You need to know two things: It's a 3E dark urban adventure set in Zobeck, and the author is Nicolas Logue, of Eberron and Pathfinder fame. I'm pulling development duties on this one, so it's not a complete departure, but I have a lot of respect for how Mr. Logue crafts his adventures, and I think patrons may enjoy hearing his take on design issues.
Many, many more details on theme, topic, and so forth are over at the KQ.com site, plus a podcast over at The Tome Show where Mr. Logue discusses it. Or, if you know you're in (and really, this is going to be an astounding adventure, from everything I've seen so far), you can sign up now, and bombard Mr. Logue with requests right away.
As always, the project includes daily posts and discussion, five design essays discussing horror, mystery adventures, storytelling, and other topic. It also offers playtest opportunities and up-close Q&A of the design choices made for the adventure. The final design will ship to patrons on or around May 1st, as a full-color PDF with a print option available.
You can support this Open Design project today for $25 (€17) for the basic membership. Members who contribute at least $75 (€50) gain additional access to the design process, such as manuscript access and additional posts and commentary. If the commission is not met by February 29th you will receive a prompt and full refund. On March 1st, the price to join the project goes up to $35 (€24) or $100 (€68), so join today.
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The Euro price is pretty much at the standard exchange rate (or I thought it was....)
Looks like I have a little time to decide what level of patronage I am going to partake in..
I'd love to hear some comments from the $75.00 Patron folks, first hand, about how the experience was for them, particularly in comparison to Basic Membership.
Jim / Watcher on Paizo's Boards.
I've been a patron on all of the Open Design projects so far. What a patron's benefits were changed somewhat from project to project. Universally, being a patron means you get early peeks at the design process and can make comments that may shape it. It has also included a number of design essays.
In some OD projects we submitted monster wishlists, or voted on the topic of the OD project. In open design #1 I voted for the Lost City adventure, but the voting went to Steam and Brass instead.
In some OD projects we have had access to the working doc to look through in a googledocs sharing file.
In some OD projects we selected levels for the adventure.
Just wanted to pop in and say aloha! Looking forward to jumping into a big steaming vat of gorgon blood with you all!
Nick
I'm not certain I understand this correctly, but is this OD project more of a spectator sport than previous projects?
Also, can I infer that based on the design essays that this is going to be an urban mystery adventure of some sort? Because if it is, I will definitely join. There aren't enough mystery adventures in my opinion.
Also, I'm hoping this will NOT be a spectator sport unless you don't want to chime in. I'll be available nearly every day to comment and rap about the process and work with patrons to deliver an adventure that warms the cockles even as it chills the soul.
Oh, and Welcome Onboard everyone!
Or get it here: http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_i
But seriously, just write me ;-)
Fantastic
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Yeah, I'm really looking forward to learning from the patrons even as I do my best to show the innards of the design process to you all.
Rock!
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You are one sick bastard.
And I appreciate that in a designer.
I loved what you did with ogres in the Hook Mountain Massacre.
The whole 4e swirl has actually filled me with something of a D&D malaise. Add in that I've been a patron on all previous Open Design Projects, am a Pathfinder and KQ subscriber, and bought a bunch of Green Ronin stuff in their great fire sale, and I was seriously thinking about skipping the next Open Design project.
And now I'm back in. You bastard.
Sincerely,
Garnfellow.
bring it on!!
We shall deliver the goods 99 bullets!
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Coffeesucker, check this out for some explanation:
http://wolfgangbaur.com/opendesign/stea
Can't miss out on all the dirt level sandboxing !
Let's DO this!
Everyones enthusiasm is incredibly infectious - if only that could be bottled!
Very curious how this will evolve without Wolfgang's "direct" touch...
Welcome aboard Nick!
Patrick
Wish it could be bottled too, bullets! Then we could just pass it around and have a good ol' time!
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not that much warmer in UK, but going out to get a few brews with a bud so lets look forward to developments!
I've been a big supporter of Open Design ever since I becme familiar with it. I want to promote the idea, and the products have all been high-quality and classy.
But, I don't know...
Nick, of course, has gathered a reputation that he can, when he chooses, come up with adventures like "Carnival of Tears" and "Hook Mountain Massacre" which are, to my tastes, grotesque in their buckets-of-blood-ness (CoT, where hundreds of innocents can be gruesomely killed) and gore (HMM, where Nick entertains us with various depraved ways for the monsters to act).
He doesn't have to; that he can is a testament to his writing skill; that he does is a testament that his and my players have different preferences in adventures.
So, I'm not sure what to expect, and then on the PAIZO boards, he kindly writes:
Blood of the Gorgon shall be decidedly mature...as mature as the patrons want in fact...especially since it's not for public consumption, so really, I can be as evil as I (and the patrons) want me to be. YAY!
Well, here's one potential patron that does not particularly want a lot of depravity, gore, and "mature content" in my games.
So it sounds like I might want to take a pass on this.
Probably not a whole lot of slaughter of the innocents/ogres who torture rangers stuff, but ... Well, I'm expecting a truly evil villain. We'll see how it fits with the Zobeck setting.
Most of his WotC material has been a lot more mainstream, and still very strong. I'm kind of hoping for that approach myself, but sometimes you don't know until the writing starts.
(I was starting to wonder with all these comments...)
Having an ongoing Ravenloft game, this feels like it'll be exactly what I am looking for!
Any other teasers for this project?
Anything that can be shared about how Wolfgang approached you?
Patrick
I'm pretty pumped to be doing this!
I just paid through Visa...
Hum... This might seem like a stupid question, but how do you know what my LJ ID is from Pay Pal?
Patrick P
Looking forward to it, Nic!
Like Siobharek, I am running a Ptolus game and will be interested in adapting the adventure to that!
I am no Ptolus expert, but we have some among us! We can tap them all to get THE POWER of the conversion notes! :-)