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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CaffeineBoy" data-source="post: 2015218" data-attributes="member: 17690">Maybe I can answer this. I'm no PP representative, just an interested player....Lock & Load was a 3.0 product with the same basic intentions as this book. It was all crunchy character bits with a little Iron Kingdoms campaign background thrown in. It provided just enough to get your IK game up and going. And even though the IKCG reprints and/or updates most of that information to 3.5, L&L still remains valuable for the tidbits that didn't make the cut and for the gorgeous poster map that came with it. I'm assuming (hoping) that the release of the world guide will include said map and tidbits, making L&L completely obsolete.As for the delays, even though the company denies it, I think their Warmachine fantasy skirmish game coopted a LOT of their resources. As basically a garage company, they had only so much attention span, talent and warm bodies to work on their products (you can tell from the bio section in the IKCG that these people all still have day jobs). Plus, Warmachine turned out to be insanely popular. The company went through tremendous growth pains trying to keep up with the demand for the wargame stuff, and honestly, pushing pewter is a lot more lucrative than writing D20 material. I don't blame them for their shift in focus. Since I straddle the line and play both games, I had plenty of background material for my IK D&D game and so I didn't miss the IKCG as much as some. I was, however, pretty vocal on the PP forums about their glacially slow efforts on the D20 front.Having said that, it seems to me that recently Privateer Press has *finally* gotten their act together on their timelines. Their minis are coming out closer and closer to their target dates (in fact, often beating them), their D20 deadlines are missed by ever narrower margins, and their quality remains insanely high. I think we're through the darkest part of the woods, and if we don't have the world guide in our hands by the end of the year I'll be very, very surprised.</blockquote>

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