The article in Dragon #329 on Pazuzu is great. Good work, James and Erik! I'm looking forward to more Demonomicon articles. When can we expect the next one???
I too would like to demand (well, politely request, but yeah...) more Demonomicon articles. Big fan of demon lords here. Hoping i can get my hands on this issue of Dungeon, because, you know. Demon Lords. Gotta catch 'em all.
Thanks, Sam, I appreciate that, especially coming from you and your WOG expertise.
So, Sean, why no details on Irongate in the adventure? That seemed like a conspicuous absence to me.
When I wrote it I had a max word count of 15,000 words, and if I broke that, Erik would kill me _and_ my character. ;) With all of the spellcasters involved in the adventure, that meant big stat blocks that ate up a lot of word count, so I didn't have anything to spare to cover more about Irongate. Plus the adventure wasn't really in Irongate; if it was, I'd certainly write more info on it (you're talking to the guy that is partially responsible for making the 2E Slavers and Against the Giants: The Liberation of Geoff adventures more like sourcebooks than straightforward adventures.
I mostly just appreciate any excuse to say "Cobb Darg" at the gaming table. :)
What made this adventure most appealing was this:
Stats for various types of awakened apes. You can say what you like, but those were more useful than just about anything else.
The rules for advancing creatures desperately require a chart that isn't there, so this was like a godsend, considering that I'm currently running my own adventure with giant apes.
So...why apes?
Well, apes sell more. I kid you not. Research done by comic book companies in the 1950's, for some reason, proved that comic books that involved apes, all other factors being equal, sold three times as well as those without.
So, the comic book companies agreed that each could only have a certain number of ape stories each year.
Well, Dungeon has no competition. Every issue should, therefore, have apes.
This was an awsome adventure. My party had so much fun, and the Cleric is getting so flustered. The previous adventure we ran into an isolated CG Hobgoblin town that wanted to learn about Heironious and he got the teaching job. Then, to help a Death Knight return to the living was just precious.
The first time they ran into an ape they were like..."a what? What's attacking us? Are you serious? He's wearing what? An armored ape?..." We had so much fun.
That was one of the best adventures we'd had with our current characters.
By the way, I found a Todd McFarlane figure of a giant ape-creature that would be cool for one of the monsters in this adventure, if you're not into painting minis:
http://www.spawn.com/toys/product.aspx?product=2586
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By the way, I found a Todd McFarlane figure of a giant ape-creature that would be cool for one of the monsters in this adventure, if you're not into painting minis:
http://www.spawn.com/toys/product.aspx?product=2586
In a similar vein, Mezco Toys has an ape figure coming out soon in their Hellboy collection. Kriegaffe Number 10 with the floating head of Nazi scientist Herman Von Klempt. It's a more techno look, but still...Giant Nazi Monkey!
http://www.mezcotoyz.com/products.asp?pline=hbcomic2005
Hmm, your link didn't work for me, but I was able to find what you're talking about:
http://tinyurl.com/dve5q