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[TAG] Hellfrost: Land of Fire - Kickstarter!
Author: Paul "Wiggy" Wade-Williams
Pages: 192+ pages full color HC settingbook
Price: Kickstarter pledge (until December 7th, 2012)

Welcome, oh noble stranger, to a land of flying carpets, bound jinn, glittering palaces, scheming wizirs, regal sphinxes, and trap-laden tombs bloated with fabulous treasure!

Freed from enslavement under the jinn five centuries ago by Suleiman the Great, the races of Al-Shirkuh, the Land of Fire, have prospered. Here, amid the endless sands and crumbling ruins of long-forgotten empires, stand glittering cities and verdant oases.



But Al-Shirkuh is changing. The temperature grows colder, the rains fall less often, and the desert is encroaching on the fertile lands. The jinn, once defeated, are gathering their strength; fire giants are raiding with impunity; the naga have returned to reclaim their homeland; and the withered undead of Hekata stir in their majestic pyramids. Soothsayers bemoan the multitudinous dark omens, and silently pray for intrepid heroes to right the many wrongs that have befallen the land.



Our Kickstarter Campaign Starts Here!



Triple Ace Games is looking for your support to make Hellfrost Land of Fire a reality. We've made a good start on the project, Wiggys written the manuscript and we have planned the art and made a start on the book layout and design. But with your support we can get this project done much, much quicker!

Rewards

With your support we will shower you with a host of limited edition goodies! We think there is something here for novices to the world of Hellfrost plus plenty of new and exciting rewards for long time players of Hellfrost and fans of Triple Ace Games. Most of the reward levels which have PDF's will be loaded onto a cool customized USB card! For more information on the project and to see the rewards please check out the Kickstarter Land of Fire webpage - please pledge today!

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Below is a quick freebie.

The Emir’s Camel

A favorite story among the citizens of Salih, City of Fire, is The Tale of the Emir’s Camel. In this tale, Emir Abbas went out into the desert on his favorite camel. On the way back to the city the camel sprained its leg and could not walk. Without pausing, Abbas lifted the camel onto his shoulders and walked back to his palace. By the time he reached the gates, he was exhausted, badly sunburned, and dehydrated.

When his advisors saw this they said to him, “Lord, why do you carry this camel?” Abbas smiled and replied, “I am the emir. I carry the weight of the entire city on my shoulders each day. The weight of one camel is refreshingly light.”

Then the courtiers said, “Lord, you should have killed the camel to save yourself the burden,” to which Abbas replied, “A man who kills a friend who has failed him once soon has no friends.”

Then the courtiers said, “Lord, you are wealthy beyond measure and could have bought a thousand new camels.” Abbas turned and replied, “Save one creature’s life and he is your friend for eternity. Buy a creature’s life and he will only feign friendship.”

At this the courtiers finally fell silent.

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IF Land of Fire goes ahead then you can also look forward to Realm Guides. The following ones serve as a teaser, and to show that we have products ready to roll out IF we're supported by you.

#0: The Bedu
#1: Hekata
#2: Jinn Lands of Old
#3: Great Northern Desert
#4: Great Southern Desert
#5: Southern Ocean
#6: Heart of Fire
#7: Salt Basin
#8: Empty Zone
#9: Great Dune Sea
#10: Plains of Ash
#11: The Grazelands
#12: The Mirrorsands
#13: Jadid, City of Trade
#14: The Scorpion Lands
#15: Salt Marsh
#16: Realm of the Medusae
#17: Snakelands of Old
#18: Jubbah, City of Monkeys

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Land of Fire - Free Sampler!

So we've had a really good start to our Kickstarter campaign and we have just exceeded the 40% funded mark! We thank all those backers so far but we still have some way to go. In this weeks update we take a closer look at Land of Fire and Wiggy has put together a 14 page sampler which gives a little bit more detail about this amazing new setting book!

You can download the sampler here for free!

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LANDS OF FIRE IST DURCH!

Hellfrost: Lands of Fire hat heute mittag das gesetzte Ziel überschritten. Aktueller Stand (5.12.12 21:45 Uhr) sind £9931 (104%) im Pott, bei rund 36 Std Restlaufzeit.

Die Jungs sind schon am überlegen, was sie nach dem Ende und der Pledgebereinigung nun genau als nachträgliche Stretchgoals reinpacken werden.

[Zoidberg]

gut so.

[Kardohan]

Aktueller Stand: £10827 bei 4 Std Restzeit

Offizielle Antwort bzgl. Stretchgoal:

We'll be announcing a stretch goal when we reach the target for that goal. Not far off now. A little backward to normal we know, but our primary concern is securing sufficient funding to actually produce the book -- we may be over the required amount, but the safety net between success and failure remains slim.

We have everyone's contact details, so if we get a last minute spurt of pledges we can retrograde rewards.

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[TAG] Hellfrost - Land of Fire: New Races

Back when the kickstarter for land of fire was going I made a deal with you that if we got Land of Fire to be a "go", that you would provide a brief description of the new races so I could start integrating them into the ports and what not.

I've been anxiously awaiting this for almost a month now. Figured this could serve as my "poke" on the topic.

Here ya go, Mac!

Cakali -- bipedal jackals; nomadic race. See free preview for full details.

Element-Touched -- broad name. Devoted call them jinn blooded, while Faithful call them god touched. Admired, respected, feared, and hated in equal measure. Humans with very basic innate elemental control. Not a true race, as they must still be Bedu or Hadaree in origin.

Human (Bedu) -- nomads.

Human (Hadaree) -- generic title meaning "person of the town." Basically covers any non-nomad. This is not a unique culture, but rather an umbrella term for all settled people.

Hyaenidae -- bipedal hyenas. Family-oriented nomadic scavengers with a bad reputation among other races.

Sand Goblins -- short, hairy, splayed feet, have a hump like a camel. Lazy, thievish race considered untrustworthy by others.

And that's your lot.

Why 2 anthropomorphic canines ( not others ie snake, lizard, crocodile, birds of prey etc) and no demihuman variants?
Not many human variants either?

( not criticizing just wondering about the thought/ design process)

That's just what came to mind when I was writing. There are lizardmen, gatormen, ophidae (snakemen), and minotaurs, but they're bad guys.

(Anmerkung: Hyänen sind trotz ihres Aussehens Katzenartige. Demnach gibt es genau genommen, nur die hundeartigen Cakali)

[...]

Probably worth adding something about religion, since it effectively doubles the amount of races (as major viewpoints change depending on one's beliefs).

• Faithful worship the 13 gods (and lots of minor ones) and disdain magic.
• Devoted follow a philosophy rather than gods, and openly acknowledge magic as a spiritual (but not Spirit-based) path.
• You cannot follow both creeds.
• You cannot follow neither creed.
• You cannot be a Faithful mage.
• You cannot be a Devoted cleric.
• Both creeds honor Suleiman as the father of their belief system.

These are immutable facts in canonical Al-Shirkuh.

What happens in your game is up to you.

So are the Bedu, Hadaree, and Element-Touched all different races with different race abilities, or are the Bedu and Hadaree more like cultural differences like Saxa and Anari

Bedu and Hadaree are humans with cultural differences, like Anari and Saxa. Element-touched are essentially human, but come with a few tweaks, and have their own specific entry rather than being listed under Humans.

Minotaurs? as in Camel-Men or Bovine-men?

Bovine (hence "taurs"). Desert centaurs are camel-related, rather than horse-related.
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