mbassoc2003 wrote:I wouldn't be surprised if he pops up after Christmas. He's got that Kobald Hall you're after, Alan.

mbassoc2003 wrote:No worries, Al. There'll be one in BTB's next free stuff givaway.
That's a damned fine tourney you just won BTW.

N.AlanPatterson wrote in RD1 - Ruby Dragon:Okay WoW .. never in a million years did I ever think I would see something like this.

Thank you for the somewhat positive review .. I think .. but anyway.

Okay, a little background.  I wrote this as a 7 part mini-campaign for D&D Tournaments at a Gaming convention called "WarZone" back in the late 80's and early 90's.  Each Convention (5 per year around the state of Florida) was a 24 hr slug fest (Saturday 9am ~ Sunday 9am). It all started with 6 players and in 3 years became an 18-24 player massive campaign.  The original 6 players each had henchmen and underlings that traveled with them on each leg of the journey.

After the first couple years of doing it I kept getting players asking me if they could buy the Campaign set.  I got with some friends and we took all my notes and changes, put it in printable form, took it down to KINKO's and had 50 copies printed out. I did submit it to TSR and they offered to buy it for .03 a word, no royalties, no contract for further modules.  The only positive that came out of it was that they did offer me a position on the "Living City" circuit as a "certified" tournament DM.  I did do this for 4 years until the TSR internal conflict near destroyed the company, and Living City was cancelled. TSR was infamous for "acquiring" concept material and giving NO credit to the original authors.  

I never compiled and printed the rest of the series, even though I still have them here in raw typed form RD2 - RD5.  As TSR was failing and the PC generation was exploding with online gaming the effort vs reward was not compelling. Life, marriage, kids , ect ..here near 20 years later my last 2 Copies sit on the book shelf.

Thank you for your time.
N. Alan Patterson