Calidar: "Dreams of Aerie"

trechriron · June 15, 2017, 01:32:53 PM

Backed! My Calidar collection grows...

Bruce Heard · June 15, 2017, 04:30:17 PM

Quote from: trechriron;968807Backed! My Calidar collection grows...

Thank you! Much appreciated.

RPGPundit · June 17, 2017, 09:12:05 PM

Bruce made the best parts of the best setting D&D ever had. He gets to post where he likes.

Bruce Heard · June 18, 2017, 07:23:21 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;969488Bruce made the best parts of the best setting D&D ever had. He gets to post where he likes.

I'm honored. :cool:

Bruce Heard · June 18, 2017, 09:23:29 PM

Hey folks! Just hit the $6K mark & 80% of target!

Bruce Heard · June 23, 2017, 12:23:28 PM

Hey, good news: we just blasted past the initial funding target. :eek:

Dumarest · June 23, 2017, 12:36:37 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;969488Bruce made the best parts of the best setting D&D ever had. He gets to post where he likes.

Clue me in then. I don't own any D&D settings.

Bruce Heard · June 23, 2017, 03:46:56 PM

Quote from: Dumarest;970937Clue me in then. I don't own any D&D settings.

Dumarest, stuff I'm best known for includes managing TSR's D&D game world (Mystara and the Hollow World), the D&D Gazetteers, Trail Maps, getting TSR's management to authorize the D&D Rules Cyclopedia, and the series of stories in Dragon Magazine in the 80s and 90s called Voyage of the Princess Ark. The latter is the inspirational source for my present work, the World of Calidar.

trechriron · June 23, 2017, 05:55:49 PM

And it's artisanal awesome sauce. Calidar is wonderfully written and the maps are incredible. You can support the cartographer on patreon and get new digital maps of the setting!

Dumarest · June 23, 2017, 06:03:33 PM

Quote from: Bruce Heard;971006Dumarest, stuff I'm best known for includes managing TSR's D&D game world (Mystara and the Hollow World), the D&D Gazetteers, Trail Maps, getting TSR's management to authorize the D&D Rules Cyclopedia, and the series of stories in Dragon Magazine in the 80s and 90s called Voyage of the Princess Ark. The latter is the inspirational source for my present work, the World of Calidar.

Thank you. You know what, I think I read some of those Princess Ark stories way back when! Was that the hot air balloon traveling from place to place? That was pretty neat. Calidar sounds cool. Thanks again.

Bruce Heard · June 24, 2017, 07:30:26 AM

Quote from: Dumarest;971042Thank you. You know what, I think I read some of those Princess Ark stories way back when! Was that the hot air balloon traveling from place to place? That was pretty neat. Calidar sounds cool. Thanks again.

You must be thinking of the Oostdok blimps. These were a gnomish airships from the Hollow World. This was a funny episode. The Princess Ark is actually an Alphatian skyship. I wanted to continue writing the stories as a professional author, but WotC would not give me permission or let go of the copyright. So, I rebooted the series with a new crew, a new ship... and an entire game world to wrap around everything! There are of course some common points between Mystara and Calidar. It turns out that I'm much better off writing Calidar material, simply because I can create anew, without the baggage of Mystara and the necessary approval process at WotC, which I think would have broken the camel's back.

Dumarest · June 25, 2017, 03:21:29 PM

I'm glad you carried on anyway and probably it's for the best to control the IP yourself now.

Now I remember the flying ship...I guess the gnomes made an impression!

Bruce Heard · June 25, 2017, 10:04:38 PM

Quote from: Dumarest;971461I'm glad you carried on anyway and probably it's for the best to control the IP yourself now.

Now I remember the flying ship...I guess the gnomes made an impression!

So far so good. I nearly did not return to writing after TSR went down and I left the industry. It was only at the insistence of my better half, 15 years later, that I did. Of course, I'll never live as comfortably as I had become accustomed to, but at least I am doing what I want for now. The present project has funded. It's June, though. It's a slow month. People are on summer vacation mode right now.

Bruce Heard · June 26, 2017, 01:27:23 PM

Hi All. Guess what... we've not only funded, but have also flown past the first stretch goal. Life is good. :cool:

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Dumarest · June 26, 2017, 02:34:36 PM

Very cool. It must be gratifying to see how many people are interested, especially after going through all that with TSR or whoever they are now.