Future of Scarred Lands and other 3rd party settings

[Pants]

Pants,

Yeah so I call out WotC fan boys. Big deal. I don't call out Midnight or Kalamar guys like I might have years ago. But I mellow that way.

Why call them out at all? As I remember, a while back some members called you out on your fanboy-ism and you found it insulting. Why do it back?

 

[SSquirrel]

I believe Planescape only lasted 4 years by comparison.

Of course that was mid-late 90s TSR "We have 8 jillion products each month". Planescape was uber-nichey too, so no shock it didn't last.

Hagen

 

[dead]

Nothing but death to all but the following:

Forgotten Realms

 

[danant]

Seeing WotC focus on Eberron I think that FR will last for a year or two and then it'll start dying. Heck! I think it's dying right now as I write it...
It doesn't get such strong marketing as it used to, and sheer number of products has been diminished to 4 or so products per year...

As for SL... I always loved this setting but I must say that last products were beneath my expectations. For me SL has become another world setting with strange critters. It lost its magic.

I don't use other settings. I run my homebrew with many ideas stolen from many different game worlds. I don't really care about other settings (I used to care for SL) but I hope that there will still be some interesting settings/ideas to use in the future...

On the other hand - Iron Kingdoms look tasty

Regards,
d.

 

[Vanuslux]

I echo the sentiments that Scarred Lands lost its spark, probably from a case of too much too fast.

 

[philreed]

Chaosium had the right to publish more Cthulhu d20 books - but they never used that right.

Of course, many of their business decisions are a bit dubious these days...

And calling them "business decisions" is questionable where Chaosium is concerned. I've contacted them on numerous occasions attempting to get a license to publish D20 CoC products.

They never respond.

 

[JoeGKushner]

And calling them "business decisions" is questionable where Chaosium is concerned. I've contacted them on numerous occasions attempting to get a license to publish D20 CoC products.

They never respond.

Now all you have to do is contact White Wolf and offer to support the SL setting with some PDF's.... Yeah, that's the ticket...

 

[Akrasia]

Seeing WotC focus on Eberron I think that FR will last for a year or two and then it'll start dying. Heck! I think it's dying right now as I write it... .

Nonsense. There are still more products coming out for FR than Eberron. Plus it has hordes of CRPG support as well -- not just NWN, but the upcoming NWN2. (Yes, Eberron has the D&D MMORPG thing, but I think that is possibly doomed, given the limited market for MMORPGs, and NWN is an established success.)

And FR is just too entrenched in terms of players, books, and overall "D&D culture" to go away.

Look, I am not a fan of either setting -- they both reek of WotC "everything-and-the-kitchen-sink" mentality, IMO -- but FR is not about to go away.

On the other hand - Iron Kingdoms look tasty

Yes. Along with Midnight, IK is the most interesting setting out there right now. By far.

Not that I would use either, of course. But they're fun to read. (Unlike WotC's neo-splat books, which read like dry textbooks.)

 

[Guillaume]

As for Scarred Land, it is still alive in a sence. Hexagonale, the French editing company who has the license for the French Edition of the setting is planning on keeping the line alive. Nightfall, how is your French ?

 

[Nightfall]

Why call them out at all? As I remember, a while back some members called you out on your fanboy-ism and you found it insulting. Why do it back?

Eh. I get bored.

Gul,

My french is practically non-existant.

Joe,

Tell me about it...