Necromancer's City of Brass

[kensanata]

From Red Hand of Doom to the City of Brass

Got mine from Amazon Germany the other day... I'll have to start thinking about a move from Red Hand of Doom to the City of Brass. Maybe there's a legendary enemy of Tiamat to be found here... Somebody who would love to kill her aspect and cheat my players by taking over their material plane, thus leaving them stranded in some fiery hole of pain...

 

[Ishar]

Thank you very much for your answer Bowbe. Is the plane of the Molten Sky mentionned anywhere in a Planescape book or is this something entirely new? (I ask because I was wondering how much you tried to respect the Planescape or classic AD&D cosmology and how much you developped by yourself)

 

[Shemeska]

Is the plane of the Molten Sky mentionned anywhere in a Planescape book or is this something entirely new? (I ask because I was wondering how much you tried to respect the Planescape or classic AD&D cosmology and how much you developped by yourself)

There is no "Plane of Molten Sky" as a distinct thing in the AD&D/Planescape cosmology.

The phrase originally appeared as a name (coined and used by the doomed archmage Tzunk) for the Plane of Fire in a very brief bit of text in the description of the Codex of the Infinite Planes in the 1e DMG. Otherwise there's no seperate Plane of Molten Skies, it's just a non-standard (likely unique) name for the Plane of Fire. Necro may have made it something seperate from the actual Plane of Fire in their material.

 

[Varianor Abroad]

Yes, it's a plane on the border between the Elemental Plane of Earth and the Elemental Plane of Fire (plus intrusions from other planes).

 

[Ishar]

There is no "Plane of Molten Sky" as a distinct thing in the AD&D/Planescape cosmology.

The phrase originally appeared as a name (coined and used by the doomed archmage Tzunk) for the Plane of Fire in a very brief bit of text in the description of the Codex of the Infinite Planes in the 1e DMG. Otherwise there's no seperate Plane of Molten Skies, it's just a non-standard (likely unique) name for the Plane of Fire. Necro may have made it something seperate from the actual Plane of Fire in their material.

Quoting a such precise sentence from a such old book in a such detailed manner: I'm amaze by your knowledge! Thank you very much for that answer!

(I'm weak anyway: I didn't resist to those incredibly cheap Planescape PDF on RPGNow and bought a few...)

 

[bowbe]

No secret there. We were inspired by that sentence. We put the book of infinite planes in the box along with all the other toys in our homage to the classic feel of wonder.

One of the things we thought about when designing various parts of the book was "What did we think was cool when we played in the late 70's and early 80's... and how can we pay homage to those coolest experiences while still giving it a solid 3ed treatment. Mind you we didn't want to just include canonical D&D things in that "what was cool about the golden age of D&D" ethos. That would have been far too limiting. We thought about stuff that we liked as kids and young adults as well and how those had been inspiring to our creativity.

Then we tried to figure out ways we could work it out in such a way that it is as "edition friendly" as the Wilderlands. So we ended up with the 3 book format+ map booklet format.

Case

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Got my copy last Thursday. I haven't started reading it yet, but I did flip through it. I must say that I like what I saw. Can't wait to read the whole thing, but that'll have to wait till I read through everything that I got at GenCon.

 

[Fenes]

So, the question fpr me seems to be: box or pdf. Hard choice.

 

[Ishar]

So, the question fpr me seems to be: box or pdf. Hard choice.

A question many buyer ask themselves nowadays. From a buyer point of view, I think that publisher should sell paper+PDF bundle for a fare pric. Something like price of the paper edition plus 5$ or so. But from a publisher point of view, I don't know if that would be possible to do it for a such price.

 

[bowbe]

Fair enough. One of the problems is distribution contracts and keeping positive relations with the few brick and mortar stores that still carry 3rd party product. You have a much tougher time and get distributors pretty angry with you when you go PDF+Product=same price or undercut the price of the print product with a relatively inexpensive PDF that you know will also sell well.

Joe Goodman has a bit on his forum about why he sells his products the way he does. You all should read it.

Either way, its a hard deal all around.

Case