Speaking honestly, as a Senior Patron on both projects, without a doubt these are going to be great additions to the Open Design catalog.

We thrashed through a lot of adventure ideas - and revisions of them - for Tales and Zobeck, but the results are definitely the cream of the crop and spot on for Zobeck's feel (and one of them is even mine!) As a senior patron, I've seen about 3/4 of the manuscripts, and they're all adventures I want to run right now. Tim Connors' Tail of the Mouse King is pretty special, and I think that the finished project is going to be better than Blood of the Gorgon - and I don't say that lightly, given Nick Logue's reputation. For those of you thinking of joining future projects, I've also found it a great learning experience for pitching and adventure design, with a huge, vocal, and supportive crowd - not to mention Wolfgang himself.

But you know, even though Tales will feature my very first paid work, I'm not quite as excited by it as I am with Wrath of the River king! If you've been sitting on the fence about 4e (as I have), this is the project that will really sell it to you... especially if you've been underwhelmed by Keep on the Shadowfel and some of Dungeon magazine's lackluster entries. Even half finished the encounters are looking right on the money - and it seems to me there's still plenty of opportunity to brainstorm/contribute to it. Prediction time: when next year's ENies come round, this one will be nominated at the very least.

Wow, that's some gratuitous pimping, :-) but these projects are worth it. As my first experience with Open Design, they've both been great and I'd encourage everyone with an interest in the nuts and bolts of the hobby to give it a try.

The link to sign up for Wrath of the River King doesn't work, it just points back to the open-design LJ URL with an incorrect path (the sentence preceding the link). Just figured I'd let you know.