Fiery Dragon Productions is a role-playing game and wargame publisher.
History
editFiery Dragon Productions was formed by James Bell, Jason Kempton and Todd Secord in 2000 in Toronto.[1]: 226 These authors started the company to publish adventures for the D20 System, with their first adventure Nemoren's Vault (2000) being one of the earliest such adventures published.[1]: 226 Fiery Dragon published the adventures The Silver Summoning (2001) and To Stand on Hallowed Ground/Swords Against Deception (2001) by Mike Mearls and the company was invited to join the Sword & Sorcery imprint of White Wolf Publishing.[1]: 226 They were the fourth group to become part of the imprint, after Necromancer Games and the Sword & Sorcery Studios and ArtHaus divisions of White Wolf.[1]: 226 One of the first supplements from Fiery Dragon through Sword & Sorcery supported the first Rappan Athuk adventure (2001) from Necromancer Games, and Fiery Dragon kept working with Monte Cook through his company Malhavoc Press even after leaving Sword & Sorcery in 2002.[1]: 226
Fiery Dragon had begun by publishing adventures on its own and at Sword & Sorcery, but moved more toward publishing illustrated counters to represent characters and monsters, which they had begun including in Nemoren's Vault.[1]: 226 Fiery Dragon continued including counters with their adventures up through 2002 when they brought on artist Claudio Pozas.[1]: 226 Pozas could design counters that Fiery Dragon could publish in volume, starting with the Sword & Sorcery publication Counter Collection I: The Usual Suspects (2001), their first book to consist of nothing but counters and followed later by boxes and tins of counters.[1]: 226
Fiery Dragon was releasing almost entirely sets of counters by 2003 and 2004, including the publications Counter Collection 5: Summoned Creatures (2004) and Counter Collection Gold (2004), which between them depicted every one of the base Dungeons & Dragons 3.5e creatures.[1]: 226 All adventures published by Fiery Dragons as well as some Counter Collections were until 2004 set in their own campaign setting of Karathis.[1]: 226 Fiery Dragon resumed publications aside from counters in 2005 but moved away from using their setting Kerathis to instead publish licensed backgrounds.[1]: 226 Fiery Dragon had multiple licenses with Malhavoc Press, so they released both adventures and counters for Arcana Evolved (2005) and Ptolus (2006-2007).[1]: 226 Fiery Dragon also became the main publisher for the d20 Iron Heroes game (2005-2008).[1]: 226
Fiery Dragon published seventh edition Tunnels & Trolls (2005, 2008) as well as a Dungeons & Dragons fourth-edition book with updated statistics for the best creatures from the Creature Collection (2009) by White Wolf.[1]: 226 Fiery Dragon has also published several games in their series of "Counter Strike" mini-games.[1]: 226 Fiery Dragon resumed mostly publishing counters once D&D fourth edition was released.[1]: 226
Products
editKey products include:
- Tunnels & Trolls 30th Anniversary Edition
- Ptolus campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons
- Arcana Evolved campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons
- Iron Heroes campaign setting for Dungeons & Dragons
- Counterstrike Wargames line of small wargames.