Blackadder23 wrote:

“Lotus Bear”: A disreputable type hires the PCs to retrieve several bundles that have washed ashore from a recent Ixian shipwreck, offering gold and a treasure map. The bad news is that the bundles contain rage-inducing lotus favored by berserkers. The worse news is that a brown bear has gotten into some of the bundles and become both enraged and addicted. While gathering the bundles, the PCs will have to dodge both the crazed bear and an Ixian necromancer (with zombie minions) who has come ashore to retrieve his property. Another possible encounter will be a pair of adorable bear cubs searching for their rampaging mother, who will (probably needless to add) start to follow the PCs while whining piteously.

I am so steal...uhm...borrowing this from you!
 

Blackadder23 wrote:

How many premade characters do you want? Of what levels?

Given that I primarily run ASSH as either a con game or a pick up game in a store having as many as possible to choose from would be wonderful. I primarily still use the seven that Jeff published in the Rogues Gallery and simply would like a broader spectrum of choices. 

Jeff, do you have plans to release a package (or booklet?) of premade characters like you did for 2nd edition?

I think the change was a good one and it makes the monk a better PC class.

If you're taking input, I prefer the previous version where the attributes and info flow on the same line. More intuitive and tidy. 

Thank you for the update, Jeff. I imagine the situation is deeply frustrating for you as well.

I've successfully run Rats in the Walls as a con game. It's a great, low level scenario that is a great intro to both the mechanics and setting. Time can be an issue because if the party goes to the basement too quickly and finds the trapdoor it can all be over in less than three hours. So I threw in another encounter that filled up the time slot nicely.

Blackadder23 wrote:

Plus, my feeling is that the obelisks are what is maintaining Hyperborea as a livable environment, despite its current untenable state. If you really did destroy one...
 

I assumed the same thing.

I like the change; it's intuitive and flows.

Ghul wrote:

As the monk is the most revised class, I do plan to show it to you guys. But I do this with the understanding that you guys here, my gaming peers -- many of whom have been playing for as many decades as I've been, or more -- may well say, "Great improvements, but why not add x ability, y ability, and take away z ability? Ans while you're at it, what's up with the...." You get my meaning. We're an opinionated lot with different yet similar ideas on what makes something good or better. I suppose what I am saying is, I feel like we've made excellent improvements to the class, but monks in general seem to produce some wildly different ideas on how they should or shouldn't be presented as a playable class. Does that make sense?  
 

It makes sense and I totally get where you are coming from.