Question on your Sword and Caravan supplement comment, is it going to cover a specific period or topic, whereas the original book is a more high level overview? I'm really curious about the setting, but I was trying to see if I could get some players together for L&D/DA first.
I'm a bit confused about this question. Which Sword & Caravan supplement comments were you referring to?
I've made one supplement (Social Encounters), and working on another (the NPC book).
I meant your upcoming book, and to clarify, what I’m essentially asking is if S&C is a separate system from Lion & Dragon, and generally what the content is. I have the Social Encounters release, which I like, but it more rule mechanics rather than setting. Dark Albion covers things like geography, society, NPCs, etc. and I wasn’t sure if S&C was like that, or was intended to be a standalone system. Hope that clarifies!
Ok, so I'm still a little confused, here.
There's Lion & Dragon, which is the main RPG rulebook. Available for years now:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/226022/Lion--DragonThen there's Sword & Caravan, ALSO ALREADY OUT (it sounds like you don't know this) for several months now. It is not "my upcoming book", it is a book that is already here.
It is a setting book, like Dark Albion was a setting book. It describes the region of the middle east/levant/Holy Land and the Silk Road and all its cities, cultures, magic, monsters and political intrigues for the period from 1190-1220, including the 3rd and 5th Crusades. You can get it here:
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/395637/Sword--CaravanThird, Social Encounters, which you say you already bought. Ostensibly done for Sword & Caravan but really a set of social mechanic rules that are usable for Lion & Dragon or any other OSR RPG, building a set of mechanics from the OSR "reaction roll rules" to let the DM determine particular outcomes for a variety of different kinds of social interactions (like Bribery, Impersonation, Debate, Intimidation, etc):
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/405845/Social-EncountersFinally, my upcoming book, still without a name (I'm calling it "the NPC book" for now), which will have biographies and stats for all the historical characters mentioned in Sword & Caravan, as well as a few other goodies (the assassin class, because people wouldn't shut up about that, plus Song Dynasty grenades and incendiary bombs).