

Its borders are fiercely guarded and foreigners looked upon unkindly.

People sometimes ask me questions like ‘ Does Crusader take place before S&S 3?’, or ‘ Did the hero from S&S 1 turn into Emperor Antares’, and I find I have to stop and think about these things – because until now, the world has been pretty loosely documented and mapped out.

There is, in fact, a whole world behind Swords and Sandals that was born in my mind but has started to ebb out into the greater community as the games increase in popularity. While they seem random, there is actually more to the games than first appears – those characters and locations actually have more to them. All good RPGs need a setting, a cast of characters and so on – even something as simple as the first Swords and Sandals had the island of Doomtrek, some pirates and 7 arena bosses with names like HeChaos and Wolfgang of Shackleford. Over many years of developing the Swords and Sandals series, a semblance of a story, characters and places has sprung up.
