Would you buy a Scarred Lands 4e?

[catsclaw227]

With all the settings that have come out or have been announced for 4e, one that I am surprised hasn't made any noise yet is a 4e version of the Scarred Lands.

It is my favorite setting. Bottom line. And even though some of the individual books were disappointments (I'm looking at you "The Faithful and the Forsaken and "Penumbral Pentagon"), mostly they were awesome.

And there was still SO much more they could have covered.

It seems, even though the gods would need to be revamped a bit due to the alignment changes, it still seems to fit. Titans vs. Gods. Points of Light. etc..

Would you buy a 4e Scarred Lands, or do you think that a 4e version wouldn't work?

Is Fiery Dragon the company with the rights? Or has Sword & Sorcery Studios folded completely in with White Wolf?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Its a good enough setting, and I think it could be done in 4Ed, but I don't think it would be the setting to draw people who don't like 4Ed into the game. I also don't know how big it is as a product in and of itself; what kind of sales it had.

IOW, I don't know that I can identify a viable market for it.

 

[Fanaelialae]

I'd buy it provided the conversion wasn't horribly botched.

While we've never used the actual setting of Scarred Lands, my group has borrowed heavily from it for our homebrews, and I think it could work really well with 4e concepts. It's a great setting and I'd love to see it updated.

 

[jdrakeh]

Maybe. It was my favorite 3e setting, by far.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Almost certainly.

 

[Azgulor]

As I understand it, Fiery Dragon owns the Scarred Lands rights and is producing 4e material. I believe the early releases will be more along the lines of Creature Collections and Relics & Rituals (i.e. crunch books sprinkled with setting info) rather than campaign settings.

That said, would I buy 4e Scarred Lands? Sadly, no. Scarred Lands really made some of the 3.x tropes shine and I can't see how they can ret-con into 4e without serious style/flavor compromises. Since I'm sticking with 3.x/Pathfinder, I'm obviously not the core audience for such a line of supplements, however.

Scarred Lands is one of my favorite settings. A lot of it was an incoherent mess, but just flipping through the books never ceases to inspire my GM-fu and get the creative juices flowing.

 

[Shemeska]

I have all of the 3e books, and since I don't use 4e rules, nor does my group, a 4e rules conversion wouldn't be much use for me. Likewise a 4e version that changed the setting heavily wouldn't appeal to me.

A 4e rules version of the setting that picked up where it ended and continued to detail the world without significant retcons or changes I would strongly consider snagging however.

 

[Fiery_Dragon]

Here's the skinny on Scarred Lands. Fiery Dragon has a license to produce Sword & Sorcery material (including Scarred Lands) for the next few years. So far, we've released Creature Collection.

I definately want to put out a Scarred Lands 4e Campaign Guide, and I think it can be done and be true to the setting and still involve the 4E rules set. In fact, I think the 4E rules would work really, really well for Scarred Lands -- and I think the basic PoL setting that WotC is using actually incorporates some of the themes from Scarred Lands (or, probably more accurately, draws from similar inspiration).

I'd love to be cranking out stuff for SL right now, but our speed with this material is based on available resources, and available resources are based on ongoing sales and interest. There is stuff in the works, but right now, I'm a one man show in terms of Scarred Lands products, and the family has come first this summer.

If we had a sudden sales spike on Creature Collection (like, 20 more people bought it!), then we'd have more to invest and keep the thing moving.

I'm in the process of revamping our website for launch on Friday - when we're at FanExpo in Toronto. I hope to make Sword & Sorcery Projects an ongoing development blog on the site and keep everyone informed of progress and destinations.

- James

 

[JoeGKushner]

If such a setting did take place, I'd love to see it follow the WoTC pattern of player intense stuff in a player's book and GM intense stuff in another book.

 

[Holy Bovine]

For me, and I say this as guy who not only own every single Scarred Lands book but even managed to get published in Relics & Rituals 2, I would not want to see SL in 4E. Or rather I would have zero interest in it - I have tons of fluff books and mechanics are so easy to replace with the D&D Compendium and monster builder that it just wouldn't be worth it, to me.