Melkor said:
With the announcement that they are releasing products for Castles & Crusades, what is the future of the D20 Judge's Guild line ?
The
Wilderlands of High Adventure will be my own version of the Wilderlands -- as Bob said, every Judge's Wilderlands is different from others, as campaigns develop and styles differ. The WoHA will be larger, with the Swords & Sorcery style influenced by modern High Fantasy and Epic Fantasy -- sort of as if Robert E. Howard wrote the Lord of the Rings trilogy, or maybe if David Gemmell ran a D&D game...
The main focus of Adventure Game Publishing at the start will be on the
Wilderlands of High Adventure... however, we also plan on publishing
Wilderlands of High Fantasy products. In fact, one of our first products will be the
Ravaged Ruins of the Roglaras, which fills a gap left for almost 30 years -- ruins described for the City State of the Invincible Overlord map (Map 1 Classic/Map 5 New). It will be designed for use with
Castles & Crusades, but there will be, as with all C&C products, free d20 System support available to buyers through our website.
Ideally, Ravaged Ruins will be only the first of many Wilderlands of High Fantasy products from AGP. Bob and I are talking about further projects, including Tula, Karak, the Demon Empires, the Great Glacier, and the Giant Lands, among others... including a series of novels about the rise of the Invincible Overlord!
Finally, there are other groups out there working on other Wilderlands of High Fantasy projects. Apparently, one of these groups is working on converting classic JG modules to publish them as d20 System products. Then there is still Chris Bernhardt and his City State of the Sea Kings. And, of course, Necromancer Games will release the revised
Tegel Manor for d20... I imagine there are others out there, too... I do not have an exclusive license with Bob for the Wilderlands.