No. Descent of the Ancient Fane is an overarching, standalone campaign that connects to Castle Whiterock, but isn't exclusive to it. It also connects to the worlds of Terra AD (Mutant Crawl Classics) and X-Crawl, as well as worlds by other Third Party Publishers. It stands alone and it fits anywhere.

We mean that Descent of the Ancient Fane is a dungeon designed with mechanics to personalize the encounters, dungeon layout and other elements based on PC fears and desires. This means that it's not an anonymous experience - the rooms and monsters in the Fane are specially crafted to torment your PCs. It creates roleplay rich, customized gameplay that we think offers something new to DCC and D&D 5e, and that brings the theme of "fighting one's demons" to life in a vivid and unforgettable way.

Yeah, for real. We set the price based on what we found on DriveThruRPG, and given that Descent of the Ancient Fane has a similar page count and content volume to titles like Free League's ALIEN Core Rulebook ($29.99) and Legends of the Mist ($29), we felt $20 is warranted. That $20 gets you tons of rooms, patrons, monsters, magic items and art, so we think you'll be satisfied with the price, my frugal friend.

We aim for July 2026. But this is our first hardback, and word from veterans like Stefan Surratt is that it's a 3-month process. We are glad to say that the art is mostly done; just a few pieces remain to be finalized during April. This means that we intend to wrap up layout in May, for both digital distribution and to send to our printer. We'd love nothing more than to have the books ready for GenCon 2026!

I only wish. It literally fuels my nightmares. I feel awful for many of our fans who have to pay customs and supply information. All we can do is set our shipping costs for Canada at cost, and provide the best customer service possible to expedite the process. That, and oppose tariffs at the polls.

Yes. We are almost certainly going to go with Goodman Games' printer, Regency, and we've literally asked them to replicate the quality of the Dungeon Crawl Classics core rulebook - the one with the swanky gloss, nice lining and good interior paper. And speaking of the interior, Descent of the Ancient Fane truly does have art on every page: Stefan Poag is doing 6 separate pieces of margin art, Jota Cravo is doing a ton of monster drawings, and that's just the beginning. Don't get us started on those full-spread level depictions.

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