Kara-Tur: Encyclopedia II - Kara-Tur - Versions

Kara-Tur - Versions

Originally a stand-alone campaign setting, by 1988 it was combined by TSR with the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. In that year TSR released a boxed set with 2 books detailing the campaign setting & maps.

In 1989 a printing of Trail Maps for Kara-Tur appeared.

In 1990 the maps were again included in the Forgotten Realms Atlas. Later that year TSR gave the monsters for Kara-Tur a proper treatment for Second Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the Monstrous Compendium series.

After 1990 Kara-Tur was a mostly discarded campaign setting. With only a few mentions in cross-over products such as Spelljammer & Ravenloft, plus a few mentions in other Forgotten Realms products and Dragon Magazine articles.

With the release of Third Edition Dungeons & Dragons with new owners, Wizards of the Coast decided to do a proper treatement for Oriental Adventures. All the character classes, monsters, spells, weapons and feats were converted to Third edition format, but this time with the campaign world being Rokugan, the setting for AEG's Legend of the Five Rings.

The setting of Kara-Tur still exists on Toril and is often mentioned. Characters and artifacts from Kara-Tur sometimes show up in Faerun, but beyond that there is little interaction between the continents.

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