Glyfair
Explorer
That's good to hear. Scarred Lands wasn't something I ever planned on running (so many great settings, so little time), but the ideas were strong on things I have liberally borrowed.
Fiery Dragon has Sword & Sorcery license?
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JoeGKushner
Adventurer
I hope they're able to build on the good things about the line while working out the bad things. No major campaign setting changes in the first trilogy of novels. Give the GM plenty of places for use as adventuring points but also make sure there are several detailed places to home base the PCs. Mitrhil and Hollowfaust were great examples of the latter but almost all the other books in the series the former.
Kaladhan
First Post
I like Fiery Dragon. Good people and good company, but they do have one flaw, they take forever to release something (and miss the deadlines by a few months). If they can get their things together and come close to their release date, I will be look forward to the Creature Collection.
SandS_James
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Hi everyone,
Cat's out the bag, I guess. Although, I was the guy hanging the 8-foot banner at GenCon, so I really should have known...
Yes, Fiery Dragon has the worldwide license for the Sword & Sorcery brand and related products including Creature Collection, Relics & Rituals, and the Scarred Lands. Yes, the upcoming Sword & Sorcery products will be some of our 4E offerings starting this fall. (You'll also see some things released just under the FDP brand, such as Battlebox and Counter Collections, plus some PDF adventures as well).
As for Sword & Sorcery, here are my plans at this point in time:
First off, Fiery Dragon is nowhere near the size of White Wolf, and lacks the resources to replicate what What Wolf did with Sword & Sorcery and Scarred Lands for 3E. So, I'm planning on keeping things pretty tight. We may see 12 books over the next 3 years, but I figure that's about my limit. As has already been noted, the last thing I want to do is our typical overpromise and underdeliver... I feel that's being done enough by the market leaders right now... (ouch!)
In The Fall (see how I'm keeping the date loose right now), we'll put out a Creature Collection for 4E. This will be mostly a compilation of monsters from the first 3 Creature Collections, but of course converted, updated, with new art and such. AND, there will indeed be new creatures in there as well. I've gone through the original CCs and pulled the stuff that I think will work well with the 4E rules and/or is a prime component of the Scarred Lands setting (though you don't need to play in the Scarred Lands to use these creatures). The book will provide a lot of useful monsters... and give some insight into where we're taking SL.
In the Spring of 2009, I plan on putting out Relics & Rituals, which will be a book full of Relics... and Rituals. It'll also feature new classes... or new class paths... that cover some key aspects of SL stuff (like a Necromancer, of course!) and have lots of great items and powers, and possibly a demonstrating adventure or two.
I would like to put out a Scarred Lands Campaign Guide for GenCon next year. It will have the overview of the Scarred Lands, what's happened since we last visited, where everything stands now, and offer a pretty clear idea about adventures in the Scarred Lands. You'll know what's safe, where danger lies, who the top threats are, and have hope for the future.
Those are my hardcover plans, and probably the only hardcovers that I'll ever be able to do. And some of these plans may change as we see the new GSL and experience the 3rd party 4th edition market for the first time.
Beyond those books, I see 7-9 adventure/setting/sourcebooks that will provide iconic and heroic opportunities in the Scarred Lands.
I have been talking to several writers and artists for some time while spending the past 6 months working out the details with White Wolf, and of course, I'm already behind. The thing about FDP is we are a small game company, and we are limited as to our resources (primarily time and money!), but I do have a passion for D&D, a great fondness for the Scarred Lands, a desire to create the best products we've ever produced, and a dream of creating something that is enjoyed by thousands of fans.
That being said, while I've got some direction, the journey is still unwritten. We're looking for feedback and input, and I'll be paying attention, certainly more than I've been able to in the past few years, about what's going on here and in other SL sits and blogs on the 'net.
So, what would you like to see? Favorite creatures from the original Creature collection? Ideas about the Scarred Lands? What stories would you like to see resolved? What characters would you like to step forward? What places should be brought to light, and which should be left to shadow?
'Cause Sword & Sorcery is back and ready to game.
- James
Cat's out the bag, I guess. Although, I was the guy hanging the 8-foot banner at GenCon, so I really should have known...
Yes, Fiery Dragon has the worldwide license for the Sword & Sorcery brand and related products including Creature Collection, Relics & Rituals, and the Scarred Lands. Yes, the upcoming Sword & Sorcery products will be some of our 4E offerings starting this fall. (You'll also see some things released just under the FDP brand, such as Battlebox and Counter Collections, plus some PDF adventures as well).
As for Sword & Sorcery, here are my plans at this point in time:
First off, Fiery Dragon is nowhere near the size of White Wolf, and lacks the resources to replicate what What Wolf did with Sword & Sorcery and Scarred Lands for 3E. So, I'm planning on keeping things pretty tight. We may see 12 books over the next 3 years, but I figure that's about my limit. As has already been noted, the last thing I want to do is our typical overpromise and underdeliver... I feel that's being done enough by the market leaders right now... (ouch!)
In The Fall (see how I'm keeping the date loose right now), we'll put out a Creature Collection for 4E. This will be mostly a compilation of monsters from the first 3 Creature Collections, but of course converted, updated, with new art and such. AND, there will indeed be new creatures in there as well. I've gone through the original CCs and pulled the stuff that I think will work well with the 4E rules and/or is a prime component of the Scarred Lands setting (though you don't need to play in the Scarred Lands to use these creatures). The book will provide a lot of useful monsters... and give some insight into where we're taking SL.
In the Spring of 2009, I plan on putting out Relics & Rituals, which will be a book full of Relics... and Rituals. It'll also feature new classes... or new class paths... that cover some key aspects of SL stuff (like a Necromancer, of course!) and have lots of great items and powers, and possibly a demonstrating adventure or two.
I would like to put out a Scarred Lands Campaign Guide for GenCon next year. It will have the overview of the Scarred Lands, what's happened since we last visited, where everything stands now, and offer a pretty clear idea about adventures in the Scarred Lands. You'll know what's safe, where danger lies, who the top threats are, and have hope for the future.
Those are my hardcover plans, and probably the only hardcovers that I'll ever be able to do. And some of these plans may change as we see the new GSL and experience the 3rd party 4th edition market for the first time.
Beyond those books, I see 7-9 adventure/setting/sourcebooks that will provide iconic and heroic opportunities in the Scarred Lands.
I have been talking to several writers and artists for some time while spending the past 6 months working out the details with White Wolf, and of course, I'm already behind. The thing about FDP is we are a small game company, and we are limited as to our resources (primarily time and money!), but I do have a passion for D&D, a great fondness for the Scarred Lands, a desire to create the best products we've ever produced, and a dream of creating something that is enjoyed by thousands of fans.
That being said, while I've got some direction, the journey is still unwritten. We're looking for feedback and input, and I'll be paying attention, certainly more than I've been able to in the past few years, about what's going on here and in other SL sits and blogs on the 'net.
So, what would you like to see? Favorite creatures from the original Creature collection? Ideas about the Scarred Lands? What stories would you like to see resolved? What characters would you like to step forward? What places should be brought to light, and which should be left to shadow?
'Cause Sword & Sorcery is back and ready to game.
- James
The Little Raven
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Take a cue from Eberron and do not advance the timeline. Introduce new threats through retcons or "you just never noticed him before" explanations. Since you won't be doing stuff like Divine & Defeated for 4e, try and keep as much 3e material as useful as possible.
Scribble
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Sutak
Slitheren
Assathi
Are my three top choices...
Spider Eye goblins are pretty neat.. hrmm let me think.
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