basis. "The Caves of Chisca", a free...

Atlas Games will be officially premiering the two Northern Crown books at GenCon in August. Not sure if they will be on the shelves before that.

I'm surprised and delighted to find my book reviewed on ENWorld. Thanks!

I don't really wring my hands too much about what system I use for gaming. If you have good players, you can have a great time with any edition of D&D. If I lost all my 3e books tomorrow, I'd be just as happy to drag out my 1e books and use those instead. That having been said, I moderately...

Atlas Games is launching Northern Crown at GenCon in August. There's a chance I might have my comp copies by the end of July -- if so, I'll bring them along for you to take a peep at. I'd like to demo a Northern Crown game at Wizard's Tower in Nashua sometime soon after that, so maybe you'd be...

Thanks for the mention. I really wanted to be at GenCon this year to see my books get launched and maybe demo some Northern Crown games, but we are fortunate to have a little baby girl at home, and its a long drive from Massachusetts, so I'll just have to read your posts about the con when you...

I'll definitely come by to say hello -- sounds like fun.

Two of the PCs in my d20 Modern campaign are psions, and psionic powers play a big role in the storyline. Never use them in a D&D campaign, though -- it just seems anachronistic. In my Northern Crown campaign world, psionics appear as folk magic "knacks," like having "second sight" or "the evil...

You will be happy to know that Adamant Entertainment has secured a license from Atlas Games to publish adventures and other support materials for Northern Crown. A free PDF adventure will be available in August, concurrently with the campaign books' release.

DMG II and more Dungeon Crawl Classics -- those things are addictive.

Oh, so many kinds... Here's my rogue's gallery of bad DMs, presented as archetypes culled from 25 years of play: I'm-not-only-the-DM, I'm-also-a-Player: His NPCs are actually pet characters who never seem to fail their saves, have special powers not available to the PCs, and use the actual PCs...

The west coast is part of the Unknown West, and as such, not included in the two Atlas volumes, except for a section that discusses legends about what could be found there. A future supplement will give GMs a modular system for designing their own western half of the continent, with options for...

Well, since we had the baby back in February, my spouse and I haven't been doing any gaming, except for a blog-based campaign we can add to on the fly, when one of us gets a spare minute. The ENWorld Boston Game Day was the last time we gamed, in fact. My time to write and ilustrate has been...

I'd have to say Parabola Magazine. It's a quarterly. Each issue is devoted to a single theme that is addressed by myth, religion, and philosophy, such as the Hero, War, or Death, and presents a mind-bogglingly diverse anthology of writings and artwork on that theme from all cultures and...

I have one daughter, Fiona, born just this year on Valentine's Day.

Northern Crown does include a brief overview of the cosmology of four native cultures, and draws upon native folklore for many of the monsters and other creatures featured in the Gazetteer. You'll enjoy reading about the ut'lunta, the pauguk, and the bone dancer, I'm sure! I agree that much more...

You'll be happy to hear that a Boston-based setting is actually the most likely at this point. Hauntings, witch-hunts, paranoia, all-out war between roundheads and witches, with the natives coming in on both sides. Very grim stuff.