Sartar Atlas Re: Old Wind Temple

From: jeffkyer <jeff.kyer_at_...>
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 15:40:13 -0000

>
>
> This was announced at Convulsion, so I think I'm safe in repeating
it
> here :-) The Sartar Atlas is planned to be the next HW release
after
> Orlanth is Dead! (although plans have a funny way of being changed
in
> the face of reality). It is pretty much what it sounds like - a book
> about all the cool and interesting places in Dragon Pass that we
could
> think of and squeeze between the covers. It comes with a super-cool
map,
> in the same style as the Lunar Empire map from Unspoken Word. It's
> written by a number of authors (for example, I did the Torkani
stuff,
> John Hughes did the Far Place, etc.) all carefully coordinated by
> Issaries to make a hopefully seamless whole.

At last count there were over 500 references on the map. The map, btw, is incredible. I want a large version...! About half of the entries are micromyths and historical references.  

> authors will be more your thing. Especially neat, IMO, are the
inclusion
> of units from the Dragon Pass boardgame and the re-injection of the
> RQ-era wacky sense of fun that some people have found lacking in HW
> products so far - Jeff Kyer and Mark Galeotti have both provided
some
> supremely excellent material in this latter regard.
>
> --
> Trotsky
> Gamer and Skeptic

Why THANK you, Jamie! That's good to hear. I am still not entirely pleased with the Harrek stuff myself. The nice thing about the book is that its relatively HQ free and can be put out asap.

Pity we couldn't put in that duck-o-centric heroband. =)

Jeff

P.S. I know there is a difference between wacky and zany but I'll be damned if I can put it into words.