Fiery Dragon Productions

Fiery Dragon Productions was formed by James Bell, Jason Kempton and Todd Secord in 2000 in Toronto.{{Cite book|author=Shannon Appelcline|title=Designers & Dragons|publisher=Mongoose Publishing|year=2011| isbn= 978-1-907702-58-7}}{{rp|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.{{rp|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.{{rp|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.{{rp|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.{{rp|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.{{rp|226}} Fiery Dragon continued including counters with their adventures up through 2002 when they brought on artist Claudio Pozas.{{rp|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.{{rp|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.{{rp|226}} All adventures published by Fiery Dragons as well as some Counter Collections were until 2004 set in their own campaign setting of Karathis.{{rp|226}} Fiery Dragon resumed publications aside from counters in 2005 but moved away from using their setting Kerathis to instead publish licensed backgrounds.{{rp|226}} Fiery Dragon had multiple licenses with Malhavoc Press, so they released both adventures and counters for Arcana Evolved (2005) and Ptolus (2006-2007).{{rp|226}} Fiery Dragon also became the main publisher for the d20 Iron Heroes game (2005-2008).{{rp|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.{{rp|226}} Fiery Dragon has also published several games in their series of "Counter Strike" mini-games.{{rp|226}} Fiery Dragon resumed mostly publishing counters once D&D fourth edition was released.{{rp|226}}

Key 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.

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