Baen Books, John Ringo, and...d20?

[ColonelHardisson]

I was looking through Waldenbooks today when I noticed a book, published by Baen, by a writer named John Ringo. The book was called Hell's Faire, and it had a CD-ROM bound into it, much as Baen did with David Weber's latest Honor Harrington book. What caught my eye as I glanced at the CD-ROM was that it said it contained a game in addition to a bunch of books, and the d20 logo was on the CD-ROM. Anyone know anything at all about this? Does it actually have an entire d20 game?

Here is a link to Baen's page for the book:

http://www.baen.com/author_catalog.asp?author=JRingo

 

[CCamfield]

I did some digging on Usenet (through google) and came up with this:



From: "John Ringo" <johnringo.exthis.out@mindspring.removethis.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
Subject: Re: Ringo's A Hymn Before Battle
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 08:18:05 -0500
> The CD will have a _paper_ RPG set in the post Hell's Faire time-frame,
> three (at present) short stories, the full audio book in MP3, Heather
> Alexander's "March of Cambreath" in MP3, original Sluggy Freelance artwork,
> the Sluggy book "Game Called on Account of Naked Chick", some Fan-fic
> artwork, a large number of books including all of my (limited) backstock and
> anything else we can find.
> The book itself will contain some Sluggy Freelance artwork including four
> original cartoons set in the Posleen universe as well as the usual
> home-drawn (lousy, an artist I ain't) maps, this time with little SheVa
> icons cluttering them up.
> The RPG may or may not include some original short stories. We're
> approaching dead-dead-deadline and there are many calls on my time.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

Very interesting. I may have to go pick this thing up.