Richard Baker's new book "Corsair" ..."SPOILER!*

[Silverblade The Ench]

I had read the first of this series "Swordmage", liked it so got #2 which is "Corsair".

And I have thoroughly enjoyed it! 20 pages or so left to go though, but unlike most of the FR books, sorry!! lol, it doesn't suck

Good, rollicking, "buckle me swash" adventure. Very enjoyable.

So what am I gonna spoil?
Something that personally, deeply, wonderfully tickled my old crusty heart!!

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(that's from Doug Watson's site, guy who made the orginal logo)

HOT DAMN, OH YEAH, BABY!!

the book is obviously based on 4th ed, and they sail the "Sea of Night"
now, we just need the return of Man-O-Wars, Hammerships...scro...GIFF!! and I will be a happy happy fella indeed.
Muhaha.
And one of my fave bunch of villains are in the book.

*raises a mug to Mr Baker, bless his cotton socks!*

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[Keefe the Thief]

Bring it on!

 

[vagabundo]

Could this be the setting hinted at in Ampersand?????


It could be foreshadowing......

 

[Nymrohd]

Isn't Rich Baker one of the authors for the new setting as well? Not sure. Could be a hint indeed.

 

[Silverblade The Ench]

Keef,
lol, the cover pic does kind of explain it!

vagabundo,
well, Spelljammer and Dark Sun are my two fave settings, so, I'd be happy with either

 

[Zaukrie]

A well done spelljammer campaign would get my money for sure.

 

[AllisterH]

I've always believed that if Spelljammer had focused more on presenting ideas like this

Then it would've been more successful instead of trying to focus on the "physics"

 

[Nymrohd]

Oh god yes, please no more rules to explain why fantasy works

 

[Shroomy]

I see a lot of recurring threads about them, but I don't think that Spelljammer, Ravenloft, or Planescape are going to come back, at least not like people seem to think (as an independent setting). Instead, elements of all three have been incorporated into the 4e core setting.

 

[Keefe the Thief]

Thats what i want! Honestly, i don´t want old fluff repackaged. Give me a Spelljammer that is "how to kick ass while traveling the Astral Sea with a cool ship." One interesting port-o-call, enhanced rules for Spelljammers, Runekeels et.al., how to do campaigning by traveling the endless planes... thats what i want. Giant Space Hamsters / Rhino People / Retreading old things just for the sake of retreading = no buy.