possibly getting old faves like Bruce Cordell and/or Skip Williams to write one of these gems?
That would be ...... cool-like™
Monte could be watching our posts as we write - golly!
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Just some FYI to the OP, Skip Williams was never a big adventure writer; he wrote what, one adventure for Dungeon?...
Of course, as the real Sage, he's most certainly worthy of our respect and maybe devotion.
I use to really like Bruce Cordell's stuff but with his (& WotC's) Ravenloft I lost pretty much all respect for him. I still think he could recover if he put out a new, non-WotC adventure; I'd certainly look at any new stuff he comes up with... I mean, heck, even Wolfgang Baur -- the Wolfgang Baur, writes swamp-donkey s**! when he writes for WotC -- his Demonweb Pits adventure, um, "wasn't very good."
Personally, I'd really like to see Thomasson come back to Paizo. I actually mentioned this in Lilith's Chat Room a few days ago. It would be really cool for him to jump ship and swim to us, back to the good side of the Force, back to the Light.
Oh, and Frank Brunner, old school novelist turned adventure writer, one of my personal favs -- that would be cool.
-W. E. Ray
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Just some FYI to the OP, Skip Williams was never a big adventure writer; he wrote what, one adventure for Dungeon?...
Of course, as the real Sage, he's most certainly worthy of our respect and maybe devotion.I use to really like Bruce Cordell's stuff but with his (& WotC's) Ravenloft I lost pretty much all respect for him. I still think he could recover if he put out a new, non-WotC adventure; I'd certainly look at any new stuff he comes up with... I mean, heck, even Wolfgang Baur -- the Wolfgang Baur, writes swamp-donkey s&@% when he writes for WotC -- his Demonweb Pits adventure, um, "wasn't very good."
Personally, I'd really like to see Thomasson come back to Paizo. I actually mentioned this in Lilith's Chat Room a few days ago. It would be really cool for him to jump ship and swim to us, back to the good side of the Force, back to the Light.
Oh, and Frank Brunner, old school novelist turned adventure writer, one of my personal favs -- that would be cool.
-W. E. Ray
I dont think the Demonweb pits adventure was all that bad. From what I read it seemed alright. My biggest grip with it would have been two things. First would be the delve format, which is a really anoying but not the authors fault. And two that it was a little too much plane hopping/planescape for my tastes. While thi might be the authors fault it had more to do with the expectations I had for the adventure and my personel tastes than the quality of the adventure.
Yeah, I've seen Demonweb Pits take a bit of a beating as well, and honestly, I think it was kind of fun (though I've not run it myself). My biggest complaint is that parts of it feel rushed, as in, "you do this, then NPC leads you to this directly that lets you jump to this part," and I think this is mainly from having to make room in the product for the space eating monster known as the Delve Format.
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The delve format is really annoying. Im not sure why wotc thinks that its so great, because they still use it for the Star Wars Saga AP. I just find it to be a page hog and really anoying to have to flip back and forth when reading the adventure. Maybe during actual play it helps. Plus I dont think every encounter needs to be a full spread. For sure there are certain encounters when this method is probably really good but for the most part I think its overkill.
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The delve format is really annoying. Im not sure why wotc thinks that its so great, because they still use it for the Star Wars Saga AP. I just find it to be a page hog and really anoying to have to flip back and forth when reading the adventure. Maybe during actual play it helps. Plus I dont think every encounter needs to be a full spread. For sure there are certain encounters when this method is probably really good but for the most part I think its overkill.
I really do not think it helps in actual play, having run some from both Undermountain and Lich Queen. It is hard to jump back and forth in the book, and it makes hunting down answers for PCs questions a little slower. The answer could be in the tactical section or in the background section. Sometimes, there is contradictory information too (numbers of creatures, tactics).
