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Iron Kingdoms World Guide
« on: March 23, 2005, 02:50:06 AM »
Its out, its big 400+ pages and its almost completely crunch free. It'd be a cinch to adapt the Iron Kingdoms to your favorite system, GURPS, HERO, Fusion you name it. The Idea of a BESM version of the Iron Kingdoms has a lot of appeal.
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Re: Iron Kingdoms World Guide
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2005, 12:44:54 AM »
Have it.

Love it.

Converting it to Savage Worlds... :)
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Re: Iron Kingdoms World Guide
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2005, 12:53:38 AM »
Need review.
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Re: Iron Kingdoms World Guide
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2005, 01:25:28 AM »
Review will come once Privateer sends us the reveiw copy we asked for.
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Re: Iron Kingdoms World Guide
« Reply #4 on: March 24, 2005, 01:26:00 AM »
or when Pleasington and I review it... Since we have it...

Oddly... not much to review... cause its a 400 page world book with no rules in it.
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Re: Iron Kingdoms World Guide
« Reply #5 on: March 24, 2005, 01:27:11 AM »
Oh and Mr. P... I want your conversion notes :D
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Re: Iron Kingdoms World Guide
« Reply #6 on: March 24, 2005, 01:28:38 AM »
Well if they don't send us a review copy in the next few weeks that would be great Jeffe, I just like to wait for us to try and get things (especially when they've sent us stuff in the past) before doing a reveiw.
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Re: Iron Kingdoms World Guide
« Reply #7 on: March 24, 2005, 01:33:12 AM »
I know, it get us all more free stuff...

They may be in short supply, rumor is they are selling like hotcakes...

I still have to read it anyway.... 400 pages is a lot of game book.
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Re: Iron Kingdoms World Guide
« Reply #8 on: March 24, 2005, 01:42:27 AM »
Yep.  I can see why it's selling so well too, the core book is one of the best RPG books that has come out in recent years.
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Re: Iron Kingdoms World Guide
« Reply #9 on: March 24, 2005, 01:44:38 AM »
My initial review is that Iron Kingdoms is the best written and compelling campaign for D20 ever.
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Re: Iron Kingdoms World Guide
« Reply #10 on: March 24, 2005, 03:08:49 AM »
The history is certainly in depth.  Me gusta mucho.

I've been following the Iron Kingdoms since the first book of the Witchfire Trilogy gave us oh-so-scant info on a compelling settings.  This is the payoff.

That said, the design has changed a lot since the beginning.  There's a lot of little changes to even the most basic concepts.  Plus, the big climax of the Witchfire Trilogy, which is a pretty huge world-changing event, gets downgraded to a passing note in history since the miniture game has given birth to a war.

The theme has changed quite a bit because of the war too.  I think it would have served them better to set the World Guide before the war broke out.  That's really my one complaint.
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Re: Iron Kingdoms World Guide
« Reply #11 on: March 24, 2005, 09:01:09 AM »
There is, incidentally, still plenty to review in a setting book with few or no rules. You just don't review rules additions/changes.
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