Arabian Adventures... would you buy it?

[FungiMuncher]

I would tend towards an "in-a-heart-beat" type of purchase; I'd still look at it and its reviews, but it would probably be an easy sale.

I'd prefer a book that presented a building blocks approach to the Arabian theme/genre/setting. Sure, present a specific campaign if you like, but build it up from those blocks. I'm not at all interested in a Forgotten Realms book.

FM

 

[Buttercup]

I'd like to see WotC do it, with a treatment similar to Oriental Adventures. Then some 3rd party (I'd hope for Atlas or Green Ronin) could do additional sourcebooks a la Rokugan.

I wouldn't mind seeing a few adventure modules published for such a setting either.

 

[Simulacrum]

I think that an FR related product would be the best move:
1. Superb quality of the books, stunning artwork, and lots of content beautifuly layouted.
2. FR does in fact include the most important part of the middle east pantheon.
Egyptian pantheon = Mulhorand
Sumerian/Babylonian pantheon = Unther,
Asyria/Phoenicia/Turkey = Thesk, Aglarond
(Telflamm is the equvalent of Samarkand or Istanbul I guess)
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Israel= Aglarond
Afghanistan= Thay (hey don't laugh geographicaly it would fit in!)
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Zahkara is a bit strange geographicaly, but it 100% Saudi Arabia
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I was always a fan of Jergal, Tiamat, Enki, Ereshkigal, Gilgamesh, Enlil, Marduk, Shamash and the other Sumerian gods, they are way cooler than all the other gods put together.
I'd die to see a campaign guide fot that, with maps of the major cities, construction plans for the ziggurat the pyramids and babylonian gigantomania! Whole armies of genasi and planetouched creatures!! And of course the rest of the pantheon that is still missing!
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It's a shame that this part of the realms has not been brought to paper yet. Damn it's one of the most important parts of the realms! Think of the Imaskarian Empire! The birth of Netheril!
And the oldest human made citiy on the whole planet: Skuld!!
Now if this isn't a good reason to bring out an epic middle east campaign setting then I dont know what.
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btw I'm totaly fed up with this western europe dark age clichee fantasy settings, with shiny knights and perfect cut green lawn, and evil wizards in towers, eh maidens in towers or something like that!
I want brooding meltingpots like babylon, hot dust and titanic godkings cities that kick adventurer ass!
baahhh

 

[MThibault]

We did a fairly lengthy side trip into an Arabian Adventures setting a while ago (in 2e) and probably won't ever go back. It was fun once but that's not our bag. If the book got great reviews or was written by an author I enjoy, I might still pick it up as reading material. But probably not.

There aren't enough choices in that poll.

Cheers

 

[Jeph]

Anyone who wants to see Asherah (sumerian goddess) try to take over the world in a cyberpunk setting must read Snow Crash.

 

[Simulacrum]

Anyone who wants to see Asherah (sumerian goddess) try to take over the world in a cyberpunk setting must read Snow Crash.

Ah yes Snow Crash is a cute book, even when it's mega inacurate about sumerian mythology. Most of the stuff is just plain wrong or not mentioned in written mythology.
Ashera is not that important in sumerian myth compared to Marduk, Enki, Enlil or Innana and her sister Ereshkigal whos husband J(N)ergal was the most powerful god in the Realms for long time.
Ashera portfolio is often devided upon several entitiys like Ishtar, Eshera, and even Astarte.
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Did anyone notice that the whole idea of the tablet of fate getting stolen by gods in Faerun is completely ripped out of Babylonian myth, and even before that it was ripped off and put into the Talmud! *g*

 

[Olive]

There aren't enough choices in that poll.

what other choices do you want?

 

[Olive]

I think that an FR related product would be the best move:
1. Superb quality of the books, stunning artwork, and lots of content beautifuly layouted.
2. FR does in fact include the most important part of the middle east pantheon.

personally, i would be appalled if this was a forgotten realms book... i would be perfectly happy for the featured setting to be the FR one, but thats not what i want: i want a toolkit style book like OA.

I agree that they FR books look good, but content is more important to me. plus i thought heaps of the books were amazing looking...

and FR may conrtain lots of vauge influences, but none are very acurately portrayed. also: thay as afganistan? please no...

 

[William Ronald]

I think a source book dealing with the ancient Middle East (Egypt, Sumer, etc) and one similar to Al Qadim in quality for a latter time would be interesting. I particularly liked how Al Qadim dealt with the classes to give them a local flavor.

 

[Teflon Billy]

If Jeff Grubb just re-did the entire Al-Qadfim setting for 3E, I would buy it immediately.

I don't have alot of good things to say about 2E, but Al-Qadim was a phenomenal product. Absolutely phenomenal.

I would prefer a full campaign setting to something like OA though. The value of Al Qadim was (to me) in the "fluff".