Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 6 Feb 2004 to 7 Feb 2004 (#2004-34) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 08/02/2004, 19:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 8 messages totalling 317 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Back from the "No World" 2. Rockhome bible- in hebrew (4) 3. When Immortals Dream (very short story) 4. Query on Them Bird-Men (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, 7 Feb 2004 13:04:28 -0800 From: "Ohad Shaham (Morphail)" Subject: Re: Back from the "No World" > Wow I thought most people would forget about little > old New Zealand. Actually, I was in NZ just a month ago and I found some D&D stuff and even MYSTARA stuff (!) in some shops. There are some used copies in used book shops in Wellington and Ch-ch (havn't looked in Auckland). I think it was Bees Books (or something like that ) in Wellington that had several adventures, "the Bastiary of Giants and Dragons" and PC2, PC3 and more. It wasn't in good condition and I had them all so I didn't buy anything. Morphail (Ohad Shaham) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 13:16:49 -0800 From: "Ohad Shaham (Morphail)" Subject: Rockhome bible- in hebrew Hello all! I just finished writing the Rockhome Dwarves equivillent of Genesis-1. The problem is, I am having truble with translating to English because well, I tried making it very biblical. And smarter people than myself had problems translating the real bible. So meanwhile, if anyone wants it, it is available in .doc format in hebrew with a very nice font that looks like old hebrew bibles. You might want to use it in your games just for visual value ( it is nice to know it is not a bunch of gibberish when you do... So Email me and I will send it. The translation will follow in a few days, but I am sure it will lose something. Morphail (Ohad Shaham) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 16:19:17 -0600 From: Eric Anondson Subject: Re: Rockhome bible- in hebrew On Feb 7, 2004, at 3:16 PM, Ohad Shaham (Morphail) wrote: > Hello all! > > I just finished writing the Rockhome Dwarves equivillent of Genesis-1. > The problem is, I am having truble with translating to English because > well, I tried making it very biblical. And smarter people than myself > had problems translating the real bible. I love this! Reminds me of in Star Trek, MacBeth, in the "original" Klingon. ;) Regards, Eric Anondson Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Those Who Threaten Them. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 01:18:52 +0000 From: Darien Caliir Subject: Re: Rockhome bible- in hebrew > From: "Ohad Shaham (Morphail)" > Reply-To: Mystara RPG Discussion > To: MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > Subject: [MYSTARA] Rockhome bible- in hebrew > Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 13:16:49 -0800 > > Hello all! > > I just finished writing the Rockhome Dwarves > equivillent of Genesis-1. The problem is, I am having > truble with translating to English because well, I > tried making it very biblical. And smarter people than > myself had problems translating the real bible. > > So meanwhile, if anyone wants it, it is available in > .doc format in hebrew with a very nice font that looks > like old hebrew bibles. You might want to use it in > your games just for visual value ( it is nice to know > it is not a bunch of gibberish when you do... > > So Email me and I will send it. The translation will > follow in a few days, but I am sure it will lose > something. > > Morphail (Ohad Shaham) Ohad please send me that file. My address should appear above . if not post a reply to this message and I will send you something privately. My brother in law speaks hebrew and while not an avid gamer he is old enough to have played D&D back when there was only one edition. When I joined my current campaign and told him of the setting he regaled me with tales of his exploits during his college days. I jokingly asked him to join our campaign but suggested the the rampant violence and desecration of long sealed tombs might not be appropriate for a 50ish jewish chiropractor, pillar of the community and all that. I won't repeat his answer here. :) Even just from a nostalgic point of view I am positive he would greatly appreciate seeing your work. And I'm sure my own DM could find a use for it in an instant thanks Caliir Moonedge (Kevin Wyton) _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f%2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 07:46:32 +0200 From: Eyal Fleminger Subject: Re: Rockhome bible- in hebrew I can give it a try, if you want; I've done some translation work. Eyal > On Feb 7, 2004, at 3:16 PM, Ohad Shaham (Morphail) wrote: > > > Hello all! > > > > I just finished writing the Rockhome Dwarves equivillent of Genesis-1. > > The problem is, I am having truble with translating to English because > > well, I tried making it very biblical. And smarter people than myself > > had problems translating the real bible. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:21:01 +0800 From: "Francisco V. Navarro V" Subject: When Immortals Dream (very short story) Hail Mystarans! Just a short story here. It was inspired partly by someone else's writing (I can't find it in the Vaults) about how the Old Ones viewed the entire Wrath of the Immortals War. (Basically, from their grander point of view, the whole world war was just a minor malfunction that was resolved with the Sphere of the Nucleus being tweaked a bit.) Kit Navarro Mystaran Mythologer ========== When Immortals Dream It is not so much that Immortals sleep, but they do enter a form of consciousness that allows them an experience akin to what mortals know as dreaming. The Immortal Khoronus, Patron of Time and History and the Hierarch of the Sphere of Time, the wisest of the Immortals of Pandius and the closest one to true omniscience, had entered such a state. So how goes the Mystara project? It has been four billion years now ongoing- And it still has not produced a substantial yield of Immortals! We. have done. what we can. We have even injected it with the alien energies- The Beagle. Bah! I have told you before that technology will only disrupt the system! True. Mystara. is a mystical nexus. Its power. derives. from magic. It is not even spinning properly. We could simply adjust it like so- The Fall of Blackmoor. Do you see? Immediately the Immortal numbers multiply! Indeed.Then the preparations. for their ascension.begins. Wait- The Spheres! They are misaligned! The power source is wrong! We are making adjustments now- The Wrath of the Immortals. Much better. They are ready. Yes, I can already see one of them now! He is dreaming about us. Khoronus awoke from his Immortal reverie. It is for such as this that the Immortals of Pandius believe he is close to become an Old One. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2004 14:28:28 +0800 From: "Francisco V. Navarro V" Subject: Query on Them Bird-Men Hail Mystarans high and low! A question: What does those bird-men Serraine (How do you spell it? Faenerie, faenaire? Something!) look like? Do they look like gyerians? Do they look like aarokra (aakrocka? aarockra?) Do they look like harpies or nagpas or what? Anyone have an idea? (Anyone body have a spellcheck?) Kit Navarro Mystaran Speculator with a Bad Spelling Day ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 23:27:50 -0800 From: Rodger Burns Subject: Re: Query on Them Bird-Men Francisco V. Navarro V wrote on February 07, 2004 10:28 PM: > > Hail Mystarans high and low! > > A question: What does those bird-men Serraine (How do you spell it? > Faenerie, faenaire? Something!) look like? > > Do they look like gyerians? Do they look like aarokra (aakrocka? > aarockra?) > Do they look like harpies or nagpas or what? > > Anyone have an idea? (Anyone body have a spellcheck?) I haven't seen much on the appearance of the faenare - AFAIK, they're unique to PC2. (Which is unfortunate, as they're one of my favorite races - I even tried to create a junior faenare windsinger Immortal for a campaign once.) I personally see them as being very close in build and appearance to the Kyrie lost race of the Dragonlance setting. Given their high ability to use tools, they're likely more humanoid than harpies, and their musical talents suggest a mouth and throat rather than the beaks of aarakocra or gyerians. I don't have a scanned image or link, or I'd post it. Sorry. :) > > Kit Navarro > Mystaran Speculator with a Bad Spelling Day > "The best lack all conviction, While the worst are full of passionate intensity." - W.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming" Rodger Burns ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 6 Feb 2004 to 7 Feb 2004 (#2004-34) *************************************************************