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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg V" data-source="post: 2238102" data-attributes="member: 31270">Thanks for asking Saturnin.  You pose a really good question, and I'm not exactly sure of the answer, but here is what I do know.  Bill mentioned on a messageboard (either this one or another, I don't remember which) an estimation of 120+ pages.  Which is probably a good estimate. ST1 came out to about 95,000 words for whatever that converts into in page count after artwork, maps, headers, etc. are added.  I have seen estimates of about 750 words a page (can't remember where I got that from either).  So that's about 125 pages.  Also that doesn't include the approximately 50 monsters in the back, of which I don't know if they'll each have their own page or be lumped together.  Not all 50 are original.  I think I designed about 8 or 10 new ones and the rest are from heavy usage of the 3 Creature Collections and the 2 Tomes of Horror.  I wanted to incorporate as much Necro and S&S stuff as possible in the adventure since it seems like we never get to see a large enough dose of these many cool monsters incorporated into  a published adventure.  So figure 95,000 words, 50 monsters, about 17 maps, a four-panel poster map, and a lot of great artwork crammed into as few pages as humanly possible to bring the best value possible to the reader (how's that for a sales pitch?).  That's about the best I can do for a guestimate until I hear more myself. ST2 which is in the finishing phases now is going to have a little over 100,000 words and a similar number of maps, monsters, etc. I haven't broken ground on ST3 yet so I couldn't say with certaintly, but I would guess it will be comparable to the other two.  It will probbaly have fewer total maps, but they will be larger in scale since they will be a major dungeon rather than discreet encounter areas. Anyway, thanks for your interest.  I hope it pleases.  I await with bated breath myself.  These are my first works of this size for which I am suitably nervous.  It seems like all 3 adventures of the Istivin arc in Dungeon and the city article that went with it were something around 60,000 words altogether, maybe a little less, so this much coherent cohesion has been a challenge for me.</blockquote>

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