That’s a great find, Axel—congrats!

It was mentioned in passing in the NIPI newsletter, where it was called out as an upcoming product.

Here’s some info about the pre-DJ version:  The Mystical Trash Heap: Gary Gygax's Necropolis - AD&D Conversion Notes (and in the three additional links in that post’s intro).

Allan.

very nice find

aia wrote in Pre-publication draft of Necropolis:Hya! Since the requests about info on that module were many, I posted this: viviiix.substack.com/p/astrifiammante-g ... necropolis

I hope it will answer to some at least...

ciaooo

Wow! What an amazing find, and thanks for the scans of the Preface/Intro, particularly because it reveals so much of his plans for NIPI to publish a continuation of the Greyhawk line. I subscribed to your Substack and left a comment on that post.

Thank you for posting this!

Wow, from that intro, it is very clear that the EPIC OF YARTH became the later EPIC OF AERTH.

Everything matches one for one on the description, down to the calendar being the same.

I'm just not sure where Dunfalcon might fit in, as it was never included in the later EPIC OF AERTH book, and Vargaard (North America) is very different from the Flanaess. Either Dunfalcon in YARTH was on Aeropa (probably on Lyonnesse) or it was on Vargaard, and Vargaard was dramatically changed to make it definitively "not-Flanaess" and so Dunfalcon city and castle also disappeared, later to re-emerge separately as Yggsburgh and Castle Zagyg.

Also, the Dangerous Journeys: Mythus rules were clearly in development even this early, or at least in proto-form, with the mention of the new system including Joss.

Does your copy include the details on the additions to the FANTASY MASTER system included from the EPIC OF YARTH (Appendix 2, p. 110-117)?