Oriental Adventures Collector's Guide

[Dragonhelm]

Will you be adding the Kara-Tur articles from WotC's site to the collector's guide, or will it be for print only?

 

[Echohawk]

Will you be adding the Kara-Tur articles from WotC's site to the collector's guide, or will it be for print only?

The Collector's Guides cover both print and web articles, but which Kara-Tur articles are you referring to Dragonhelm?

 

[Echohawk]

It is only a minor reference, but Kara-Tur (and Maztica, Al-Qadim and Realmspace) gets a mention (and appears on a map) in the Beyond Faerun section of 3e's Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (pages 230-231).

There are also minor mentions in the part of the Geography section devoted to The Unapproachable East (pages 199-210) and Kara-Tur traders may be mentioned elsewhere in the book (possibly giving a good idea of their trade routes).

Indeed there are, and both of those sources are already listed in the Miscellaneous gaming products section, Big Mac.

At least the Jakandor guide will be a bit easier!

Jakandor warranted only a heading in the 2nd Edition Guide, I'm afraid. A true Jakandor collector will also want to note that there is a Jakandor adventure listed in the Adventurer's Guild adventures section of that Guide.

 

[Dragonhelm]

The Collector's Guides cover both print and web articles, but which Kara-Tur articles are you referring to Dragonhelm?

This month is a Kara-Tur theme for Dragon and Dungeon. Only one article has been released thus far - Xiousing.

So keep watching through the month for other articles.

And thanks again for the great job on these collector guides!

 

[Echohawk]

This month is a Kara-Tur theme for Dragon and Dungeon.

Heh heh. Look closely -- those articles have been listed in this Guide since this month's ToC for Dragon/Dungeon was published on October 1st. All the relevant Guides get updated with upcoming DDI content at the beginning of each month, at which point I also add in the hyperlinks for articles from the previous month.

And thanks again for the great job on these collector guides!

My pleasure! Maybe I'll finally get the rather painful Forgotten Realms Guide published this month...

 

[Big Mac]

Indeed there are, and both of those sources are already listed in the Miscellaneous gaming products section, Big Mac.

I believe you may have misunderstood what I was trying to get at. I was referring to two sections from Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (from 3e) not Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide (from 4e).

One of the sections of FRCS that mentions Kara-Tur is the one on The Unapproachable East. I didn't mean The Unapproachable East (the sourcebook). I meant part of FRCS's Geography chapter.

While I'm at it, there are several references to Oriental Adventures/Kara-Tur space travellers in the Spelljammer Campaign Setting. Off the top of my head, these products have the most stuff about OA/KT:

• AD&D Adventures in Space boxed set,
• SJR2 Realmsapce and
• War Captain's Companion boxed set.

 

[GreyLord]

If you consider Monks and that such of thing part of Oriental Adventures, they also had a section devoted to 2e Monks...I believe it was in AD&D 2e Players Options: Skills and Powers, but I'm uncertain. I'd have to check to make sure, maybe someone else has a better memory. I never used them or those rules, but others may have.

I also never used kits but I think some of the Complete books had kits for Samurai, or other oriental items.

 

[Echohawk]

I believe you may have misunderstood what I was trying to get at. I was referring to two sections from Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (from 3e) not Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide (from 4e).

Ah, gotcha, my mistake!

I just took a look at those sections (Beyond Faerûn and The Unapproachable East) of the FRCS, and I while they do touch on Kara-Tur, I don't quite think there is enough Oriental Adventure content to justify including it in this Collector's Guide. Ditto the Spelljammer reference, I'm afraid. Although there is certainly some Kara-Tur/Spelljammer overlap in several Spelljammer products, I don't think those really belong in this particular Collector's Guide.

 

[David Howery]

At one time, I had nearly all the 1E OA stuff, but now all I have left is the first hardback rules book...

 

[Alzrius]

Here's a fun little reference:

In the Forgotten Realms novel Once Around the Realms, Volo and his friends spending some time in Kara-Tur. While there, they meet both Mad Monkey and Dragon Claw (from OA5: Mad Monkey vs. the Dragon Claw).

It's a comparatively small part of the book, but a pretty cool one.