Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 17 May 2004 to 18 May 2004 (#2004-108) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 19/05/2004, 17:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 7 messages totalling 234 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Other Mystara sites (5) 2. Blackmoor release date announced! 3. Name alterations ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:34:42 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?la=20Volpe?= Subject: Re: Other Mystara sites I have saved most of the stuff of my old sites ("Empire of Thyatis", with Agathokles; but unfortunately we didn't save all files before the site was taken down by Geocities, shame on them!!!), and the same goes for my Tangor/Minaea site. I will see what I can do to provide them to the Vaults, although I often sent to the list my writings that were uploaded on other sites. Regarding the Tome, if you could provide us with the past issues, it would be good. Giulio ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Companion - Scarica gratis la toolbar di Ricerca di Yahoo! http://companion.yahoo.it ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:41:19 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?la=20Volpe?= Subject: Re: Blackmoor release date announced! GREAT NEWS!!!!!!!!!! How can we get our hands on the book, from distant Italy??? Giulio ____________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Companion - Scarica gratis la toolbar di Ricerca di Yahoo! http://companion.yahoo.it ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 17:45:50 +1000 From: shawn stanley Subject: Re: Other Mystara sites At 09:34 AM 18/05/2004 +0200, you wrote: > I have saved most of the stuff of my old sites > ("Empire of Thyatis", with Agathokles; but > unfortunately we didn't save all files before the site > was taken down by Geocities, shame on them!!!), and > the same goes for my Tangor/Minaea site. > I will see what I can do to provide them to the > Vaults, although I often sent to the list my writings > that were uploaded on other sites. > > Regarding the Tome, if you could provide us with the > past issues, it would be good. I think I'd wait for permission to do that - is Jennifer still on this list? shawn stanley what have you done for me lately ... more to the point what have i done for me - mightyfew, "i can't wait" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:06:52 +0200 From: Jacob Skytte Subject: Re: Other Mystara sites From: "shawn stanley" > I think I'd wait for permission to do that - is Jennifer still on this list? I doubt it. Been years since I heard from her. I had one article in the Tome, and I still have it somewhere. Be happy to post it - I hold the rights to it, after all. : ) Most of my Mystara works exist in multiples, on my home page, hard disk, and most of it on the Vaults already. Be some bad coincidence if it all died at the same time. ; ) By the way, anybody needing to contact me may update to my new address scythe@tele2adsl.dk . My old address, scythe@wanadoo.dk still works, but it isn't very reliable. Jacob Skytte ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 02:57:11 -0700 From: Herve Musseau Subject: Re: Other Mystara sites From: shawn stanley > well ideally people who have sites should do the work to ensure that their > maintained after they've lost interest in doing so because yeah it would > become excessive if I were to monitor sites for that. I have a proposition to alleviate such losses of Mystaran material: I think we should transform the Vaults of Pandius so that it becomes a real Mystaran portal where everyone can contribute their material. This can easily be done by installing Zope and Plone on a server and configuring it to our needs. Thus, everyone could contribute (rather than Shawn doing it all himself). People could contribute to the standard structure of the VoP, but they could also make more personal pages (ie their own websites within the larger thing). Saving or mirroring/copying it would be easy. FYI Zope is an open-source application server and Plone a CMS built atop it (free) ===== ___________________________________________________________ Herve Musseau http://www.geocities.com/hmusseau/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! - Internet access at a great low price. http://promo.yahoo.com/sbc/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 12:38:53 +0200 From: Giampaolo Agosta Subject: Re: Other Mystara sites Herve Musseau wrote: > > I have a proposition to alleviate such losses of Mystaran material: I think we > should transform the Vaults of Pandius so that it becomes a real Mystaran > portal where everyone can contribute their material. > This can easily be done by installing Zope and Plone on a server and > configuring it to our needs. On the good side, it's quite a pythonic solution. On the bad, this requires a server (as opposed to just some webspace). -- Giampaolo Agosta http://digilander.iol.it/agathokles ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 17:10:31 +0200 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Havard=20Faanes?= Subject: Name alterations IMC, I have found that I have had to change some of the names of locations and individuals of Mystara. There are various reasons for this, but it most case it is because my players have certain associations with the names that are best avoided. Has anyone else done anything similar? Tromso = Trondsmo -Because it is a place in Norway, and because it indicates it being an island, which it is not. Sunnsvall = Ixwall (Wall of Ixion) - Because it is a place in Sweden. Hardanger = Dargor Because it is a place in Norway. Alfheim = Canolbarth; making it more elvish Rockhome =Dengaria, making it more dwarven. Rhoona = Runargard -Making it more Norse Duke of Rhoona = Jarl of Runargard - Ditto Ostland = Austerheim Vestland = Westerland Odin = Wotan - All Immortals should have more native names. Thor = Donar -Ditto Freyj = Fredar -Ditto Freyja =Fredara -Ditto Loki = Lokar - Ditto Hel = Idris - Ditto ===== *** Håvard R. Faanes www.stud.ntnu.no/~havardfa ______________________________________________________ Få den nye Yahoo! Messenger på http://no.messenger.yahoo.com/ Nye ikoner og bakgrunner, webkamera med superkvalitet og dobbelt så morsom ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 17 May 2004 to 18 May 2004 (#2004-108) ****************************************************************