GG Extraordinary Book of Names Preview (TLG PR)

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Book of Names Preview

LITTLE ROCK, AR -- September 31, 2003 – Troll Lord Games
has placed a teaser for the upcoming Gary Gygax's Extraordinary
Book of Names on their web site. TLG invites one and all to view
the pdf at www.trolllord.com.

Gary Gygax's Extraordinary Book of Names is the fourth volume
in the ever popular Gygaxian Fantasy Worlds Series. The series includes
an encyclopedic amount of design material for the casual gamer or the
serious game designer.

The Extraordinary Book of Names follows hot on the heels of Gary
Gygax's Living Fantasy. It is tentatively set at 180 pages.

About Troll Lord Games
Troll Lord Games debuted at Gencon 2000. Alongside it's hallmark
d20 line and The Codex of Erde, TLG publishes the Gygaxian Fantasy
World Series, Gary Gygax adventure modules and Necromancer Games.
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[JoeGKushner]

Looks like a very useful book. I'm surprised that we haven't seen more name books aimed at a fantasy genre. My most used one is some thing that was spiral bound and sold in the 80's and broken up by class/race for 2nd ed.

Hated the Judge's Guild reprint as it just wasn't that useful in comparission.

This looks like it may take the cake.

 

[Troll Lord]

Funny thing . . .

Thanks for the kind words Joe!

So after my post yesterday, Davis (who is formating the book) calls me up and says that we're missing a few files...I tell him to holler at Gary and find out what's the scoop.

Its a big scoop.

When we announced the innitial 180 pages, I remember someone saying, there is no way you can 100,000 names in that size. I paid little heed as we had laid it out in rough form. It seems afterall, that he might have been on to something...

The missing files come to about 90,000 words. That's alot of Names . . .

In short this book might be longer than originally anticipated! But I'm telling you, you've never seen anything like it.

Steve
:hat

 

[Ed Cha]

When we announced the innitial 180 pages, I remember someone saying, there is no way you can 100,000 names in that size. I paid little heed as we had laid it out in rough form. It seems afterall, that he might have been on to something...

That was me, Steve. Remember I told you at Gen Con that I was going to publish a book just like this, but bowed out because you announced it first. Also, I like Gary enough to not try to compete with his line of products. Anyhow, I was going to do 20,000 names on 96 pages. How many names did you end up squeezing into this thing? I better get a copy in the mail, man.