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• Full color map scanned from the original by Rob Kuntz (drawn in 1975)
• Reproduced DM map by E. N. Shook, cartographer for Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure, EX1 & 2, among others
• Two scanned pages of the original keyed encounters from Rob Kuntz' Red Book™

The Stalk is a full adventure challenge for your unwary PCs. Levels 7-12 with skilled players (and more of them at the lesser levels); optimum levels for a 4-player party: 9-12.

Extracted from The Stalk's special introduction, by Rob Kuntz:

…There was no exact placement for it within the campaign world, and for good reason: the players had become wary of the dungeons we had contrived with all their inherent dangers and had opted instead to do outdoor adventures. …
… So, the stage was set for "moving" the dungeons to the outdoor! My adventure, Dark Druids, is another example from that time period of this DM strategy, but The Stalk took a step further than even that nasty dungeon, for I didn't place it but waited to substitute it for an ordinary encounter roll… …
… In fact I reversed the roles typical to outdoor encounters to give the players a taste of their own strategies. Many of the PCs had flying steeds-dragons, griffons, et al.-which they used to swoop down upon outdoor encounters they knew they had a good chance of defeating; and if that likelihood appeared distant, they used the same steeds in order to make a hasty retreat. The Stalk reversed that role, what with its myriad twisting vines, limited visibility and terrain choked with vegetation that differed in inclination and size. Footing became treacherous, and monsters could easily ascend or descend to battle them, and often from surprise. …

13 pages; limited edition of 300 copies (signed and numbered) with reproduction of the original map.

Author: Robert J. Kuntz
Map: Eric Nelson Shook
Price: $11.95
Availability: Winter 2009

Thanks, L! Nice to hear that pleasure came first.

It's a good adventure for those with guts, who are tough and who don't mind a fight. Thinkers beware, as this is Escape From New York time...

RJK

Thanks CptCanuck, rather gracious of you.

As far as updating existing information on my deep involvement 1972 onward with the Original Greyhawk Campaign and materials spawned from that in either published, unpublished or forum notation form, that is in part being handled through a cataloging of my works based in part, but duly expanded, on/from my old bibliography that Grodog had previously published both at his site and at CANONFIRE! I'm hoping to get this done within the next 2 months, but is is an extensive project due to the massive amount of
information, the articles that will accompany it, the need for sorting through a wide variety of sources and the format that it is being organized into.

There will be updates as we proceed.

Thanks for the interest; and you have a very nifty site.

RJK

You got The Stalk that we mailed at midnight 2 days later than the preorder which preceeded it? Now there's the USPS for you. Strange.

Hope you enjoy, L.

RJK