Dunham Studios & Elemental Powers/lands etc. Clue me In?

[Arcane Runes Press]

So, while checking out sales of my newest book (yeah the one in the sig) I noticed that "a buyer also purchased" a book detailing the cultures of the Southern Lands of something called the "Elemental Lands".

So, since I liked the cover, I clicked on it, and was shown the catalogue of Dunham Studios (who did a module? called Fang & Claw which I've seen mentioned here).

Apparently, they've made several PDFs of the Elemental Lands - and since I'm a huge fan of elemental stuff, and a couple of their art pieces are nifty, I thought I'd see if anyone knew what was up.

Clue me in on the nature of the setting and the books?


Patrick Y.

 

[Crothian]

I've seen there stuff the same way you have but have not heard anything about them or their products.

 

[Crothian]

So, yesterday I post that I don't know anything about the book and today it gets mailed to me. I'm being watched!!

It doesn't look too elemental focused, at least from my initial looking. It does look like an interesting setting even though it seems to require the other two as well. I've seen at least one reference to a race in the first and second book.

 

[Arcane Runes Press]

Private eyes, they're watching you
They see your e-very moo-oo-oo-ove.

Hmmm.... wish it were more element focused. As I said, I love elemental stuff. And I can, of course, write it myself... but I'm a lazy SOB.

Still, interesting settings are good. When you get further in, maybe drop some info on feats, spells, monsters?

 

[Crothian]

Well, what really suprises me is if they saw this thread they should have at least posted something answering your questions. But anyway I haven't read that much of it as Arms and Armor 3.5 arrived in the mail, I finished reviewing your Gunslinger PDF, and I finished reading Beyond Countless Doorways. Its amazing how much free time I have when the OSU game is basically over after the first quarter

There are clan feats, though there are some that are just a little odd. One actually turns you into a weretiger though it costs enough XP for gaining 3 levels. So that's a bit wierd. But I've always liked the idea of clan feats to show differences between different clans.

There's a great bugbear feat that gives you the bonuses of a favored enemy towards any enemy that you pick from the ranger table. But the best is it also gives you a +2 to profession Cook when using the skill on the creature type. That's really cool!!

There are elemental themes in the book as some regional feats do have an elemental descriptor. I don't see any new spells in there. Its mostly areas nicely described with bits on the people and then the regional feats for that area. There are some new races presented here as well as allowing some non standard races for PCs with DM permission like the Wereboar for instance.

There are three creatures. The Feityr, a CE fey. A Slitherbus which is some sort of mutant having to do with something called a Slug Lord. And Stoneskin which is an elemental creature of earth and a bit giant like.