A Look Inside Ghosts of Saltmarsh

[jgsugden]

Are the waterbased adventuring rules worth the cost of the book? Do they cover the spectrum of baheaviors PCs would have on a ship (ship to ship combat, ship to air combat, underwater adventuring)?

 

[Parmandur]

So all the posts, pages, and full threads moaning about how Saltmarsh was being appropriated and that there would be no connection to Greyhawk were, as expected, a whole bunch of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

What's the official page count, by the way? I've looked at both the WotC website anf Amazon, and was unable to find it. I'm curious just how big the monsters section at the end will be...

I would wager 256 pages.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Are the waterbased adventuring rules worth the cost of the book? Do they cover the spectrum of baheaviors PCs would have on a ship (ship to ship combat, ship to air combat, underwater adventuring)?

It's 38 pages. That's a lot of ship.

 

[Parmandur]

Are the waterbased adventuring rules worth the cost of the book? Do they cover the spectrum of baheaviors PCs would have on a ship (ship to ship combat, ship to air combat, underwater adventuring)?

I dunno if anybody posting here has the book, but the non-adventure material seems mighty robust: if you plan to do seafaring stuff, seems useful. Worth Amazon prices, maybe?

 

[epithet]

Coincidentally, I recently came across the answer to this on Chris Lindsay's twitter account.

https://twitter.com/Onnatryx/status/1123765708549238785

So, Saltmarsh yes. Greyhawk no. Which is very interesting. I wonder what they've got going on there.

AD

That makes no sense to me. If the "setting" of Saltmarsh is open for DMsGuild publication, and Saltmarsh is described as being on the coast of Keoland (as it should be,) then how is Keoland itself not going to be open, with the pantheons of Oerth, the Citadel of Eight, etc.?

I'm more than a bit tired of whatever game they're playing with Greyhawk, and I'm still salty over the fact that you can publish and adventure for D&D set in MtG but not in the original D&D published setting (or the 2nd one, for that matter, which is "The Known World" now called Mystara.) You've already got people creating content for these settings "for free" for those who support them on Patreon, as well as for Dark Sun and Dragonlance. If WotC wants to take a cut of products made for those settings, I think they need to get on it.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Maybe for some reason they are trying to change the settings name - Saltmarsh (formally known as Greyhawk).

 

[Parmandur]

That makes no sense to me. If the "setting" of Saltmarsh is open for DMsGuild publication, and Saltmarsh is described as being on the coast of Keoland (as it should be,) then how is Keoland itself not going to be open, with the pantheons of Oerth, the Citadel of Eight, etc.?

I'm more than a bit tired of whatever game they're playing with Greyhawk, and I'm still salty over the fact that you can publish and adventure for D&D set in MtG but not in the original D&D published setting (or the 2nd one, for that matter, which is "The Known World" now called Mystara.) You've already got people creating content for these settings "for free" for those who support them on Patreon, as well as for Dark Sun and Dragonlance. If WotC wants to take a cut of products made for those settings, I think they need to get on it.

Seems straight-forward: non-setting specific elements from the book can be used in DMsGuild stuff, and Greyhawk specific stuff cannot. I am sure they will provide documentation explaining in detail what is and is not appropriate.

They have plans for Greyhawk, no need to be hasty.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Looking at some of NewbieDM's other Twitter posts, he showed glimpses of the locathah and skum descriptions from the monster section, as well as a depiction of a koalinth (labeled as such). I'm very pleased to see all three officially updated now, although given that the koalinth picture is obviously within an adventure, it may just be described as a hobgoblin with water breathing and not given a full stat block (but I hope not!).

 

[Parmandur]

Looking at some of NewbieDM's other Twitter posts, he showed glimpses of the locathah and skum descriptions from the monster section, as well as a depiction of a koalinth (labeled as such). I'm very pleased to see all three officially updated now, although given that the koalinth picture is obviously within an adventure, it may just be described as a hobgoblin with water breathing and not given a full stat block (but I hope not!).

Not super surprising, given that Perkins talked about these in Dragon Talk.

 

[Draegn]

This is lovely. Something I can use to plug into an under appreciated area of my world.