Fiery Dragon has Sword & Sorcery license?

So, what would you like to see? Favorite creatures from the original Creature collection? Ideas about the Scarred Lands? What stories would you like to see resolved? What characters would you like to step forward? What places should be brought to light, and which should be left to shadow?

I remember liking the Shackledeath, I think it was called?

I'd like to see more variant zombies/skeletons/orc/goblins and other classic creatures, as I think there's always room for more interesting variants to keep players on their toes.
 

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Please give some warning about the date the 3e pdfs will be removed from sale. I've got a bunch, but not all the ones I want yet (including one of the ones I was a contributor on).
 


Hi everyone,

Cat's out the bag, I guess. Although, I was the guy hanging the 8-foot banner at GenCon, so I really should have known... :)

Yes, Fiery Dragon has the worldwide license for the Sword & Sorcery brand and related products including Creature Collection, Relics & Rituals, and the Scarred Lands. Yes, the upcoming Sword & Sorcery products will be some of our 4E offerings starting this fall. (You'll also see some things released just under the FDP brand, such as Battlebox and Counter Collections, plus some PDF adventures as well).

As for Sword & Sorcery, here are my plans at this point in time:

First off, Fiery Dragon is nowhere near the size of White Wolf, and lacks the resources to replicate what What Wolf did with Sword & Sorcery and Scarred Lands for 3E. So, I'm planning on keeping things pretty tight. We may see 12 books over the next 3 years, but I figure that's about my limit. As has already been noted, the last thing I want to do is our typical overpromise and underdeliver... I feel that's being done enough by the market leaders right now... (ouch!) :)

In The Fall (see how I'm keeping the date loose right now), we'll put out a Creature Collection for 4E. This will be mostly a compilation of monsters from the first 3 Creature Collections, but of course converted, updated, with new art and such. AND, there will indeed be new creatures in there as well. I've gone through the original CCs and pulled the stuff that I think will work well with the 4E rules and/or is a prime component of the Scarred Lands setting (though you don't need to play in the Scarred Lands to use these creatures). The book will provide a lot of useful monsters... and give some insight into where we're taking SL.

In the Spring of 2009, I plan on putting out Relics & Rituals, which will be a book full of Relics... and Rituals. It'll also feature new classes... or new class paths... that cover some key aspects of SL stuff (like a Necromancer, of course!) and have lots of great items and powers, and possibly a demonstrating adventure or two.

I would like to put out a Scarred Lands Campaign Guide for GenCon next year. It will have the overview of the Scarred Lands, what's happened since we last visited, where everything stands now, and offer a pretty clear idea about adventures in the Scarred Lands. You'll know what's safe, where danger lies, who the top threats are, and have hope for the future.

Those are my hardcover plans, and probably the only hardcovers that I'll ever be able to do. And some of these plans may change as we see the new GSL and experience the 3rd party 4th edition market for the first time.

Beyond those books, I see 7-9 adventure/setting/sourcebooks that will provide iconic and heroic opportunities in the Scarred Lands.

I have been talking to several writers and artists for some time while spending the past 6 months working out the details with White Wolf, and of course, I'm already behind. The thing about FDP is we are a small game company, and we are limited as to our resources (primarily time and money!), but I do have a passion for D&D, a great fondness for the Scarred Lands, a desire to create the best products we've ever produced, and a dream of creating something that is enjoyed by thousands of fans.

That being said, while I've got some direction, the journey is still unwritten. We're looking for feedback and input, and I'll be paying attention, certainly more than I've been able to in the past few years, about what's going on here and in other SL sits and blogs on the 'net.

So, what would you like to see? Favorite creatures from the original Creature collection? Ideas about the Scarred Lands? What stories would you like to see resolved? What characters would you like to step forward? What places should be brought to light, and which should be left to shadow?

'Cause Sword & Sorcery is back and ready to game.

- James

I'd probably pick up some of these books. I always thought the Scarred Lands was a neat setting. But the big thing I want to see from Fiery Dragon is a 4e Counter Collection covering all the monster manual monsters. I'd buy that in a heart beat, especially a PDF version.
 

Please give some warning about the date the 3e pdfs will be removed from sale. I've got a bunch, but not all the ones I want yet (including one of the ones I was a contributor on).

That's up to White Wolf, and their decision will be based on the end of the d20 License and how our products interact with the new GSL and theirs under the OGL. It's a tricky area, but I'm going to guess you still have a few months before anything will start going away... if it does at all.
 

I'd probably pick up some of these books. I always thought the Scarred Lands was a neat setting. But the big thing I want to see from Fiery Dragon is a 4e Counter Collection covering all the monster manual monsters. I'd buy that in a heart beat, especially a PDF version.

Workin' on it, and very very close to done.
 

Any news then on the Arcana Evolved licensed products (yes I know one just came out)?

Hi Varianor... talked to Tom at the show. We definately want to continue our association with AE, but we're not actively producing any AE products at this time. We have one last release lined up, Dragon Hunters, but nothing after that.

That being said, if Soren writes something and asks us to publish, and has patience enough for us to take forever, we're more than game.

Success with Beyond Creation, the latest adventure, would certainly help steer us toward more products.

- James
 

So, what would you like to see? Favorite creatures from the original Creature collection? Ideas about the Scarred Lands? What stories would you like to see resolved? What characters would you like to step forward? What places should be brought to light, and which should be left to shadow?

Favorite critters (following the 4e design philosophy where different 'roles' of mobs would be mixed into an encounter);
Asaatthi warriors, druids and wizards, perhaps with Lizardfolk slave-warriors
Packsoul/Feral
Slitheren, perhaps with giant rats, and *really* giant (large or even huge size) rats as mounts and attack beasts
Osseus Calabra / Necromantic Golems
'Masterwork' Skeletons and Marrow Knights (an encounter from Hollowfaust could include a living Necromancer, a pair of Marrow Knights, some Masterwork Skeletons and a single Osseus Calabra or Necromantic Golem!)
High Gorgons and Low Gorgons
Hags (perhaps with a less-silly-looking version of Hag Children as fodder, representing human children kidnapped and tainted by their potions)
Spider-Eye Goblins w/ Cleric of Belsamaug (or Sethris) and giant spiders
Belsamaug assassins
Sutak
Hollow Knights

Favorite places;
Hollowfaust - a city full of necromancers!
Shelzar
Fangsfall
Mithril - a city full of paladins! Perhaps some Hollow Knights would relocate there as well, to mix up encounters from that area, or perhaps Mithril would fall and the survivors would live in the Gleaming Vale?
Hornsaw Forest

Favorite characters;
the PCs (not a big fan of setting-specific NPCs)
a group of Iconics for the Scarred Lands would be neat

Other stuff I'd love to see worked up;
Penumbral Mages (as a path for Wizards?)
Necromancers (with enough versatility to be able to replicate the founders of Hollowfaust, a half dozen *very* distinct and different Necromancers)
Gold/Silver/Iron Knight paths for Paladins from Mithril
Exemplar path for Monks?
Incarnate path for Druids?
Albadian Tattoo magic (perhaps with a tattooed witch path?)
Paths for Druids and Sorcerers related to the various Titans (Chern's faithful gaining powers related to insects and disease, Glaurak's devoted having powers related to draining others and enhancing themselves or actual consumption and hunger effects, Thulkas's brethren having powers related to iron and fire, Mormo's children having powers related to venom and serpents, etc.)
Paths for Clerics based on the eight main gods of the setting (Corean, Madriel, Tanil, Hedrada, Enkili, Chardun, Belsameth and Vangal). Alternately, some other way of giving the Clerics of those dieties some specific flavor.
Perhaps carrying over the 'invocations' as minor rituals, with beefed up effects, for devotees of those gods?
Racial variations for chain-wielding slaver Charduni Dwarves, savage tattooed Hornsaw Elves, the golem/craft-oriented Dark Elves of the setting and the native Half-Orc population (which come from a stable nation, with both half-orc mommies and half-orc daddies, not any sort of violent origination)

With a limited selection of books, it might be best to stick to Ghelspad, rather than attempt a spottier coverage of Termana, Asherak, etc. as well.
 

Anything to do with hollowfaust, be neat to see their different schools brought up to date with 4e.

Anything to do with punumbral mages/shadow magic just cause it's cool.


If i had to pick though hollowfaust, I just love the idea so much.
 

I had a post, but the boards ate it.

Essentially, I would be happy to help with any fact checking or fluff material for the new line, but since I'm completely out of the 4th ed loop, I can't help crunchwise.

As for what I would like to see, a campaign setting book done well (with everything in one place instead of scattered over 3-5 books like the last one was) is high on the list. In keeping with the "points of light" idea, the setting could go bottom up instead of top down; a Vesh only campaign setting to start with, for example, then perhaps the west coast, or Durrover, or Fangsfall or Mithril in a similar vein. Then adventures, adventures and more adventures!
 

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