Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 2 Mar 2004 to 4 Mar 2004 (#2004-56) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 05/03/2004, 19:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 2 messages totalling 234 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Weird Statistics (was: Re: WE can make a difference) 2. WotI campaign, at last! (WotI's and MoA's spoilers) ******************************************************************** 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, 4 Mar 2004 16:57:08 -0300 From: "Vinicius R. de Moraes" Subject: Weird Statistics (was: Re: WE can make a difference) (I was re-reading some msgs and realised I - mistankely - had never read=20 the last part of this msg.) At 23:41 19/02/2004, you wrote: > From: "la Volpe" > > > I am not a physicist already, but I'm striving > > hard...just five exams left...wait a year or so...8-) > > > >Well, there are me and you and SteelAngel, if I'm not > >wrong... > > It seems we physicists are just more vocal about what we do, then. I should > have known better than to trust such a sample. Anyway, good luck with your > exams I'd like to propose the word "Exact Sciences" instead of "Physics". We will= =20 then count lots of people and the comments - including the ones below,=20 about USP PhD Physics students - be even more accurate. I'm taking my PhD in Mechatronics Eng at USP. :-O > >> Anyway, back to my slumber until someone else disturbs me > > > > Sounds a lot like an Outer Being...[cold shivers down my spine]... > > That was my intention, of course. And, as you can see I am back from my > slumber, at least for today, I'll get a few things done here: answers and > who know what else... > > > From: "Ricardo Matheus" > > > I don't know how many physicists are in lthis list. But we have two > > brazilian physiscists, who made their PhD in USP (in fact I'm still= doing > > mine) and love Mystara. WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THAT?? THAT is amazing!!! I'll invite some girls from the Architecture school to join. I'll lie to=20 them, saying it will make their hairs, get blonder, straighter and brighter. > I wouldn't have guessed it. Anyway, the people I used to play with, in the > beginning, were all graduate students in Physics, in USP, plus my wife. It > seems this list have very apparently unlikely characteristics of its > members... That's what my subject "Weird Statistics" is after. Why don't we spend an afternoon together? We could stop writing papers for= =20 one single day and play: the two mad physicists and myself. > From: "Vinicius R. de Moraes" > > > But yes, I remember you, physicists: always distributing those awful > grades > > to us, poor Engineering students. :-PPP > > Hmmm, I must say in my defense that I have never given classes or grades to > engineering students. On awful grades in general ... what would you expect > from an Outer Being? Uh... spells? Artifacts? Nah... > > Casual, imparcial offer: I need one more player to my WotI campaign (BTW > > thanks to you guys for the nice input!). :-DDD > > I assume you will be playing live, right? I'd love to get back to a live > campaign, my current group plays once a year, literally, (I will get an > email campaign going in a few months, hopefully), but I will be moving to a > small city 400 kms from S=E3o Paulo What city? > in a month or two, as soon as all the > paperwork in the university is finished. Still, let me know how it goes. > And, of course, I am not sure you'd want a player who knows exactly how= WotI > goes. You are more than welcome. > Where will the game be happening? S=E3o Paulo. > > Well, Andr=E9, at USPCon 1993 I was playing a 6th-level White Robe and= some > > of the old, experienced guys started yelling from a table far away:= "Yes! > > Yes! Sleep! Yes!!!". > > > > Still sad you did not show up? > > Conventions... > > If this happened in a serious game, I am more than happy I didn't show up. > If it was not supposed to be serious, I can't really know, as I wasn't > there. Anyway, the fact remains that I have never attended a gaming > convention. Only serious stuff, so far, unless someone wants to count Game > Theory as gaming. On that note, I will be going to France and Spain in= July, > for those conferences, I am not sure I'll have time to meet, much less play > with any of you guys there, but, if any of you live near Paris, Marseille= or > Elche, and will be at home by then, let me know. It'd be nice to finally > meet someone from the list. It seems we are getting close!!!! Hey, last game stopped at THE DOOR of Corran Keep. They might need some help, you never know... the sprackles have done some=20 damage... vini ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2004 17:29:43 -0300 From: "Vinicius R. de Moraes" Subject: Re: WotI campaign, at last! (WotI's and MoA's spoilers) I was waiting until we had actually played our first session before I answered. And it finally happened!!!!! :-D Man, it IS difficult to put 4 guys in a room. Each time harder, I'm afraid. Not school anymore: women and too much work are to blame. (Politically uncorrect wishful thinking: "What if it was 'work and too much women' instead?") Chris, Francisco, Havard, Andrew (x2), thank you. Please see the answer to Chris' inputs below. At 18:48 12/02/2004, you wrote: > Quoting "Vinicius R. de Moraes" : > > > 6) Do I have to ask something special of the players? Something like: > > "Please, during character creation, if one of yuo are Alpathians, the > > others must not me Thyatians and vice-versa"? I think trying to conduct > > players like that is bad for RPGing. Anyway, would it be an extra piece > > of adventure, of healthy danger to have PCs from countries that are in > > opposing sides during the war? Or would it give tto much of a headache, > > more than fun? > > Well it really depends on the characters they want to play. You can't really > have Alphatian mages and a Glantrian mage that studies the radiance but thats > probally the main restriction. Well, I finally got the players: 1) a half-orc Barbarian from the Broken Lands using a double axe and a composite bow; very strong, very dumb (WEIRD play this thing in D&D3.5... but players asked for it, so I agreed); 2) an elven wizard from Alfheim (uuuuuuuuuuuh!!!); plain mage; very smart and weak; 3) a Karameikan human clericthat asked me to have no god (????); how nice! He asked me to "believe in a superior power" instead of a god with a name and a symbol. He almost asked me to be a Benekander cleric without even knowing it! He will slowly start to believe and be visited by a bearded man in his dream blablabla... A lot of potential for role-playing! The only problem is "Where the hack do his spells come from?". 4) Are there any mad scientists interest in joining this little party? > I say that because there isn't just one > political opinion in each country. Some Alphatians might want the Radiance for > themselves, and be anti-glantri for that reason, where as there may be > Glantrians that agree with alphatia about the radiance but can't do anything > because the majority disaggrees. A Thyatian might side with Alphatia to try to > save Thyatis from a war, just because Glantri is being stubbon. There are many > ways out but what you really need is the logic behind why the party comes > togeather and stays togerather I think. Fine. Great, I got it. Many thanks. > > 7) Any other hints? > > Try to keep players wondering whats going on. Make the major events surprising > and shocking. You don't want them to know the loss of magic is comming, > and try > to describe the technological things from an IC perspective. They don't know > what a spaceship is so it shouldn't be made obvious to the players that it is > something technological. It should be amazing and uncomprehensible. As the > saying goes, 'anything sufficently advanced is indistinguishable from magic'. Great! I have already done that with a "exploding egg" that the Rakasta kept as an artifact. none of my players (playing in 1012AC) could understand it was a grenade. I described "You see, on the wall, standing on a tall support, a small 'pineapple' made of metal". > Also you will need to decide if there is one week without magic or two. > WotI is > a bit messy. I think many have one being a day of dread instead, but thats a > long way down the road anyway. Well, I think my mage will have pain enough for being from Alfheim. It should be a tragedy for him. Adding to it half a month without of magic, I can send the character - and his player - mad. :-O > Get the PC's involved in world events as much as possible "world events" = things that ARE directly in WotI? > and keep them busy > doing things that arn't directly in WotI. Also some people have had success > combining X10 into WotI's adventures. > > Chris. Ahn? Hum... wait... http://www.dnd.starflung.com/prodlist.html Ah!!!!!!!! Red Arrow, Black Shield But how? I heard this adventure is linked to other one (it's the second or first part of a set of adventures or something). Is that correct? Cheers. vini ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 2 Mar 2004 to 4 Mar 2004 (#2004-56) *************************************************************