castlemourn?

RPGPundit · November 03, 2006, 11:59:55 AM

This is Ed Greenwood's new fantasy setting, which apparently will be published/has been published (?-I'm really out of the loop on this one) by Margaret Weis productions, probably using the same sorry-assed system that they used for Firefly, thus butchering yet another setting.

But anyways, the real question is whether there was anything decent to butcher in the first place? Has anyone seen it? Heard more about it?

I mean, it is Ed Greenwood, the guy who made the Realms back when the realms were easily the coolest place to run a fantasy game EVER, long before everything ruined that setting.
On the other hand, its Ed Greenwood 20 years later. It'd be real easy for the guy to have Lucas syndrome right now.

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Sosthenes · November 03, 2006, 12:17:46 PM

Didn't Ed write some non-D&D fantasy novels a while back? Gang of Four or something like that. Related?

MisterPunch · November 03, 2006, 12:49:49 PM

There is a free preview available on DTRPG ... where did I put that link http://www.drivethrustuff.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=12630 .

I have not had the chance to really read it but the post-apocalyptic fantasy trope is not one I like in general so it has been backburnered by me.

Zachary The First · November 03, 2006, 01:39:13 PM

If it is half the setting the original Realms was, I'll be checking it out...

Nicephorus · November 03, 2006, 02:17:44 PM

Honestly, even the original FR was meh. I've tried to read a few FR novels - if Ed is an author, it's bad, if he's sole author, it's very bad.

Zachary The First · November 03, 2006, 02:20:11 PM

Quote from: NicephorusHonestly, even the original FR was meh. I've tried to read a few FR novels - if Ed is an author, it's bad, if he's sole author, it's very bad.

Oh man, yeah--writing novels is not one of Ed's strong suites. But I still love the original Realms.

Mcrow · November 03, 2006, 02:30:43 PM

Quote from: NicephorusHonestly, even the original FR was meh. I've tried to read a few FR novels - if Ed is an author, it's bad, if he's sole author, it's very bad.

IMO, Ed is in the top five of D&D authors:

my top five in no particular order:

Margaret Weis
Tracy Hickman
Ed Greenwood
Keith Baker
Elaine Cunningham

RPGPundit · November 03, 2006, 03:38:05 PM

The original, Greenwood version of the Realms was one of the best game settings ever made.

Only the weight of time and hundreds of craptastic add-ons have created the infamy that setting suffers from today.

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Sosthenes · November 03, 2006, 03:49:24 PM

Of what version are you speaking? I entered the game with the grey AD&D2 box, which certainly wasn't that great.

The Dalelends, Cormyr and Zhentil Keep managed to be exciting at some point of time? Shocking...

Akrasia · November 03, 2006, 06:29:16 PM

Quote from: NicephorusHonestly, even the original FR was meh. I've tried to read a few FR novels - if Ed is an author, it's bad, if he's sole author, it's very bad.

I agree 100 percent.

FR setting: snoresville.

FR novels: actively painful.

FR novels by Ed Greenwood: chewing-on-broken-glass-painful.

jcfiala · November 03, 2006, 07:09:45 PM

It's a d20 setting, apparently. I've had a few looks at it to try and figure out if I'm interested... and so far I'm not. Among other things, he's renamed the cardinal directions - so if I'm going to understand his preview, I've got to sit there with a cheatsheet to understand it all.