Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 26 Jun 2002 to 27 Jun 2002 (#2002-165) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 28/06/2002, 17:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There is one message totalling 53 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Fiends of Mystara ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:01:32 EDT From: Alex Benson Subject: Re: Fiends of Mystara Thanks DM for the info. One thing I tried to put into my M-PS project was a strange rivalry between the entropic Immortals and the actual Fiends. Mystara was isolated as a private playground of sorts for the Immortals with limited celestial and fiendish activity. The fiends had a strange outlook on Alphaks. They saw him as a wanna-be fiend. Some found humor in this, others saw him as a travesty to true fiends. The Balor over the tieflings sent to Glantri in M-PS crossover material dispised Alphaks and was set upon undermining his grasp. Note I said undermine and not destroy him. Undermining him would open up more of the fiendish. Strangely, Alphaks tries to cater to the visiting fiends, but finds his approaches rebuked. The immediate plans for this tieflingfling expedition are multi-faceted. First, they were sent to settle accounts with mortals establishing pacts with fiends. Second, they are to desensitize the locals to the idea of fiends among them. Glantri was chosen for their current adoration of monsters and the legal status of clergy. Third, open a base of operations on Mystara from Glantri. Long term plans are maintain a power base and incorporate Mystara as part of their "farm system" for combatants in the Blood War. In doing so, they feel thta they must remove all other attributes that defile and corrupt so that such practices will be focused upon them and away from the Sphere of Entropy. This will include removal/underming of Glantri's bad guys...or at least recruitment. The fiends are content to focus upon the rival chaos and evil entities. Goodness and law are to be left alone as long as they do not interfere. This is a symbolic spin off of the Blood War. Fighting the Blood War takes precedence. M-PS is not set as a means for the Fiends to overrun Mystara. Instead, it is set as campaign material for crossover adventures between the two campaign settings. This will open up gaming to new creatures, new villains, new treasures, and new powers. The threat of fiendish hordes and Blood War are ever present but rarely come into actual play on Mystara itself. I have since added another module to my workload for the NWN Toolset. This one is the tiefling stronghold within Glantri City. This manor house includes a portal to the fiend's stronghold for some planar adventuring. ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 26 Jun 2002 to 27 Jun 2002 (#2002-165) ****************************************************************