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Posted: Sat Jan 23, 2010 4:15 pm

Kingofpain89 wrote:When the license was pulled from Troll Lords, they stopped selling everything CZ related and got rid of all of their backstock. All of the other .pdf outlets like RPG Now also had to cease selling them.

RPGNow were still selling the PDF of the Quickstart Rules with the Castle Zagyg stuff in it up until very recently, so maybe that was something they missed.

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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:40 am

Castle Of The Mad Archmage Level Eight: The Lesser Caves is now available: http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com

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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:47 am

Fantastic!
Maybe he could start running English classes for the guy's at DF.

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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:00 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote:Fantastic!
Maybe he could start running English classes for the guy's at DF.

Damn, Ian, scorched earth!!!

But yeh Joe's stuff is really great looking, both professional in writing and appealing in how it looks. I'm pretty sure I'm scrapping the megadungeon I'm working on to just plug in Joe's version. Let him do all the hard work!

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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:14 pm

I do love Joe's stuff, and I like the big poster maps in both white/blue and colour when he manages to get them posted. It's beed a colossal effort on his part, and one that deserves donations. Yes! Donate just $10 by PayPal. The guy deserves it.

Yeah, scorched earth. I really gets my goat when I offer to help out something that could be an important work, and I get snubbed in favour of something that turns out a major F-up. DF seem to be very cliquey and anal about things, or maybe it's just the moderators.

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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:22 pm

Just downloaded the whole thing and it was under 4MB, looks good and has the old school feel and maps!

Looking forward to having a good read through this.

Makes me want to produce my own, although I'd be interested to know the software available for blue maps?

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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:27 pm

ashmire13 wrote:Makes me want to produce my own, although I'd be interested to know the software available for blue maps?

Joe Bardales is using CC3 for these. If you want more details, let me know, and I'll see what he has to say.

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Posted: Mon Jan 25, 2010 3:36 pm

That'd be cool, thanks.

EDIT - I have a copy of CC3 by the way, but haven't looked into deeply so haven't found the blue map style maps to use.

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Posted: Thu May 27, 2010 3:24 pm

Castle of the Mad Archmage has been updated, for those following it....

http://greyhawkgrognard.blogspot.com/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00%3A00%3A00-05%3A00&max-results=50

And for those with a few spare dollars, there's a donate button if you feel philanthropic.

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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 10:07 am

Anyone have the April released PDF of this?

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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 10:09 am

I'm the proofreader, so I have everything. Are you collecting the pdfs or something?

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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 10:12 am

TheHistorian wrote:I'm the proofreader, so I have everything. Are you collecting the pdfs or something?

Yeah

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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 1:05 pm

You can download the April release from the link in the blog archive. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, click 'older posts' and you'll find it somewhere on the next cople of pages.
It's a shame they stopped doing the Undermountain style coloured maps for this.

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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 1:11 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote:You can download the April release from the link in the blog archive. Scroll down to the bottom of the page, click 'older posts' and you'll find it somewhere on the next cople of pages.
It's a shame they stopped doing the Undermountain style coloured maps for this.

Tried that before I asked, the file was locked. But I have it now thanks to TheHistorian.

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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 2:40 pm

mbassoc2003 wrote:It's a shame they stopped doing the Undermountain style coloured maps for this.

I'll find out if there have been other requests for them. If so, maybe I can the mapper to crank them out.

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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 6:34 pm

TheHistorian wrote:
I'll find out if there have been other requests for them. If so, maybe I can the mapper to crank them out.

They were a really polished product (even full size level maps would be a bolus to the quartered ones). I think he did levels 3 through 5 or something.

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Posted: Fri May 28, 2010 6:55 pm

There will be full sized poster maps once we're done. Whether they'll be classic blue and white or something else isn't decided yet.

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Posted: Sat May 29, 2010 3:21 pm

While we're on the topic of Castle Greyhawk, a new picture is available of the level 1 map and key: see http://knights-n-knaves.com/phpbb3/view ... =28&t=6981

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