SotSM and Re: Dragon 315 Revists Old Settings

I don't really have a problem with SotSM, I use Pyrespace as a Sphere in my
game, and I use many of the feats and such. I just hope that there is SJ
content because I can always use more source material. After all, I am going
to pick and choose what I utilize anyway. As to going "back to the roots,"
they may be generic articles, or they may be genuinely useful pieces updated
to the new ruleset. It is, to my mind, useless to pan something sight
unseen.
I fail to understand the emotion here. If you don't like it, don't use it. I
for one would be glad of anything that puts SJ in the eyes of those who are
unfamiliar with it, any chance of getting a new generation of people
interested in the setting helps push towards truly reviving it rather than
sustaining it.
BTW, anyone have ideas or knowledge about the status of the rights to the
setting? The time is ripe for an independent d20 publisher to try to revive
it, perhaps some of us...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Night_Druid" <Night_Druid@??????????.net>
To: <SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Dragon 315 Revists Old Settings


> > On Nov 8, 2003, at 11:25 AM, Sebastian Lucier wrote:
> >
> > > Greyhawk by Erik Mona - Resident Greyhawk guru Erik Mona gives us
> > > dozens of regional feats for the Greyhawk setting, usable whether you
> > > play in Oerth or not.
> >
> > Erik Mona was one of the pair that redid SJ for Polyhedron (the other
> > being Andy Collins, the Archnemesis). Let's hope Erik's article on
> > Greyhawk keeps him to busy to work on the SJ article, and that Andy is
> > out with a bladder infection.
> >
> > That will help the chances of having a good article on SJ.
>
>     You do realize that if they do anything for SJ (which is pretty
> unlikely; they'd have named it if they were), it'd probably be more feats
> for SotSM.
>
>     Anyways, what I find really strange is that the headline is "back to
the
> roots of D&D", and the articles are feats and such!  Somehow, feats !=
roots
> of D&D in my mind.  Sounds more like they had a bunch of generic articles
> but didn't have a theme, so they slapped a little flavor text on them to
> give the month a theme.  What would have been nice would have been to give
a
> summary of each world and what it was about, rather than recycle the same
> articles with different names. :(
>
>     Ah well, not my problem.  I haven't gotten Dragon in over a year, same
> with Dungeon (except for the gith issue; must be honest ;) ).
>
> Adam
>
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