Castle Zagyg coming in 5-8 parts

[Treebore]

Gygax's Necropolis sure didn't blow me away and neither have his other books with Troll Lords. I would love for this to meet up to its expectations, but I am definitely taking a wait and see attitude.

 

[cleaverthepit]

By all means wait and see. I never bought a car without a test drive :0 (Well, once, and I will not go into the amount of money and time I wasted with that little booger.)

It is classic Gygax, no holds bar.

As for 40.00. Steve does the figuring and I do line development. We both come to mutual agreements on price. Steve shoots high and I shoot low. Right now, I am fighting for a 24.95, 250 page hardbound for each. However, they come with so many maps, so steve suggested a boxed set, but that drives the price up, so I am working on a sleeve type thing for the book which holds the maps. In any respect, we'll probably keep it under 30.00. I really can not envision a 40.00 book - we are not about to take advantage of people.

Davis Chenault
Troll Lord Games

 

[GravyFingerz]

What I am curious is to how Troll Lords managed to nab Castle Greyhawk. Last I heard, Gary didn't have the time for the project, nor did he feel someone could pay him the respectful amount for the project, not to mention concerns about the size of said product.

 

[johnsemlak]

There will be NO pillsberry headed dough people in this one. This is the Real Castle Zagyg penned by the creator.

I received part one last week. It weighs in a 322 pages. It covers the environs of castle zagyg and is chock full of adventures and such. The castle itself starts in part II.

I think that we are looking at 8 250 page books. That is the initial assessment anyway. It may or may not be the case as I have not seen anything but snippets from part II. So only time will tell.

More information will become available as I amallowed.

davis chenault
troll lordgames

Thanks for the update!

 

[cleaverthepit]

"What I am curious is to how Troll Lords managed to nab Castle Greyhawk"

We rolled a natural 20.

Davis

 

[johnsemlak]

Gygax's Necropolis sure didn't blow me away and neither have his other books with Troll Lords. I would love for this to meet up to its expectations, but I am definitely taking a wait and see attitude.

It should be said that Necropolis was a d20 conversion done entirely by the NG folks, not Gary.

That said, I loved it. I havne't run the adventure yet admittedly, but I've used bits from it. I'm dying to run it.

 

[GravyFingerz]

"What I am curious is to how Troll Lords managed to nab Castle Greyhawk"

We rolled a natural 20.

Davis

Nice

 

[Treebore]

$25.00?!?! Well, if you can keep it around that price I'll settle for darn good.

John,

Your telling me Gygax let some one else do the work for something he put his name on? That is shocking in and of itself. Even if it was "just a conversion" that is still a prety significant re-write.

Anyway, I don't hate Necropolis, it just doesn't give me a warm fuzzy.

 

[GravyFingerz]

The way I see it, if the Gygax is willing to write the largest dungeon crawl ever for C&C, endorses it and likes it - well, it has to be at least decent, if not awesome.

I've gone from "I want to see this" to "It must be mine!"

 

[Wycen]

$25.00?!?! Well, if you can keep it around that price I'll settle for darn good.

John,

Your telling me Gygax let some one else do the work for something he put his name on? That is shocking in and of itself. Even if it was "just a conversion" that is still a prety significant re-write.

Anyway, I don't hate Necropolis, it just doesn't give me a warm fuzzy.

Treebore, if I recall from the NG boards when Necropolis was being developed, NG did the conversion, with input from Gary. See, Necropolis, indeed Castle Zagyg itself would not be possible if not for these good people doing the work. Gary has mentioned, or perhaps I inferred, that he is quite happy with the rules he currently knows and thus is not familiar enough with the d20 rules to do anything like creating or converting an adventure. Castle and Crusade is in a great deal part of the reason Castle Zagyg is seeing the light of day.