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Lost Hall of Tyr: A 5e/S&W Adventure (Dungeon Grappling support)

Created by Douglas H. Cole

Lost Hall of Tyr is an adventure scenario for Fifth Edition and Swords and Wizardry, targeted at four to eight characters of level 4-7. It offers support for the alternate grappling rules from Dungeon Grappling, including an introductory two-page quick start.

Latest Updates from Our Project:

Schedule for US Print Copies
over 6 years ago – Tue, Jan 09, 2018 at 06:14:10 PM

Final Print Schedule

I've held off sending this out so that I don't spam your email boxes, but I finally can confidently report on the print copy final schedule.

The print copies should ship to me by Thursday, which means that sometime between Saturday and Monday, I should receive 125 copies of Lost Hall of Tyr, of which roughly 96 are destined for US backers.

The packaging is all ready to go, mailing labels attached. The shipping content printouts are going to be done today. We've got plenty of packing tape. So is all we have to do is get stuff in boxes and tape 'em up. Then the "you have got to be kidding me" moment when I bring in 96 of them to the USPS.

But that means that the promised schedule of all print copies distributed by the end of January (ahead of an April delivery statement from the Kickstarter) can be confirmed unless horrible things happen. This is Minnesota, and snowpocalypse requires the plural form here, but things look good.

The only deliverables left are the two high level tier's art-and-character promises. I have a character sheet from Michael that's very pretty, and solid input from both folks. As soon as this weekend I'll contact the artists and get them some direction, and we'll get this wrapped up. Those are an April delivery promise as well, and that should be well in hand.

What's Next

That will wrap it up for Lost Hall of Tyr, and thanks to all for sticking with me.

If you like the world of Lost Hall, I have some good news for you. I'm working through edits for a full game based in that world. It is fully playable with the 5e rules, but is really built around an OGL modification of the system called Dragon Heresy. I also plan a full adventure mini-setting for the world of Etera, tentatively titled The Hunted Lands (Veiddurlond, much like Lost Hall of Tyr was Domstollinn).

This one won't be a linear convention scenario, but a living chunk of the world, centered on a very hazardous region of Torengar that is slightly North and East of the starting point for Lost Hall. I estimate it will have six to eight "plot chunks," which will relate to each other. Four to six characters that start at level 1 will be able to reach level 5 without completing every last jot and tiddle of every encounter. 

I'm working through that development process now.

You can find more on my plans for 2018 at Gaming Ballistic.

Two Updates to PDF file (bookmarks and errata)
over 6 years ago – Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 12:51:59 PM

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Mini-update: International physical copies have shipped
over 6 years ago – Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 08:47:33 PM

If you were an international backer (meaning not the USA), then last night I received emails from DriveThruRPG that your physical copies have shipped. The folks in the UK should be the first ti receive them, in the next 5-7 days. It'll take the usual "up to 7 weeks" for our Aussie and New Zealander friends.

For the US backers, I was able to intercept this print run with the new page that fixes the omission that had been in place; the cover had been printed, but not the internals. It cost me a bit of money, but was worth it.

(For what it's worth, our international friends were each given a one-page Dungeon Grappling handout plus a full PDF of Dungeon Grappling as an apology for not being able to intercept their orders).

But I should get my order of 125 copies for domestic distribution next week, probably late. We'll have a "pack and tape" party and then raid the USPS office to get everything out there.

As such, most US customers will receive their physical rewards by the second week in January. I'll keep y'all posted as to when the packages are sent out.

Merry Christmas!

Douglas

Lost Hall of Tyr: Found an error in u12072017 PDF - update available
over 6 years ago – Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 10:21:13 AM

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Physical Rewards have been ordered
over 6 years ago – Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 08:59:51 PM

Having received both proof copies of Lost Hall - one from PubGraphics and one from DriveThruRPG - and found them both worthy, I went ahead and placed the orders.

The International Orders were fulfilled through DriveThruRPG, and will likely arrive in two weeks (if you're in the UK) to somewhere between then and about nine or ten weeks (if you're lucky enough to live in New Zealand). Let me know.

Note that I have no way to sign these - they don't come to me - so if you asked for a signed copy but don't live in the USA, I have to apologize. That would have cost us both over $30 extra, and no softcover 62-page book is worth that. 

I expect to receive a box of 125 copies of Lost Hall from PubGraphics in maybe two or three weeks. I will immediately get those packed up (with copies of Dungeon Grappling if you ordered them), toss in some promo material, and get those into the USPS via media mail. From there, it'll be 2 to 9 days, usually about a week. That means you should be getting your physical rewards between the first and third week of January.

We're really in the home stretch now! If we get into late January and you've not heard from me or received your package, email me at [email protected] and I'll get busy looking for where it went.