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Empire of the Ghouls

  • Oct. 31st, 2007 at 12:35 PM
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The Empire of the Ghouls project is now complete and has shipped to the patrons who commissioned it. The final project came together at 160 pages and over 10 MB, offering an in-depth campaign against the Ghoul Imperium.

My thanks to all of the Ghoul patrons, and a Happy Halloween!

UPDATE: Brian M and Douglas R, your email seems to have bounced. Please respond here or send me a current email address, so I can get your copies to you. Thanks!

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[info]ephealy wrote:
Oct. 31st, 2007 08:55 pm (UTC)
Looks great, Wolf. I'm devouring it now!
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[info]open_design wrote:
Oct. 31st, 2007 11:34 pm (UTC)
"Devouring"? You are a punny, punny man. :)
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[info]mudswain wrote:
Oct. 31st, 2007 09:14 pm (UTC)
Wow.
I'm really excited to have this. I'll be passing a certain dead letter around the table this evening. Mwa haha ha!

Thanks, Wolfgang.
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[info]elorebaen wrote:
Oct. 31st, 2007 09:25 pm (UTC)
Awesome work! Congrats!
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[info]viking_cat wrote:
Oct. 31st, 2007 09:25 pm (UTC)
Hmm, haven't gotten it yet. Can't wait!
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[info]1001bobs wrote:
Oct. 31st, 2007 10:06 pm (UTC)
Looks amazing. Not really able to devour it at the moment due to an extreme sugar high that has reduced my focus level to
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[info]lby3 wrote:
Oct. 31st, 2007 11:20 pm (UTC)
Woo hoo!
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[info]thebax2k wrote:
Oct. 31st, 2007 11:49 pm (UTC)
Well done sir. A challenging, new presentation of one of my favorite Dungeon settings.
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[info]ppanavalli wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 12:41 am (UTC)
FANTASTIC!!! PKITTY you better run this and create a brand new story hour.
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[info]viking_cat wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 02:10 pm (UTC)
So... many... GHOULS!
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[info]galip wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 12:58 am (UTC)
Thank you Wolfgang, this looks just excellent!
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[info]caesarslaad wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 01:28 am (UTC)
Nice timing!

I like how open in design it is. It's almost as much setting as adventure.

I'm thinking about retooling it to use the (very cool) great cave lake/ghoul king's tower map in Dungeons of Doom map book published by Green Ronin and illusrated/"cartographied" by Ed Bourelle.
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[info]open_design wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 02:13 am (UTC)
Thanks! I think one of the things about long adventures is that they do have to be open-ended in many ways. There's just no way to account for every possibility of play over 3 or 4 levels of gameplay.

And Ed Bourelle rocks. I'm hoping some of his work may appear in a future Open Design book. He does great ships, for instance.

I'll have to go check out Dungeons of Doom.
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[info]trevorstamper wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 01:01 pm (UTC)
I can't wait to see this project! Reading over the posts from the past few months--it just looks awesome! SOON I hope my email will arrive with secret instructions...SOON!
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[info]bullonir wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 01:47 pm (UTC)
Got it!

Will start reading tonight probably!

yay!

Patrick
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[info]ruinednet wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 03:15 pm (UTC)
Brian M. here. I did receive both emails from you, and I'm downloading the file now. Odd that you received a bounce msg. I'll look into that. Thanks!
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[info]ruinednet wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 03:33 pm (UTC)
Actually, looks like there's another Brian M. in the Dedication list, so might be him. =)
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[info]eyebite79 wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 03:50 pm (UTC)
I looked it over last night briefly, it looks awesome. Very very well done.

Can't wait to read it in more detail tonight.
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[info]halo_ov_fire wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 04:03 pm (UTC)
A Huge Ghoulish thanks...
Devour the flesh my ghoulish fiends...t

Looks good enough to eat...
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[info]kristian_h wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 08:05 pm (UTC)
Re: A Huge Ghoulish thanks...
I am so exited!
And for once Orcus does not get the shaft but has his proper place in the society!
How my players will love to hate Ghouls!
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[info]halo_ov_fire wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 08:17 pm (UTC)
Re: A Huge Ghoulish thanks...
nd for once Orcus does not get the shaft but has his proper place in the society!

Do I see "Orcus 08" tees on the horizon?
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[info]kunger00 wrote:
Nov. 1st, 2007 09:04 pm (UTC)
The more I see, the more I like
Wolfgang,

I hope you continue to utilize the artist that signs his work DMAC. (Darren Calvert?)

I very much like his style and would love to continue to see his illustrations in future Open Design projects and Kobold Quarterly!

I haven't had the chance to read much more of the pdf yet (then again, I've already read much of it during production) but once again, I feel my money is well spent!

And isn't that the ultimate test?
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[info]richgreen01 wrote:
Nov. 4th, 2007 02:11 pm (UTC)
Re: The more I see, the more I like
I really like DMAC's pictures too. Looking forward to reading this very much!
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[info]olaf_the_stout wrote:
Nov. 2nd, 2007 04:45 am (UTC)
I haven't had a chance to download the adventure yet but I hope to do so tonight. All going to plan, this adventure should be the next adventure in my campaign. So much evil ghoulishness! :-)

Olaf the Stout
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[info]crysmalon wrote:
Nov. 2nd, 2007 01:15 pm (UTC)
great job!
Looks great! I'm looking forward to reading the entire thing.
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[info]tharian wrote:
Nov. 2nd, 2007 04:44 pm (UTC)
Wow. I'm hearing great things about this. I really wish I'd been able to contribute for this one.
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[info]ampherion wrote:
Nov. 3rd, 2007 02:24 am (UTC)
So far Empire rocks, but I have alot of trouble reading the captioning and title fonts. I may just be retarded.

I do like the art less this time around, but I still love the book overall.
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[info]open_design wrote:
Nov. 3rd, 2007 03:43 am (UTC)
Well, if enough people dislike the caption/title fonts, we can swap them out in the Errata Edition.

I like a lot of the art, but I spent a lot of time focussing on mappers. One of the unanticipated costs of a larger project was just how much more effort I spent finding new cartographers and artists over the life of the project.

I hope to improve the overall art with Arabian Nights; I've been able to secure a couple of great artists so far. And if you have a favorite artist you'd like to recommend, I'm open to suggestions...
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[info]llowellen wrote:
Nov. 4th, 2007 02:43 pm (UTC)
The pdf is flippin' brilliant. I can't tell you how impressed I am, and I'm not quite done reading it. Are the POD copies available yet?

Cheers
Llowellen
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[info]korweill wrote:
Nov. 4th, 2007 04:08 pm (UTC)
Put me down as having trouble with the caption/title fonts. A minor quibble though since I can read everything else and I can figure out enough of the titles to have some idea of what lies below.
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[info]justin_alexande wrote:
Nov. 8th, 2007 05:26 pm (UTC)
Ditto
And me, too. It's not that the fonts are difficult to read, it's that the font isn't in the file. It looks like the name of the font is WitchfinderScriptNew.

Doing a Google search, it looks like I'd have to pay another $19.00 to get the font. So this either needs to be embedded or it needs to be changed.

Plus, this'll probably mess up Lulu's ability to print the file. They require all fonts to be embedded.

Justin Alexander
http://www.thealexandrian.net
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[info]justin_alexande wrote:
Nov. 8th, 2007 05:33 pm (UTC)
Re: Ditto
Okay, played around a little bit and discovered that this problem only occurs if I open the PDF directly out of the ZIP file using WinZIP. If I first unzip the file and then open it, the font appears without any problem.

So if anyone is having problems, they might try unzipping the file and then opening it. It seems to have worked for me.
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[info]kunger00 wrote:
Nov. 5th, 2007 02:27 pm (UTC)
I don't know how well he does Arabian, but so far I've really enjoyed DMAC's work you've commissioned so far!
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[info]messy1349 wrote:
Nov. 7th, 2007 10:02 pm (UTC)
how do non-patrons get a copy (pdf or print)?

messy
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[info]open_design wrote:
Nov. 7th, 2007 10:17 pm (UTC)
They don't, really. These projects are written as private commissions and are limited editions.

Anyone who hasn't signed up as a patron can join the current project if they like it, and pick up Ghouls as a back issue.

Like most work done for patrons in the past, they're not meant to be widely available.
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[info]messy1349 wrote:
Nov. 7th, 2007 10:24 pm (UTC)
:-(

i really liked the original "empire..." from dungeon #70, and i was looking forward to seeing the new version.

messy
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[info]dmac21 wrote:
Nov. 8th, 2007 04:02 am (UTC)
Just wanted to say thanks for the kind words about my work. (I didn't even have to pay anyone!) Believe it or not, these are the first monster pieces anyone's ever hired me to do and I had a lot of fun with them. :-)
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[info]elijahsnow1 wrote:
Nov. 17th, 2007 02:42 am (UTC)
Lulu?
Did I miss an announcement about the print release?
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[info]elijahsnow1 wrote:
Nov. 17th, 2007 05:39 pm (UTC)
Re: Lulu?
The website declined permission for me to follow this link even though I am a patron and logged in.
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[info]open_design wrote:
Nov. 18th, 2007 02:31 am (UTC)
Re: Lulu?
Ah, I see the issue. It's fixed.
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[info]pjenders wrote:
Jan. 22nd, 2008 04:50 pm (UTC)
Re: Lulu?
I'm a patron - in the sense of having paid, and having received the PDF, but never having figured out how to log in, or participate in the creative process.
I'd like to get a copy from Lulu. Can you help?

Thanks,
Patrick
pjenders at gmail dot com
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[info]open_design wrote:
Jan. 22nd, 2008 05:45 pm (UTC)
Re: Lulu?
Ok, you're account is now active. You'll see the private posts, design essays, etc when you are logged in to your LJ account and viewing this page. Lulu details at this private post.
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[info]pjenders wrote:
Jan. 22nd, 2008 07:42 pm (UTC)
Re: Lulu?
Thanks a bunch!
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