Got Scarred Lands: Ghelspad, what's next?

[danir]

Hi,
I have just got Scarred Lands: Ghelspad and had a very good read
Looking into getting another book on the setting (WW deal is tempting) and wanted to know what do you suggests?
I'm currently leaning towards creature collection revised... esp. since it has the information about the races.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I've heard good things about the various Creature Collections, though I don't own any SL stuff myself.

I'm sure Nightfall will be along shortly to offer advice.

 

[Trickstergod]

The top contenders:

Creature Collection Revised will give you the standard, setting beasties, minus the sutak. It has the asaatthi, ratmen and other creatures that'll give a slightly different look from other settings.

Then there's also the Divine and the Defeated. Personally, I think this is the best book out of the entire line, so long as you're just looking at it as a setting rather then what you can get more non-Scarred Lands use out of. It goes into the religions, both divine and titanic, for the setting. It stats out the gods, sure, but the stats are garbage and better ignored; the meat of the product is the sects, history and mythology. Stylistically, it's well-written all around.

Then there's the first Relics and Rituals. It's a solid, inspiring book that, while it has some mechanical problems, helps establish the setting through its prestige classes, spells and magic items. Even if you don't bother much with the Scarred Lands setting, this book should see some use outside of it.

Other notables would be Hollowfaust, which can be ported over into other games that aren't Scarred Lands. The Termana hardcover is also good and offers a different perspective on the setting.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

If you like flavor books, I heartily reccomend the region books. My favorite is Hornsaw. It rocks. Theae are or were very cheap on the White Wolf site.

 

[Psychic Warrior]

If you plan on going whole hog into Scarred Lands I can't recommend their Player's Guides highly enough. Blows away any of the WotC classbooks imo. Lots of background on the various classes and how they fit into the SL as well as a ton of organizations, cultures and sects for your PCs to join or fight with. it also helps that they are a good read too!

Divine and Defeated is also a solid setting book. The god stats were dissappointing but there is so much other SL goodness packed into this volume that they are a minor annoyance.

Edge of Infinity: The Scarred Planes is also a surprisingly good book on the planes. If that is your cup of tea I recommend that one too.

The city books I got the most use out of were Hornsaw: Forest of Blood, Shelzar: City of Sins, Hollowfaust: City of the Necromancers and Blood Sea: The Crimson Tide. Calastia: the Black Throne also has some great places and details on running a Calastia based campaign.

For creature books I have the original Creature Collection and CC 2. Obviously you'd want the revised CC but the CC2 is also a good monster book (mmm Siege Undead!) and I use it regularly.

The Relics and Rituals volumes 1 & 2 while having a lot of information such as spells, magic items and prestige classes aren't as vital as other books listed here but can give you a better 'flavour' of SL with setting specific spells, magic items etc.

As strange as it may sound the Gazetteers for Ghelspad and Termana see quit ea bit of use in my game still. I let the players reference anything in them as kind of a 'general knowledge' each of them would have living on the variosu continents. They get used about every other session (and my SL campaign is 2 years old now).