D&D 5E Tracy & Laura Hickman Announce Skyraiders of Abarax

Tracy and Laura Hickman, known for the Dragonlance setting and the original Ravenloft module, have announced a D&D 5E setting called Skyraiders of Abarax. It will be coming to Kickstarter this fall. There's not much more information yet, other than a mailing list for updates and a single (stunning) art piece.

Their Facebook page actually says "AD&D 5E", rather than "D&D 5E", although I'm not sure whether that's significant.

"Tracy & Laura Hickman's first adventure world since Dragonlance ... coming to AD&D 5E through Kickstarter this fall! Join us in the creation of Sky-high Fantasy discovered through magical books brought to life our unique 'Living Tome System'."

Skyraiders

www.skyraiders.net

There's also a couple of other art pieces floating about on social media.

 

[Umbran]

Let me just say that I’ve never been a big fan of their poetry.

Most RPG poetry is kind of forced doggerel.

 

[ART!]

Um... poetry? Not known for concise wording...

Just off the top of my head, haikus and sonnets beg to differ.

Some of the best poetry I've read is incisively concise.

 

[Stormonu]

"Lost on Dragon's Sylph, to find our way back" (assuming that is a ship name), sounds better to me.

 

[clearstream]

Lovely looking project! But for the life of me, I'm not parsing this sentence:

"On dragon’s sylph to find our lost way back​

To that mythic place called home."​

Probably just a brain hiccup, but I can't figure out what "on dragon's sylph" means here.

To me it implies that their ships are kept aloft either by the spirit of a dragon, or a spirit controlled or taken from a dragon.

The mythic home thing allows each encountered location to be new to the wanderers, i.e. not their home. It's the kind of design move you might make where you wanted an open-ended adventure path, with a series of disparate locations.

 

[clearstream]

Most RPG poetry is kind of forced doggerel.

I did struggle to read these fragments as poetry worth addressing as poetry.

 

[Mercador]

More FFIV and it's fleets of military airships. Or any of another number of JRPGs with lots of airships. Or Eberron and it's airships, to stay in a D&D vibe?

@J.Quondam sylphs are air spirits, so maybe these airships were powered by the spirits of wind dragons?

Yeah my first impression before reading, it was an Eberron adventure pack.

 

[DarkCrisis]

The kickstarter is live now for those interested.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

The kickstarter is live now for those interested.

Just backed the PDFs!

 

[Ancalagon]

hmmmm... I don't need a new setting. I'm not that enamored by the authors. But I do like airships. What to do, what to do...

 

[Grendel_Khan]

Uh oh. They're incorporating an AR phone app, with triggered events and info and mini-games....