Maure Castle: No, really. How deep is it?


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I’d like to know the depth of each level of the dungeon. I assume both Kerzit's Fane and The Statuary are of the same depth, since there’s no mention of a slope in the description of area 87, but how deep is the slope to level 1, and how far down do the stairs from areas 12, 27 and 45 go?


Per Rob's original description of El Raja Key:

Rob Kuntz's Bibliography on Canonfire wrote:

El Raja Key, 1972. Unpublished. This castle was intentionally designed to provide Gary with a source of adventuring enjoyment but quickly expanded in scope when EGG chose me to help co-DM the original Greyhawk campaign. Some of its levels were incorporated into the second (large and current) version of Greyhawk Castle, and many of its tricks, traps, monsters and magic appear in sundry published releases (Greyhawk: Supplement 1 to D&D; DMG; UA; WG5; et al). Ostensibly the castle was located at a geographical area equating to the current Maure Castle location on the WoG map; WG5 (see below) was a nearby area related to Maure Castle/El Raja Key in some way which was only slightly hinted at (though the idea of entering Maure Castle equated with entering El Raja Key, which was less a name then than a signature denoting my castle, since my real initials occur within it).

It is important to note that as EGG's co-DM I was given reign to DM PCs in either castle and/or geographical area. In so doing, I also expanded planar areas before untouched in the campaign, allowing not only El Raja Key and its environs to be explored, but many other creative offshoots from that to be expanded upon as Gary concentrated on the rules, the WoG Setting, and his many other projects slated for publication. The majority of PCs who initially played in the Greyhawk campaign found themselves easily transferring back-and-forth between the two areas, and thus the idea of a multi-DMed campaign was born, which was later to include Ernie Gygax's sub-milieu, and somewhat later than that, James Ward's Dragonkind, as well as others. In 1986 I updated some of El Raja Key's levels and the main castle map with the idea of releasing it on the heels of "City of Brass" through Creations Unlimited, though this never happened. Since then its 40 levels have remained undeveloped.

Thus, you see that the castle is at least 18 levels deep, with 40+ total levels.

I haven't updated his bibliography there for about two years, so some publishing plans need to be updated, but the gist remains accurate.

You can see the full bibliography at http://www.canonfire.com/htmlnew/modules.php?name=News&file=article& ;sid=125

I do plan to update it again soon, using some of the scans and descriptions from Rob's recent Greyhawk auctions to help add additional info and images to each entry.

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Gadzooks! 40? Undermountain who?


Boy howdy, 40! How long would it take RJK to write these levels? And what about the one per year thing Erik mentioned in an earlier post? The poor man is about 50, so unless he lives a healthy, cautious life, he might not make it to 95.


That's fine with me. More levels I get to create on my own!

Rob Kuntz living to 95 is fine with me, too, of course. ;)

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