Topic: Random Updates from Terry Amthor

[Jraffa]

Self promotion is not a sin. Authors who do not self promote starve.
Bought the paperback just now so I can reread it when the next book comes out.

Thank you sir.

[Terry K. Amthor]

My Novel is also available on DriveThruFiction, where it has a Silver sales ranking. I don;t pretend to understand the distinctions...

https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/117364/The-Loremaster-Legacy?term=Amthor

[tbigness]

Still waiting on the next book

[Jenkyna]

At the expense of self-promoting... My novel has been given by readers as a good window into the Shadow World, so it might be a good introduction. And I am working on the next book.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/117364/The-Loremaster-Legacy

Yes, it definitely gives you a real sense of the culture of some key locations as well as a good introductions to some of the key characters.

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I loved seeing Voriig, Ulya, Tethior, Andraax and Ondoval given life. I'm hoping we get to know some of the other members of the Ahrenreth in the next book. I know you can't promise that, artistic integrity and all that, I'd just love to learn more about some of the key players from the mind of their creator. The text of Power's is useful, but the dialog of a novel gives them a depth of personality that the source-books don't cover.

[egdcltd]

My Novel is also available on DriveThruFiction, where it has a Silver sales ranking. I don;t pretend to understand the distinctions...

https://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/117364/The-Loremaster-Legacy?term=Amthor

Well, one thing it means is that it's sold more on DriveThruFiction than over 99% of the titles listed there. (DriveThruFiction is not a huge storefront.)

[grodog]

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Would GMs be interested in a mini supplement with a bunch of interesting PC backgrounds, either living in Haalkitaine, or finding themselves in the city, with a setting where they might meet up, as a possible starting point for adventures?  Detailed histories with convoluted families, lost items, dark pasts, and they just happen to meet in a tavern/party/brawl...

Definitely!

I'm also still interested in understanding whether the large-format sewer maps are available now in the bundle on DriveThru, or if they'll be available separately?---I'd definitely like to get print versions of both the new city maps as well as the sewer maps.

I have uploaded it. I may take a day or so to appear in the archives. This is the highest quality available

Ordered the hardcover last night, will let you know how the maps turn out!

Allan.

[Spectre771]

My Haalkitaine book arrived last week and I've just now had a chance to sit with it.  I thumbed through the pages quickly and settled in to read.  Right off the bat, the weather chart on page 7 us awesome.  I love it. and the Recreational Drug chart is awesome.  That made me laugh.  I am just floored by the amount of maps, adventures, and stats for the NPCs associated with each adventure.  What a fantastic collection.  I can't wait to get into it further.  Great work, Terry!

[Terry K. Amthor]

My Haalkitaine book arrived last week and I've just now had a chance to sit with it.  I thumbed through the pages quickly and settled in to read.  Right off the bat, the weather chart on page 7 us awesome.  I love it. and the Recreational Drug chart is awesome.  That made me laugh.  I am just floored by the amount of maps, adventures, and stats for the NPCs associated with each adventure.  What a fantastic collection.  I can't wait to get into it further.  Great work, Terry!

Thanks! If you can, please take a moment to post a brief review at RPGNow (actually just copying and pasting what you just wrote would be awesome! :-)

[Terry K. Amthor]

http://

Would GMs be interested in a mini supplement with a bunch of interesting PC backgrounds, either living in Haalkitaine, or finding themselves in the city, with a setting where they might meet up, as a possible starting point for adventures?  Detailed histories with convoluted families, lost items, dark pasts, and they just happen to meet in a tavern/party/brawl...

Definitely!

I'm also still interested in understanding whether the large-format sewer maps are available now in the bundle on DriveThru, or if they'll be available separately?---I'd definitely like to get print versions of both the new city maps as well as the sewer maps.

I have uploaded it. I may take a day or so to appear in the archives. This is the highest quality available

Ordered the hardcover last night, will let you know how the maps turn out!

Allan.

Let us know. Just to clarify, the maps are posted here in the Forum archives for free; on your honor to download them with a purchase of Haalkitaine in any format.

[Spectre771]

Thanks! If you can, please take a moment to post a brief review at RPGNow (actually just copying and pasting what you just wrote would be awesome! :-)

Done and done!  I even corrected the grammatical errors.   5*, Terry.  Haalkitaine is amazing.

[Terry K. Amthor]

Thanks! If you can, please take a moment to post a brief review at RPGNow (actually just copying and pasting what you just wrote would be awesome! :-)

Done and done!  I even corrected the grammatical errors.   5*, Terry.  Haalkitaine is amazing.

Thank you Spectre!  Please everyone if you like a product you have purchased, take a moment to go back and post a brief review or even a rating. This really influences other people about whether they will buy, especially people new to RM and Shadow World. Thanks so much! If I could autograph your copy I would happily.

--TKA

[grodog]

Ordered the hardcover last night, will let you know how the maps turn out!

Allan.

Let us know. Just to clarify, the maps are posted here in the Forum archives for free; on your honor to download them with a purchase of Haalkitaine in any format.

Definitely will do.  Very much looking forward to this!

Allan.

[Terry K. Amthor]

A new 20-page PDF Adventure, the Citadel of Osaran, will be available soon. The PCs get to explore the Zor Wastes and its denizens, infiltrate the secret citadel of the High Priest Dansart, and perhaps rescue an imprisoned Loremaster Apprentice.

Meanwhile I am back on Emer IV. More than 120 pages of pure next, not including illustrations and layouts (and layout text, including City of the Dead!), so it looks like it will rival Emer III in size.

[Terry K. Amthor]

I was hunting around recent books, and happened to flip through this. It was originally intended as an adventure like my new release but ballooned into a mini-campaign! Check it out, great for adventuring on the way or leaving Haalkitaine in Jaiman. It got all five-star reviews. :-)

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/146797/Shadow-World-Tales-from-the-Green-Gryphon-Inn?src=hottest_filtered

[Terry K. Amthor]

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17317/HHQ7-Thiefs-Challenge-II-Beacon-Point-2e

[Majyk]

Wow, never knew that - I bought it during the heydays of 2e for a buddy who always was up for a game when gathering the rest of the group was akin to herding cats!


I’ll have to ask if I ever did run him through it...

[grodog]

Ordered the hardcover last night, will let you know how the maps turn out!

Unfortunately the maps are a bit of a mixed back, in the printed color hardcover:

- p 246:  the regional map's good
- p 247:  the continental map is blurry and pixelated in both the topography and the map labels
- p 248:  the summary map of the city is good
- p 249-252:  the zoomed quarter-section city maps are OK/passable:  the cartography is a bit pixelated and blurry but the labels are all crisply readable
- p 253:  the Jaiman continental map is blurry and pixelated in both the topography and the map labels

I've not printed the maps from the download files as posters yet, because when looking at their file sizes all four versions that I have, are only 661 KB in size, so even the largescale version posted in the thread seems to be the same size/resolution as the other, earlier versions.  My fear is that they'll have the same issues as what's already printed in the book, and perhaps be worse if printed in a larger size. 

Terry:  do you think this is something that's a production/printing issue, or something that can be fixed in the layout if the larger-sized versions didn't make it into the book itself?

Allan.

[RandalThor]

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17317/HHQ7-Thiefs-Challenge-II-Beacon-Point-2e

I did not know that about you - either the Thief's Challenge II or that you ran the company that put out Kult. (Just took out my copy and looked: sure enough, there you are. Cool.) While I am not a fan of the Christian-themed mythology stuff, I really liked the rules system of that game; it was Alternity years before Alternity. (I had always wished that the Alternity rules system was what they used for 3rd edition of D&D and not what we got.)

[Terry K. Amthor]

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/17317/HHQ7-Thiefs-Challenge-II-Beacon-Point-2e

I did not know that about you - either the Thief's Challenge II or that you ran the company that put out Kult. (Just took out my copy and looked: sure enough, there you are. Cool.) While I am not a fan of the Christian-themed mythology stuff, I really liked the rules system of that game; it was Alternity years before Alternity. (I had always wished that the Alternity rules system was what they used for 3rd edition of D&D and not what we got.)

For Kult we pretty much used the same system as the original Swedish version. My main goal was to make the English version less blood-splatter gory and more psychological horror. ICE was approached to to the English version but declined, so with the sponsorship of a major distributor, we set up a separate company.

[Terry K. Amthor]

A reminder about a SW book from a few years back, the Shadow World Player Guide. An excellent value, and packed with information, including about Kulthea's moons and solar system, the Lords of Orhan and Dark Gods, and the major races. Richly illustrated with maps and views of various locations. Orhan Phases, realms of magic and climate.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/83779/Shadow-World-Player-Guide--The-World?src=hottest_filtered