What Kind of Books…

[Hand of Evil]

Question: Has anyone done a book based on medieval Russia or Eastern Europe? I'm asking more out of curiosity than anything (I'm doing graduate work in Russian history).

Iron Kingdoms has a Prussian feel to it, maybe it is just the art.

 

[Hand of Evil]

What Kind of Books…

Previously I started a thread for what kinds of books people would like to see and/or purchases that have not been covered or only poorly covered. The consensus seemed to be the following subjects have not been adequately covered in the market.

• Terrains (desert, artic, mountain, etc)
• Do It Your Self Guides (for creating spells, monsters, adventures)
• East Indian Setting
• Native American Setting

Has anything been left out?

On a related note, what kind of books do you think you will buy next for your game?

Arabian setting, even before any other setting!

While terrain setting are nice I would be more interested in fantasy ecology in terrain, just building the cycle of life of a terrian in a fantasy world.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Someting else that could be good, kingdom/empire books along the lines of the old gazettes books.

 

[fourthmensch]

Modular campaign settings.

A single city, village, inn, castle, manor, nation, organization, or whatever. Each one highly detailed and ready to plop down in any setting. I can't imagine anything more useful for a DM running things on the fly.

(This isn't my idea; someone mentioned it on these boards earlier--but its such an amazing idea that I thought it bore repeating)

 

[Crothian]

Another thing that we really haven't seen is a book on role playing. There was a great PDF that had info on role playing but I'm not sure it was widely known about though I gave it a great review (Dice and Dramatics by Ultramyth Design). I'd also like to see a book that covers non combat XP awards. This is really one of the truely lacking areas in the game.

 

[uzagi_akimbo]

Something to look forward to

Setting :
- Nordic and Viking Setting - which could include neighbouring historical cultures like the finnish people, arctic natives and perhaps the Russians (which would tie in nicely with the peeps asking for a Russia setting ). Voyages of exploration in in-hospitable seas, harsh weather, the lands of the gods only a rainbow away...

- Arabic /Desert setting, be it a rehash of the wonderful Al-Qadim or something simply set in detailed desert wastelands - even something like "Dune". Rules for climate, environment and effects on everyday life and society.

- Indonesian Archipelagoe inspired setting on pirate-tribes and sea-nomad cultures in a region of hundreds and thousand of islands, definitely not down the swashbuckling road.

Sourcebooks
- Books on "intensive preparation" items like cities (who has the time to do them properly anymore ?), towns or even a large trade-fair/tribal meeting. description of trade routes and locations along them. Ready to run trading costers and guilds.

 

[GrumpyOldMan]

Modular campaign settings.

A single city, village, inn, castle, manor, nation, organization, or whatever. Each one highly detailed and ready to plop down in any setting. I can't imagine anything more useful for a DM running things on the fly.

(This isn't my idea; someone mentioned it on these boards earlier--but its such an amazing idea that I thought it bore repeating)

Er, that would be Hârn or HârnWorld as it is now known. Completely systemless and available for over 25 years. As an example, check out http://www.columbiagames.com/cgi-bin/query/cfg/zoom.cfg?product_id=5684 and http://www.columbiagames.com/cgi-bin/query/cfg/zoom.cfg?product_id=5660 to name but two.