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I had one group where I attempted to play online through a MUSH environment. It soon got to be quite a crunch to code the world map for each session. Unfortunately the group fell apart after a few months due to scheduling conflicts.

This is my 4th attempt to GM a group with this setting. Furthest we had gotten was chap. 3 before. The current group is on the 1st chapter.

I've converted it to 3.5 running in the Scarred Lands campaign setting. So converting the deities and some of the monsters is interesting.

My biggest crutch right now is that I've lost the GM maps from the hardcover, so I'm digging around in my Dungeon Mags to find them. :(

If anyone's willing to part with their maps, let me know & we can sort out a form of compensation.

I was perusing through the new idea content that they're thinking of pushing for 4e...

While I like the 'idea' of power sources and party roles to help new players better define what their character is suppose to do, I find they're trying to change D&D to appease MMORPG users to get to the table.

While this 'might' be a novel concept, you couldn't pay me to have your average MMORPG lamebrain, who lacks any imagination whatsoever, at my game table!

Now they're talking about completely revising all races, changing some of the base concepts that have been in the game since creation.
(elves are being squashed down so the 'standard elf' is your wild elf who favours nature magic. Ummm. ok, that mean that Ranger or Druid will be favoured class? And that 'High Elves' are taking on their ancestors moniker of Eladrin. Gnomes so far have been given the boot, and Half-races are simply going to be half-human templates, rather than the half-elves and half-orcs we know them to be)
And not only are they going to change the races, they're not going to release all the races in the 1st core book... no... to keep us buying more books, they're going to release races trickled over 4+ PHB's which - of course - the hardcore gamers are going to want to pick up, so that they FINALLY have the full game at their fingertips.

This sounds like nothing but a huge cash cow to me... they want us to keep buying book, after book, after book, and not caring whether it all meshes together anymore. I don't know if this is to keep the 3rd party D20 publishers in check, or if they think we're really that gullible.

Addendum to my previous post:
I got an E-mail Friday the 7th stating that my back-issues were finally ready to ship out of the warehouse...

So, I guess I'll have to wait the 10+ days to see if they arrive, eh?

Note: I'm sorry I'm being so pessimistic lately, I don't know why, I guess it has to do with the recent delivery failures for the Windsor fulfillment office...

Is this white sheet the one with a Windsor, ON return address?

I just checked my mailing for issue 359 - to make try to help work this out...

Sure enough:
Return Undeliverable to:
1415 Janette Avenue
Windsor, ON
N8X 1Z1

Maybe we should send them a direct note tell them to get off their collective butts and do their job, eh? ;)

I'm starting to feel that someone there might have profited from this goof-up, but I'm just being pessimistic. :-/

Well, it seems rather unanimous, I doubt there's any Canuck who's gotten the said above 2 items...

Sad isn't it?

I've already placed my missing items notes in other posts.

I bet there's somebody, sitting at the Canadian fulfillment office, looking at boxes of posters, wondering what they were suppose to do with them.... because it seems that pandemic of an issue.

In the past 4 years that I've subscribed to your fine magazines, I can count at least 2 delivery issues per year in which I've had to request re-mailing of failed deliveries. A few times I've received issues nearly a month late. In fact this year I got February, March and April issues all in the last week of March. Seeing as I got all the issues, I never complained, I had gotten used to the fact that most gaming stores had the mags on their shelves weeks before mine ever came in the mail.

My lamentations of deliveries aside, I WILL miss them dearly, and thank you for the wonderful (though not always useful) D&D content over the past years.

Umm... I just checked my order history...

Why is it that the back issues that I ordered (to fill out the remainder of my Dragon Subscription) back on Aug 09, 2007 still pending!?

When are these 'pending' magazines actually going to be sent out, considering that I now consider this order a month overdue?

You know.. I was away most of August, so I hadn't even noticed...

But yeah, I seem to be missing Issue 358 as well!

So... No map in 359
358 missing
and my back-orders I placed at the beginning of August haven't arrived...

I'm starting to wonder about some of the reasons why WotC canceled.. could one of them be due to some fulfillment issues on mail outs?

GreTheMage wrote:

I just got both Dungeon and Dragon and they both look awsome, but.. the poster that was supposed to come with Dragon is missing, the one that came with Dungeon is there alright, was wondering if I could get a replacement

Thanks

I'll get a replacement shipped out to you as soon as possible.

Thanks,
cos

As I put in another posting.. I see that I too am not the only one who ended up with a poster-less last issue..

If you're shipping out the missing posters, please put me on the list.

I got my final issue of Dragon today and I have just one question:

Where's the poster!?

Last month's issue, you were touting a huge poster... and sure enough, at the top corner, it says "Huge Poster Inside"

Umm.. where's the poster? It wasn't glued onto any page, wasn't tucked or attached to any staple... In fact there's no evidence that there ever was a map in my nicely plastic sealed delivery....

So... what gives?

PS: I haven't gotten the back-issues I ordered as fulfillment of my unpaid subscription either, just how long does it take for you guys to ship things to Canada?

If the party went right down to the Malachite Fortress they may have missed the 2 most important goals of Jzadirune:
1) Find Starbrow before the poor thing dies of hunger and Keygan's hurting from loosing his familiar.
2) Find the Skulk with the ring of skeleton keys so that they skulks and dark creepers stop their rash of break ins.

I would be heartbroken if the party had succeeded the way yours went. Considering I had a full battle map with runed doors all drawn up! (missing secret passages and doors, which I drew in as they found them)

My party is at the top of the stairs leading down to ancient jazdirune. I have the map layed out over several battlemaps. None of my party has really played out this size delve on the battle map before. They are in for a treat. One request to the map mapers of dungeon however. Since the DnD scale is 5'per square, could you all make the maps to that scale. If their isn't room in the mag for it at least do it for web enhancements. Saves a lot of time mapping.

Tnks

It's not really that hard to sort out... 1 square=10' just means that you need to do 4 battle-map squares for every square on the map. I used quad presentation paper that one of my players picked up at his school. Though the quad paper was designed for flow charts etc, it makes for great battle grid.

To answer a previous post: yes still have my battle maps. We laid them on the floor. I have maps for Jzadirune, the Malachite Fortress and the Lucky Monkey. After that I started using transparencies as they were easier to transport.

Considering I live in the Maritimes, just how do you intend to look at those battlemaps I have? BTW, sorry it took me so long to reply, I lost track of this thread...

My last campaign had a blast in Jzadirune, particularly when I drew up a minatures size map of the Gnome enclave, complete with glyph coded doors. They had to refer to the players handout to see what door was what.

My question: Is the writer/artist planing on publishing a complet Gnome alphabet? Or if the alphabet came from someplace, can I have a reference to it? One of my new players is a Gnome Bard and wants the alphabet for his bardic journal.

Thanks!

I'm actually in the process of restarting my campaign. First of all I'm adapting the Adventure path to the Scarred Lands campaign setting. Changing the dieties, renaming certain places, etc. It's a bit of work, but seems to be melding in well.

I started with a group and we got through till Madness Season, and then the group splintered. My work hours got hectic, some couldn't make it anymore, there was a personality conflict with a couple of players, etc. In that campaign, I had an elven monk who went to help rebuild, and was given ownership of, the Lucky Monkey. The paladin joined with Alek, who is part of a different church in the Scarred Lands. My rogue was in the process of trying to infiltrate The Last Laugh.

My new group is starting the campaign MUSH style, as we're splintered all over the country since I moved to the Maritime provinces. Once I work through the logs, I'll post the story, or put it on my webpage and post the link.

Dranem