[Necro] Grimtooth's Traps

[BSF]

I have been waiting for this for a long time. It's nice to see it coming down the queue.

 

[Psion]

Sounds like FFG's excellent Traps & Treachery is finally going to get some real competition.

Was the oft-neglected (and much better than T&T, or for that matter, most other books WotC was putting out at the time) Book of Challenges only published in the alternate universe I live in?

 

[Red Wyrmling]

Actually, there is a huge difference between Grimtooth/T&T and Book of challenges.

While the BOC was a book filled with rooms and small dungeons with traps, riddles or just difficult encounters, Traps and Treachery and Grimtooth's were books containing only the trap itself, easily imported into any dungeon.

BOC is fun, but it is useable only in a few instances when everything in your dungeon looks like the artificial encounter WOTC created.

Grimtooth's even goes a step further then T&T, the traps were truky generic and except for the inspiration it gave no game mechanics.

I'm really looking forward to adding this book to my already full shelf. It will look magnificent next to my other Grimtooth books and the heads of the player's I've killed with them.

 

[Treebore]

It will look magnificent next to my other Grimtooth books and the heads of the player's I've killed with them.

umm, uh, I've got bad news for you, the traps were only meant for the imaginary characters your players were pretending to be, not the players themselves. You may want to get a lawyer now.

(Sorry, couldn't resist.)

 

[barsoomcore]

SWEET!!!

Ol' Grimtooth is back. I'm glad to hear it.

Does Necromancer have any further plans with Flying Buffalo -- like say, with the Citybook products? Man, I loved the Citybooks.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

SWEET!!!

Ol' Grimtooth is back. I'm glad to hear it.

Does Necromancer have any further plans with Flying Buffalo -- like say, with the Citybook products? Man, I loved the Citybooks.

Wow, I just got a shiver. The City Books were great. I'd love to see Necromancer (or whoever, really) bring 'em back to published life.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Was the oft-neglected (and much better than T&T, or for that matter, most other books WotC was putting out at the time) Book of Challenges only published in the alternate universe I live in?

Nope, because I have it and love it also. It's a great book, but it differs from T&T and the Grimtooth's books quite a bit. It fills a different niche than those books, which seem more concentrated on traps, whereas BoC is more of a puzzle book. At least, that's how they seem to me. In fact, I'd say the BoC is either unique, or at the least one of a very small number of books like it. I'd like to see an updated and expanded BoC, or a BoC II.

 

[The Sigil]

But, but... what about Traps T(h)ree? Is it never to see the light of day? Not even in PDF?

--The Sigil

//wonders who will get this joke

 

[d20fool]

Citybook!

I am gratified to hear of Grimtooth's Wurst finally seeing the light of day (or is that the dark of night, well, not night really, but deep underground, where it could be day, but you'd never know it becuase you can't see the sun! haha, wait, did I type all this?)

I would love to see a Citybook! Man, that would be cool. I had two of the originals and literally used them to death, and I still have the halves of them in case I want to dig some more. Dr. Cosum's mansion is still considered some of the finest role-playing moments by former players. Please bring back a beautiful 3.5e hardback, 250 page Citybook! Use all the original art you want, it was great then and it's great now.

d20fool

 

[Nightfall]

Yes! Next to Wrath of Orcus and Bard's Gate, this has been my most anticipated Necro release since...well since Necro started!

(btw exalted Undying Prince Clark/Orcus, any chance we'll ever see Bard's Gate or Wrath of Orcus?)