[FFG] Wildscape

FFG just updated their Legends & Lairs product page...

Wildscape
A Handbook for Designing and Surviving Savage Wildlands

Following in tradition of Dungeoncraft and Cityworks, this invaluable toolbox gives players and DMs everything they need to create and run memorable fantasy adventures and campaigns in the untamed wilderness.

Wildscape offers a wide variety of exciting new features, including:

* New options for druid characters, including druid realms that allow players to customize their druids' spells and abilities.

* New styles for ranger characters, including two-handed fighting and spear-fighting, as well as new options for non-spellcasting rangers.

* Complete descriptions, hazards, and stat blocks for a wide range of terrain types, including deserts, forests, mountains, swamps, and wastelands.

* Comprehensive rules for weather and climate, including ready-to-use stat blocks for a variety of storms and conditions.

DD46
Hardcover
176 pages
$27.95
Available Now!

I have a copy and it's a respectable piece of work. Mike Mearls wrote it and, while not as good as Portals & Planes, looks to be fairly balanced. I haven't dissected the classes yet, but the enviromental rules are all fairly well done and add options that are reminiscent of the 1st edition "Survival" guides.

How does it compare to Wilds?

I think it does a better job presenting game mechanics for environmental conditions along with more options for the DM. Wilds is 3.0 and gives more PrCs, spells and such for use in different climates rather than options for the climates and terrains themselves. I'd say the books complement each other more than compete. I'll get more use from Wildscape, but will still use Into the Green and Wilds about as much as I am now.

I gather that this release is 3.5 compliant? I'm not for sure. I'm certainly interested in this series, so I've been hunting around the website trying to figure out which of the previous books are 3.5 complaint as well so I can order them together.

So far, my guess this includes Wildscape and Portals & Planes at the least.

If some 3.5 updates for the older books are posted, I might buy a few of them as well.

Anyway, thanks for the information about the book. This series is appealing.

caudor said:

I gather that this release is 3.5 compliant? I'm not for sure. I'm certainly interested in this series, so I've been hunting around the website trying to figure out which of the previous books are 3.5 complaint as well so I can order them together.

So far, my guess this includes Wildscape and Portals & Planes at the least.

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Hey,

Wildscape and Portals & Planes are indeed both 3.5 compatible. I believe that Dungeoncraft and Cityworks should work fine with 3.5. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that used any rules that changed. The Monster's Handbook does need a small update, but the vast majority of the material in it remains the same. You'd only need to change any references to the shapechanger creature type to the subtype, and the rules for granting a creature DR need an update.

mearls said:

Hey,

Wildscape and Portals & Planes are indeed both 3.5 compatible. I believe that Dungeoncraft and Cityworks should work fine with 3.5. I can't think of anything off the top of my head that used any rules that changed. The Monster's Handbook does need a small update, but the vast majority of the material in it remains the same. You'd only need to change any references to the shapechanger creature type to the subtype, and the rules for granting a creature DR need an update.

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Thanks very much for the information! I'll go ahead and order my copies of Wildscape, Portals, Dungeoncraft, and Cityworks. That will make a nice start and will certainly be plenty of reading. Thanks again!

caudor said:

Thanks very much for the information! I'll go ahead and order my copies of Wildscape, Portals, Dungeoncraft, and Cityworks. That will make a nice start and will certainly be plenty of reading. Thanks again!

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This was timely.

I saw Wildscape in my FLGS over the weekend and was curious as to how it compared to Wilds (which was okay in my book). Portals, Dungeoncraft, and especially Cityworks were all high quality publications IMHO.

Any odds that the table of contents is actually useful?

Table of Contents semi-useful. Index is better.

Just a quick follow-up. I was able to get my hands on both Wildscape & Portals & Planes at my local book store today! I'm very pleased. The rules for weather in Chap. 11 (Wildscape) are especially nice; I'm glad I got it