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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cithindril" data-source="post: 1875957" data-attributes="member: 16773">Despite the announcement of its' official cancellation, I'll make my obligatory plug for the Scarred Lands   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> .  I believe it definately captures the dark foreboding atmosphere with the overarching 'looming threat'.  If you're not familiar, the world of the Scarred Lands is just recovering from a cataclysmic war between the quasi-hellenistic gods and titans.  Although the gods came out on top, the land is blighted, a great power struggle between the surviving nations has ensued, and the threat of one or more of the titans being returned to power overshadows everything the PC's society builds.  The setting consists of five continents (two of which have their own sourcebooks, the other three will be detailed in this month's final release).  There are a wealth of products available (approximately 40 total) but you wouldn't need anywhere close to this to run the setting.  The good news is that you can find a lot of bargains online (Ebay, etc) or at your FLGS.  For a quick, cheap primer you can pick up gazeteers on two of the continents (Ghelspad and Termana) for practically nothing (on my advice a friend of mine got both for $5 on Ebay yesterday).  If you're hooked like I think you will be, I'd recommend the following minimums to run a decent campaign: either the Ghelspad setting hardback or Termana setting hardback, Creature Collection Revised (a setting-specific monster manual), and Relics and Rituals 1 (a magic book).  You should be able to get all three for about $45 total if you shop around, and much of the material can be ported over to any homebrew as well.  Down the road you can add some of the area sourcebooks, players guides, planar manual, adventure trilogy, etc.If you have any questions you can always find a Scarred Lands fan to help out here on ENWorld (Nightfall in particular has been the self-appointed herald for quite a while now and has connections over at SSS).Hope the setting search goes well...give the SL a chance and you won't regret it  <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=":)" />ROFL!  Speak of the devil!  Didn't see that Nightfall was, in fact, posting as I was typing this.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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