5e, Pathfinder and Sword and Wizardy by Frog God Games is Amazing pieces of RPG awesomeness!
Orgionl Post from 04/2/2017 edited and updated on 5/28/2017
On the opening day of Gen Con 2000, Third Edition Dungeons
and Dragons was unveiled. That same day, Necromancer Games released The
Wizard’s Amulet, more or less the second OGL/D20 adventures Found Here Click Here (that’s another
discussion under Adventures R Us). I remember going this year and played the module with Bill Webb running from that point foreword I was hooked and became a fan of Necromancer Games Products.
When Necromancer, started working with other companies such as White Wolf, Judges Guild, and Kenzer and Company, became one of the most successful d20 companies. Their mega dungeon, Rappan Athak, is one of the best known Third Era adventures. The advent of Fourth Edition D&D spelled doom for Necromancer. However, when Co-founders Greg Vaughan and Bill Webb founded Frog God Games, it was clear to me that it was going to be a clear successor to Necromancer, as they published products for Paizo’s Pathfinder Found Here Click Here. Frog God produced new items and also updated old Necromancer goods as well, Pathfinderizing them.
Now it's an all new game with a successful Kick starter in 2014 which I was Homeless and penny less at the time missed out on but was glad it successfully funded as Necromancer Games Just Went Froggie and over the top. However I did link it in this blog hoping my readers who are gamers would back it.
With the advent of Fifth Edition D&D Found Here Click Here, Frog God is now publishing for both lines (in addition to retro-clone, Swords & Wizardry Found Here Click Here.). Necromancer and Frog God adventures and supplements had loosely been connected in that they took place in Webb’s personal campaign world which at conventions both of us were attending I got to play in his games.
Frog God is currently putting out that campaign world under the moniker of The Lost Lands and I am running the Hell of it for 2017. It is and has incorporated nearly everything ever produced by Necromancer and Frog God Games. Some products, such as their Judges Guild updates and the Hex Crawl Chronicles, belong to other folks and probably won’t be included. But if you look at the long list of products, there’s still an awful lot, including Gary Gygax’s under-appreciated Necropolis Found Here Click Here which I am planing to pick up at somepoint.
Lost Lands Razor Coast Found Here Click Here while the actual campaign book is available along with many other products on Frog God Games Website. They’ve been releasing Lost Lands modules, such as Stoneheart Valley Found Here Click Here (which contains my all-time favorite adventures to run for new players, Wizard's Amulet, Crucible of Freya and The Tomb of Abysthor is available to use with the Pathfinder Role Playing Game). Another Favorite of mine to run is The Lost City of Barakus all these and more are through Kickstarters in which I started backing. Recently, one of Necromancer’s long rumored projects, The Sword of Air, Found Here Click Here was also funded for The Lost Lands and is also available now on their website.
Meanwhile, newer products such as the kickstarted Rappan Athuk (for Pathfinder), the epic Slumbering Tsar series and the ill-fated but ultimately successful The Razor Coast, will all be part of this world. As well as a new set of books known as The Perilous Vistas line brings the great outdoors to life. Like their predecessors, the highly acclaimed Dunes of Desolation and Fields of Blood, a new kikcstater that fully funded takes the Mountains of Madness and Marshes of Malice are black and white, 225+ page supplements that build upon real world details and their gaming applications to provide all of the essentials and extras to run campaigns set in one of these remarkable biomes.
There are several other campaign worlds for Pathfinder, with Paizo’s own Golarion and Kobold Press’s Midgard two of the most popular. But with the back catalogue of Necromancer now available, the Frogs are adding to not only the impressive output of their Old Products but all of them are deliberately written by Frog God Games for each and every game system which means The Lost Lands Campaign looks to be awfully meaty now for which I am glad for.
Though some of it is a bit dark for me, as some material is not suited in my opionion for Public Play in my opinion the Blight and a few others should be reserved for your adult home game. However, Don't get me wrong as I’m a huge fan of Necromancer/Frog God: especially the history they’ve built into their products. And because one can never have enough monsters, you should check out their Tome of Horrors Complete Found Here Click Here: which include all three of their third edition Tome of Horrors books, Pathfinderized, with over 800 pages of monster goodness….err, badness. But that's not all their is a line of miniatures with a 3rd party company that successfully did another Kickstarter for the Line they are now Available at Pacesetter which features modules for many of today's most preferred fantasy RPGs including First Edition AD&D, Fifth Edition D&D, Swords & Wizardry, and the DCC RPG! Pacesetter Miniatures Line Can be Found Here Click Here
However let’s not forget the 5th Edition side of things as for me personally I am and have been running D&D sense 2014 when the Starter Box Set and Basic Rules set Came out for 5th Edition D&D came out by WotC which probably should be another blog post about "How I got back into gaming with 5th edition D&D". So let’s just say for now though I enjoyed some of the WotC products and leave it at that for now. You can see that in a Future Blog Post later on down the road.
However I always felt my games had lost something or was missing something special. Well not any more with a successful Kick starter re-launch of the Lost Lands Bards Gate with an updated map of the Gulf of Akados it has now became a reality for 5e, Pathfinder, and Sword and Wizardry. I was hell bent on running this in 2017 instead of WotC’s Storm Kings Thunder I was tired of AL League Rules not allowing certain things here and thier. Also my players wanted to paly something different that would allow them a bit more freedom to roleplay.
However now I am updated this Blog Post today 5/28/2017 to vent a little on Wizards Saying the only game in town on Wednesday nights should be D&D adventures league only. So I had to move to Bards Gate Lost Lands to Tuesday Nights at Isle of Games from 6:00 PM To 9:00 PM.
I Do recommend Bards Gate and 5th Edition foes book because these two Items can jump start an all new campaign in the Lost Lands Setting and if you’re a new GM be sure to download the free copy of wizards Amulet it is written for new and Old DM/GM’s alike.
Like I said earlier I’ve been a big fan of Necromancer Games ever since 3rd edition. They put out some really high quality material, most notably the Tome of Horrors monster book series, and Fifth Edition Foes is pretty much an update of that for the new edition of the game. Due to an old licensing agreement with Wizards of the Coast they were probably not able to put out a book like this before the official OGL is released (which was released in 2014).
Anyway, Fifth Edition Foes is a 259 page book that takes many of the older 1st edition monsters from the Fiend Folio and Monster Manual II and updates them to 5th edition. Also included are many original monsters from Tome of Horrors. It’s a smorgasbord of beasts and nastier creatures from 1st edition D&D updated for 5th Edition D&D which in my book is awesome with that said it manages to evoke the same sense of weirdness that The Fiend Folio was renown for back in the day.
Now they have an all new Kick starter out for the highly anticipated Starfinder by Paizo Found Here Click Here. Thier new moniker for this is take your fantasy to the stars with the Pathfinder Roleplay Game.
Well Guess what yep the Frogs are added again with Frog God Games is announcing an all new Kickstarter Frog God Games is excited to enlist your help in in this project to create our Starfinder Role playing Game Compatible Line of products! Which is found here and is avalible for pre order
Thanks for stopping by and reading this updated blog post I will continue to update this blog post as new Kickstarers come Available from Frog God Games with my reviews and opinions of them. Yours Captain Hedges
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