Goodman Games February Releases

goodmangames · Nov 28, 2004

Hi everyone,

We've posted details on February releases: the Complete Guide to Fey and the long-awaited 3.5-edition reprint of Dungeon Crawl Classics #1: Idylls of the Rat King. For more information, visit http://www.goodman-games.com/upcomingreleases.php, or read below!

DUNGEON CRAWL CLASSICS #1: IDYLLS OF THE RAT KING (3.5 EDITION)
GMG5000R, 32 pages, $10.99
More information at http://www.goodman-games.com/5000Rpreview.php

This is a 3.5-edition update of the ENnie-recognized best-seller that started the Dungeon Crawl Classics line! It features new cover art and a complete overhaul to the 3.5 rules edition. In Idylls of the Rat King, goblin bandits are once again attacking the silver caravans, killing innocent miners and stealing cargo. The town of Silverton needs some heroes to put an end to the raids!

COMPLETE GUIDE TO FEY
GMG3009, 96 pages, $19.99
More information at http://www.goodman-games.com/3009preview.php

The fey races are known for their magic and mystery -- but now, for the first time, they'll be known for what they truly are. The Complete Guide to Fey presents a groundbreaking rules system for tying all the fey races together. Using feats, templates, hosts, and completely new rules, it breaks down all the Monster Manual fey races, rebuilds them, and then ties them into a comprehensive overarching plot where the fate of all the known worlds hangs into the balance. Readers will learn the place of all the fey in this eternal drama, as well as how to craft their own fey races that tie into the ongoing plot. The Complete Guide to Fey is 100% world-neutral and stand-alone, and contains dozens of new monsters, spells, and characters.

Ed Cha · Nov 29, 2004

Congratulations on the re-print of #1 and kudos for continuing the Dungeon Crawl Classics series which has really established a solid fan base!

JoeGKushner · Nov 29, 2004

This Fey book sounds interesting. Will it go the route of Bastion's book and stat out famous fey characters like Oberon and Titania or ?

thundershot · Nov 29, 2004

I'm still upset that Diamond didn't ship my $2.00 DCC book. I got every single one of the others, but the $2.00 one never came. I order it direct so I don't have to pay shipping... *mutters*

But yeah, I hope the reprint doesn't mean we won't see more in the series. (at least until 2 and 3 are 3.5ed). I love DCC...

Chris

Angel Tarragon · Nov 29, 2004

I love DCC #1. I looking forward to the 3.5 update. I have run the adventure in several of my groups and have plenty ideas for follow up adventures. I can't wait to get the update and run it in my new 3.5 campaign!

TroyXavier · Nov 30, 2004

No Leprachauns?
Ahh well, Fey is still a definite get for me.

thundershot · Dec 1, 2004

Hey Joseph, any chance you could get me that $2 module without raping me in shipping charges? I don't know why it didn't come through PREVIEWS... all of the other Goodman Games books do without a problem.

Thanks
Chris (just put #1 revised and guide to fey on his list)

goodmangames · Dec 2, 2004

JoeGKushner said:
This Fey book sounds interesting. Will it go the route of Bastion's book and stat out famous fey characters like Oberon and Titania or ?

No. The goal of the Complete Guide to Fey is to allow players and DMs to build fey-based campaigns of their own, grounded in folklore but fully integrated into the d20 system. There are no stats for classic fey characters. Instead, there is one of the most innovative rules systems I've ever seen, which integrates races, classes, prestige classes, feats, and skills with new rules for cynosures, hosts, courts, and cycles to completely re-engineer the rules for fey -- in a way that directly ties into the game background, and thus creates potential for adventure.

Seriously, it's really cool. The author, R. Scott Kennan (the guy behind Morningstar), actually took the stats for all the MM fey, broke them down, built this rules system for developing fey, and then rebuilt the MM fey stats. His system incorporates whole new areas of character potential, with rules attached (such as the hosts, courts, etc. mentioned above), but is such an accurate model that you can rebuild the MM fey from this structure and have it be accurate to within an ability point or two. On the flip side, it radically expands the potential for fey and gives them a solid foundation in the d20 mechanics, and loads of implicit background material for new campaigns.

It's some of the most interesting rules work I've ever seen, with lots of story potential. It's pretty cool.

goodmangames · Dec 2, 2004

thundershot said:
Hey Joseph, any chance you could get me that $2 module without raping me in shipping charges? I don't know why it didn't come through PREVIEWS... all of the other Goodman Games books do without a problem.

Our web store only charges 10% for shipping, with no minimum. So if you can handle 20 cents in shipping charges, it might work out...

http://www.goodman-games.com/store.php

Man-thing · Dec 2, 2004

You can buy it in pdf from Rpgnow for $2 with no shipping.

Btw, are anymore Complete Guides coming out in pdf?
Or the Blackmoor module?

crossing fingers, hopefully coming to rpgnow, hoping for pdfs