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<blockquote data-quote="Ashanderai" data-source="post: 3048979" data-attributes="member: 13210"><p><strong>Lands of the Jade Oath</strong></p><p></p><p>Thanks, Varianor.</p><p>The book is indeed for publication as a series of three PDFs and will possibly see print if the PDFs do well enough. We do not have an official publication date at this time, but the manuscript for the first PDF, Heroes of the Jade Oath, will be handed over to my publisher shortly. The other two PDFs will be Arts of the Jade Oath and Secrets of the Jade Oath. Lands of the Jade Oath is officially licensed as a product for use with Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved and compatible with d20 3.5. I do not have an official page count as of yet for the first PDF, but if I had to guess right now, I would say that it might be around 140 to 150 pages. </p><p></p><p>Heroes of the Jade Oath is more of a player's guide for the setting and rules and includes rules on how to merge d20 3.5 and Arcana Evolved (AE) to run the setting, going so far as to take many of the core 3.5 classes all the way up to 25th level just like AE does. There are some new rules, new class variants, 4 new base classes (including the Enlightened Scholar that was so popular at GenCon), a couple of new races (including the Mandragorans and the Bakemono), feats, and other neat stuff in it such as enlightened proverbs and new and flavorful mechanics to give your d20 game more of an oriental feel.</p><p></p><p>Arts of the Jade Oath will focus more on setting information and will have rules for a few prestige classes and a few other new mechanics for the setting, including rules for martial arts that will be introduced in the first PDF, Heroes of the Jade Oath. This PDF will be player friendly, meaning that a player can read it without the DM having to fear for the player learning too much about the setting.</p><p></p><p>Secrets of the Jade Oath will focus more on the magic of the setting and the material the DM needs to run a game in Lands of the Jade Oath, such as monsters, NPCs, spells, new magic, and setting secrets and tips. This one will have sections that only the DM should read, but the magic in it will be needed by certain players. The DM only sections will be clearly marked as such.</p><p></p><p>The setting focuses on a large scale approach to the setting and centers around a Chinese-like empire at the center of the region, with other areas that roughly correlate culturally, mythologically, and somewhat historically like India, Nepal, Korea, Tibet, Mongolia, Southeast Asia, and Japan. It will address the dominant cultures of the region to include their customs, dress, food, religions, mores, and other cultural phenomenon. The PDFs will also address certain "AE-isms", such as truenames, lack of alignment, and ceremonies, and how to merge them with 3.5 and with the cultures of the setting. The setting makes use of all the AE races and classes and generally assumes the AE rules set as the default rules set.</p><p></p><p>Also, since it isn't really a secret anymore (since it was unveiled at GenCon), I suppose I could mention that we already have a Wayne Reynolds cover painting that will be posted at my publisher's website, Throwing Dice games, at a later date. </p><p></p><p>We ran Jade Oath games at GenCon and it was a big hit with the players. The adventure was called Feast at the Hungry Tiger Inn. I even made some hand-made DM screens with the Wayne Reynolds cover art to hand out to a single player at each game. I also gave varianor one for being such a champ and helping me run the games.</p><p></p><p>If you want further information about Lands of the Jade Oath, you can check <a href="http://p222.ezboard.com/fokayyourturnfrm32.showMessageRange?topicID=197.topic&start=261&stop=276" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://www.throwingdice.com/forum/index.php?forum=8" target="_blank">here</a>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ashanderai, post: 3048979, member: 13210"] [b]Lands of the Jade Oath[/b] Thanks, Varianor. The book is indeed for publication as a series of three PDFs and will possibly see print if the PDFs do well enough. We do not have an official publication date at this time, but the manuscript for the first PDF, Heroes of the Jade Oath, will be handed over to my publisher shortly. The other two PDFs will be Arts of the Jade Oath and Secrets of the Jade Oath. Lands of the Jade Oath is officially licensed as a product for use with Monte Cook's Arcana Evolved and compatible with d20 3.5. I do not have an official page count as of yet for the first PDF, but if I had to guess right now, I would say that it might be around 140 to 150 pages. Heroes of the Jade Oath is more of a player's guide for the setting and rules and includes rules on how to merge d20 3.5 and Arcana Evolved (AE) to run the setting, going so far as to take many of the core 3.5 classes all the way up to 25th level just like AE does. There are some new rules, new class variants, 4 new base classes (including the Enlightened Scholar that was so popular at GenCon), a couple of new races (including the Mandragorans and the Bakemono), feats, and other neat stuff in it such as enlightened proverbs and new and flavorful mechanics to give your d20 game more of an oriental feel. Arts of the Jade Oath will focus more on setting information and will have rules for a few prestige classes and a few other new mechanics for the setting, including rules for martial arts that will be introduced in the first PDF, Heroes of the Jade Oath. This PDF will be player friendly, meaning that a player can read it without the DM having to fear for the player learning too much about the setting. Secrets of the Jade Oath will focus more on the magic of the setting and the material the DM needs to run a game in Lands of the Jade Oath, such as monsters, NPCs, spells, new magic, and setting secrets and tips. This one will have sections that only the DM should read, but the magic in it will be needed by certain players. The DM only sections will be clearly marked as such. The setting focuses on a large scale approach to the setting and centers around a Chinese-like empire at the center of the region, with other areas that roughly correlate culturally, mythologically, and somewhat historically like India, Nepal, Korea, Tibet, Mongolia, Southeast Asia, and Japan. It will address the dominant cultures of the region to include their customs, dress, food, religions, mores, and other cultural phenomenon. The PDFs will also address certain "AE-isms", such as truenames, lack of alignment, and ceremonies, and how to merge them with 3.5 and with the cultures of the setting. The setting makes use of all the AE races and classes and generally assumes the AE rules set as the default rules set. Also, since it isn't really a secret anymore (since it was unveiled at GenCon), I suppose I could mention that we already have a Wayne Reynolds cover painting that will be posted at my publisher's website, Throwing Dice games, at a later date. We ran Jade Oath games at GenCon and it was a big hit with the players. The adventure was called Feast at the Hungry Tiger Inn. I even made some hand-made DM screens with the Wayne Reynolds cover art to hand out to a single player at each game. I also gave varianor one for being such a champ and helping me run the games. If you want further information about Lands of the Jade Oath, you can check [URL=http://p222.ezboard.com/fokayyourturnfrm32.showMessageRange?topicID=197.topic&start=261&stop=276]here[/URL] and [URL=http://www.throwingdice.com/forum/index.php?forum=8]here[/URL]. [/QUOTE]
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