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GamerX wrote:I wouldn't count on seeing it any time in the foreseeable future. Like drewkitty said, Kevin didn't like Bill Coffin's version, specifically of the Citadel if I recall correctly. That means it won't see the light of day until Kevin rewrites it himself or a freelancer builds in Kevin enough trust to do it right and pesters him enough to get the gig but not so much as to be a pest.

Option 1 does not seem likely, as Kevin is a busy man and if he had time to write it himself, he would also have time to write one of at least half-a-dozen other books that he wants to do. Add to that the fact(?) that he never really wanted the Land of the Damned to see official publication in the first place, it seems that LotD 3 would be lower on his list of books than, say, Wolfen Wars.

Option 2 also seems unlikely, at least from my so-far-out-of-the-loop-I-can't-even-see-the-loop point of view. The mash up with Coffin's version having happened roughly at the same time as his being fired, Kevin may feel like he was burned on this project. I say "may," because that is complete conjecture on my part. But you figure that he [maybe] didn't want to do LotD in the first place, but gave into Bill's requests (this is how I understand it). Bill, at the time, had pretty much entrenched himself as the preeminent writer for PFRPG, if not PB in general. He then turns in a book that, so far as Kevin is concerned, is not up to snuff. Then he gets fired. Even if this book didn't factor into his firing at all, it's not unreasonable to think that Kevin might feel burned. If that's the case, I could see it being a long time before he trusts another writer to take a stab at it.

Of course, I could be wrong.

drewkitty ~..~ wrote:and there was no hint of any animosity between them.

Rifts Unlimited wrote:So far, only a public apology by Bill Coffin has been made for outing all of that information publicly. Sadly, I don't think we'll ever see this book. "Pride goeth before the fall."