Bruce Heard's World of Calidar - now Pathfinder compatible! :-)


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In case some of you are fans of the old (some would say original) D&D world of Mystara (a.k.a. The Known World, the Gazetteer series), you may remember the fantastic Voyage of the Princess Ark series, detailing the adventures of a sky ship and its crew in strange lands?

The original creator of the Princess Ark-series, Bruce Heard, also masterminded a lot of the creation of the rest of Mystara, including writing the Principalities of Glantri and Orcs of Thar.

Now, almost a generation later, Bruce Heard is at it again with a fantastic new creation: The World of Calidar, full of wonder!

A kickstarter ends in 5 days but a few days ago the system-less World of Calidar campaign setting reached an interesting stretch-goal: Adaptability to the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game! The adaptation will be done by former TSR designer and editor Thomas M. Reid!

So, if you are a fan of Bruce's prior creations or just want to check out the marvelous new world, don't miss checking out the kickstarter and get some of the great offers including extra maps and more!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ambreville/world-of-calidar

:-) Jesper


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It looks good, but the conversion guidelines will probably not be that extensive from what I could glean; the stretchgoal only entailed 25 additional pages. Now don't get me wrong - the setting looks great and has me all nostalgic - but the ships look like rules-nightmare to put into proper crunch. I hope they'll offer some mechanics for the conversion before the KS is over, for without them, I remain skeptical.

Still, thanks for posting this, totally did not notice this KS in the first place! Oo


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I approached Bruce almost as soon as the project was announced back in April/May of last year, to hear what he would do about making the world accessible to one or more game systems, but he has remained silent about the matter until this stretch goal appeared - and luckily was met! :-)

I agree that 25 pages are not a lot - but it is a lot better than nothing and I feel confident that Bruce has plans that go a lot further than this mere teaser of sorts.

I hope this means that Bruce will either A) make the setting partially available for 3PPs via a license or B) will release a bigger, more thorough Pathfinder expansion later, following the initial release of the setting itself :-)


Bump! Kickstarter ends on Friday this week! :-)

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