Next environmental supplement?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I guess I'm still alone in wanting a book on plains & prairies. *sigh* There's just no love for Dorothy & Toto.

Mmmm, epic spell for dropping houses on people ...

 

[mythusmage]

Parent's Basement, with old fridge and stray pizza boxes. Original home for green slime and black pudding.

 

[mythusmage]

All of those sound good.

I guess I'm still alone in wanting a book on plains & prairies. *sigh* There's just no love for Dorothy & Toto.

Seriously, I'd be interested in this as well. Of course, plains are not what most people think they are.

Take the North European Plain for instance. This stretches from Northern France in the West to Central Asia in the east, with vegetation ranging from farmland and meadows (France) to forest and steppe. Rolling plains to rolling hills for the most part, with the largest known swamp (The Pripet Marshes in Russia) about midway.

A plain is simply a more or less flat bit of ground with no appreciable discontinuity with adjacent terrain.

A prairie is a dry grassland. Unlike a veldt or savannah plants other than grasses are confined to the immediate area of waterways and ponds or lakes. Prairies come in three types, short grass prairies, tall grass prairies, and mixed prairies. These days tall grass prairies are restricted by and large to the Dakotas.

Water on a plain depends on the local climate. Water on a prairie is scarce. Adventuring parties seeking to cross a prairie are urged to take extra along, and to keep an eye out for seasonal bodies of water and the occasional water way.

 

[DragonLancer]

I'm hoping on jungle/swamp, mountains, caves & caverns, and perhaps a plains (not planes!).

 

[thalmin]

Unfortunately there is nothing on the horizon through April, 2006. That's as far as the present WotC catalogs go.

 

[Klaus]

Isn't Swamps covered in Stormwrack (being kinda aquatic)?

If one does a book following the current style, instead of Jungle we'd get one book about the Woodlands, covering Cold, Temperate and Warm Forests (the latter being jungle).

 

[Turjan]

Unfortunately there is nothing on the horizon through April, 2006. That's as far as the present WotC catalogs go.

That's nothing for the next 8 months, and this sounds somehow as if they had given up on the concept. Maybe, the books didn't sell that well.

On the other hand, there's not that much that makes sense. Forests or plains is too near to the default adventuring environment to make much sense. A specific jungle supplement might not be bad. Although a glimpse on my shelves doesn't really leave any opening there, either.

 

[Pinotage]

That's nothing for the next 8 months, and this sounds somehow as if they had given up on the concept. Maybe, the books didn't sell that well.

On the other hand, there's not that much that makes sense. Forests or plains is too near to the default adventuring environment to make much sense. A specific jungle supplement might not be bad. Although a glimpse on my shelves doesn't really leave any opening there, either.

Or they may have decided to wrap the last ones into one supplement. Deserts, Frozen Lands and Underwater are almost the extremes of the environment. Forest, hills, mountains - they're not all that different in a certain sense, so they might lump them all together. Swamps and Jungles - now that should really be a separate one, but the others I can see lumped together.

Pinotage

 

[the Jester]

I'm also hoping both for jungles and swamps/marshes.

In my opinion, the environment books have been great so far.

 

[Sleepy Voiced]

I would guess, knowing what we know about product-development lead-times at WotC, that the first three environment books were the test (being the most identifiable and commonly used "exotic" environments). If those three did sell well, I have a feeling we will see more, but it may not be until late next year (I believe someone from WotC once said they are usually developing books about two years ahead).

If I keep telling myself this, I feel better about the prospects of more environment and monster-themed books. It also seems a good sign to me that they are experimenting with a number of new series that may take a few years to establish. I take it as evidence that 3.5 is strong enough to support some risks and long term planning.

On topic, I would love to see books on plains, forests (temperate and otherwise) and mountains. Oh yeah, swamps too!