[Lion's Den/Ronin Arts] Keith Baker comes to Lion's Den, with "Classic Fey"!

[Mouseferatu]

September 30, 2005. For immediate release and dissemination:

Keith Baker comes to Lion’s Den!

We’ve been promising you a special announcement for months, and now it’s finally here. Lion’s Den Press, in conjunction with Ronin Arts, is thrilled beyond measure to announce its newest release: The Iconic Bestiary: Classic Fey, written by none other than fan favorite Keith Baker, in his first foray into PDF publishing.

This second installment of Lion’s Den’s Iconic Bestiary line offers you new materials on the fey, a popular variety of creature for which supplemental D20 material is in great demand. Classic Fey presents advice and rules for using fey elements drawn from, and inspired by, classic fairy tales and Celtic myth. These include fey marriages, fey curses, a modest selection of new spells and feats to emulate traditional fey abilities, and of course--as you’ve come to expect from the Iconic Bestiary line--page after page of new monsters, ready for use in almost any D20 fantasy campaign.

Including original art by Beth Trott and developed by studio co-founder C.A. Suleiman, Classic Fey is Keith Baker’s first collaboration with Lion’s Den, but certainly not his last. We hope you enjoy it even half as much as we enjoy presenting it to you.

For more Lion's Den products, visit http://www.lionsdenpress.com.

 

[JoeBlank]

Bought, printed, and about to read while I watch the end of the Yankees-Red Sox game.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Bought, printed, and about to read while I watch the end of the Yankees-Red Sox game.

Well, feel free to come back and tell us what you think. (Of the book, not the baseball game. )

 

[Hellcow]

Bought, printed, and about to read while I watch the end of the Yankees-Red Sox game.

Thanks, Joe! I hope you enjoy it. I am particularly pleased with the Fey feats section, which were designed to be used with any fey creature. Faerie tales are often contradictory - if the dryad in story X can curse the man who transgresses in her grove, why can't the one in story Y? The feats are designed to reflect a number of classic fey traits, allowing you to match them to the needs of the particular story.

Anyhow, let use know what you think!

 

[JoeBlank]

Thanks, Joe! I hope you enjoy it. I am particularly pleased with the Fey feats section, which were designed to be used with any fey creature. Faerie tales are often contradictory - if the dryad in story X can curse the man who transgresses in her grove, why can't the one in story Y? The feats are designed to reflect a number of classic fey traits, allowing you to match them to the needs of the particular story.

Anyhow, let use know what you think!

I think I like it! After the first read through, I'm wanting to use several of the fey presented. That is a good sign, that I want to use them in a game.

The way you used feats is creative, and a good way around the problem of inconsistent stories. I actually would have liked more of the Fey feats.

I'll pick it up and read the ones I especially liked or think I can use when I have an opening in my campaign. Well worth the price. Nice work, Keith.

 

[TroyXavier]

I looked it over and put it on my list of things to get sometime.

 

[Mouseferatu]

I think I like it! After the first read through, I'm wanting to use several of the fey presented. That is a good sign, that I want to use them in a game.

The way you used feats is creative, and a good way around the problem of inconsistent stories. I actually would have liked more of the Fey feats.

I'll pick it up and read the ones I especially liked or think I can use when I have an opening in my campaign. Well worth the price. Nice work, Keith.

I'm delighted that you enjoyed it.

Could I impose on you to leave a brief review on RPGNow?

 

[TheAuldGrump]

There are not enough fey... there are never enough fey!

In truth the actual creatures are the least of why I am glad I made the purchase - the feats, the curses, and the brief section on fey marriages are much more important - while I am not likely to use the Feuy marriage rules as written I am certainly going to use them as a jumping off point, they are simply something that I would not have thought of otherwise (the song Witch of the Westmoreland comes to mind).

The Auld Grump

 

[JoeBlank]

I'm delighted that you enjoyed it.

Could I impose on you to leave a brief review on RPGNow?

Happy to do it. I went with 4 stars. My only real complaint was that it seemed a little short. I attribute this to the excellent quality, which left me wanting more.

 

[Yair]

I have zero interest in D&D fey at the moment, but am looking into ideas for fey interactions/adventures in another system (Ars Magica); does this work have sufficiently evocative and qunatitative fluff and ideas to help me out when divorced from the d20 System?

(I'm looking into story seeds and ideas for creating a classic-fey-story vibe, dark German stories specifically)