Thursday, December 11, 2008

Up the River

UP THE RIVER is a COMPLETE CAMPAIGN for Unhallowed Metropolis. Narrators are cordially invited to utilize this travelogue for the further Edification of their Friends and Players in the matter of the FEARSOME and SAVAGE BORNEO JUNGLE. Disease, DEATH and GHOULISH HEAD HUNTERS are but a few of the Natural Wonders that await Players who choose to EXPLORE the other side of the World.
UP THE RIVER is best explored over the course of Several Sessions, and comprises a Campaign in Miniature for the Narrator's use, certain to DELIGHT the discerning Player. UP THE RIVER will be available as a pay-to-download supplement on www.eos-press.com and www.newdarkage.net Additionally, the campaign is accompanied by Pre-Generated Characters, New Items and a new Calling for Unhallowed Metropolis: THE EXPLORER.

Up the River, written by Simon Berman and illustrated by Robert Tritthardt, will be available in early 2009.

Simon will be premiering Up the River at Temple Con in February.

http://www.templecon.org/09/

7 comments:

45caliberidea said...

Congratulations Simon! It sounds like a big piece of work. Much success with it.

--Norbert

Simon Berman said...

Thanks Norbert! Yeah it's a lot bigger than I originally intended. I pitched it as a ~9,000 word stand alone scenario. When I submitted the current version of the document for final editing this week it weighed in at 27,834 words.

Kurt said...

Congrats on getting this out the door, especially at such a meaty word count. Looking forward to getting my hands on a copy next year and I am still pissed I will miss seeing you gleefully kill off characters during your Templecon premiere.

Unknown said...

It's okay Kurt. We all know you're just avoiding the Italian guy and his crew as you don't want a FoW rematch. I can pick up a copy. There will be printed copies, right Simon, 'cause I definitely want to get my hands on this one.

Simon Berman said...

Actually this is going to be pay-to-download only and the premiere at Temple Con will likely predate the official release. The document only went in for final editing last week so I expect a few rounds of revisions before it's ready for layout. Robert Tritthardt is producing eight original pieces of artwork for it as well and was only given the official go-ahead a few weeks ago. I expect we'll be publishing this sometime in late February.

Unknown said...

Forgive my stupidity, but how do you premiere a pay-to-download at a convention? Will you be set up with a computer and a printer nearby under a big sign? =D

Or will you hire LARPers to be at a booth? And by hire I really mean volunteer. And by volunteer, I really mean unwilling schleps beaten into submission.

Simon Berman said...

Sadly, my genius is not yet so recognized as to provide ready access to a pool of sycophants willing to be brutalized for my amusement. As such, the "premiere" is a fancy way of saying that I'm running an abbreviated version of the campaign for 6 players at the con.