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Being a DCC newbie, what can i expect from this line of products?
To be frank: old school brutality.
As a rule, these modules are fairly difficult compared to stuff put out by WotC (as a rule). For example, in one of the modules the first hostile encounter (this is a 1st level module) is with an ogre.
Also, unlike most modules out now there is very little in the way of NPC interaction (though I suspect that this module will be different). They're mainly hack and slash modules, but if you don't mind putting a bit of work forward they can easily have plenty of RP material added. As a rule the modules are only about 30 pages long (this one is an obvious exception, of course) and typically detail all the information that you'll need to run the module all the way through (I recommend a read-through before hand, of course).
Still, I really enjoy them and my players seem to as well. I recommend them heartily (especially with how cheap they're going).
Being a DCC newbie, what can i expect from this line of products?To be frank: old school brutality.
As a rule, these modules are fairly difficult compared to stuff put out by WotC (as a rule). For example, in one of the modules the first hostile encounter (this is a 1st level module) is with an ogre.
Also, unlike most modules out now there is very little in the way of NPC interaction (though I suspect that this module will be different). They're mainly hack and slash modules, but if you don't mind putting a bit of work forward they can easily have plenty of RP material added. As a rule the modules are only about 30 pages long (this one is an obvious exception, of course) and typically detail all the information that you'll need to run the module all the way through (I recommend a read-through before hand, of course).
Still, I really enjoy them and my players seem to as well. I recommend them heartily (especially with how cheap they're going).
~puts your gag back on~ NO TALKING!!! ~shakes my head sadly~
~sighs~ Well, I was thinking of running Castle Whiterock as a PBP. Anyone interested?
Sure. I own the big thing, but I haven't read through it yet.
What system?
Either 3.5 core or the PF Beta. I will think on it tonight. And order the PDF so I can start to look through it.
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Arr! I missed it. Is it returning, or gone gone gone?
Arr! I missed it. Is it returning, or gone gone gone?
I don't know. The PDF is well worth getting, btw! I have enjoyed the read.
P.S. - All of the Goodman Games DCCs will be removed come January 1st, so get them while you can.
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Joseph Goodman told me that he sent a shipment of Castle Whiterock to Paizo about two weeks ago, but since I haven't been able to leave my house because of the snow for almost 10 days now, I haven't the foggiest clue whether they have arrived or not. They are probably just sitting there waiting for me to deal with them. But the short answer is, yes, we should be getting more copies in soon.
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P.S. - All of the Goodman Games DCCs will be removed come January 1st, so get them while you can.
To be clear, only the PDFs are going away January 1. The print editions will continue to be available for sale here as long as either we our our distributor have copies left to sell.
And as far as I can tell, it is worth the money spent. But my opinion is that if you can, also pick up the PDF as well.
This thing is awesome and well worth the money. :)
Is the current price for this item really $59.99 for a PDF? I wouldn't mind paying that much for the box set.
I agree that it's overpriced, but note that on a cents-per-page basis, that's cheaper than one of Paizo's adventure path PDFs.
EDIT: About half the price, if I'm calculating correctly.
As I recall, the original retail for the box was around $150 so a $60 pdf sounds about right. There are many mistakes in the module though. Mainly in that many of the room descriptions don't jive up with the actual map; at least that's how the boxed set that I have is.
SJ
It still is one of the best boxed sets ever made. I was lucky to snag a hardcopy by chance a few years back from Joe Goodman himself. I emailed him and asked if he should ever find a copy lying around the warehouse to please contact me. It just so happened that he had one that they recently found in the warehouse. One of my prized RPG possessions.
My only gripe is that I never had the chance to play or GM it.
Has anyone played this using Pathfinder? I'd have more chance of persuading my group to do it if they could stay with PF.
I did a bunch of stuff with Castle Whiterock for 3.5, and like anything 3.5 product, there's no reason it couldn't be run with Pathfinder (just the usual fixes to CMB/CMD, etc.).
I played in a group working through this. We were using Pathfinder characters (Core only - this was years ago when Pf was relatively new) and the GM was not scaling anything in the dungeon up to account for the Pf characters being more powerful than same-level 3.5 characters. And there were six of us, sometimes seven. And we barely survived most of the time.
So will it work with Pathfinder? Yes. Will it be easy? No.
I'm assuming this is a 3.5 module and not for the DCC RPG, correct?
Thanks TOZ.
Kind of a shame actually, I've really gotten into the DCC RPG lately, we had a blast with the character funnel especially, I would definitely have picked this up had it been for their system (plus I am a sucker for box sets, as my 2E AD&D collection attests). Perhaps they will do a Kickstarter to update this at some point.
I started in a Play-by-Post of Castle Whiterock here on Paizo.com and it was early-days Pathfinder rules, but that game petered out quickly and we barely got into the castle, so I don't know how much fun it would have been.
You got farther than I did, sister!
[sulks in his room]