Freeport in Everquest????????

[Drawmack]

I was going for my morning jaunt at http://www.gamingreport.com when I came across something that make me go hmmmm

So I decided to research it a bit more and take a look at the map of the city which looked very familiar to me. So then I went to read the history of freeport and it was all wrong.

So then I followed another link to an excerpt from the book and it also was wrong.

So I do not know what is going on. Is Freeport being ported to Everquest RPG or not? If it is how much of ''Freeport as we know it'' is going and how much is being redone?


FYI: this is cross posted on greenronin's boards.

 

[Liminal Syzygy]

It's a different Freeport. There is a city named Freeport in EverQuest, the MMPORPG and the book from Sword and Sorcery will be detailing that city.

Basically it has nothing to do with Green Ronin's city.

I thought this might be confusing to people when I read the product announcement myself, and there you go.

It probably would have been better to avoid putting the word "Freeport" in the title. Oh well.

 

[Tsyr]

Freeport is a city in Everquest... not the other Freeport known in D20 circles. No relationship between the two. In the online version, Freeport is one of the two human starting cities, and one of the more well-known and traveled cities in the game... No surprise they are doing a book on it.

 

[JacktheRabbit]

I was going for my morning jaunt at http://www.gamingreport.com when I came across something that make me go hmmmm

So I decided to research it a bit more and take a look at the map of the city which looked very familiar to me. So then I went to read the history of freeport and it was all wrong.

So then I followed another link to an excerpt from the book and it also was wrong.

So I do not know what is going on. Is Freeport being ported to Everquest RPG or not? If it is how much of ''Freeport as we know it'' is going and how much is being redone?


FYI: this is cross posted on greenronin's boards.

Freeport is a pretty generic sounding name. I could easily see it being used purely as a coincidence. I bet there are thousands of Freeports out there in various homebrew campaigns over the years.

 

[Ruined]

No official reply here, but I suspect that their Freeport was part of the EQ game for a while, maybe even before the RPG supplement. Either way, some clever scheming on someone's part to put out a sourcebook with that name...

edit: 4 replies in as many minutes. Nah, nobody reads the boards on Monday morning... =)

 

[Tsyr]

It probably would have been better to avoid putting the word "Freeport" in the title. Oh well.

Except that, well, it's kinda hard to call it much else and still have it's intent clear... And Freeport in Everquest predates GR's Freeport by quite a bit, so it's not like they can really change it, or should.

 

[RabidBob]

Freeport has been in EQ since commercial release, and has little to do with Green Ronin's Freeport, apart from the fact that they are, well, ports. Green Ronin were not the first people to name a place Freeport. Maybe we should take a look at the history of http://www.freeportusa.com/ ?

 

[Tsyr]

Actualy, if you wanna be talking about things that are wrong, it's that map... Now, of course, they have to expand the EQ map... MMORPG cities are tiny. But I can't find several key buildings on that map, including the Arena and the Academy of Arcane Sciences...

 

[Henry]

It's the "John Doe" Effect. It actually surprised me when Green Ronin used the name "Freeport," as the name was already well-known in the EQ gaming community for about a year before Green Ronin used it (Freeport has been in EQ since 1999, and the first Freeportadventure was released in 2000.)

However, the name is generic enough that neither company could claim to have a "lock" on it.

 

[RabidBob]

I was going to link a whole lot of "Freeports", but this is easier:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&q=freeport