killjoy32 wrote:good luck with your ventures, but this left me one very unhappy chappy. luckily i have had so much happen in the last 9 months, that its left me not that bothered about things.

Al, I'm sorry I've disappointed you... I'm sorry I've disappointed all my subsrcibers. You guys are the ones who showd the most faith in me and my efforts, and have had little to see for it so far.

I hope to remedy that.

Phaedran wrote:Can you please clarify which print products actually made it to subscribers. I could be wrong but I don't remember getting the Rhadamanthia Continental Map in the mail and I haven't bothered to get my subscriber copy of Monsters & Treasure of the Wilderlands 1 yet.

Thus far, only AGJ #1 and the Southern Reaches Map have been sent to subscribers as an "official" subscription installment.

There are three other print products available, which subscribers can have shipped to them as part of their subscription page credit. At no additional shipping charge...

XXXI (48 pages)
2008 Wilderlands Jam (48 pages)
Monsters & Treasures of the Wilderlands 1 (32 pages)

When the next "official" installment ships, subscribers will receive two of the Rhadamanthia Continental Maps and two of the Western Karak Maps at no charge, as freebies. The next "official" installment will likely be the Western Karak Guidebook Region 1: Valley of the Immortals. Following that, hopefully the long-awaited Wilderlands of High Adventure Guidebook 18: The Southern Reaches.

leadjunkie wrote:Perhaps the poor sales of the printed Monsters & Treasures of the Wilderlands 1 has less to do with the fact that it is printed that it has to do with the content.

Unfortunately, I find AGP taking a direction that I am less and less interested in.  The first few products were right up my alley.  Later releases have more or less moved away from my interest.

Perhaps, though it has sold quite well as a PDF. On a lot of the recent products, I've leant more toward supporting C&C element than the Wilderlands element, as you mention, rather to the detriment of the fans who are mostly in it for the Wilderlands content.

The print releases that are coming up are all Wilderlands fluff heavy, with minimal crunch. I think you will be pleased with them...

To celebrate the birthday of Bob Bledsaw, the late founder of Judges Guild, Adventure Games Publishing is holding a Buy One Get One Free sale on print products now through May 23rd.

That's right, Buy One Get One FREE!

And that's not all! Pay for 10 books, get 10 books FREE; pay for 100 books, get 100 books FREE!

Here's how it works:

Between now and May 23rd, order a copy of any one of the following books and get a second book of equal or lesser value of your choice for FREE! Plus, everyone who orders gets a FREE copy of the Wilderlands of High Adventure Campaign Map 18: Southern Reaches for each book ordered!

Adventure Games Journal #1 ($12*)
2008 Wilderlands Jam [2008 Gen Con Special] ($12*)
Monsters & Treasures of the Wilderlands 1 ($10.95**)
XXXI [2007 Gen Con Special] ($10*)

*Once these products are sold out, they will NEVER be reprinted!
**Quantities are very limited on the M&TW1; no rain checks will be offered!

Quantities are limited, so the offer is only good while supplies last!

Shipping on two books is $4 to the US and Canada, $8 to Europe and Australia. Yes, I'm even eating some of the shipping costs!

If you just want to order two books and wish to pay via PayPal, simply use the proper US/CAN or EU/AUS PayPal button on the AGP website for the more expensive book, and include the book you want to get FREE in your note. Otherwise if you want to pay by money order or if you want to order more than two books, e-mail [email protected] with your complete order and you will be sent a total with shipping costs and other details.

***This offer is also good for AGJ Subscribers! Subscribers can use their page credit to purchase one book and get the other of lesser or equal value FREE, plus pay NO shipping! E-mail me at the Super Secret Subscriber E-mail address with your order!***

Aneoth wrote:I have a question.
How many different MAPS are there now, and how many can be purchased as physical copies?

There are now three maps, only one of which is offered for sale as a print item at this time.

WoHA Campaign Region Map 18: Southern Reaches (PDF and PRint)

WoHF/WoHA Rhadamanthia Continental Map (PDF only)

WoHF/WoHA Campaign District Map 9: Western Karak (PDF only)

Rhadamanthia and Western Karak maps will be available for sale when the Valley of the Immortals book goes out to the subscribers.

I should note that there are a few copies of the Rhadamanthia map out there, as they were sent out as special premiums and a few were available for sale at Gen Con.

Aneoth wrote:Can the PDF maps be printed on our printers and if so how large could they be?

As a non-subscriber should I assume I am outa luck for obtaining a copy of that book?

The maps should print out fine. The Rhadamanthia and Karak maps are designed to print out on an 11" x 17" sheet, so you should be able to set it up to print on two pages.

As for Valley of the Immortals, it will be available to buy by anyone; it is simply the next Subscription Product, and autoships to the remaining subscribers. It will be available for sale when the autoships have gone out.

James,

I got your shipment from the AGP order I placed.
Thanks!

I like the hard copies of your products even though that (Apparently) puts me in the minority.
In the future, I may purchase some PDFs (Maps perhaps) or I may not, but I would be happy to purchase more hard copy materials.

BTW: We (My grandkids and I for example) are hungry for all those other are maps just in case no one has told you that yet.  

Adventure Games Publishing presents the second in a series of new monsters for the Castles & Crusades Castle Keeper to populate his dungeons and wilderness. Each installment of the Monstrous Menaces series presents three new monsters for a mere dollar, eminently affordable in today's economy.

The second installment, Monstrous Menaces #2: Blade Dancer, Goblin, and Tharghûl, presents the Castle Keeper with a 5 HD Construct, a 1 HD Humanoid, and an 8 HD Unique Undead. Each entry includes complete listings for the monster's description, organization, ecology, treasure, range, and special abilities.

Blade Dancer
Blade dancers are animated humanoid collections of scores of razor-sharp blades, from small 4" knives to great two-handed swords. They whirl about swiftly like dervishes upon the points of their long-sword legs, with four long arms made of broad swords; their "heads" are constructed of many small blades, with pommel stones for "eyes" and a wide mouth made of many knives. For all that they are made of un-living metal the blade dancer often has a menacing, cruel look upon its "face."

Goblin
Goblins are small, gnarled humanoids; in shadows they much resemble thin dwarves, though compared to dwarves they are stooped, their arms and legs are slightly too long for their body, and their head is slightly too large, with overly-large wide pointed ears. In the light the difference is obvious, as goblins have greenish-grey warty skin, and too much black scraggly hair in all the wrong places (and usually little or none on their heads). Goblins have a sickly-sweet smell, like that of a corpse ripened in the sun, and their breath is a stench like rotting onions; most goblin warrens smell not unlike a charnel house in midsummer.

Goblin eyes are round and bulging, and mostly black with large iris and cornea; the white of the orb is invariably shot thick with red blood vessels. Like the eyes of a cat, goblin eyes reflect light in the darkness, a deep, blood-red glitter. They have a long carrot-shaped nose that sits atop a wide, frog-like lipless mouth. Goblin teeth are haphazard at best, with many gaps and broken bits; over time as old teeth are lost new ones grow in, though they grow in uneven and often painfully, such that goblin's gums are ever bleeding and raw. Goblins either have either no chin or far too much of one, with hair as usual only growing in spots rather than in a full-fledged beard.

Note: Monstrous Menaces 2 provides a much-expanded entry for the common goblin race, including full details on goblin vision, language, organization, ecology, culture, religion, gender and family relations, coming of age, cleanliness, weapons, armor, treasure, range, combat, and special abilities.

Tharghûl
Tharghûls are the kings of the ghouls and ghasts, the lords of the graveyard and charnel house, despots of sewers and desecrated temples. Where vampires rule, tharghûls tread lightly; where tharghûls dominate, vampires fear to tread.

A tharghûl in its natural form appears to be a walking corpse; some are thin and emaciated, while others are fat and bloated. Skin is usually like that of a corpse, green and pock-marked, often inhabited by worms, and in places sloughing off. The face is a nightmare, with lips long rotted away, long hound-like teeth and fangs, a sunken nose, and bloated, bulging eyes. Hair is usually white, long, and matted with blood or absent. Hands are clawed, with long sharp nails. A tharghûl usually wears clothing as was appropriate to its station, or to its new more powerful position; the clothing often jars grossly with the rotted, stinking body, as it is new and fashionable, though soaked through with blood and covered with gore.

Monstrous Menaces #2: Blade Dancer, Goblin, and Tharghûl
By James Mishler
AGP06002, 12-page PDF, $1.00 MSRP

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Adventure Games Publishing presents the third in a series of new monsters for the Castles & Crusades Castle Keeper to populate his dungeons and wilderness. Each installment of the Monstrous Menaces series presents three new monsters for a mere dollar, eminently affordable in today's economy.

The third installment, Monstrous Menaces #3: Akhlat, Oogloog, and Woodwose, presents the Castle Keeper with a 4 HD Aberration, a 5 HD Ooze, and a 7 to 9 HD Monstrous Humanoid. Each entry includes complete listings for the monster's description, organization, ecology, treasure, range, and special abilities.

Akhlat
An akhlat is a chimerical creature, possessing the head of a man, the feathered body and wings of a vulture, the legs and feet of a monkey, the arms and claws of a tiger, and the tail of an ass. The human head is overly large for the body, and bald; its eyes are black and beady like those of a vulture, its nose is large and long and blackened with warts, and its mouth is filled with tiger-like teeth and the forked tongue of a serpent. Its flesh is as hard as bronze, its teeth and claws like steel, and its breath is noxious like swamp-gas.

Oogloog
Oogloog are giant alien amoeba-like beings with a cruel, inhuman intellect. On a humanoid scale, their Intelligence would be placed in the High to Genius categories; however, their form of sentience is significantly different from that of other organisms.

Oogloog naturally take the form of a giant amoeba-like structure, essentially a bag of slimy acid filled with small globules of foreign materials (i.e. food). They have great control over their shape, however, and can take on the form of a bipedal humanoid, complete with head, two arms, hands, fingers, two legs, feet, and toes. Some possess a most cruel sense of humor, and enjoy preserving various body parts of victims, such as eyes and teeth, and using those to affect possession of such body parts (though having "eyes" and "teeth" in this way provides them no extra abilities to see or bite).

Woodwose
Also known as almas, bigfoot, sasquatch, wild men, yeren, or yeti, woodwoses are seven to nine foot tall humanoids covered with thick brown, brownish-red, black, or white fur. The hair covers it everywhere except on the palms of its hands and feet, which are thick and calloused. They look mostly human, with an apish cast to face and build, and with very apish teeth but very human eyes. Woodwoses never wear clothing or jewelry.

Some exhibit elvish blood or human blood, others orcish, ogre, or even hill giant blood, or even a mix of two or three other blood lines; woodwoses are able to breed with all five races, though one in eight of such crossbreeds are sterile, and one in eight of those with other blood go insane upon reaching puberty.

Monstrous Menaces #3: Akhlat, Oogloog, and Woodwose
By James Mishler
AGP06003, 9-page PDF, $1.00 MSRP

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