Ragnarock for the Scarred Lands

[Nightfall]

That's just plain silly. White Wolf doesn't drop lines in favor of "new toys." They drop lines when sales and profits demand they drop them, or when the lines have reached a pre-planned or obvious ending point. (Besides, EQ and Warcraft have been out for quite some time. If they were going to drop SL to support them, it would have happened long before now.)

I'm sorry SL is ending too, but let's not toss around goofy, and patently false, accusations, shall we? We're all friends here.

Well...slightly angry feeling a little betrayed friends...but yeah still friends Ari.

 

[coyote6]

I wouldn't call trying to give the Setting depth and weight "glut".

I do think there was Too Much Stuff, Too Fast. I was interested in the setting, but I couldn't even keep up with what was coming out, let alone afford to buy it. So I gave up, and just bought a few things once in a great while (mostly things that I thought might be useful in non-Scarred Lands games -- the Player's Guides, etc.).

 

[Duncan Haldane]

Well, I can't say I'm surprised.

I own all current SL material, and I really enjoy the setting.

I started a campaign a couple of years ago, but that fell away.

Currently I'm running RttToEE, but we are in the home stretch, and my players and I are all looking forward to the new SL campaign I intend to run at that point.

In fact, my players are so looking forward to it that each of them took home one of the player guides and read through it to start germinating character ideas.

I'm not sure where the campaign will be taking them, but I'm looking forward to it. We'll be start the Serpent modules, and I'll take it from there.

Ari, I do hope there will be more books in the future. I still think that western Ghelspad needs to be covered in more detail, but I can work on that myself.

So, Nightfall, maybe we can kick off some development stuff on the yahoogroups since we won't be expecting more from SSS.

Duncan

 

[Alzrius]

One hopeful point is that announcements of a campaign world being discontinued can, odd as this sounds, attract people to it after the fact. A lot of people like the idea of having the complete set of a line, so knowing that there's no more means that's a real possibility now...that tends to kick up interest in the books, sometimes enough to get more made.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I am sorry that the Scarred Lands setting is going away - I ran a campaign in it a few years ago and we had fun. But, going by our local game store, sales on SL material has fallen. The shop skipped most of the newer releases, and of the four copies of CC3 they got in only one sold. And the Termana stuff did not attract people at all in this area. Somwhere along the line it seems that people lost interest, or that SSS lost their vision.

WWGS's D20 material in general has not done too well lately, again locally. The R&R books for Arthur and Olympus did poorly, even as other Arthurian setting books leapt off of the shelves when the movie came out. (I can't blame people for that - they tried to do a 'generic D20 Arthurian setting' useable in any setting, and folks wanted Arthur.)

And they are floating a lot of settings right now, something that helped kill TSR. (I would rather they get rid of Warcraft or Everquest, but that is only my opinion.)

The Auld Grump

 

[Jeff Wilder]

As much as I love the Scarred Lands -- it's undoubtedly my favorite setting, and I own every product -- I have to say that I hear this news and feel a very odd sense of relief. I'm not sure from whence it springs ... maybe from the knowledge that the setting is now fully in my hands to develop? (I hate settings that "advance" the timeline with new products. Whether designers admit it or not, such products pressure DMs to make their own campaigns conform. I prefer a well developed static setting ... a launching pad for the changes my players and I make to the campaign, not some writer of bad novels.) On the other hand, maybe it's simply a financial relief ... Scarred Lands accounted for a very hefty portion of my annual RPG budget.

 

[Zelda Themelin]

I am not surprised about this. I don't have self-delusion, that this setting would survive after many products sell badly, and IMO were taking settiging to totally wrong direction. And I don't mean just advancing time-line.

Scarred Lands was fast becoming medicore, or rather, had been so for quite a long while. That kept in mind, I fear fan-sites continue loyally the same medicore direction.

I still love the first gazetter thought.

Oh, and I own all the books too.

I continue to miss RR 3 and CC 4, and of course Darakeene and Albadia that French got.

Not much else though, I am pretty happy it's over now. I don't wait anything special about Strange Lands, but I am happy they made it.
After speaking about those continents for so long, it would have been rather lame.

I actually like the fact that they made that annoucment before that last book, and not after. I think it's polite. I like their company more for that.

Oh, well, we see now what future brings without offical new book every month or so.

 

[Alaric_Prympax]

I'm disappointed too. I was hoping that they'd do all four continents of SL. I hope they will do a restart in the future. I've got to check my inventory, I think I'm missing the last couple of books.

 

[Kvantum]

This doesn't shock me. Disappoint me greatly, yes, but not shock me.

Now it looks like the only S&SS stuff I'll be buying is Malhavoc and the occasional high-level Necromancer adventure.

Neither of which is really "true" S&SS stuff. :\

 

[dreaded_beast]

Sorry for your loss Nightfall.

Does this mean you can work on your own SL material?