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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seankreynolds" data-source="post: 1746848" data-attributes="member: 3029">Actually, that's an entirely separate issue.See, the book was originally supposed to be 7 module units (224 pages), with Monte writing 3, me writing 3, and then Monte going back and doing another 1 at the end to tie it all together (I think that's it). But when we did our outline, we forgot the 1 MU at the end and turned in an outline for a 6 MU book. And apparently the business guys said, "Only six MUs, eh? Okay," and changed it to a 6 MU book. Then Monte announced he was leaving WotC, the amount of work got shuffled around (I would do 4 MUs, he would do 2 as a freelancer). We finished the book.Four months later, we find out that the business guys _hadnt'_ changed it to 6 MUs like they told us they were going to do, and they didn't remember saying they would in the first place. As the book had already been solicited to distributors and retailers as a 7 MU book we couldn't change it to 6 MUs at this point, so they took me off of Races of Faerun (I was going to do 2 MUs, I only ended up with 1) to write the last MU for Ghostwalk. Argh!Book is edited. WotC decides to not publish the book. Monte and at least one other publisher offers to buy it from WotC so they can publish it. WotC, after a long wait, decides to hold onto it. They announce the 3.5 revision. They release Ghostwalk just before the release of 3.5, as it's less valuable as a product to them if it's a 3.0 book released after 3.5. I do a web enhancement updating it to 3.5.So the book had a very troubled story (like many books, you'd be surprised to hear some of the horror stories out there). It could have been a better book, and that's partly my fault and partly due to the mix-ups with the business guys. Ah, well, it's history now.Actually, no, we always intended to include a sample campaign setting, just in case you didn't have a current campaign into which you could insert it. The last-minute material was 16 pages of adventure sites (Kinship of Vermin, Lair of the Crippled One, Lair of the Eyeless Lady, and Morbid Maze), as we realized there wasn't enough drop-in material for adventuring in the Undercity, and 16 pages on Beyond the Veil (which Monte and I had thought of putting in the book initially, but decided to leave it a mystery for individual DMs to customize, and then Rich and I decided to put it in for the 16 pages so the DMs would at least have something, but that section was done at the last minute and not my best work ... really, the afterlife should have been left alone or given more than 16 pages, it's too big to summarize in a small space like that, especially after the book was finished).</blockquote>

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