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The domain was hampered by being a tribute to a movie that most of the audience had never heard of (and stripped of its two main protagonists, since they're, y'know, the PCs). But the movie (original title translates to THE ETHEREAL SPIRIT OF A BEAUTY, I think) is great, if you're into its mix...

The original I'Cath was much less "badly butchered Chinese myth" and much more "Let's base a domain solidly but clunkily on the film A CHINESE GHOST STORY, which combined wuxia and EVIL DEAD."

It never made it onto the official release schedule, but I'd planned on a book dedicated to pocket domains. A brief intro laying out the concept (tiny domains that move), and then an Islands of Terror-style collection of example domains, some old, some new. Hopefully presented out of character...

The Gazetteers are chock-a-block full of references to adventures and novels. And, yes, the Kargatane went straight from writing/producing the Book of S netbooks to holding the keys to the setting; of course we were going to use a lot of our own ideas. (When I say our own, I specifically mean...

A. Yes, we thought he was kind of boring, and B. As I dimly recall at this late date, while discussing the details of his backstory, I think it literally came down to us looking around and saying, "Guys, I think Hazlik is gay. So why don't we just say that." It was, of course, important to us...

We (the Kargatane) had an extremely free hand, in a sense. More or less we were just told not to reference other settings and then left to our own devices. Our initial developer (who handed off to the developer team we had for the rest of run) actually gave us one creative note: to break up the...

Welp, this is in an interesting thread. Interesting enough to get me to sign back up to this forum for the first time in, like, I dunno, 20 years. Anyhoo, AMA about the Gazetteers and I'll answer, to the extent I can, respectfully.