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JRRT
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posted October 23, 2002 04:49 PM
I am new to
this board, so please forgive my ignorance if this subject has
been addressed many times over. It seems that WOTC hasn't done
much to support this game, other than one supplement. Are
there more supplements forthcoming? Or is this going the way
of the "old" TSR RPGs (Alternity anyone)...?
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Harkael
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posted October 23, 2002 04:59 PM
Excellent
question, and im sure it has been asked before, but I myself
dont know so hopefully one of our more knowledgable members
will pipe up so you and i can get some answers. It just feels
like there should be another books worth of info to really
flesh it out. But i guess i'll just have to dig out those
heavy novels again, cause i dont think WOTC or Jordan are
gonna put any more into
it.
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Mao
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posted October 23, 2002 06:03 PM
It's out of
print and unsupported as far as I know.
They're not
putting anything else out for it.
It'd be awfully nice
if they open source it and let D20 companies make stuff, and
possibly put out some errata
-Mao
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The True Adolf
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posted October 23, 2002 06:08 PM
It would be
nice, but ,unfortunately, that does not seem to stand a
whelk's chance in supernova of ever seeing the light of day up
high at Wizards. Too bad. I guess it's their loss! ![[Big Grin]](Wizards_Com Boards Is WOTC still supporting this game_fichiers/biggrin.gif)
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Wowbangers the
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posted October 23, 2002 06:20 PM
Alas,
Wizards did discontinue WoT, it was just one of those 'lets
give it a shot for a year' games. But it has a rabid fan base
who, if you are looking for errata, alternate rules, or just
about anything else, more than likely have it on there sites.
And there has already been one major netbook released, called
Under the Dragons Banner, which you can find at various sites
(most of which escape my memory at the moment. I think that
Call of the Horn, and the Tower Library both have the book on
their site, and if not, they have links. and if you can't find
those sites, they have links in random posts concering UtDB).
I hope that this helped .
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Xythlord
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posted October 23, 2002 08:13 PM
Wizards
signed on with Tor books and Robert Jordan to do a two book
deal for the Wheel of Time and turn it into a RPG using the
D20 rules. They made the Corebook and then the Prophicies of
the Dragon as those two books, thus ending their contract with
Tor. It seems both parties were pleased with the results and
content to let things stand with that.
Since that
time, the WoT game has recieved absolutely no support from
WotC, but a particularly rabid fanbase (myself included ) have created a great many weaves;
ter'angreal, feats, and most recently Prestige classes.
Many of these have been made to more closely follow the
novels. You can pick up a lot of very cool stuff at the
following sites
Prestige classes - Xarmania
Netbook and other coolness - Call of
the Horn Tower Library Weaves from an older
contest - Stasis Box and finally two newer sites
with some good stuff on them Shadow's
Waiting and Children of the Dragon
So to answer
your question, yes it is going the way of Alternity, you will
not see any official support from WotC in the near future (if
ever), but take what you like and contribute what you can to
this board, and enjoy the game as much as we do.
P.S.
-We were all new to these boards at some point in time.
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Tomanta
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posted October 24, 2002 04:30 AM
A little
correction. Their license with TOR was NOT limited to two
books - and it included miniatures. At least, that's what was
announced by WotC.
At the same time, from the very
beginning they've said they would only do two
books.
Two books were probably required by the license,
otherwise we might have never seen them at all. Given the
editing problems, especially in the main book, I doubt it was
a priority for WotC. But that's speculation.
Given the
layoffs at WotC over the last year, I seriously doubt we'll
ever see anything for WoT again. Even Star Wars has been cut
to almost nothing - future books for that line will probably
be written by freelancers and edited by a WotC staffer
[speculation by.. some past/present WotC employee that I saw
at EN World. They are down now so I can't look it
up].
[I've been following this game since Precedence
was working on it. Yes, an RPG (Discovered that a couple of
months prior to the CCG release). Before they cut their RPG
department and put WotC in touch with TOR
:].
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Library The Weave, a Wheel of Time MUD
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ranix65
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posted October 24, 2002 10:37 AM
I'm gonna
pick up the Core Rulebook, in what ways is it different from
regular vanilla D&D, I've heard that the magic system is
different, if it is, I might buy it just for that(the regular
system gets me a bit frustrated
sometimes).
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Harkael
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posted October 24, 2002 10:55 AM
Besides all
the background information (its nice to get an overview of a
country without having to read a novel) it provides slight
revamps of some of the reg. classes and some new ones to fit
the setting. The magic system is significantly different from
the dnd one. Different monsters and that sort of thing. Worth
a look at least
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WizO_Autumn
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posted October 24, 2002 04:43 PM
Ok, before
I say this remember that I'm just another fan like you who
moderates the boards for CoC violations. I do not work for
WotC or have anything offical to say.
At GenCon this
past August I had the priviledge to talk to a guy who was
involved with the making of WoT. It was really cool. I told
him I moderated this board and he opened up. Said that WotC
had a time limit to decide if they would continue WoT material
(which had to be made before the final product was out) and by
the time they saw how much potential there was in it and how
popular it could be it was too late. They had a budget and had
to stick to it. Simple buisness techniques.
I thought
it was cool that at least WotC saw that they were cutting the
product short and that they made a mistake. But this was only
one guy. :shrug: It made me feel better.
I do have to
agree that the fans have really shown through though and the
fan based material is simply amazing. There is such a wealth
of information on WoT out there not much more is
needed.
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Melriken
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posted October 24, 2002 09:20 PM
quote:
Originally posted by WizO_Autumn: I do
have to agree that the fans have really shown through though
and the fan based material is simply amazing. There is such
a wealth of information on WoT out there not much more is
needed.
I would have to agree with that, what I have read of
the fan material, a lot of it is good. Still it would be nice
to have some official stuff, especially once the books are
done, if we could get some of the stuff like stats for the
forsaken (official ones) and possibly some game stuff (PrC,
Feats, and weaves) for off time settings, like the AoL or
stuff like that...
you would think that WotC could
negotiate a new contract with TOR for a second set of books
and what not... both companys would probably be happy with
it... *shrug* oh well
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LuciusT
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posted October 25, 2002 05:18 AM
quote:
Originally posted by ranix65: I'm gonna
pick up the Core Rulebook, in what ways is it different from
regular vanilla D&D, I've heard that the magic system is
different, if it is, I might buy it just for that(the
regular system gets me a bit frustrated
sometimes).
For an overview of the magic system check out the
thread: Should I buy this?
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Melriken
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posted October 25, 2002 09:39 AM
quote:
Originally posted by LuciusT:
quote:
Originally posted by ranix65: I'm gonna
pick up the Core Rulebook, in what ways is it different
from regular vanilla D&D, I've heard that the magic
system is different, if it is, I might buy it just for
that(the regular system gets me a bit frustrated
sometimes).
For an overview of the magic system check out the
thread: Should I buy this?
please provide links when referencing other threads, or
atleast URLs Should I buy
this?
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Eosin_the_Red
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posted October 25, 2002 01:14 PM
quote:
if we
could get some of the stuff like stats for the forsaken
(official ones) and possibly some game stuff (PrC, Feats,
and weaves) for off time settings, like the AoL or stuff
like that...
Problem with that is that Jordon will not let anyone
officially stat up the forsaken - He wants and needs free
reign to pull whatever monkey he needs out of his hat to make
the story go. FREX - the city sheilding ter'angrael, that flew
strait out of RJ's......pen. He needed something, so he wrote
it in. If things start getting cemented in endorsed products
then you end up with a SW situation. "This official product
never occurs in the official time line - " Then the whole
cannon-not-cannon arguement
I doubt that he would let anyone pen in
something during the AoL for much the same
reason.
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