Best of Necromancer?

[Nightfall]

Whiz,

I buy because a) I'm loyal, b) Clark is Orcus and c) No one can tell me that 1st edition doesn't matter in 3rd edition cause Necromancer Games proved it otherwise.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Eldritch Sorcery! Eldritch Sorcery! Eldritch Sorcery. (And not just because I wrote 10% of it. Okay, because I wrote 10% of it.) There's a lot of cool, imaginitive spells in that volume. I contributed a few, but there are some really, really excellent things which are obviously not mine. In addition, many old school favorites (such as glassteel) appear.

I skimmed the thread. Was Bonegarden mentioned? That would work really well for an area under Ptolus....

 

[Nightfall]

Var,

Alright fine. Eldritch Sorcery is cool. I accept that.

Well more than accept but still!

 

[The Cardinal]

Wilderlands Box Set. More setting in one box than you'll probably ever use. 9 Double sided posters gives you 18 usable maps, and 2 nice thick softbacks to tell you what's on the maps. Don't forget The City State of the Invincible Overlord book for a big, nasty, gnarly city to play in, and the Player's Gazetteer for all the gods, classes, timelines etc. I'll never need another setting.

ditto, seconded, thirded, and QFT!!!

 

[Turjan]

Best of Necromancer? That's hard. Too many great choices. Let's stick to ten :

Crucible of Freya (with Wizard's Amulet )
Tomb of Abysthor
The Grey Citadel
Vault of Larin Karr
Lost City of Barakus
Hall of the Rainbow Mage
Book of Taverns
Eldritch Sorcery
Wilderlands of High Fantasy
Shades of Gray

I'm also fond of Bard's Gate. And some others. But that's enough for now .

 

[senodam]

Tome of Horrors is a darned fine 3e monster book, especially if you have a hankering for some classic monsters from 1e.

Crucible of Freya is a top notch low level adventure. Especially when combined with The Wizards Amulet (free download on the necro website) and the free expansion material. I've used that with 3 different groups as a campaign starter, and it's a hit every time.

Tomb of Abysthor. I've not run it yet, but it's been sat on the shelf since it first came out...I may work it into my upcoming FR campaign by way of a minor tribute.

 

[Treebore]

Best of Necromancer? That's hard. Too many great choices. Let's stick to ten :

Crucible of Freya (with Wizard's Amulet )
Tomb of Abysthor
The Grey Citadel
Vault of Larin Karr
Lost City of Barakus
Hall of the Rainbow Mage
Book of Taverns
Eldritch Sorcery
Wilderlands of High Fantasy
Shades of Gray

I'm also fond of Bard's Gate. And some others. But that's enough for now .

Tell me about it. The only thing Necromancer has put out that I actually do not like is "Siege of Durhams Folly", and I have seen many others who love it. I just have never really been big on clockwork type monsters. I at least "like" everything else, and love most of it.

So I guess I can sum up my recommendations by saying I like or love everything they have done except Siege.

 

[Treebore]

Of course not - we're not a distributor.

We're a manufacturer. We write/edit/design/etc., send to printer, store in our warehouse, and ship to the distributors that order our books. (And yes, we send product release and/or promotional information to the distributors every month.)

Distribution is handled by those distributors, and (though I realize this will sound like I'm passing the buck), lately I've been hearing more and more horror stories of sales reps being completely ignorant (intentionally or not) about what their own company supplies from us game manufacturers. They prefer to push big name/fast selling products (such as D&D minis) to retailers and ignore the small stuff, since their commission will be much greater.

Whenever we get details of a specific incident, we jump on it immediately, but we only hear about them when customers/stores tell us.

We also intentionally pulled back on our release schedule a bit so we could work on developing the Aces & Eights RPG (coming this June).

Then you guys need to kick your distributors in their big fat butts, because they are not getting your, or Necromancers, products into the stores.

Or you need to go throttle a bunch of LGS owners throats, because they tell many that they can't get products from the distributor. So someone is lying, probably a bit of both the LGS owners and the distributors. A solution to this needs to be found.



Necromancer Update from Clark

This is also in the main thread I have here on ENWorld (post 93)

"OK, this is all my fault.

See, this is why companies dont usually share their thoughts and feelings before things are finally decided. Because stuff like this happens.

We are not dead. And it is my fault for sharing my thoughts on these boards. I should have just kept my mouth shut until Bill and I finally decided what we were doing.

There are still several options. Good ones, frankly. And we are exploring them.

I was just musing that the likely course is us winding down. And I was sharing that with all of you like I would with friends over a beer. The problem is, though these boards may feel to me like a talk with friends over a beer, they are public boards. And when I say the stuff I say, people take it as official pronoucnements. And I dont blame you.

The bottom line is this: if we HAD to stop, I am OK with that. I am proud of our accomplishments. And I dont want to just tread water. Necro is about more than that. And if that is the way things go, then that is how they go. And that is OK.

BUT this decision isnt final. Sorry if I have sounded gloomy. I have simply done a rational review of the circumstances.

I also agree with some of the prior posts that it would be great for Bill and I to do an adventure. We are strongly considering that.

I think all of this got started with the suspension of the Necro adventure path. With our partnership with WW ending, that threw that project into doubt. Until we had new and solid distributorship lined up I couldnt ask people to dedicate the time and expense to work on a project that might not happen. That is a very unique project.

Clark "

 

[DaveyJones]

what i own.

Wilderlands Boxed Set.
Tome of Horrors I, II, III
Necropolis
Rappan Athuk Reloaded
Crucible of Freya
Tomb of Abysthor
The Grey Citadel
Vault of Larin Karr
Lost City of Barakus
Hall of the Rainbow Mage
Eldritch Sorcery
City State of the Invincible Overlord
The Wurst of Grimtooth's Traps

 

[Nightfall]

Davey,

I got probably 75% of the ones you listed plus a few others.