Fiery Dragon Productions

Fiery Dragon Productions is a role-playing game and wargame publisher.

History

Fiery Dragon Productions was founded in Toronto in 2000 by authors James Bell, Jason Kempton and Todd Secord.[1]:226 They got into the business to publish d20 adventures and their first, Nemoren's Vault (2000), was an early entrant to the field.[1]:226 After publishing just two more adventures – The Silver Summoning (2001) and To Stand on Hallowed Ground/Swords Against Deception (2001), the latter by Mike Mearls – Fiery Dragon was invited to become a part of the Sword & Sorcery imprint at White Wolf.[1]:226 They were the fourth publisher in the imprint, following Necromancer Games and two White Wolf divisions, Sword & Sorcery Studios and ArtHaus.[1]:226 One of their early supplements offered some support for Necromancer Games' first Rappan Athuk adventure (2001) and even after Fiery Dragon left Sword & Sorcery in 2002, they continued working with Monte Cook's Malhavoc Press.[1]:226

Though Fiery Dragon got its start in adventures – and published a few more at Sword & Sorcery – they increasingly were moving toward publishing counters, which they had begun in their first adventure, Nemoren's Vault by including a few illustrated counters to represent characters and monsters.[1]:226 Fiery Dragon continued inserting counters into their adventures through 2002 but by that time they had retained the services of artist Claudio Pozas.[1]:226 Pozas allowed them to create counters in volume, and the result was Counter Collection I: The Usual Suspects (2001), a Sword & Sorcery publication and the first of many books (and later boxes and tins) that contained counters and nothing else.[1]:226

By 2003 and 2004, Fiery Dragon was publishing almost nothing but counters, and two publications at the time were Counter Collection 5: Summoned Creatures (2004) and Counter Collection Gold (2004), which together depicted the entire span of base 3.5e creatures.[1]:226 Prior to 2004, all of Fiery Dragons adventures – and some of their Counter Collections – were based in their own world of Karathis.[1]:226 In 2005, they returned to publishing things other than counters but instead of their traditional setting, they instead turned to licensed backgrounds.[1]:226 The majority of their licences were taken from Malhavoc Press, and Fiery Dragon thus put out adventures and counters for both Arcana Evolved (2005) and Ptolus (2006-2007).[1]:226 They also became the primary publisher for the Iron Heroes d20 game (2005-2008).[1]:226

Fiery Dragon also published the seventh edition of Tunnels & Trolls (2005, 2008) and a fourth-edition D&D book that updates the best of White Wolf's Creature Collection (2009).[1]:226 They have also published a number of "Counter Strike" mini-games.[1]:226 With the publication of D&D fourth edition, Fiery Dragon began mostly publishing counters once more.[1]:226

Products

Key products include:

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References
  1. Shannon Appelcline (2011). Designers & Dragons. Mongoose Publishing. ISBN 978-1-907702- 58-7.

Official website

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