So, TLG own no rights over the product at all? Trigee can remobe the TLG credit and logo and simply reprint as is? That's easy money in the current climate. Does anyone know if Trigee have the project in electronic form (Word etc) or would they have to type it all out again? Do they also have rights to publish maps, illustrations, cover art etc?

Damn shame about future CZ maps is about all I can say there.
Maybe then there is more work in republication than simply a rebranded CZ:UW. That also is good news for those who bought a spare copy for investment purposes.

I'm guessing that the rumour started with thread such as this:

http://gygax-games.com/Forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=100

Can't seem to get the EN World discussion at the moment but so far it seems like a lot of wishful thinking.

serleran wrote:Also very sure Trigee has it in some electronic format (simply because Jeff would have been in touch with Gary, sending things back and forth and Gary kept many, many emails) but maybe not in the layout version which, if Peter did, means it has been lost to the ether of cyberspace... he removed / destroyed everything he had worked on (such as the was-to-be upcoming LA material and future CZ maps.)

I would hope that any such future materials would have been turned over to Gail and then destroyed vs. destroyed out of hand....

serleran wrote:....But, in a great and perfect place, we'd still have Gary and CZ II would be on its way. Oh, what a dream that would be.

Did you mean CZ III?
CZ II was the Upper Works.
CZ I was the Hardbound book Town of Yggsburgh.

But yes, that would be very nice.

Latest issue of WG13 Castle of the Mad Archmage....

http://rs789.rapidshare.com/files/236882376/WG13_0905b.pdf

Are the CZ-related expansions getting more difficult to find, or is CZ:UW the only hard-to-find Zagyg item?

I'm more of the opinion that everyone who wanted to pay a premium for CZ:UW has already bought one, and that most people are sitting on their stocks rather than dropping their price. Better to wait 18 months and get $300 than sell today for $150. There is plenty of stock out there with people who are willing to sell, but those people are not willing to sell below $200, and some private collectors may be in this for the long term and aiming much much higher, so I think we've seen the low ebb of the CZ:UW bubble, and there may be a long lull before we see renewed interest in anything CZ. The next big thing in that campaigh world may be a long way away. And if Gail doesn't get off her arse, the next big thing  may not even have anything to do with her. CZ has a decade of publishing potential ahead of it, and it's just a matter of who publishes first.

JohnGaunt wrote:Are they getting scarce?  Are they appreciating in value?

I think all of the CZ modules are scarce with the exception of the Yggsburgh hardcover.  But I don't think they have really appreciated in value much so I would say that their value is currently independent of CZ:UW.