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Had they released the Birthright stuff a bit slower, TSR may have survived longer, but considering they were hellbent on burying themselves in financial debt, I doubt it would have saved them.
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I instead stuck with my Ravenloft and Darksun settings and my already book shelf full of supporting material. I remember looking at the Birthright shelf at the store and thinking I would need to buy $200 worth of books and spend 6 months reading to play it. Unfortunately, most people were already invested in other settings and the already insane amount supplement material they had collected over the years. In addition, they supported a novel series. Nearly everything listed for Birthright came out within months of the base game. When Birthright came out, they published a ton supplement material with it. Birthright was going to be the setting that righted the ship. They were also publishing player compendiums like crazy, with novels being released on an almost monthly basis. At the time this came out, TSR was already supporting Forgotten Realms, Planescape, Ravenloft, and Dragonlance. Even know, I can't think of any game system that allows this sort of play. You can expect to build kingdoms, and defend it. The lands were divided and everyone is at war. Players were royalty, birthed with abilities from long dead heroes. It was intended to harken back to the old Chainmail days. People familiar with Eberron will notice some very similar themes in Birthright. This part of our work will never end.īirthright a very unique setting for DND, at least at the time. Dungeons & Dragons teaches that diversity is a strength, and we strive to make our D&D products as welcoming and inclusive as possible. This content is presented as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. Some older content may reflect ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice that were commonplace in American society at that time.

Can the forces he commands hold the enemy at bay? Or will the king awake at dawn to the pounding of battering rams and showers of deadly arrows? We (Wizards) recognize that some of the legacy content available on this website does not reflect the values of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise today. His court wizard wields powers that unnerve even the most seasonal warriors.

He has culled the best generals, captains, and troops from his land. As a damp breeze whips at his cloak, he contemplates the war. He can just make out the figures of his troops engaging the enemy in battle. This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).A king stands in the hight turret of his castle, squinting at the distant hills.
#Dungeons and dragons birthright campaign setting series#
He is also at the forefront of designing the series "Axis and Allies: War at Sea", a game of tactical World War II naval battles. He also answers questions about the Forgotten Realms at the Wizards website's forums - see the below external links. Rich is at the forefront of Wizards of the Coast's current range of Forgotten Realms and core Third Edition D&D accessory books, and author of several novels set in and below Faerûn. He's a fan of Golden Age SF and the Philadelphia Phillies. Rich lived in New Jersey, Virginia, Rhode Island, Virginia again, Louisiana, Virginia a third time, and Wisconsin, but now lives in Auburn, Washington, with his wife Kim, two daughters, and cats. In 1995 he won an Origins Award for Best New Role-Playing Supplement, for the Birthright campaign setting. Since joining TSR in 1991, Rich has worked on most of TSR's product lines at one point or another. He served as a deck officer on board the USS Tortuga and qualified as a Surface Warfare Officer before becoming a game designer. Rich originally lived on the Jersey shore, before graduating from Virginia Tech. He is also a member of the team developing D&D4. Richard Baker III, better known as Rich Baker, is a game designer who has worked on many campaign settings.
