Arrived today! I can't wait to read it through!
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Awesome! My own print copy arrived on Sunday. The hardcover version looks amazing.
The inside is just stunning, as are the other S&C books. Really upped the look from L&D, as much as I like the content of those!
Quote from: Brigman on November 16, 2023, 08:52:16 PM
The inside is just stunning, as are the other S&C books. Really upped the look from L&D, as much as I like the content of those!
I mean, Dominique Crouzet did a great job with L&D, but Chris Miller has taken out all the stops with the entire S&C series, I agree. I can claim zero credit for this, it's all on his genius.
Just out of curiosity, is your new Polish themed product being published by DOM or Chris Miller?
Quote from: Brigman on November 16, 2023, 09:13:11 PM
Just out of curiosity, is your new Polish themed product being published by DOM or Chris Miller?
Chris Miller (Mad Scribe). DOM is retired.
Will you be publishing a L&D 2e through Mad Scribe, or is the Polish project basically covering that ground (in addition to much more)?
Who's the guy on the cover?
Imma take a stab here and say Ghengis Khan. :)
Quote from: Brigman on November 16, 2023, 11:40:56 PM
Imma take a stab here and say Ghengis Khan. :)
Looks Islamic though. Timurid?
Just curious, are you still using Précis and Bedrock as publishers?
Quote from: Brigman on November 16, 2023, 10:03:48 PM
Will you be publishing a L&D 2e through Mad Scribe, or is the Polish project basically covering that ground (in addition to much more)?
Baptism of Fire will be L&D Expanded Edition (not 2e, because the core rules are still entirely the same; just with new things added; it remains fully compatible with L&D).
Quote from: Trond on November 16, 2023, 11:43:51 PM
Quote from: Brigman on November 16, 2023, 11:40:56 PM
Imma take a stab here and say Ghengis Khan. :)
Looks Islamic though. Timurid?
I believe it is an Islamic (probably Persian) representation of Genghis.
Quote from: crkrueger on November 17, 2023, 05:22:39 PM
Just curious, are you still using Précis and Bedrock as publishers?
Bedrock still publishes Arrows of Indra. Precis has purchased the rights to Lords of Olympus (and Gnomemurdered) but sold publishing rights of RPGPundit Presents to Spectre, who did the Old School Companions 1 & 2, World of the Last Sun, and Gonzo Fantasy Companion, as well as continuing to make new RPGPundit Presents issues.
Quote from: RPGPundit on November 17, 2023, 11:07:15 PM
Quote from: Brigman on November 16, 2023, 10:03:48 PM
Will you be publishing a L&D 2e through Mad Scribe, or is the Polish project basically covering that ground (in addition to much more)?
Baptism of Fire will be L&D Expanded Edition (not 2e, because the core rules are still entirely the same; just with new things added; it remains fully compatible with L&D).
I don't have much room in my life for paper books unfortunately due to being a seaman so the few I do keep beyond a first reading I like to have nice ones. I would love to see you doing both a full collection of all your L&D in one volume and S&C with all of it's supplements in a single volume, both in nice hard covers. Your books are visually beautiful as well as usable.
My fantasy setting is a bit more fantastic than your more grounded medieval one but I love to take things from your book and put them in my game frequently. Some of the elements my players love about my world are actually things I borrowed from Arrows of Indra and Dark Albion. (Don't tell them though, I still want to bask in the light a little longer.)
Quote from: BadApple on November 18, 2023, 07:56:21 AM
Quote from: RPGPundit on November 17, 2023, 11:07:15 PM
Quote from: Brigman on November 16, 2023, 10:03:48 PM
Will you be publishing a L&D 2e through Mad Scribe, or is the Polish project basically covering that ground (in addition to much more)?
Baptism of Fire will be L&D Expanded Edition (not 2e, because the core rules are still entirely the same; just with new things added; it remains fully compatible with L&D).
I don't have much room in my life for paper books unfortunately due to being a seaman so the few I do keep beyond a first reading I like to have nice ones. I would love to see you doing both a full collection of all your L&D in one volume and S&C with all of it's supplements in a single volume, both in nice hard covers. Your books are visually beautiful as well as usable.
My fantasy setting is a bit more fantastic than your more grounded medieval one but I love to take things from your book and put them in my game frequently. Some of the elements my players love about my world are actually things I borrowed from Arrows of Indra and Dark Albion. (Don't tell them though, I still want to bask in the light a little longer.)
Well, I appreciate that. Someday there might be a single gigantic "omnibus edition", but there's no immediate plan for that. There's also the problem that the various books (even for just L&D/S&C) being spread out among three different publishers.
Do technically AoI exists in shared universe with medieval European-Middle East ones?
Quote from: Wrath of God on November 18, 2023, 04:09:05 PM
Do technically AoI exists in shared universe with medieval European-Middle East ones?
Well, I never thought of it as akin to the Marvel Cinematic Universe or anything like that, but to try to answer your question:
-Lion & Dragon (and its settings Sword & Caravan and Dark Albion, the upcoming Baptism of Fire, and other sourcebooks are all fully compatible with each other, but S&C takes place 250 years before Dark Albion, and Baptism of Fire takes place about 200 years before S&C.
-Star Adventurer and Invisible college have systems that have very tiny variations from the L&D system but are almost totally compatible.
-World of the Last Sun and the Gonzo Fantasy Companion are setting material for my Last Sun DCC campaign, so they are OSR-compatible with the aforementioned books but not the exact same system (of course, they have TONS of system-neutral stuff in them, including an enormous amount of random tables and random generators).
-Arrows of Indra is an earlier product. It is OSR-compatible as well, but again is not the exact same system as either the L&D books or Last Sun. Time-wise it happens in Mythical India (the setting of the Mahabharata), so that's theoretically thousands of years before any of the L&D books, but there's still stuff (like monsters and magic items) that would easily fit into the Sword & Caravan setting in particular.
Quote-Lion & Dragon (and its settings Sword & Caravan and Dark Albion, the upcoming Baptism of Fire, and other sourcebooks are all fully compatible with each other, but S&C takes place 250 years before Dark Albion, and Baptism of Fire takes place about 200 years before S&C.
So Dark Albion is like 1400s?
Quote from: Wrath of God on November 19, 2023, 10:54:22 AM
Quote-Lion & Dragon (and its settings Sword & Caravan and Dark Albion, the upcoming Baptism of Fire, and other sourcebooks are all fully compatible with each other, but S&C takes place 250 years before Dark Albion, and Baptism of Fire takes place about 200 years before S&C.
So Dark Albion is like 1400s?
Yep
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses
Quote from: Wrath of God on November 19, 2023, 10:54:22 AM
Quote-Lion & Dragon (and its settings Sword & Caravan and Dark Albion, the upcoming Baptism of Fire, and other sourcebooks are all fully compatible with each other, but S&C takes place 250 years before Dark Albion, and Baptism of Fire takes place about 200 years before S&C.
So Dark Albion is like 1400s?
The timeline of Dark Albion is 1453-1483.
The timeline of Sword & Caravan is roughly 1190-1220
The timeline of Baptism of Fire is a bit more fluid, but the default starting date is 1025, though you could start as early as 961 or so, and play until as far as 1058.