Origins and Warlords!

[Greyscott]

This question has been hinted at elsewhere, but did anyone actually see AEG's Warlords of the Accordlands RPG at Origins, or better yet, play it and buy it? I've had some interest in this setting for a while, but information on its progress has evaporated...

Thanks - Greyscott

 

[mcrow]

I didn't go but from what I have been hearing there wasn't that many new books and the con this year. Most companies seem to be waiting till Gencon this year to show off thier new stuff.

 

[Crothian]

Nope, wasn't there

 

[Greatwyrm]

I don't think AEG has ever really been good about keeping us up to date on their upcoming products, but this is ridiculous. Throw us a bone, guys! I don't even have any real interest in the card game, but the rpg had me hooked from the promos alone.

This has gone long enough that I'm starting to wonder how much I will care when it finally gets here. If it does come out at GenCon, they'll be going head to head with plenty of other (and better hyped) products. I can pretty much guarantee you people will be lined up to buy stuff like Iron Heroes (Malhavoc) or PulpHERO (HERO Games). Less than two months out, we don't even know if Warlords will be there.

 

[Ghostwind]

Don't expect it until Fall this year. That's straight from Maureen Yates' mouth (when I asked her about it just over a month ago).

 

[Crothian]

Its the Grimm book I'm hoping eventually comes out. Did you hear anythign about that Steve?

 

[Meloncov]

I demoed it.
The setting looks interesting, but the included campaighn was a bet railroady.
Nearly every race and class has at least a few adjustments.

Does anyone have any more specific questions about it?

 

[Ghostwind]

Its the Grimm book I'm hoping eventually comes out. Did you hear anything about that Steve?

I don't have any contacts at FFG anymore to find out about Grimm. My main one decided to go work for Steve Jackson Games...

 

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

I demoed it.
The setting looks interesting, but the included campaighn was a bet railroady.
Nearly every race and class has at least a few adjustments.

Does anyone have any more specific questions about it?

I'd very much like to know more specifics about the campaign. I had the impression it used a wide variety of locations and sort of built on itself as it moved the PCs through the history of the world as its heroes. Is that accurate from what you saw?

How magic prevalent was it? What kind of magic prevalent? Loads of small scale and institutional effects ala Eberron or gods walking the earth with wizards ala FR?

How cool was the illusionist class? How distinct from the wizard? I'm aiming for very cool and pretty dang distinct.

 

[Meloncov]

I'd very much like to know more specifics about the campaign. I had the impression it used a wide variety of locations and sort of built on itself as it moved the PCs through the history of the world as its heroes. Is that accurate from what you saw?

How magic prevalent was it? What kind of magic prevalent? Loads of small scale and institutional effects ala Eberron or gods walking the earth with wizards ala FR?

How cool was the illusionist class? How distinct from the wizard? I'm aiming for very cool and pretty dang distinct.

Their was a limit to how much I could gather from the Demo. For example, I never got to look at the illusionist.

The campaighn will feture three books, a setting book, a monster book, and a 1-20th level adventure.

The adventure I demoed, which was the first part of the massive adventure, fetured a mass kill off of most of the high level charectors in the campaighn, thus brining the magic level signifecantly down. Beyond that, I know little. I do know that their was only one occasion when magic was used by an NPC: one of the villians teleported in and out of the castle in which we were staying.