The story of Dreadmire is that it is the author's labor of love, completed over a number of years.

Even allowing for poetic license, Dreadmire seems to me to be an example of the best sort of thing that happened as a result of the OGL.

A guy who probably wouldn't have gotten published before put out a really nice book with lots of neat artwork, a dense storehouse of ideas and some really great, green, goofy gaming goodness.

I hope he made his money back on it.  Dreadmire has an honored place in my D20 collection.  Even at its slightly higher current price, Dreadmire is a bargain that people will wish they'd collected when they had the chance.

Does it still have the voodoo stuff? I remember suggesting some stuff along those lines to the author... might even have some of the pre-pub manuscript still.

Good book, don't trust what the author says online though (I've only been aware of him from when he dealt with Necromancer Games). I'm sure this book was changed since the incident and I know who was editing the book then for Necromancer Games, so trust their eye.
Other then all that, take the book as is.  It's what you're buying anyway, not the history behind it.

ShaneG.

I'd pay 10bucks for a copy,  but shipping via ebay is twice that

Well those last two went very, very quickly... (I had an offer pending!   )

I'm taking a guess at who scored them both...??  

I'd have bought one, but I thought the P&P took the piss really. Guess thats a chance gone now though..

FormCritic wrote:
What does this mean?    Could you translate this from British to English?

 I would have a purchased a copy, however I thought that the postage and packaging charges were excessive for such an item. So I thought I may buy a copy via the 'make an offer' to reduce the overall cost.
Unfortunately the two remaining copies were bought before my offer was accepted, so it would appear that my opportunity to get a copy at the moment, has passed.

Really? I've sent heavy items and would have expected that to be around £2(ish). Not much, I know, but I just balk at ebay and the postage charges making up for the insertion fees etc.

Oh well, my loss.

For good or bad, I think this is one destined to maintain a reasonable price and rise over the years. For those who can pick stock up at the $6-8 mark, this may be a good earner. It has a neiche market appeal, but deals specifically with an environment that is not tackled anywhere in RPG history (with the possible exception of parts of Garden of the Plantmaster, and Gateway to the Sunken Lands). I'm picking up stock of this and expect a 100% return in 12 months. For good or bad, writing style, souce material, and dubious authorship/plagerism accusations aside, this book has a solid base as source material and is known now to the wider collector and player communities. I think this is a solid investment at current prices.

Not one to build a campaign on, but a good basis if you're talented enough to build your own campaign world and want some foundation blocks. Pick from it what you want for your campaign swamp/jungle, but don't buy into Randy's campaign environ.