It's back! Nightfall's "Ask the Sage" Scarred Lands Q&A

[catsclaw227]

Hey NF --

You may have answered this somewhere else, but have you been granted the legal rights to reference non-OGL SL content or generaly publish SL material?

CC

 

[Nightfall]

*one*

Cats,

No I do not have permission for the non-OGL portion of the Scarred Lands. That said, I believe there's enough OGL stuff for me to get around it. Plus I'm not selling this to anyone. I might just offer it as a free online version and put in the front "Nightfall's version" to see if that might stop any problems. That said, I do plan, after get this book down to its final drafts, to ask the people in WW about this so I don't get into legal territory problems. I'm hopeful it won't come to that, especially since it appears WW is more focused on other things than the Scarred Lands.

We'll just have to see. My whole idea for publication is to be for other SL folks and eventually perhaps gain some movement to allow me to do this on a regular basis.

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

Well, I was going to ask what book I should pick up for a "this is what SL is about" read, and then I noted your comments on your Revised Campaign Setting. That's the one I want, personally.

But for the time being, can you give me a list of all the SL books? It's difficult for me to compile, as some don't list being part of SL (like the Creature Collection I have), and WW's site wasn't helping me much in that regard. I'd like to collect them, but I have to have a list of all of them first.

 

[Nightfall]

*seven*
Goddess,

That's what we all want. ONE book to rule them all, one book to find them. One book to bring in them and in the Nightfall, bind them.

*pauses* Darn I gotta stop watching Lord of the Rings on TBS/TNT.

Did you want a chronological order or just books about SL in general?

I can do it as follows:

"Scarred Lands Monster Books"
Creature Collection Revised
Creature Collection I (GET REVISED!)
Creature Collection II
Creature Collection III

Scarred Lands Magic books:
Relics and Rituals
Relics and Rituals II

Scarred Lands:
The Divine and the Defeated
Scarred Lands Campaign Setting: Ghelspad
Scarred Lands Campaign Setting: Termana
Strange Lands: Lost Tribes of the Scarred Lands (also considered Scarred Lands Campaign Setting: Dragon lands, Asherak and Fenrilik)
Scarred Lands DM Screen and Companion
Edge of Infinity: The Scarred Planes
Scarred Lands Gazetteer: Ghelspad
Scarred Lands Gazetteer: Termana
Mithril: City of the Golem
Hollowfaust: City of Necromancers
Shelzar: City of Sin
Hornsaw: Forest of Blood
Burok Torn: City Under Siege
Blood Sea: The Crimson Abyss
The Blood Bayou
Calastia: Throne of the Black Dragon
Player's Guide to Wizards, Bards, and Sorcerers
Player's Guide to Fighters and Barbarians
Player's Guide to Clerics and Druids
Player's Guide to Rangers and Rogues
Player's Guide to Monks and Paladins
Echoes of the Past: Slacerian Legacy
The Wise and the Wicked
Secrets and Societies
The Penumbral Pentagon
Wilderness and Wastelands: Scarred Lands Encounters
Vigil Watch: Warrens of the Ratmen
Vigil Watch: Secrets of the Assatthi.

The Adventures aka the Serpent Amphora Cycle:
Serpent in the Fold
The Serpent and the Scepter

If you want novels, you got some but honestly I didn't care for ANY of them.
The Serpent Citadel

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

That's pretty much exactly what I needed, thank you!

Kinda figures though.... I already have Creature Collection I, bought it way back when it first came out in 3.0. Is it worth picking up Revised and ebaying CCI?

 

[Raven Crowking]

The Creature Collections actually have some really nice creatures in them.

 

[Nightfall]

*two*

Raven yeah but a good portion of them have mechanically problems. I site

Goddess,

Glad I could help. What makes CC Revised better than CC I is the fact a) it's 3.5 and b) a lot of the mechanics and some of the art is better than its 'cousin'. While I wish they had added more (possibly from CC 2), the fact is you get good monsters that should have been templates (Hags and Unhallowed), and you get a look at races of the Scarred Lands too. Plus fewer mechanical mistakes. (Except regarding LA) That, however, is a minor point since they fixed the things that truly needed fixing, like BAB, HP, and other standardizations of 3rd edition monsters.

If you want to Ebay CC I that's your call. I have a copy of both myself. But it's all up to you. I would say buy CC Revised, as you will find changes I felt are appropriate to some monsters (as I said before Hag Templates), along with better drawings (like the Silver Golem that actually LOOKS like a sculpture from silver).

 

[Goddess FallenAngel]

Thank you for the info!

I'll pick up a copy of Revised and see if I want to hold onto the original CCI. Just the fact that it is 3.5 is enough for me to want to pick it up, and the rest is a bonus.

 

[Nightfall]

*seven*
Goddess,

Well it being 3.5 helps but the fact is this: Comparing this book to CC I, is like comparing a five year old who read the cliff notes of Halmet to a college graduate that not only read the play, but acted in it and understood it. Then wrote a 5 page paper on the play.

That's how big a leap foward I felt this book was compared to CC I.

 

[Nightfall]

*four*

Bump for SL goodness and a question:

Is there any MM monster (or perhaps SRD monster) that I should have a titan relationship write up about? Or that people have a question about a particular monster type?

Should NF's Revised Scarred Lands make more use of alternate class features to highlight paladins that serve one of the Four Sword of Corean or stick with them being Pr-classes?