Castle Zagyg cover art

[Mythmere1]

Also, it looks like the release date may be in late March according to the latest threads on Troll Lords site...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Looking at the stat blocks in the PDF preview, it may be more conversion than I want. I'll wait to hear if the reviews for Yggsburgh (the book I'd be most interested in the series anyway) are dazzling or not.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Very reminiscent of Frazetta...
Almost too much so.

Nice stuff.

It's the work of Jeffrey Jones, a very famous fantasy artist from way back. His stuff was, for a long while, almost as ubiquitous as Frazetta's in the heroic fantasy/swords 'n' sorcery genre. I've found his work to be "softer" than Frazetta's, in the sense that Frazetta's work is imbued with a lot of violent action. Both artists have a very sensuous style.

 

[Mythmere1]

It's the work of Jeffrey Jones, a very famous fantasy artist from way back. His stuff was, for a long while, almost as ubiquitous as Frazetta's in the heroic fantasy/swords 'n' sorcery genre. I've found his work to be "softer" than Frazetta's, in the sense that Frazetta's work is imbued with a lot of violent action. Both artists have a very sensuous style.

I'm pretty sure I read a book with one of those paintings as a cover back when I was a kid. So I started looking through the old book stuff. I found a collection of all the Elric books. So I quit looking and read Elric.

 

[RFisher]

I really love the new cover artwork. Very Frazetta-esque.

I didn't know the name Jeffrey Jones, but about half of them looked awfully familiar.

 

[Arnwyn]

I suppose somebody's got to ask this.

Does anyone know if Troll Lord Games has made any contigency plans for completing this thing if EGG... is unable to finish Castle Zagyg?

That's one of the first things I was wondering about...

 

[mattcolville]

Let me get this straight, SEVEN volumes, at $29.95 a pop???

My enthusiasm has been sharply curbed.

Twowolves Howling

It's a question of value for money, for me. I don't mind spending that much as long as I get my money's worth. Knowing the history of the product and the authors, I'd be much more interested in this, really a whole campaign setting with enough information in it to allow the players to go off on their own side quests, determine their own motivations and aspirations. Whereas WLD is just "hack your way through the SRD."

 

[mattcolville]

According to the website, each and every volume is tentatively priced at $29.95.

And no, it's not a campaign setting, it's a dungeon crawl, albeit a massive one. It details a castle and the dungeon underneath, not whole continents, cultures, organizations, pantheons, races, etc etc. Comparison to something like Forgotten Realms or Scarred Lands is an "apples to oranges" arguement.

Twowolves Howling

This seems spurious to me. It covers a smaller area, but the area seems large enough and the detail appropriate to what I'd expect from a setting.

 

[gideon_thorne]

This seems spurious to me. It covers a smaller area, but the area seems large enough and the detail appropriate to what I'd expect from a setting.

Its more than an 'either or'. Its a setting area yes, its a dungeon area as well. And there are massive amounts of plot hooks to give adventurer's room to explore for years.

 

[grodog]

It's the work of Jeffrey Jones, a very famous fantasy artist from way back. His stuff was, for a long while, almost as ubiquitous as Frazetta's in the heroic fantasy/swords 'n' sorcery genre. I've found his work to be "softer" than Frazetta's, in the sense that Frazetta's work is imbued with a lot of violent action. Both artists have a very sensuous style.

His art graces my Ace paperback edition of Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser series of books. Good stuff, but FWIW, I'm not sure that it's the right tone for Castle Zagyg---of course everyone's a critic when it comes to artwork