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<blockquote data-quote="BigFreekinGoblinoid" data-source="post: 1824348" data-attributes="member: 5988"><p>The only reason Scarred Lands products aren't being produced anymore is because Nightfall didn't do a good enough job hyping it. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Just kidding. </p><p></p><p>I think the setting is/was great ( and probably wouldn't have gotten into it if not for Nightfall ), but the publishers strategy did have a few major flaws. </p><p></p><p>1) Quantity over quality. There was a point there were multiple books for SL were being published evey month. Art kept getting worse. Writing was hit or miss, sometimes even within the same book.</p><p></p><p>2) Lack of a good place to start. A book such as the FRCS, or MIDNIGHT core book was really needed to help introduce new players and DM's. </p><p></p><p>3) (The other points are, of course, my own personal view, but this one even more so ) Expanding geographically too soon. Ghelspad still had major areas that needed expanding before we needed a monster book for a third continent. </p><p></p><p>Even if SSS did a better job at the above the setting would probably not have lasted much longer. Settings just have a way of coming and going. It was good run, and I had fun DMing it. My nest CXampaign will be elsewhere, but not due to the fact that there have been no recent products - just time for a change. </p><p></p><p>Books I'd recommend even if you are not playing in SL ( although they are more valuable if you do! )</p><p></p><p>Hallowfast: City run by necromancers where normal ( good ) people live. A great look at another possible paradigm through necromantic magic</p><p></p><p>Echo's of the Past; Slarecian Legacy : Great crunch for items and traps - heavily Psionic influence, but could just as easily be used with Chaositech</p><p></p><p>Burok Torn - A fully detailed Dwarven city! </p><p></p><p>Other books that were in my second teir of interest: </p><p></p><p>Hornsaw, forest of Blood</p><p></p><p>City of Mithril</p><p></p><p>Blood Sea</p><p></p><p>The cosmology book was fairly decent too ( forgot what it was called ), but many planes could be used in much the same way one might use the content from Malhavoc's new planar book...</p><p></p><p>Bye Bye Scarn!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BigFreekinGoblinoid, post: 1824348, member: 5988"] The only reason Scarred Lands products aren't being produced anymore is because Nightfall didn't do a good enough job hyping it. Just kidding. I think the setting is/was great ( and probably wouldn't have gotten into it if not for Nightfall ), but the publishers strategy did have a few major flaws. 1) Quantity over quality. There was a point there were multiple books for SL were being published evey month. Art kept getting worse. Writing was hit or miss, sometimes even within the same book. 2) Lack of a good place to start. A book such as the FRCS, or MIDNIGHT core book was really needed to help introduce new players and DM's. 3) (The other points are, of course, my own personal view, but this one even more so ) Expanding geographically too soon. Ghelspad still had major areas that needed expanding before we needed a monster book for a third continent. Even if SSS did a better job at the above the setting would probably not have lasted much longer. Settings just have a way of coming and going. It was good run, and I had fun DMing it. My nest CXampaign will be elsewhere, but not due to the fact that there have been no recent products - just time for a change. Books I'd recommend even if you are not playing in SL ( although they are more valuable if you do! ) Hallowfast: City run by necromancers where normal ( good ) people live. A great look at another possible paradigm through necromantic magic Echo's of the Past; Slarecian Legacy : Great crunch for items and traps - heavily Psionic influence, but could just as easily be used with Chaositech Burok Torn - A fully detailed Dwarven city! Other books that were in my second teir of interest: Hornsaw, forest of Blood City of Mithril Blood Sea The cosmology book was fairly decent too ( forgot what it was called ), but many planes could be used in much the same way one might use the content from Malhavoc's new planar book... Bye Bye Scarn! [/QUOTE]
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