JasonZavoda wrote:Castle Zagyg, what has been produced? What is in print? What, if anything, is out of print?

TLG's forums are probably the best place to ask that question, but here's what their product page shows:

http://www.trolllord.com/newsite/zagyg/index.html

What do you mean by recently? They are still recovering from the week-long power outage that ate hundreds of emails, so its possible he never got the email.


Also, I don't think anything CZ is "out of print" other than waiting to be reprinted when they sell out.

The "email issue" affects all product lines equally -- Steve and TLG were hit hard by Gustav and lost power for a week. They are getting things back in order now, but they lost several hundred emails which were simply either undelivered (should have bounced back) or ones that Steve hasn't gotten to yet. LA Essentials is sold out, last I heard.

So, my question still remains -- how recent is recent? If its been like, in the last week, then you've probably been pushed to lower priority as Steve answers what he has from weeks ago. If it was weeks ago, its probably being gotten to soon. Either way, if needed, I can give him a beating and get it all sorted out one way or the other.

I had ordered two LA essentials. They both arrived one with dice and the other without.

After TLG had power restored Stephen Chenault emailed me to say that they had run out of dice for the boxed sets and would not have any more.  

Actually, his use of Thunderbird won't have an effect on his email storage capacity because Thunderbird, like Outlook, isn't an email service but a front end to accessing email.  He's likely using sendmail for his email service since all emails are to trolllord.com.  Unless he owns the server itself, there is likely a cap on his sendmail account, which is why he should have a backup email account through gmail.

Depends what you are after. Yggsburgh covers the town and area surrounding the Castle, and not much (if anything) of the Castle itself. So, if all you want is Castle, Castle, Castle... then Upper Works is the "core product" right now. If, however, you want all of it... then, well, both are core, with the Yggsburgh expansions being supplementary (but cool.)

Upper Works debuted at GenCon.

Castle Zagyg: Yggsburgh was alongside Dark Chateau (the first ancillary module to the Yggsburgh/ CZ project,) so I forget which came first, literally, though I believe Yggsburgh did but not by much.

Regarding what Gary wrote: the Castle is constructed directly from Gary's notes on the subject, coupled with what has been called The Castle Bible, both written directly by Gary. He was always revising as well. He also controlled what would be included in the Yggsburgh expansion modules (the 24 town sections, some currently in flux production-wise) though he did not write these. I will also add that not everything in the Castle is directly Gary's either -- I wrote a very few monsters for it, upon being asked to do so, so, while that text is not Gary's per se, it was a request nonetheless so make of it what you will.

Yggsburgh is like Greyhawk, and not. Its far more Renaissance, much more detailed, smaller, but familiar all the same. There were some very bad editing errors so some things are not as they were intended. I haven't gone through and did a real comparison as I am not overly fond of Greyhawk anyway.