Like buses, you wait ages for one, and then several turn up at once. Two manuscripts, both unpublished works by Gary Gygax, both featuring castles, are separately hitting crowdfunding sites.
In one hand, there’s the second part of Troll Lord Games’ Castle Zagyg — “This is the second of two crowdfunding campaigns. The first, Castle Zagyg Galleries of the Arch Mage Act 1, was a huge success thanks to this incredible community. At last, we are back with Act 2, which includes all the dungeon levels, maps, and encounters needed to forge your way through the Mad Mage’s labyrinthine castle. These materials have never been published before; we are working tirelessly to produce the complete megadungeon that Gary envisioned.” This one is for the Castles & Crusades game system, and is live now.
Castle Zagyg is a re-imagining of Gary Gygax’s original Castle Greyhawk; Gygax lost the rights to the latter in the 1980s when he left TSR, and partnered with Troll Lord Games years later to produce his definitive version of the castle/dungeon.
In the other hand, from Pulse Publishing, is Castle Wolfmoon — “Back in the late 90s, when TSR was bought by WOTC, Chris Clark noticed there was a gap in the market for RPG adventures, so he contacted Gary Gygax and asked if he would like to collaborate. To his delight, Gary was available, and the two of them created and published the first two adventures in the Castle Wolfmoon series, A Challenge of Arm’s and the Ritual of the Golden Eyes. After these two successful collaborations, they decided to form Hekaforge together, and the final installment in the Castle Wolfmoon series was set aside. Many years later, as Chris was tidying his hard drive, he found a forgotten file with “Gygax” in the name, and thought – why not finally bring the saga of Castle Wolfmoon to a close? And so now, a quarter of a century after it was first created, the world will finally receive the last unpublished adventure created by Gary Gygax and Chris Clark.” This is not live yet, but there’s a ‘coming soon’ page. Castle Wolfmoon is system agnostic and it has contributions from Luke Gygax, Frank Mentzer, Heidi Gygax, Erik Garland, actor Todd Stashwick, and more.
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