Barsoom campaign setting

[Desdichado]

I was surprised flipping through Dragon last night to see that someone (Wish List Games, IIRC?) is producing a d20 book based on Edgar Rice Burrough's Barsoom to be released this summer! Anyone have any info on that, beyond that release date?

Unfortunately, the art in the ad wasn't by Frank Frazzetta...

 

[Teflon Billy]

I would love that

I tried to write something like that myself at one point, and it was playable...but didn't really capture the feel I was looking for.

When I was young and into Star Wars, my Grandfather (wanting me to read "at any cost") went out and bought me science fiction novels with the most interesting covers.

What he came home with was the John Carter of Mars books ("Barsoom")...I loved them.

Still do actually.

 

[Desdichado]

Me too! As long as I don't read too many of them back to back -- the plot doesn't change much.

 

[kengar]

Hee hee

Ya gotta love ERB. I get a kick out of Barsoom and the Tarzans every time. "Thews of steel" "The deathless beauty of Dejah Thoris", "The finest bladesman on two worlds"

Gotta love it.

Wonder what Barsoomcore will think of this?

 

[barsoomcore]

Barsoomcore thinks it's GRRRRRRRRRRRRREAT!

Not as great as Olympic Hockey DVDs inside every box of Cheerios, but still pretty great. Yowza!

I try to be very clear with people that MY Barsoom shares little more than a name, a couple of monsters, red guys and a pink sky with ERB's. Much as I love his.

I just thought the name was cool and was too lazy to think up another. Much of my campaign works on that sort of principle: "Hey, that's cool. I should really do some work to make it more compatible with my campaign concept... Or I could just use it as is, confuse my players further, and spend another three hours on the boards instead of doing any work."

Funny, that.

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

Ssswwweeettt.

I love ERB. Only picked him up late in left and was amazed by his politics. Not only were the more or less interesting in their own right, but I was impressed that someone with such serious and non-fringe views would be writing them into these bizarre tales for young adults.

I remember reading a Venus novel in which the main character fought Zani's and ERB had written into the novel many aspects of nazi society that wouldn't have been well known at all during the time it was written and were even slightly controversial. He would have even been labelled PAFT, prematurely anti-fascist, and denied certain priveleges if he had been involved directly in the war effort. He even has a scene involving ovens that seems almost anachronistic and oracular in that it could not have been something that any group would have widely associated with the Nazi's in 1939.

And here was this guy writing it all into a story for a market that would have been too young to fight in a war America didn't want to enter.

 

[barsoomcore]

Has anybody else ever run across a book (or possibly set of books) by ERB about another solar system, one which a number of planets rotate about their star all in the same orbital path, accompanied by a belt of air, so that people can just fly from one planet to the next?

I read it once and wow what a wild concept. Always wanted to use that for a setting but never have....

 

[MattyHelms]

I was surprised flipping through Dragon last night to see that someone (Wish List Games, IIRC?) is producing a d20 book based on Edgar Rice Burrough's Barsoom to be released this summer! Anyone have any info on that, beyond that release date?

Unfortunately, the art in the ad wasn't by Frank Frazzetta...

That rocks the stuff that rocks on toast!

Anyone have any info at all on this book?

Thanks,
Matt

 

[Desdichado]

Hey, Barsoom, I know what books you're talking about, but I haven't seen them in so long I can't remember what they are either. Anymore I can't remember much of his "smaller" stuff -- I've got Tarzan, Barsoom, Venus and Pellucidar down pretty good but beyong that all I can remember is the Mucker. There's a number of pretty good ERB sites out there though, that I've looked at in the past, you'd think you could probably find that info without too much trouble. You'd think, anyway.

BTW, as a side note, you still use ICQ? I was doodling around with it the other night trying to find some folks I know from the boards and I found someone with the same e-mail address you use on your website. Haven't seen that ID actually online yet, though.