Quote from: Mistwell;637500I mentioned this product on EnWorld, and someone mentioned the Mahasarpa Campaign from WOTC.  Anyone heard anything about that?

Do you have a link to the thread on enworld?

Quote from: RPGPundit;637525Do you have a link to the thread on enworld?

We talked about James Wyatt's Mahasarpa campaign, Donna Fitch’s The Land of 1,000 Cities and Michael J. Varhola and Alejandro Melchor’s  Dhanurvidya & Varman way back in your My India Game thread. If folks bring these up, Butcher and I talk about them some.  Of these, only The Land of 1,000 Cities is a full setting supplement.  None of them are stand alone games, as Arrows of Indra.  They all could be used to pull ideas for an Arrows of Indra campaign, though.  The Land of 1,000 Cities and Dhanurvidya & Varman are available at rpgnow.

Edit: I'll just quote The Butcher and myself here to avoid the need to scan through that old thread.

Kuroth: “Donna K. Fitch wrote a few India base setting supplements for D&D 3 through her setting, Sahasra, The Land of 1,000 Cities. You may be able to touch base with her about the net for ideas. Sahasra has a focus on the alignments of the setting in a few supplements.

 Michael J. Varhola and Alejandro Melchor wrote Dhanurvidya & Varman, and I find it to be very good for its focus. It provides all the character aspects one would need to set up a D&D 4 campaign for the setting. It doesn’t provide much setting detail over all, though. I find this ok, since I am able to cover the setting details, much as you do Pundit. It provides good coverage of weapons of subcontinent ancient cultures.” Post #25 My India Game

The Butcher: “I also remember that, in the days of 3.0e, WotC actually published a South Asian fantasy (Mahasarpa) on its website, that used both core and 3.0e Oriental Adventures sourcebook (underrated book, BTW), with the names changed where appropriate (e.g. Samurai became Kshatriya, Barbarian became Singh Rager, Monk became Sadhu or Yogi or whatever, etc.). IIRC it was actually a campaign run and played by WotC employees at the time.” Post #28 My India Game

Quote from: RPGPundit;637525Do you have a link to the thread on enworld?

Sure, here:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?335217-Arrows-of-Indra-D-amp-D-in-Mythic-India

Quote from: Kuroth;637529We talked about James Wyatt's Mahasarpa campaign, Donna Fitch's The Land of 1,000 Cities and Michael J. Varhola and Alejandro Melchor's  Dhanurvidya & Varman way back in your My India Game thread. If folks bring these up, Butcher and I talk about them some.  Of these, only The Land of 1,000 Cities is a full setting supplement.  None of them are stand alone games, as Arrows of Indra.  They all could be used to pull ideas for an Arrows of Indra campaign, though.  The Land of 1,000 Cities and Dhanurvidya & Varman are available at rpgnow.

Edit: I'll just quote The Butcher and myself here to avoid the need to scan through that old thread.

Kuroth: "Donna K. Fitch wrote a few India base setting supplements for D&D 3 through her setting, Sahasra, The Land of 1,000 Cities. You may be able to touch base with her about the net for ideas. Sahasra has a focus on the alignments of the setting in a few supplements.

 Michael J. Varhola and Alejandro Melchor wrote Dhanurvidya & Varman, and I find it to be very good for its focus. It provides all the character aspects one would need to set up a D&D 4 campaign for the setting. It doesn't provide much setting detail over all, though. I find this ok, since I am able to cover the setting details, much as you do Pundit. It provides good coverage of weapons of subcontinent ancient cultures." Post #25 My India Game

The Butcher: "I also remember that, in the days of 3.0e, WotC actually published a South Asian fantasy (Mahasarpa) on its website, that used both core and 3.0e Oriental Adventures sourcebook (underrated book, BTW), with the names changed where appropriate (e.g. Samurai became Kshatriya, Barbarian became Singh Rager, Monk became Sadhu or Yogi or whatever, etc.). IIRC it was actually a campaign run and played by WotC employees at the time." Post #28 My India Game

That's all well and good; I was mostly curious to see where on ENworld they were talking about AoI.

Quote from: Mistwell;637546Sure, here:

http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?335217-Arrows-of-Indra-D-amp-D-in-Mythic-India

Thanks!

RPGPundit

EDIT: Man that's a sad thread.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised, in spite of how much success AoI has already had (huge initial sales, top 10 of RPGnow since its first day to the present, and over 100 people immediately joining up to its G+ community), that neither RPGNet or Enworld seem very eager to talk about it.

Quote from: RPGPundit;637561That's all well and good; I was mostly curious to see where on ENworld they were talking about AoI.

For sure.  I was scrounging around looking for adventure ideas, and I recalled those myself anyway.  So, thought I would mention the difference between those and Arrows of Indra, since it was brought up.  Comparing these to Arrows of Indra would be like comparing an adventure or campaign publication to a full game.  Donna did some cool things, though.  I have a bunch of Hero 5 things I never use, sort of regret buying them really, and Asian Bestiary Volume 1 contains 17 creatures and adversaries that are pulled from subcontinent legends.  So, another role-play game place to pull ideas for Arrows of Indra campaigns.

Quote from: RPGPundit;637562Thanks!

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EDIT: Man that's a sad thread.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised, in spite of how much success AoI has already had (huge initial sales, top 10 of RPGnow since its first day to the present, and over 100 people immediately joining up to its G+ community), that neither RPGNet or Enworld seem very eager to talk about it.

It probably triggers one of the mysterious taboos on enworld that seem to infest the place, as Melan was talking about earlier. As for the other site, well it hardly seems surprising. You bring out an excellent (from what I've seen of it) professional publication, they've nothing to say. You should try an advert for it on the top as was done previously.

Quote from: RPGPundit;637562Thanks!

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EDIT: Man that's a sad thread.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised, in spite of how much success AoI has already had (huge initial sales, top 10 of RPGnow since its first day to the present, and over 100 people immediately joining up to its G+ community), that neither RPGNet or Enworld seem very eager to talk about it.

Enworld's forums are a shadow of their former self. There's not a lot of traffic on them, period.

I was shocked when I went back there after 5e was announced (I left shortly after 4e was announced)

Quote from: JeremyR;637589Enworld's forums are a shadow of their former self. There's not a lot of traffic on them, period.

I was shocked when I went back there after 5e was announced (I left shortly after 4e was announced)

Yeah, really seems like it.  While I tend to browse through rpgnet every few days (though rarely doing anything more than glancing at the thread titles), I can go months without looking at ENworld at all, so its a bit of a shock to me the state of decline, which seems to have accelerated sharply in the last while...

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Oh! I'd been excitedly awaiting this and it seems to have arrived when I wasn't looking.
I jumped on it right away and though I've only had a quick scan through so far it looks excellent!

Congrats to all for getting it done!

I don't know if this is intentional or not but I checked the properties of the PDF and it states the author as (sic) "RPGPundint"

Quote from: fellowhoodlum;637843I don't know if this is intentional or not but I checked the properties of the PDF and it states the author as (sic) "RPGPundint"

Thanks for the heads up. I certainly hope Brendan can get that corrected...

Actually, its too much work to get it corrected. Its just the PDF properties. I'm not so proud that I think we need to reupload everything for a single typo almost no one will read.

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EDIT: Man that's a sad thread.  I guess I shouldn't be surprised, in spite of how much success AoI has already had (huge initial sales, top 10 of RPGnow since its first day to the present, and over 100 people immediately joining up to its G+ community), that neither RPGNet or Enworld seem very eager to talk about it.

You spend years berating rpg.net, and you really wonder why they're not rushing over themselves to applaud you.

Hmm.

Certainly couldn't have been anything you did, oh no.

Thread got a little more traction over at CircvsMaximvs.com .