Greetings Adventures,
Greetings Adventurers,
For various reasons I've decided to travel far into the north to a freezing city in the woods called Hayward, Wisconsin and take up an epic quest. Although it is April, snow is on the ground and the wind is freezing. Away from my network of roguish informants I was unaware until yesterday that Hydra Hobbies epic tale: Tower of the Mad Mage Mazdor has been reviewed by our fantastic friends at The Gaming Gang. If you are interested please click here to watch the amazing Jeff McAleer take a deep drive and preview of our wonderful adventure available through Goodman Games and Drive Through RPG.
For you megafans: our next adventuer-Dungeon of the Tormentor is written, laid out, edited, and proofread. The cartography is complete, artwork has been purchased, and preliminary playtesting is complete. We are waiting on the AMAZING Kennon James to complete an awesome cover and then its off to GG for approvals. Hydra Hobbies hope is to have it in print at the beginning of the summer.
Well, I'm off to take a rest to gain the hit points I have lost today and hopefully my cleric (real life preacher Matt Lewis) will be able to heal my ability damage. Tomorrow it is back into the dungeon.
Greetings Adventurers!
The time has finally come and Tower of the Mad Mage Mazdor™ is now in print and available for $9.99 at several locations across Austin, Texas. Check out Rogue's Gallery in Round Rock, Game Kastle in North Austin, and the new store: Card Gurus in Pflugerville to pick up a copy. It will be available any day now on Drive Thru RPG and Goodman Games.
Greetings Adventurers!
Happy, joyous news! The good people at Goodman Games have approved our first DCC adventure: The Tower of the Mad Mage Mazdor™ for release. Soon, it will be available through Drive Thru RPG. I will be sending it to the printer this week and hopefully by February there will be some physical copies available from Goodman Games, a few FLGS in Austin, Texas and maybe a convention near you!
I want to say thanks to the great people of the DCC Community who helped me bring this to life. Special thanks to my wife, Lana, for putting up with all my writing nonsense and to both Matt "Grape Ape" Robertson and Ben Klima for their support and editorial genius. Lastly, I want to mention something to the great Peter Mullen who created the amazing cover for this project: Thanks for taking the time to do a little piece of art for a small guy among the big fish. My appreciation knows no bounds.
Check out the products page for more info on our first adventure.
Greetings Adventurers! Well, I’m back. The surgery went well and now I’m recovering from a week in the hospital. I’m home now and it’s nearly been a month since my open-heart surgery. It’s been a rough road in recovery and I’m in a lot of pain, but it is manageable. It’s been a bit hard to concentrate and work on my writing but I’m getting better each day. Sadly, it’s also hard to paint minis due to the pain in my chest so that is on hold as well. The big news here at Hydra Hobbies is that I’ll be playtesting some upcoming adventures during the online Feast of the Cyclops Con put together by Goodman Games and my good friend GrapeApe. This means that the cat is out of the bag, and the BIG announcement is the first two products from Hydra Hobbies for DCC. The first being The Tower of the Mad Mage Mazdor™. It’s a first level adventure for DCC and will be the first product for HH. TMMM is fully written, laid out, has all the art complete, proofread, edited, and nearly ready for submission to GG. This will be the final playtest before publication. I’ll be putting up a product page soon here on the blog and it will include this one AND the next big announcement: The second product!
The second product for HH will be The Dungeon of the Tormentor. This one will be a 2nd level adventure for DCC, and I’m nearly finished writing it. Feast of the Cyclops Con will be the first official playtest of this one (other than when it was run as a D&D 3.0 over 20 years ago.) Both adventures will have pre-gen characters available right here on the blog for those who sign up to play. I have the TMMM pre-gens complete and just need to set up the page here on the blog for them. I’ll be working on the pre-gens for DOT this week and should have those up soon as well. Hopefully I’ll finish writing DOT before Feast of the Cyclops Con that starts Nov 14th. I would say I’m about 95% complete with the writing. I hope you will join me for this very inexpensive online convention hosted by Goodman Games. If you do sign up for any of my games not only, will you get playtest credit, but I will send you a copy of the .pdf and a physical copy, upon approval from GG and publication. Registration is open and games are filling up, so if you do plan to attend, I suggest you sign up soon. I’ll be posting my review of the new D&D Starter Set: Heroes of the Borderlands soon and then after that I’ll have the review of the beautifully illustrated The Adventures of Conan tabletop game. AND a little teaser: The next review will be for a newly reprinted Space Empires 4x from GMT Games (and all three supplements) which I’ve punched out the chits and clipped them (well over a thousand chits!) I’ve gotten this one to the table and had a fun solo play. This game is deep and has so much to it, yet the rules are surprisingly simple. More on that later.
Well brave adventurers there is lots to do, and the clock is ticking. I’ve got a whole lot of cardiac rehab ahead of me and in between that a lot of prep work to get these two playtests to the table. I hope to see you online for Feast of the Cyclops Con. Until then sharpen your sword and battleaxe and be ready to slay some enemies!
Greetings Adventures! Out new adventure, Dungeon of the Tormentor, is now available in .PDF on DriveThru RPG . A second level adventure wit...
