Al-Qadim Anyone?

[CaptainCalico]

I never got a chance to play Al-Qadim in 2ed, but I'm a big fan of the "sword and sandal" genre, and I have a gaming pal who shares my interest - Is there a publisher out there planning Al-Qadim d20 (either print or pdf)?

 

[Sagan Darkside]

AL Qa *FRICKEN* Dim

Salutations,

I have read rumors that WOTC refuses to sell the rights to it for some reason, but I have no idea if that is true or not.

I would love to see Al Qa *FRICKEN* Dim published again, but there are web converstions you can find out there.

I would also like to see AEG's Legend of the Burning Sands put into a d20 rpg. It was another arabic world- with a lot of cool ideas. The wizards who were literally heartless were fun.

SD

 

[thundershot]

WotC probably won't sell it out because it's set on Toril, and they may eventually want to do a supplement for it under the Forgotten Realms line. Just a thought...


Chris

 

[Sagan Darkside]

WotC probably won't sell it out because it's set on Toril, and they may eventually want to do a supplement for it under the Forgotten Realms line. Just a thought...

Wow, I had not thought there would be a reason I might not by a d20 Al Qadim book, but there it is...

SD

 

[MEG Hal]

Interludes: Sands of P and Dry Lands are out or at the printer as we speak, so you do have and will have more desert stuff to work with all d20 and all PnRP, Plug-n- Role Play.
Hope that can help some of the desert withdrawl you all are having.

 

[Mouseferatu]

If any of you publishers (and WotC) are listening...

Put me down for a purchase the day AQ3E hits the shelves. For that matter, I know that both I and several of my fellow Sword & Sorcery writers would be more than happy to work on AQ3E. Cheap, even.

Speaking of, anyone know what happened to Zakhara.com? They had a pretty decent 3E conversion, but the site's gone kaput.

 

[Ranger REG]

WotC probably won't sell it out because it's set on Toril, and they may eventually want to do a supplement for it under the Forgotten Realms line. Just a thought...

Not really. Zakhara is part of Forgotten Realms. Al Qadim: Arabian Adventures can be published without Zakhara, like they did with the new Oriental Adventures.

HOWEVER, while they can do that, it would be a dumb business move, since most of us expected the new OA to have updated Kara-Tur material but instead featured Rokugan. The same expectation if they publish a new Arabian Adventures.

 

[Alzrius]

I think both REG and Thundershot have good points.

The way I see it, WotC would never sell anyone the rights to Zakhara. They might sell the rights to do Al-Qadim in 3E, but between how we'd all want it to be in the Land of Fate, and how WotC has become so possessive of the right to publish 3E campaign books but let the third-party do the rest of the work after licensing, we'll probably never see it happen. That last one is the sole reason we don't have 3E Planescape or a printed 3E Dark Sun yet.

Which is all too bad, because I, for one, would love a 3E Al-Qadim provided it was still on Zakhara.

 

[Ranger REG]

Yet on the other side of the coin, Wizards have agreed to publish Dragonlance Campaign Sourcebook and let Sovereign Press (a husband-and-wife company of Don Perrin and DL creator/author Margaret Weis) to support that product line.

At least, unlike Chaosium's supposed support of CoC d20, they are in earnest to get out their DL supplements as soon as the DLCS hit the store shelves.

 

[Alzrius]

Yet on the other side of the coin, Wizards have agreed to publish Dragonlance Campaign Sourcebook and let Sovereign Press (a husband-and-wife company of Don Perrin and DL creator/author Margaret Weis) to support that product line.

REG, I think you misunderstood. The fact that WotC is publishing the DL3E book (which I'm pretty sure Sovereign Press people wrote; from what we can see on the cover, Weis and Perrin are mentioned there, and neither work for WotC), and letting Sovereign Press pick up the rest of the line is by no means a good thing.

Jim Butler talked about this in an interview. WotC's current policy is that pretty much any old (2E) campaign world is up for being reprinted in 3E by a third-party company now. Thing is, WotC insists that they will be the ones to publish the campaign setting book for such a new incarnation. Campaign setting books are always the best sellers of a campaign line of products. This means that even though WotC is doing virtually none of the work, they'd be taking the lion's share of the cash, with the third-party company eating up what's left from the inflow of cash generated by supplementals.

If not for that little quid pro quo from WotC, we'd most likely see more old campaigns brought back already. We know that to be true because the one time WotC didn't pursue that deal (probably before it occured to them) was when they Sword & Sorcery Studio be the one to publish the new incarnation of Ravenloft. Then, after that, they change their policy, and suddenly no old worlds are being brought back for quite a while...Sovereign Press are apparently just willing to take the hit anyway, due to what appears to be a genuine wish to bring Dragonlance back again.

To reiterate, WotC did not just decide to reprint DL in 3E out of nowhere and then graciously let Sovereign Press continue it. Sovereign Press asked to publish the campaign, and WotC only agreed under the stipulation that they would publish the main book to earn money on the deal.

Seems just a tad bit sleazy to me.