From: dhenry@plains.NoDak.edu (David Henry)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.misc
Subject: Re: WFRP: Castle Drachenfells
Date: 30 Sep 92 18:23:38 GMT
Article-I.D.: plains.20830
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

>   That said, let's move on to Castle Drachenfels, which (I'm guessing) is
>   probably the last WFRP thing we'll see in a long while to forever from Carl
>   Sargent. There is no adventure, per se, although a good half-dozen narrative
>   hooks are included in the back of the book to get your players going there
>   (my favorite one is "I Left my Heart in Castle Drachenfels").
>
>Carl Sargent has left? Or is he working on something else for Games
>Workshop? Or what? Anyone who can write an adventure that's as good as
>Power Behind the Throne (that was him, wasn't it?) needs to be chained
>to a wp.

My guesses that Sargent has left GW are based on the following observations:

1.	GW, usually glacial in releasing new WFRP products, has fallen even
behind that low standard of release. Obviously, Something Is Up.

2.	Ken Rolston, once chummy with GW, author of the wonderful Something
Rotten in Kislev adventure, had his Realm of Sorcery supplement all ready
some three years ago. However, editorial egos flared at GW, no one wanted to
work on it, and as a result, it's still laying there, dead in the water, at
their offices. Ken is no longer mentioned in White Dwarf as "Uncle Ken",
and instead is working on Glorantha for AH's RuneQuest (which is, I'll
admit, good news in itself). Something, obviously, Is Up.

3.	Coupled with the fact that the highly-touted Marienberg sourcebook
is apparently nowhere near completion (let alone the Lustria and Cathay
sourcebooks they keep on promising), it looks to me that GW is involved in
just chasing after their big bucks in WH40K games and tie ins, and has let
their WFRP stuff slide by.

4.	Rumors, some gathered over the net, some gathered elsewhere from the
Warp, have shown the people responsible for the great WFRP adventures, like
Sargent, Graeme Davis, and etc., are not happy with current editorial mire
at GW, and if they are working, aren't doing very much.

However, please remember that I live in North Dakota. I'd appreciate any
corrections/confirmations of the above suspicions from people in the know --
like, say, WFRP players in England.

And now, about Death's Dark Shadow:
>Yeah, DDS is quite an amusing little product, filled with typical WH
>detail. It also has the fault of being just slightly unbelievable -
>this one village is really a happening place! However, a bit of
>editing (read cutting) of the adventures, and it's an ideal little
>setting for your players to wander into.

I always saw DDS as Sargent's tribute to the Village of Hommlet. Still, I
agree:  I've just been using the thing as a sourcebook for adventures all
over the Empire, not as an actual "adventure site." I also ignore the last
adventure with the Frankenstein rip-off, as the thing was already better
done in Castle Wittgenstein in Death on the Reik.

"If it has to be Chaos, then let it be Slaanesh."
	--another one of my WFRP players' witty sayings

-- 
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For Kate is a jealous God, and requires sacrifice./What was your question?--K
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