Erik Mona's secret project revealed yet?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The extremely generic product description leaves me little room to discuss details without violating my NDA, but I think I can safely confirm that a significant section of the adventure takes place in the City of Greyhawk. Provided you are willing to 'port the Free City into your campaign, you could pretty easily run it in any campaign setting, but come on. It is written to be used in Greyhawk or as a stand-alone, primarily. I certainly didn't spend a lot of time thinking about how to plug it into Eberron or wherever.

Hmm, this sounds extremely portable to Ptolus. Eeexcellent.

 

[Mortellan]

Mordenkainen is on the cover of this edition of CG. He had little to do with any prior version AFAIK, so is this image a nod to the Greyhawk setting or is there a real hook involving the Circle this time?

 

[Erik Mona]

It would be weird to have a cover featuring a character who is not in the book, no?

--Erik

 

[Mortellan]

Hey Erik, I see the book is slated for August. Nice timing there with Gencon. I'll be sure to buy mine straight from the author's hand.

 

[Faraer]

Sort of like a subtitle in reverse ("pretitle"?)

Supertitle or surtitle.

 

[grodog]

Erik, James, Jason---

Can you talk about how the three of you broke down the work you did for the book---in terms of who wrote how much of it, and perhaps which levels you worked on (related back to Greyhawk Ruins)?

 

[Erik Mona]

We all wrote about the same amount, with James and Jason focusing their efforts on the Castle itself and me focusing my efforts on the city and keeping the cast of characters and continuity straight. We ended up trading some sections and brainstorming a lot, though, so there are ideas from all of us in all parts of the book.

--Erik

 

[Knightfall]

Knightfall1972 wins the thread!!!!!!!!!

Great find!

I just wish that meant I'd win a free copy of the book.

 

[Le Noir Faineant]

LOL! Interestingly enough, that's exactly what I plan to do when I purchase this book...

Doesn't bother me what you do on your gaming table... My Castle Greyhawk could very well end in Dave Arneson's version of the Great Kingdom.

However, a book with that title, beginning with a phrase like "A few days southwards from WATERDEEP stand the ruins of the cursed castle Greyhawk..." would provoke spontaneous regurgitation from my side, to say the least.

It would be weird to have a cover featuring a character who is not in the book, no?

--Erik

Now that you talk about it, a cover depicting Ivid the Overking would also be very nice...

 

[BOZ]

Look what I just uncovered at WotC's website!!!

Expedition to the Ruins of Greyhawk
D&D Adventure
Jason Bulmahn, James Jacobs, Erik Mona

A Dungeons & Dragons super-adventure for characters of levels 8–13

ah, i missed the great announcement in my unintentional week-long sabbatical! great news everyone, and congratulations to the writers on landing this job.

hmm, sounds like a paizo greyhawk-coup! we all know Mona loves WoG, and Bulmahn IIRC was the head of LG at one point... pretty sure i've heard Jacobs gushing over WoG at some point as well. sounds like it's in good hands!