Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 15 Feb 2002 to 16 Feb 2002 (#2002-47) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 17/02/2002, 19:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 6 messages totalling 227 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. D&D Cyclopedia Errata (Classic/Basic D&D) 2. Herve...MA Events 3. OD&DITIES Submissions 4. The Torpin (was: Herve...MA Events) 5. Size of the Old World (2) ******************************************************************** 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: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 20:37:10 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Havard=20Faanes?= Subject: Re: D&D Cyclopedia Errata (Classic/Basic D&D) --- "Jenni A. M. Merrifield" wrote: > Thanks for posting this Havard!!! Did the author > indicate whether > there was an "always up to date" version of the file > kept online > anywhere? I'd suggest this is something that, at > the very least, the > Vaults of Pandius might want to link to if there is. No problem :) It is archived at: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JasonMacInnes/ Havard ______________________________________________________ Sjekk snørapporter... fra 500 ski-destinasjoner i Europa på http://no.snow.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:07:47 EST From: Alex Benson Subject: Re: Herve...MA Events <<>BTW Herve, any idea when the events are going to be released. I have been out of the Mystaran Loop for a while (real life stuff). I may have missed a projected Event Date though. It's weird not being involved in the Almanac. It will be interesting to read it as a normal reader instead of a contributor and just glad the ordeal is over. The Atlas is out, but the Events haven't been released yet. Probably sometime next month. Then there will be an Adventure book, shortly after.>> ok. i have read over some of the atlas already. it looks pretty good. i think you got rid of the Allstrick related reports. they were only meant for a single year anyway. Anyway, i am interested in seeing what will happen to my former babies. ironically, i am most curious about my former HW charges than the NACE ones. And the undead plague of the Alpher Sea. I am interested in seeing what you guys have done with that. <<>While I am at it, howabout a bit of applause for Herve, Geoff, and the rest of the Almanac folks. That's a tough job to tackle. I'd still like to do an expose on the Almanac to let the readership know the effort that goes into this thing every year. Plus the development process has almost as many twists and turns, rivalries, hostility, and butt kissing as the events themselves. I suspect the Torpin has just been rewritten to become a luxury bordello. Just joking of course. Thanks. It is indeed hard work, and as you say sometimes an ordeal too, but when we see the end result we are so proud of it that we cannot but say that it was well worth the effort. And we are striving to make it even better each year, and this year it is even more professional-looking than ever, but still there is room for improvement.>> well...hopefully my stubborn self being not involved helps some. anyway, the praise is well deserved. it's a tough job. truthfully, i miss it and i don't miss it. <> argh!!! The Torpin was one of my regrets in ending my participation in the MA. i had big plans for the big sub; a spin of Seaquest exploring Mystara's underocean terrain. The Torpin's deckplans have been done and redone so many times. I really should finish those things some day and put them up on a site with crew info. Just don't outfit those submersible marines with leather +1. For those unaware, there was a bit of a sticking point in last year's almanac. The enchanted leather armor was given as a payoff for decreasing Alphatian army numbers and changing their OOB. My stance was that leather +1 wasn't needed for Alpher troops. It cost more than chainmail, had a worse AC, and would probably take alot longer to craft. As for numbers, heck I wrote the events citing the demobilizations of some kingdoms so that wasn't an issue. That's just a taste for the curious. Ah the good ole days. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 21:39:11 -0000 From: Richard Tongue Subject: OD&DITIES Submissions Hello, everyone! OD&DITIES NEEDS YOU! We need submissions for Issue 7, = due in April. Anything you care to send it is very welcome - articles on = various aspects of Mystara, adventures, short stories, rules articles, = anything! All submissions must use OD&D rules, of course, but that is = the only restraint. Contact me at Methuslah@tongue.fsnet.co.uk , and = check out previous issues at www.tongue.fsnet.co.uk Richard Tongue, Editor, OD&DITIES ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:49:15 -0800 From: The Stalker Subject: The Torpin (was: Herve...MA Events) On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 16:07:47 EST, Alex Benson wrote: (snip) > The Torpin was one of my regrets in ending my participation in the MA. i had > big plans for the big sub; a spin of Seaquest exploring Mystara's underocean > terrain. The Torpin's deckplans have been done and redone so many times. I > really should finish those things some day and put them up on a site with > crew info. > I was actually wondering about this because I could find no deckplans for the Torpin in any of the MAs. A number of other subs were described in some detail, including the Reaver class, but nothing about the Torpin itself... Did you ever finish this material or is it just ideas lying around on the comfortable home of its harddisk (as you can tell, this sort of thing is familiar territory to me ;) ) - The Stalker ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 21:06:40 +0000 From: Mike Harvey Subject: Size of the Old World One thing that has always bugged me about Mystara is that the original countries of the Old World are so much smaller than the nations introduced later. The entire Old World is a blip on the map compared to any one Alphatia, Belissaria, Sind, Hule, The Isle of Dawn, Norwold, Esterhold... One simple solution would be to change the trail maps from 8 miles per hex to 24 miles per hex. This would make the Old World much larger, and more in line with the other countries. Norwold would be in the vicinity of Alpha and properly frigid, etc. This would mean eliminating or moving Norwold (or making it smaller.. not much there anyway), explanding northwest into the midlands of Brun, and redrawing the interface between Darokin and Sind, which shouldn't be too hard as there's only one major route. Thyatis is still small compared to Alphatia, but at least now it's believable. Has anyone done this? Is anyone interested? Mike -- Mike Harvey -- Beaverton, Oregon http://members.dsl-only.net/~bing/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 23:10:03 -0600 From: George Hrabovsky Subject: Re: Size of the Old World Think of it like the nations of Europe. You could drop France into the US, Russia, China, or India and just lose it for days or weeks... George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Harvey" To: Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2002 3:06 PM Subject: [MYSTARA] Size of the Old World > One thing that has always bugged me about Mystara is that the > original countries of the Old World are so much smaller than the > nations introduced later. The entire Old World is a blip on the map > compared to any one Alphatia, Belissaria, Sind, Hule, The Isle of > Dawn, Norwold, Esterhold... > > One simple solution would be to change the trail maps from 8 > miles per hex to 24 miles per hex. This would make the Old World much > larger, and more in line with the other countries. Norwold would be > in the vicinity of Alpha and properly frigid, etc. This would mean > eliminating or moving Norwold (or making it smaller.. not much there > anyway), explanding northwest into the midlands of Brun, and > redrawing the interface between Darokin and Sind, which shouldn't be > too hard as there's only one major route. Thyatis is still small > compared to Alphatia, but at least now it's believable. > > Has anyone done this? Is anyone interested? > > Mike > -- > Mike Harvey -- Beaverton, Oregon > http://members.dsl-only.net/~bing/ > > ******************************************************************** > 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. > ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 15 Feb 2002 to 16 Feb 2002 (#2002-47) ***************************************************************