"Toot! Toot!" - The sound of my own horn!

[Darrin Drader]

Hi everyone,

As some of you already know, I was the person who designed the 3rd edition death knight. Recently I was able to talk the WotC web team into letting me build an adventure for the D&D website using these foul creatuers and it has just been posted. Weighing in at 15 pages, Matters of Vengeance can be downloaded from the following URL: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20031128a. This is the first adventure that I worked on to see publication in any shape or form through Wizards and I am very interested in any feedback (constructive of course) that anyone here may have.

Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[Steverooo]

Hi everyone,

As some of you already know, I was the person who designed the 3rd edition death knight. Recently I was able to talk the WotC web team into letting me build an adventure for the D&D website using these foul creatuers and it has just been posted. Weighing in at 15 pages, Matters of Vengeance can be downloaded from the following URL: http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/oa/20031128a. This is the first adventure that I worked on to see publication in any shape or form through Wizards and I am very interested in any feedback (constructive of course) that anyone here may have.

Thanks, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Well, let me be the first to say Congratulations!

 

[Krug]

Awesome. Now could you autograph the PDF?

 

[Mark]

Congrats Darrin!

 

[Gez]

It sucks.


Just joking. I'll download it and read it now.

 

[Mista Collins]

yes yes yes.. I like. Good job. Congrats. I am going to have to use this eventually (once my characters decide to stop exploring the Underdark)

 

[jonesy]

You should toot your horn more often. No wait, that didn't sound right at all. I mean good work, keep it up.

 

[Frostmarrow]

It looks neat. It must be cool to see your own words professionally laid-out this way, huh?

 

[Gez]

OK, a fine little kick-door scenario.

I just regret the deathknight's background story can't be used.

Also, why is he LE and working for Orcus? CE all the way, baby.

Finally, if I use it, I'm going to try to place Kaiius somewhere... As another death knight following Orcus. The demon prince is the kind of goat to use one pawn to create another.

 

[Darrin Drader]

It looks neat. It must be cool to see your own words professionally laid-out this way, huh?

Yes, its something that hasn't gotten old yet. The first book I worked on for another publisher that saw print was the adventure Ascension Day in Oathbound: Plains of Penance. More recently The Book of Exalted Deeds, which I worked on, was published, and Oathbound: Arena, which I also contributed a healthy chunk to, was also published. This one is especially cool for me, not just because my words have been professionally edited and laid out, but also because I have long wanted to do something with the death knight since it has always been one of my favorite D&D monsters.

I just regret the deathknight's background story can't be used.

I tried to drop enough clues throughout the adventure that the characters could learn more about the death knight. It was really my inention to make a villain that you could feel sorry for. As always, if you can think of more ways to tell his story within the adventure, go for it.

Also, why is he LE and working for Orcus? CE all the way, baby.

Orcus, as the lord of the undead, has a variety of servants of the various evil alignments serving him. I often equate CE with being extremely brutish, and I wanted this guy to be more tragic and refined.

Finally, if I use it, I'm going to try to place Kaiius somewhere... As another death knight following Orcus. The demon prince is the kind of goat to use one pawn to create another.

Good call! I like that idea quite a bit!