Hex Crawls & Horn Tooting

Just an FYI for those who are interested, it looks like the first two Hex Crawl Chronicles that I wrote for the Frog God are now available for sale as PDF or soft-cover book. The hex crawls are produced in two versions – one for Swords and Wizardry and the other for Pathfinder. Obviously, if you would like to buy a copy of each for their historical significance, I won’t complain.

HCC1 – Valley of the Hawks
The Valley of Hawks is a wooded river valley that cuts across a verdant prairie. It is named for the giant specimen of hawks that hunt along its banks and, during the Spring, blacken its skies. In the days of myth and legend, the Valley of the Hawks was inhabited by a race of giants who carved their likenesses in stone and hunted monstrous creatures using the giant hawks as their ardent companions and helpers. In the shadow of the giants dwelled the trouping elves and their erstwhile goblin enemies, fighting and feasting and making sport of life. The coming of the golden men from the west sent the proud elves and vicious goblins into hiding, for they commanded powerful magics and built a grand city of metal and crystal. But the reach of the golden men exceeded their grasp, and within a few generations their city had fallen and sent its children into the valley as orphans, and the elves and goblins worked their vengeance on them until only a few bands of the golden men, as wild and savage as the beasts, still roam the Valley. And so our adventurers arrive in the Valley of the Hawks seeking fame and fortune. Perhaps they come from northern lands or southern lands or perhaps they were born in the Valley and seek to learn its secrets and use its wealth to found a new city in the manner of the long gone golden men, a city that shines and terrifies and engraves their names forever in the stories of elves and men.

Price: pdf 4.99, pdf and softcover module $9.99

HCC2 – The Winter Woods
When the northern men came into this land they thought they had discovered a place of limitless possibilities – sparkling streams, fertile valleys and endless acres of rich timber. They didn’t realize they would have to contend with giant beasts, rapacious lycanthropes and the mysterious black arcs that visited the land from beyond the Black Water. Strike out into this land of dire wolves and giant badgers – bring news and trade to the isolated colonies of the northern men or fight through the lands of the wolfmen to find the palace of the mythical Queen of the Winter Wind.

Estimated Price: pdf 4.99, pdf and softcover module $9.99

Status Report – May ’11

What a busy month! Finally got NOD 8 published early in May (and late – God how that galls me) and Mystery Men! is now a reality – at least electronically. I haven’t yet received my print copy from Lulu.com, and I’m just a wee bit worried about how it will look in black and white, so I’m holding off on making it available for sale as a print book until I can see it with my own eyes.

Sales were pretty good in May – I think NOD 8 has moved faster than most previous issues of NOD. Page views on the blog seem to have moved into the “usually more than 300 a day, sometimes more than 400 a day” territory, which is nice. Total page views for May were 12,084.

Most popular May posts – in case you missed them – were …

Looking for Castle Floor Plans?

Megacrawl 3000 – Episode 7

Best D-n-D Movie Ever?

Mystery Men! Now Available As Free PDF

Ten Uncommon Coins

My favorite pic on DeviantArt in May was a tie between Ron Salas’ Ben Grimm 6×6 and Paul Renaud’s Dejah Thoris.

So – working on NOD 9 and another Hex Crawl Chronicle (the new name, I think). Have fun on the internet!

Status Report – April

Turns out I didn’t do a status report last month – the days just fly by. So …

I shifted 21 units in April and had 244 free downloads. Page views for April were 10,418, with a nice boost coming from a link from Zak.

Most popular April posts – in case you missed them – were …

I Like This!

Did you see the picture of Conan fighting our hero…

Weird Asia Contest

Happy Happy Hexcrawl Joy Joy!

Schrodinger – New Villain for Mystery Men!

Also, I managed to forget my blog anniversary in March – thankfully I do better remembering my wedding anniversary. Thanks for a year of page views and comments (keep ’em coming).

Favorite pic on DeviantArt in April was Joel Carroll’s inks on a Wieringo Batgirl pic.

Oh – and before I forget – NOD 8 goes on sale tonight if Lulu cooperates (and she hasn’t so far today). In either event, it’s at least finished. Mystery Men! is almost completed – I’m just writing up the encounter areas for the sample adventure. I hope to get it out there in one or two weeks.