At Final Redoubt Press, we wish to bring high-quality e-products into the hands of gamers who need them. Starting with characters who might very well know little or nothing about the world they explore, players can discover Meridrin even as the story unfolds. With each new adventure, player and character alike will discover a world rich in excitement and adventure, a world as intriguing as their GM can make.

We are aware that many different games progress at many different rates. Some groups play almost every day and some fight to meet once a month. Therefore we’ve tried to devise this world and this series for any rate of play.

Each adventure is designed for characters of a certain level. A GM need only adjust the rate of experience game to meet the needs of his group. If a group can play an entire adventure in one weekend and that leaves three more until the next product releases, then the GM need only match the experience gain to move hand in hand with this pace. In the meantime, he will find adventure seeds in every product that will allow the characters to explore the world around them until they are ready to explore the next episode of the series.

For more on gauging experience given, see the accompanying adventure.

We’ve all been there. A GM tries to plan out his next adventure, and although he can find many things that seem intriguing inside the game world, he has no idea which will be revealed in future source books. If he answers a mystery now, will he have continuity problems if the answer doesn’t match a future one forthcoming from the publisher?

There are two types of hooks in Echoes of Heaven. World Threads are little intrigues about the world itself. Some of these will be explained to the GM, some will be withheld for future revelation. However, since these are world elements not marked as adventure seeds, the GM knows that they might be expanded in the future. He can still play with them and even change and reveal them, but he knows the risks of conflict with future supplements if he does.

The second type are adventure seeds. These are puzzles, hooks and problems that we at Final Redoubt Press promise to never explore. If we state in and adventure seed that no King of Ludremon has ever reached an age more advanced than 35 years, a GM knows that he can build adventures, intrigues, even entire campaigns around this puzzle, and we will never do anything to dispute the answers that arise at his table.

That is not to say that a GM can’t touch world threads, just that he should know the risk. Anything he does with a world thread might invalidate future material.

Echoes of Heaven contains stats for four different games. We at Final Redoubt Press purposely chose these games for their compatibility, as far as storytelling goes. Each of these games have the same general levels of power and abilities for the major classes or professions. Mages in all four have similar spells and clerics in all four have similar divine powers.

This means that we can weave a story without worrying about whether or not a mage can cast a fireball in all three systems. We can provide a GM with everything he needs to run his game and he can do that with his own house rules and his own style of game play. As much as possible, we don’t intend to get in the way.

This isn’t saying that we won’t add optional abilities or even change the ways that some things work. That’s necessary in all game worlds. It just means that we won’t stumble all over ourselves because a d20 bard can do a bit more with illusions than a Rolemaster bard. Each game group should play the game the way they like to play it.

This product provides everything that a gaming group needs to run a campaign in Meridrin. In addition to giving an overview of the world, it contains a more in depth exploration of the country of Ludremon, a ready made adventuring ground, rife with trouble and intrigue.

Future expansions will details other areas of the game world, but with this product a GM has everything he needs to start a long and healthy campaign.