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Blackdirge wrote:Of the bunch I proofed and/or edited, yours was one of my favorites. Even your stat blocks were pretty solid.

High praise indeed from the Sultan of Stat Blocks! Thanks for the compliment. It was a lot of fun to write, and Joseph and Harley provided great advice on my initial draft.

--Ken

The forthcoming DCC #49: The Adventure Continues is mostly comprised of one-nighters for PCs of 4th-6th levels, although like all the DCCs they can be modified. While they're not interrelated, many of them do have loose ends or plot hooks that can lead to other adventures in your campaign. Here's th...

We pretty much left that section open for the individual GM to fill in, based on what works for his or her campaign. (Sure, we could've populated it with lots of plot hooks, but that would've diminished the "exploration" angle, and we wanted to keep the focus in the core book on the campai...

Glad you're digging Whiterock, Warduke. Thanks. It was a grueling labor of love for everyone involved, if that makes sense. It's gratifying to know that the many hours of sleep were not lost in vain.

--Ken

Thank you, Kent Brockman! :D Yeah, I had the same initial reaction as Dieter, but after reading some of the interviews afterward, I'm thinking, "Huh, might not be so bad..." Is it necessary , O Fellow Lovers of 3e? Not really ... things were going fine as is from a playing and DMing standp...

I just don't get the whole zombies thing. Marvel Zombies is an insult to Kirby, Ditko, and every other creator of a Marvel superhero who lumbers around looking to eat brains in those books. I mean, what's the treat in seeing Peter Parker talked about how he ate his wife and aunt? This is a Marvel co...

Just working on Castle Whiterock (and surviving it) has taken all the the Goodman Games staff to level 15! That is a great line. I may not have Adrian's +3 level adjustment, but I couldn't have gained my Whiterocksmanout PrC without my 13 ranks in Editorial Tumbling, the 9 ranks in Sleight of Pen, ...

Nope, the Scope cities are marvels of Scope programming. They "feel" real to the avatars, just as the avatars' own clothing, weapons, and so forth do. No physical (i.e., Prime Reality) materials are used in the construction. In fact, it's impossible to transfer a physical substance from Pr...

Funny, but this part read totally fine to me during the editing process. I'll try not to give too much away to those who haven't read it. As the text says, the waters rise only up to the end of the you-know-what (assuming the PCs lowered it). The area we're talking about is a little lower than that....

Yeah, Mike, that sounds cool! If you ever do it, I'll play Davison. Thanks for the info!

--Ken

Bret, That's great news. Congratulations! The timing is perfect as: 1) My Friday-night PCs are about to encounter an owlbear and I'd like to spice it up, and 2) as a huge Doctor Who fan, I've been wondering if Temporality would be useful in creating a Who d20 campaign, so I'm glad there'll be suppor...

I always thought it a little odd that more playable megadungeons haven't been produced over the years. Considering the amount of resources that have gone into Castle Whiterock , I guess I'm not really surprised. My involvement began in early February and I was still working on final (!?!) edits yes...

Wow, these are nice looking ... WAY out of my budget, but they sure are purty. Who wouldn't want to own the Manmelter 3600ZX disintegrator pistol? As always, WETA does amazing work. Thanks for sharing the link.

--Ken

Darkfuries has a couple of sewer maps that I used from the Temples and Shrines set. (Even if you don't like the sewer map, the temple maps are great.) And although I haven't seen it, Paizo has a new Sewers map collection as part of the Gamemastery line. I have a couple of the other Gamemastery map c...

I'm really looking forward to " Against the Iron Giant ." That cover alone is breathtaking. Nice job by Slawomir Maniak. Luke, I don't believe you're super-familiar with the DragonMech setting, but "Iron Giant" looks like it would fit in nicely at first glance. Any thoughts? --Ken

Yep, that's correct. Not all DCCs have "side goals" that the PCs can fulfill for bonus XP. In Halls of the Minotaur, the big task for the hapless but brave heroes is to survive! Of course, you can add "side goals" to the module pretty easily if you want to give some players extra...

Yep, and I'm one of those guys that Joseph mentioned. Once the mammoth and magnificent Castle Whiterock is wrapped up, I'll turn my attention toward converting a DragonMech adventure I ran at Gen Con a couple of years back. So we'll see where that takes us. And as Dieter has said, it won't die as lo...

Charlie, Sorry to hear that. Yeah, the honor guard is a tough opponent, and they can be overcome ... unless the Dice Gods are feeling malicious that night. When I ran my players through this about three months ago, they were on the beach, too. The sneaky halfling expert peeked around the corner and ...

Thanks, Ogre. Speaking for myself, it was a fascinating, exciting project to edit, and I'm glad that Joseph went ahead with this softcover 2nd edition. Not only does it make this great setting even more of a must-buy, but it gave me the opportunity to fix some damn annoying typos.

Outrageously funny -- and highly disturbing! Well done, Dieter.

Now excuse me ... I have to answer another e-mail from a solicitor in Africa who just informed me that a mysterious benefactor has died and left me $100,000. Who knew?

This is similar to the approach I took when my group ran through the Halls of the Minotaur a few months ago. Although they were "0-level," I considered them CL 1, with all that comes with it, except that they were starting at -1,000 XP. When they gained 1,000 XP (to reach 0 XP), they chose...

Sinister Secret is a short, fun, nasty module. Harley did a great job. (I'm already plotting to work it into my home DragonMech campaign.) As for your friend, Warduke, if he manages to even get close to recreating the handout ... well, that's some photographic memory! Regarding his description of th...

Really tough choices. If Jack Bauer were attaching electrodes to my chest and yelling, "TALK!" then I'd have to say: Aerie of the Crow God - Not only a great adventure, but it provided such a wealth of subplots that its aftermath fueled my Ravenloft campaign for months. Vault of the Dragon...

Very cool! I'm looking forward to seeing what happens.

(I really should do a Wiki for my own DragonMech campaign. Perhaps this will inspire me. )

I always thought that this had to be the deadliest prelude to an adventure ever written. How many tournament teams died on the approach? It's like the DCC version of K2. :twisted: //H As a backup judge that year, I remember reading this and thinking, "Oh my god! These players may not make it p...