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Bill,
Even though Dead Man's Chest and Glades of Death have already come out in the 3.0 or 3.5 days. I would love the Pathfinder update in Hardcover.
And I imagine there are many newer fans who never got a shot at the original books.
Myself, I have everything you have done but bought them all on the secondary market (Oh, and holiday gift boxes - but those were all second and third copies), except for RA reloaded which I got as part of the kickstarter.
Any plans for a campaign setting box set? Or will the focus be on individual regions/adventure locations as its been so far?
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Steve, they have mentioned a campaign setting several times since ST or maybe RA was in production. They are working on it but I do not think they have mentioned a box set. I think is is more likely a book. And of course they are putting some campaign information in the Sword of Air.
And lastgrasp - I totally want to know if we will see a TOH V.
Loving my Frog stuffs...
Awesome. Can't wait. :)
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Though I am excited about the books, what I really would like to know is if we will see the PDFs from the past kickstarters added to our accounts and better service on our customer support requests? I am not sure if I have ever received an email back after submitting a customer support request, though I have gotten replies back on most forum posts to include your own forums.
Any sign of the Northlands Saga? Been waiting for this for a while now, it seems to be stuck on book 4 :)
Thank you for the update!
Very cool on the update! Look forward to an updated Glades of Death and the new Dunes of Desolation and all the new stuff! Thanks for letting us know!
Can't wait to hand over my hard earned cash to you guys! Thanks!
Very cool to hear. Looking forward to some of the S&W releases. :)
I personally have only one thing to say about the 5th edition - Next. I have no desire to learn yet again another version of D&D.
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Do you ever see yourself browsing all the products at FGG at once and saying "OK"? Now that discretionary spending has improved in our household I find myself drifting through their website more and more...
Bill,
Even though Dead Man's Chest and Glades of Death have already come out in the 3.0 or 3.5 days. I would love the Pathfinder update in Hardcover.
I hear ya. I still prefer dead tree books to e-books, even though I just recently got a Kindle. I will say, though, that the PoD option from RPGNow / DriveThruRPG has come out fantastic every time I've ever used it. I've never had an issue with the quality.
I know it's not quite the same as a book produced in a print run. But it's a decent substitute.
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Starting in May, we will begin releasing short pdf adventures/[player aides/single encounters and other bits of stuff at a very low price point--our goal is once a week. These will be pdf only (for now), and may have a hardcover compilation somewhere down the road. John Ling is leading this effort.
I'll share more as we get closer, but this is going to be fun stuff. :)
--John
@ Tom Knauss - Thanks for the update! I am definitely looking forward to the geography books. Any chance these will be added to the list: Woodland (to include rainforest), Marshland (unless it is covered in Swamp), and because this is fantasy, Underdark.
"Woodland" is covered in Glades of Death. Marsh will definitely be covered in the "Swamp" book when we get there. I would also expect there will some sort of "underground" book as part of this series eventually; it is one of the environments in the game, after all. :)
--John
The Glades of Death was a great book IMHO and I look forward to the rewrite. Think I might wait on Barakus for the kickstarter and not buy it during the sale then. Might as well have the updated one! Still debating about the Splinters of Faith series. I tried getting some reviews on it some months ago and didn't get a lot. If I am going to pick it up now would be the time.
I'm not much of a reviewer, but I really like Splinters of Faith. I ran the Swords and Wizardry version although I set it in Golarion - they got halfway through book five before all dying (I blame party tactics, they blame giant scorpion venom).
Up until then, the players and I were all liking it. I found there were some really nifty adventure locations throughout.
TPKs are much more likely in AD&D and S&W than Pathfinder. I prefer to challenge them to the point they THINK they are all going to die and manage to get out by the skin of their teeth maybe losing a character or two sometimes. Saturday they got where they though they were between a rock and a hard place with archers shooting at them from one side and a tower and an entrance that appeared to just invite death. They ran from the entrance like scared little girls to the tower and took it out! Only to realize that the archers in the tower were just an illusion.
A question for the Frogs:
Has there been any further announcement on Monsieur Pett's opus 'The Blight'?
Edit: nevermind, found it - pushed back to 2015.
Mark, a timely moment to send out an update perhaps.
The Blight and the accompanying 9 part AP Levee are nearing completion from my end. I'm on adventure 7 and have the last 2 now totally drafted out, I'm aiming to complete the entire package for my 50th birthday holiday scrambling in Tuscany in June, Vaughan and his team are looking at the editing and the maps will take some unravelling but will be worth it. It's madness. I'd hope that early 2015 is feasible, but just to give you an idea of the amount of work waiting for those scallywags at Frog God, each adventure is running at around 30,000 words (so around 270K) and each district of the city-state about 15K (so that's around 200K).
I honestly can't wait for them to come out but as you know with YWH I always veer on the side of less is more, I want it to be spot on before release by kickstarter.
Those streets are bad though, really nasty.
And thanks for raising the question here, watch this space - Mnnnnnnnarrrrrrr!
Rich
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“Sickened walls jut from the green waters like jagged teeth, their brickwork haemorrhaging from the strain of the towering load above – centuries of rebuilding, repairing, shoring and praying teetering on the edge of ruin above a poison ink bay of arsenic toxic waters. Brick walls rise from the dead waters of the Great Lyme River, lying in a bay bereft of natural life where slurry sticks to the foot of this failing domain. Timbers rise and jut across streets – joists shore up walls and iron bars lash whole avenues together – the endless sinking decay and toil making the city a giant endless building site – bamboo scaffolding lashes around every structure, walls are propped against others by vast beams crossing rivers and the whole place is like a pack of cards – waiting for the fall to commence. Nothing is still, and everything will one day drown.
This city continues to rise from its vile depths – buildings lashed on other buildings, with a lace of piers and ladders, rope bridges and stone structures heaved between its various confusing levels. It is a cat’s cradle of interwoven wood and stone and hemp where a trip of fifty feet can take an hour on foot. Older buildings are crushed under the foundations of their children and gaze up weakly, senile structures being trampled to death in the struggle for air.
Bright boats of all sizes ply the sluggish bays and streams between the houses – offering a quick but costly way of getting from one street to the next avoiding the perilous crossings and drops below. These boats compete for garishness, whilst their owners compete for noise - shouting, crying and even singing the safety and pleasure of their wares. Above their heads, a treadmill ferry creaks by, lumbering on despite the abuse from the boatmen, hateful of yet another invention in this city of renaissance.
The city is also alive with birdsong – the singing of canaries, which seem to be as populace as the people, who throng the streets and bay and bridges in their thousands.
And outwards and upwards the city spreads, like a Blighting mass of architecture – towers rise in distant BookTown, the garish lights dance over Festival, and the echo of sounds and life in a dozen other districts drifts lazily towards you. And high, high above all towers the grey ramparts of the Capital – a schizophrenic mass of tastes and styles, decrees, orders and tyranny.
Welcome to one of the greatest cities in the World – Castorhage, the Blight, to its inhabitants, a metropolis dancing on its own grave…”
JOY
“The Blight is a place, a vast corpulent thing, but it is so much more than that. Its veins seep into other places, drawn across the Between, which rips at its fabric and tosses it about like a child throwing a ball. You might find a curiosity shop from the Blight crammed amongst the mighty tenements of some other city, a horrific character staggering along the streets of an otherwise normal town, or perhaps even a whole block perched within another city like a cuckoo in a nest.
Yes, the Blight is a place, but it is a place that touches others, like a cancer, suddenly infesting a brighter place and poisoning it. There is no escaping its touch, and once it draws you in, you may never escape.
Welcome…”
JOY
Huzzah!!!!!!!!!!
“The Blight is a place, a vast corpulent thing, but it is so much more than that. Its veins seep into other places, drawn across the Between, which rips at its fabric and tosses it about like a child throwing a ball. You might find a curiosity shop from the Blight crammed amongst the mighty tenements of some other city, a horrific character staggering along the streets of an otherwise normal town, or perhaps even a whole block perched within another city like a cuckoo in a nest.
Yes, the Blight is a place, but it is a place that touches others, like a cancer, suddenly infesting a brighter place and poisoning it. There is no escaping its touch, and once it draws you in, you may never escape.
Welcome…”
Looking forward to the Blight. Also, got my fingers crossed for a sequel to Crooked.
Okay, what is Crooked?
Crooked is Richard Pett's novel that was published last year by Broken Eye Brooks through Kickstarter. I'm hoping that once Rich wraps up "The Blight" that maybe we'll see a new novel. Of course, I'll be Kickstartering the snot out of the Blight when it materializes.
So I'll just say... When I came on board at FGG back in December and Greg gave me the "behind the scenes" look at what was planned, The Blight grabbed my interest right away. It's something I definitely excited for. I've always liked Rich's writing, even though he insists on spelling "color" and "armor" wrong. ;)
The Styes was good enough to give one of my players at the time nightmares! I can't wait to see what foul things The Blight brings forth!
Each of the books has tables to allow you to determine the daily high temperature, low temperature, wind speed and chances for precipitation and type of precipitation based upon the season and the specific environment. For instance, in Dunes, there are separate tables for hot and dry deserts as well as semi arid deserts.I am intrigued by the geography books. Will they include common weather and its effects? I thoroughly enjoy mixing the geography up during campaigns, it gives a sense of epicness. Will you be including Underdark in that series?
I am also looking forward to the Lost City. My PDF is kinda cumbersome to use...
What are your thoughts on supporting the emerging 5th Edition (or whatever they end up calling it) D&D from WOTC (My apologies if you have stated this elsewhere)?
I so need to move back to the US so I can have a group to use all htis new material on...
More tables! WHY, TSATHOGGA?!?!? WHY?!?!?!
*sobs in his slime pool*
Steve, yes. Last gasp, yes. Both 2015
Was that a "yes" on a boxed set for the Lost Lands setting? Humm, I guess I'm going to have to find something else to bother Tsathogga about...
@ Tom Knauss - Thanks for the update! I am definitely looking forward to the geography books. Any chance these will be added to the list: Woodland (to include rainforest), Marshland (unless it is covered in Swamp), and because this is fantasy, Underdark. I know that WOTC tried to do this series, but it was a dismal failure because they concentrated too much on what players are looking for, not the GM. What I need is the balanced way to present the dangers of the geographic environment whenever PCs travel there. Then I can present that as part of my story telling and make skills such as survival mean something again. Thanks for doing these, and I am glad there is an expanding list of material coming from the frogs and not just reboots (do not get me wrong, that is useful too, but I want to see some new stuff).
@ Brvheart - I agree, I have completely skipped 4th edition after reading about what they did to change it. I am still having difficulty separating the changes of Pathfinder from 3.5. I am definitely not looking forward to repurchasing all the same books over again, especially since I am in the process of digitizing the bulk of my library to save space. Hard copy is easier to read and use at the table for me, but space is limited, so not everything can be in hard copy anymore.
For the record, we did give 4E the old college try for around six months and even had some fun with it, but it just wasn't D&D to us so we went back to 3.5 until about 2 years ago when we moved to Pathfinder. I prefer hard copies myself, but just had about $200 worth of books walk out of the house last week including Stoneheart Valley and The Black Monastery. Hopefully they will return this week or it will be hard replacing them.
More tables! WHY, TSATHOGGA?!?!? WHY?!?!?!Tome of Adventure Design flashbacks?
AND Swords & Wizardry Complete.
I'm also still not over the trauma of laying out "The Mother of All Encounter Tables".
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*note to self* When sending Chuck ransom notes, threaten to add more tables to the next manuscript if he doesn't comply...
With some of the pathfinder specific stuff coming out, can we expect to see any S&W specific material? You could even call them ...*gulp*... supplements ;)
I think a mini players book collecting the races, classes, spells, race-as-class from WB, errata and additional spells from RA, SV, even SoA would make a great Lost Lands Players Book. In S&W format, it'd only be 50-60 pages.
And there's nothing like some good old-fashioned tables to make the gaming experience! :)