Paging Mouseferatu: "Echoes of the Past"

[Trickstergod]

Not only that, but they released it about 6 weeks before the Expanded Psionics Handbook hit the shelves, making any crunch in the book almost instantly useless. I was really kinda disappointed that they went ahead and released it as opposed to pushing it back and making it compatible. Made it seem like they were just phoning it in by then.

Considering the Scarred Lands line was cancelled not too long after, it's really no surprise. Would you have preferred they not produce the book at all?

As it stands, I never think Sword & Sorcery was exactly all that great with their crunch, anyway. The setting was great at times, but I was often dubious of the mechanics in their books.

 

[Twowolves]

Considering the Scarred Lands line was cancelled not too long after, it's really no surprise. Would yo have preferred they not produce the book at all?

Yes, actually I would have preferred not seeing a book that I couldn't use, and one the publisher knew I couldn't use when they put it out.

My beef with the book was not only the rules crunch (and yeah, their crunch was often iffy, but then again a LOT of it made it into core 3.5 ed with the serial numbers filed off too), but the change in direction they took with the slarecians. On first glance, they immediately made me think of the Jenine (sp?) from the Vlad Taltos books. In this book, they were something completely different, and I wasn't too wild about it. YMMV.

 

[Trickstergod]

Yes, actually I would have preferred not seeing a book that I couldn't use, and one the publisher knew I couldn't use when they put it out.

As said, I don't think mechanics were ever Sword & Sorcery's strong point. The only book I bought for the mechanics were the original Creature Collection and Relics & Rituals. The rest after that was for the setting, simple as that.

My beef with the book was not only the rules crunch (and yeah, their crunch was often iffy, but then again a LOT of it made it into core 3.5 ed with the serial numbers filed off too), but the change in direction they took with the slarecians. On first glance, they immediately made me think of the Jenine (sp?) from the Vlad Taltos books. In this book, they were something completely different, and I wasn't too wild about it. YMMV.

I never read the Slarecian book, anyway. I've a general distaste of psionics and didn't feel they were adequately integrated into the Scarred Lands. As mysterious figures, I was fine with them, but the more details that came out, the less I cared about them.

Though I can understand the irritation that comes when a book disregards past source material. Such as my irritation with the asaatthi book, which pretty much ignored everything previously published about the asaatthi other than the fact that they're snake people.