Expanded Oriental Adventures

[Gez]

Dragonfist was removed from the WotC site soon (read, a few hours) after Green Ronin bought the rights.

For now, Green Ronin has seemingly sat upon the setting and done nothing with it. I said seemingly. I wouldn't be that surprised if they released it as a True20 game some day soon...

 

[The Shaman]

I think it would be a darn shame to release a revised OA before visiting some other exotic cultures, notably fantasy Arabia. If choosing between Kara-Tur and Al-Qadim, I'd take Al-Qadim any day of the week, and twice on Sundays.

Same here.

If OA is updated, I'd like to see them stay with the classes from the 3.0 version instead of using the Complete.. series versions - for example, the original OA Shaman is way cooler than the Spirit Shaman.

 

[Klaus]

Dragonfist was removed from the WotC site soon (read, a few hours) after Green Ronin bought the rights.

For now, Green Ronin has seemingly sat upon the setting and done nothing with it. I said seemingly. I wouldn't be that surprised if they released it as a True20 game some day soon...

I believe the variable stat bonuses from Unearthed Arcana (ex.: instead of a flat +2, you have +1d4) was taken directly from Dragon Fist.

I loved that game (though I never played it). I have a wallpaper and a character sheet on my website.

 

[Gez]

I'd very like a Expanded Oriental Adventures, with the revised classes from Dragon #319, and Kara-Tur (or Mahasarpa, or whatever) as the featured setting.

Most of the OA stuff could be kept (although some, like Shadowlands oni, would probably have to be dumped), and new stuff could be added, notably in psionics support.

 

[smootrk]

I enjoyed Kara-Tur and would love to see it produced like the other FR regional books. Silver Marches was well done, and if they kept to that level of quality it would be a must buy for me. Although Kara-Tur is so immense, and has several distinct cultures, a pair or trio of books might be necessary to cover the material with the detail that I would prefer.

As a side note, I would love also an Al-Qadim sourcebook, and possibly one on the Maztica region as well.

As I see it, a good division of the regions could be:
Kara-Tur Mainland
Kozakura, Wa, and Island Kingdoms
The India style areas and Indo-china style areas
The Oriental Far West (the 'stans', nepal/tibet based regions)
Al-Qadim based regions

I may have missed some in this vague grouping.

 

[JoeGKushner]

THinking about psionics, why not include side bars on Vile, Exalted and perhaps some of the other 'unique' aspects from other settings like Spellfire from the Forgotten Realms? Perhaps a quick note on how the optional classes, like Hexblade and Swashbuckler, are handled here, as well as Epic Play, would be some good stuff.

 

[reveal]

Perhaps a quick note on how the optional classes, like Hexblade and Swashbuckler, are handled here, as well as Epic Play, would be some good stuff.

Jhonen Olain's Eberron Journal does something similar to this. The linked section talks about how to use Classes from other WotC books in Eberron. I really like it and would welcome something similar in an updated OA book.

 

[Prince of Happiness]

I would love this, especially an updated Kara-Tur. The old boxed set was terrible (I did not understand the organization of the books at all, for example), but still a leeeeeeeeetle bit useful.

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

I thought there were plans to release some sort of new Dragonfist material.

Is the general thinking that it's gone vapor ware?

 

[Gez]

No, Green Ronin doesn't even release steam anymore. It's vaporware, but dispersed vaporware.