Kalamar - first published 4e setting?!?

[Wayside]

The dictionary disagrees with you.

The dictionary defines professional linguists as people who write RPGs?

 

[Treebore]

Looking at the preview, it strikes me as pretty ballsy to mention eladrin, tieflings, and dragonborn as being part of the setting. I would have thought eladrin and tieflings at least would be trademarked, seeing as how they were introduced all the way back in Planescape days.

Those words are NOT owned by WOTC/Hasbro. They aren't owned by anyone.

Think about it, if you read lots of fantasy novels. You've seen those words before, and they were not in WOTC/D&D novels.

 

[ST]

There was a time when a product like this would have really excited me.

These days, though, looking through the preview pages (especially the "Why this product is awesome" bit, which reads like "Here's what we didn't like about Forgotten Realms"), I realized that I'm pretty much sold on Points of Light as a method of handling campaign settings these days.

I just don't have the patience to care about stuff like caravan trade routes and cultural clashes any more... unless they're happening right where the PCs are living. Even the grandaddy of all settings Grayhawk was something that came about organically during play.

But there are people who dig this stuff, I totally get that. And it is nice to see people ignoring the GSL and just publishing according to IP law, good for them.

 

[Vendark]

Those words are NOT owned by WOTC/Hasbro. They aren't owned by anyone.

Think about it, if you read lots of fantasy novels. You've seen those words before, and they were not in WOTC/D&D novels.

Eladrin and Tiefling? Can't say I have.

 

[Jolly_Blackburn]

But there are people who dig this stuff, I totally get that.

Amen to that. We make a living off of those people.

One of the reasons there tends to be so many world settings if the fact
gamers' taste vary so greatly. So it's been nice catering to one flavor among many out there and having it prove worthwhile.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

The dictionary defines professional linguists as people who write RPGs?

Sure, if it's Volo's Dictionary.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Will this book be making the jump to hard copy, or will it be digital only?

 

[Jolly_Blackburn]

These days, though, looking through the preview pages (especially the "Why this product is awesome" bit, which reads like "Here's what we didn't like about Forgotten Realms"),

Valid point. It also happens to be a proven (and very effective way) of telling a visitor very quickly what your product IS (and what it isn't) before you lose them and they move on.

 

[The Lost Muse]

Will you give a free download of a Kalamar module to everyone who purchases the setting/atlas pdf? It's nice to have a little something to start from with a new setting.

 

[GeorgeFields]

Will this book be making the jump to hard copy, or will it be digital only?

NOTE: WE PLAN TO MAKE THIS PRODUCT AVAILABLE IN THE NEAR FUTURE AS AN GRAYSCALE PRINT-ON-DEMAND BOOK FROM LULU.COM. TO ORDER THE COLOR PDF VERSION (68 MB), CONTINUE ON THIS PAGE.

Yep! A 500 page Kalamar book would look good on my shelf.