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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 198191" data-attributes="member: 3285">Hi guys!So sorry to get back so late on this.  My ability to get in the forums has been extremely limited due to the user limit, and yesterday every response I wrote kept disappearing.1) Yes, the post exists because it is blatant PR.  Additionally, quite a few issues impacted the distribution of Tsar Rising.  It didn't get a fair shot in game stores; I have yet to be able to purchase it off the shelf at the Wizards of the Coast store near me, which carries every single D20 product known to man or beast.  Except Tsar Rising.2) Tsar Rising has sold about a third of its total print run.  Of course I'd love to see the entire run sold. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />3) Oddly enough, quite a few folks on the Enworld and Mortality boards have indicated they want adventures set in fantasy and mythologically-inspired settings based on real-life cultures.  Given that D&D was influenced by a lot of Russian mythology (e.g., Baba Yaga, the Dancing Hut), it's unfortunate that mythological Russia is seen as a setting people wouldn't want to play in.  4) As David was kind enough to point out, I've modified the second adventure, "The Dancing Hut" to ensure that the module, while still Russian-inspired, is not so rigidly placed in the setting.  It consists of several vignettes that can be broken up into separate encounters as well as portable villains that can be used outside of a Russian setting. 5) Frilf: You ain't seen nothing yet. Hot on the heels of The Dancing Hut is the Arctic book, which will have a section about Siberia-esque settings.6) Sorry, it's not a TORG book. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Mike "Talien" Tresca<a href="http://www.retromud.org/talien" target="_blank">http://www.retromud.org/talien</a></blockquote>

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