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In light of the travesty wrought upon the gaming community by Hasbro's completely absurd decision to effectively steal DRAGON and DUNGEON from us, can anyone at Paizo shed some light on the fate of venerable Maure Castle?

Small potatoes in light of the bigger picture, I understand, but a question near and dear to this heart.
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He Who Has Seen wrote:

In light of the travesty wrought upon the gaming community by Hasbro's completely absurd decision to effectively steal DRAGON and DUNGEON from us, can anyone at Paizo shed some light on the fate of venerable Maure Castle?

Small potatoes in light of the bigger picture, I understand, but a question near and dear to this heart.

Maure Castle belongs to WotC. I certainly HOPE they'll continue to work with Rob to expand it; and I'm not abandoning the possiblity of some day doing a licensed Maure Castle project with WotC's aid either. For now, though, there's no official word.

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Unlikely, I suspect.
James Jacobs wrote:
He Who Has Seen wrote:

In light of the travesty wrought upon the gaming community by Hasbro's completely absurd decision to effectively steal DRAGON and DUNGEON from us, can anyone at Paizo shed some light on the fate of venerable Maure Castle?

Small potatoes in light of the bigger picture, I understand, but a question near and dear to this heart.

Maure Castle belongs to WotC. I certainly HOPE they'll continue to work with Rob to expand it; and I'm not abandoning the possiblity of some day doing a licensed Maure Castle project with WotC's aid either. For now, though, there's no official word.

How unfortunate. I was really looking forward to the next chapter...

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You might find this announcement from Rick Miller, Editor-in-Chief of the Oerth Journal, interesting:

Rick Miller wrote:

Following the recent announcement of the end of published versions of Dungeon and Dragon magazines respectively, Rob J. Kuntz has chosen to publish his remaining Maure Castle material live on his webpage and to the Oerth Journal.

Currently, the Oerth Journal staff is in talks with RJK about new and cut material from his Maure Castle works as well as the right to publish the new adventure, "Warlock's Walk" (which will be run at GenCon in 1st-edition format) into 3.5e D&D format.

For more on this check, Maure Castle forums on Pied-Piper-Publishing and we’ll keep yopu updated on future developments!

That is good news! As always, the Oerth Journal steps up to do their part in keeping Greyhawk alive!

Just out of curiousity, I've long assumed that the Editorial staff at Dungeon always did the lion's share of the work when it came to the 3.5 game mechanics in the Maure Castle adventures, while Mr. Kuntz provided the bulk of everything else. Does anyone know if this is the case?
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He Who Has Seen wrote:

That is good news! As always, the Oerth Journal steps up to do their part in keeping Greyhawk alive!

Just out of curiousity, I've long assumed that the Editorial staff at Dungeon always did the lion's share of the work when it came to the 3.5 game mechanics in the Maure Castle adventures, while Mr. Kuntz provided the bulk of everything else. Does anyone know if this is the case?

I'd like to emphasize the fact that Rick Miller was kind enough to also

offer OJ as an outlet for the Maure Castle material I will continue crafting. The majority of such material will be posted for free download at our company's website and select pieces, as agreed upon between OJ and myself, will also be published in their fine quarterly online magazine.

There are currently 4 stupendous folks and/or organizations doing the 3.5 conversions of my 1E AD&D mss for it, so there should be no problem with rules continuity. I am admittedly not conversant with the 3.5 rules system. Dungeon did the conversion work for my previously submitted mss, with an eye to maintaining the flavor of the originals whenever possible, and James Jacobs actually did a fine job on that score, for sure.

We are just about ready to launch the new MC page at Pied Piper, late today or possibly tomorrow. The first installment will be the 6,000 word article, "The Mysterious Maure," which I wrote in 1999. It has been updated with 3.5/1e stats for a really nasty NPC who is mentioned therein, and we have had the fine artist Eric Bergeron (his work is known through Mongoose and Silven as well) render an illustration of him.

In all I look forward to continuing the Maure Castle storyline which we brought to the fans back in 2004. It's a great story I don't want to let go and feel that I can continue expanding on until the cows come home. And the encouragement and support of the fandom for MC as here represented (and elsewhere) is where I will draw my energy and creativity from for crafting it. So I thank you all in advance for that! :)

RJK

You. Are. Awsome!
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Here's the rul for the page, and do enjoy! RJK

http://www.pied-piper-publishing.com/index.php/RobsWork/maure_casle

Uncle,
Thank you for your swift and detailed reply (not to mention the excellent "Mysterious Maure" article).

And thanks still for years of inspirational work!

And why not show our appreciation to Uncle Rob by buying his adventures and other goodies:) hint, hint...
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He Who Has Seen wrote:

Uncle,

Thank you for your swift and detailed reply (not to mention the excellent "Mysterious Maure" article).

And thanks still for years of inspirational work!

Thanks! It's been a chore to do in between other things happening, but I really love the Poesque-like Maure Family. When I first started detailing them and their ancient woes it reminded me of Poe's, "The Fall of the House of Usher," if anyone's familiar. Such evil and insanity lurks within that Castle that I got wrapped up in it and am now as big a fan of it as the fans are! :)

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Jeez Allen. :)

I mean, yes, we knew there would be inquiries from folks, but that wasn't the original intention. Most of the major boards already knew about us anyway. One of our biggest worries right now is whether we can handle the additional site traffic as there have been over 400 additional visits since we posted the page. But we are increasing our size/space soon anyway so that is just another reason added to do that. As I noted on our forums I am very pleased that we found folks to help convert the material to 3.5. That IMO will make for every fan being happy, and quite honestly, as I also noted, we all deal with too many disappointments in life to begin with. And to top it off, I've really received some encouraging mail from fans of MC, my work and DUNGEON's, been brought into contact with some very fine folks and will be running the "Warlock's Walk" adventure twice at GENCON and then a fine fellow will be running the 3.5 version of it at GENCON UK. I've had a blast with this, though I am a bit tired now. Whine.... :)
Uncle wrote:

a fine fellow will be running the 3.5 version of it at GENCON UK.

Where do I sign up? Oh boy, I'm now drooling with anticipation...

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The person running this, Stuart, will be registering the event soon. You can subscribe to the event online, though I am not familiar with the process. There will be 6 players per 4 hour event and I believe he wll be running it twice, but that's his call, not mine.

RJK

Warlock's Walk is now posted on the Gencon UK events board:

http://www.consupport.com/events/events.asp?Type=118&View=GM

I'm all signed up to play Warlock's Walk at GenCon UK.

My participation at this Con is a present from my darling wife as my 40th birthday present.

I intend to take names and kick ass while there! And the Maures better watch out...

Looks like both slots for Warlock's Walk at Gencon UK are full up!! At least you can't sign up for either slot and the required number of players entry says "0". The question is, do I really trust the Horsemen web site...?
Day Tripper wrote:
Looks like both slots for Warlock's Walk at Gencon UK are full up!! At least you can't sign up for either slot and the required number of players entry says "0". The question is, do I really trust the Horsemen web site...?

I wouldn't. When I log on to the site, Warlock's Walk shows up as available for sign-up.

Only those which have a red 'sold-out' banner on aren't available, as far as I can make out. And neither of these slots show that for me.

In fact, I had originally signed up for the Friday slot, then change to Thursday when it better suited my other gaming arrangements.
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