d20 Fantasy in Colonial America?

[Brother Shatterstone]

/me does the happy dance

Your always doing a happy dance…

I’m not sure if I’m really into this setting, I’ve been hearing about it for a very long time now, but something about fantasy classes in Colonial America leaves me... Well I'm not sure of the word. Unsure, or maybe uninterested, I guess. :\

 

[Bobitron]

I'm really excited about this book. This quote from the website is the one that really interested me...

'Prowl the misty streets of Boston on the trail of hell-spawned fiends as a royal agent in service to your monarch.'

I might run a campaign based just on that with a dark, low magic feel and set in in the Boston of our history rather than that of Northern Crown. My main interest in the book comes from my desire to steal all sorts of juicy crunch to use in a French colonial game I'm working on set in Canada.

I was disappointed, however, to hear that it will not initially be available as a pdf.

 

[BluSponge]

Thanks everyone! This is indeed what I was looking for!!

 

[Karl Green]

I have been waiting for this for a while... esp as I re-read the collects of Solomon Kane stories AND the Deeds of Alvin Marker... LOVE this kind of setting idea but then I am a weirdo history buff also

 

[BluSponge]

I have been waiting for this for a while... esp as I re-read the collects of Solomon Kane stories AND the Deeds of Alvin Marker... LOVE this kind of setting idea but then I am a weirdo history buff also

Same here. The more I read -- particularly in Doug's thread on Phantom Zone -- it sounds VERY influenced by Card's Alvin Maker series (a good thing, in my book). Damn! After two years I may just have to break down and buy a d20 product again.

A question for JoeKrushner or GMS (or anyone else familiar with the books): if I am going to use a different system for the setting, how vital is the New World Adventures book? Does the gazetteer stand on its own enough (basic descriptions of the classes, monsters, etc.), or will I need the NWA book to figure out what's going on? Cause this is screaming Savage Worlds to me.

Tom

 

[JoeGKushner]

New Worlds Adventure book has all the background information on the cultures and how they integrate into the campiang setting while the other book covers the history and geoggraphical stuff.

 

[Michael Dean]

Okay, could everyone please stop building these books up? This is my first Gen Con in 25 years of playing D&D, and Atlas' table is the first one I'm hitting to buy these books. But if you all keep drumming up interest in them, there may not be any left for me. So, move along, everyone, nothing to see here.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

So, move along, everyone, nothing to see here.

Heresy! There is plenty to see here!

 

[GMSkarka]

Let's put it this way: I've got a proof copy of the books that I printed and bound at my local Kinkos, sitting right here on my desk.

...and I'm still going to buy the hardcovers.


Yes, I'm that big of a geek....but more importantly, Northern Crown is that good.

 

[dougmander]

Dear Gareth,
I just sent you the cover art for the free Northern Crown intro adventure...
...now get back to work already!