Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 5 Mar 2004 to 6 Mar 2004 (#2004-58) From: Automatic digest processor Date: 07/03/2004, 19:00 To: Recipients of MYSTARA-L digests Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 3 messages totalling 275 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. [Rules] Regional Feets 2. Promoting Mystara 3. History of the Dwarven Race - ...and they called themselves Modrigswerg ******************************************************************** 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, 6 Mar 2004 03:13:50 -0500 From: David Knott Subject: Re: [Rules] Regional Feets Two issues: 1) Where are your proposed regional feats published? 2) Recent WotC Web site updates suggest that the Forgotten Realms regional feats will undergo significant revisions to keep up with D&D 3.5. We may want to compare any revisions for Mystaran regional material with the Player's Guide to be published later this month. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Havard Faanes" To: Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 6:16 AM Subject: [MYSTARA] [Rules] Regional Feets > I just made a list of Regional Feets for the Known > World based on the Forgotten Realms book. While I > think this is a wonderful idea, it doesnt seem > balanced or even with enough feets to make it > interesting. Has anyone had a look at this issue? > > Havard > > ______________________________________________________ > Få den nye Yahoo! Messenger på http://no.messenger.yahoo.com/ > Nye ikoner og bakgrunner, webkamera med superkvalitet og dobbelt så morsom > > ******************************************************************** > 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, 6 Mar 2004 03:43:32 -0500 From: David Knott Subject: Re: Promoting Mystara From: "Joaquin Menchaca" > > I just thought of something. Actually, honestly, > someone else gave me this idea. One way to drum up > some Mystara interest is to run some games at a > convention. > > I was thinking to do Vieled Society that I converted > to D&D3e as a sort of mini-adventure to get RPGers > apetites wet. > > Another possible fun one would be to run would be an > adventure in the gladiatorial pits of Thyatis. :-) The obvious answer to your implied questions is of course to go for both of them! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 15:49:56 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?la=20Volpe?= Subject: History of the Dwarven Race - ...and they called themselves Modrigswerg HISTORY OF THE DWARVEN RACE 4. ...AND THEY CALLED THEMSELVES MODRIGSWERG RISE OF THE MODRIGSWERG Now, let's get back to the years following 1800 BC. While Denwarf rose to power in Dengar, the Hrukats had arrived to the dark mountains of the East (1), not far away from where the Gnomes lived. Here, the three remaining faction of Dwarves confronted each other; although their leaders had been removed (2), some Morkwarf, followers of the Father of Demons, were still present among them. Then there were two other factions, those that called themselves Dwerg (a pejorative of Dwarf that they chose in shame for what their Clan had done to their own brethren, as a sign of humility), that wanted to repent for their sins and return to the worship of Kagyar and Garalin, and the majority, formed by the Hrukats who just wanted to isolate themselves from the rest of the world and especially from their brothers in Dengar, and forget everything about gods or immortals or demons or whatever, beings that had only caused them problems and suffering. The Dwerg were led by Arwarfin, a follower of Garalin. While the Hrukats fragmented themselves in many small family groups in the mountains, Arwarfin and his followers attacked the few remaining Morkwarf and were able to erase their presence from the surface. (3) This heroic and disinterested act were appreciated by Kagyar and Garalin, that begun to give clerical powers to particularly devoted and pious Dwerg too. As an act of gratitude, Arwarfin, the first Hrukats Cleric of Garalin, sought the weapons that the Necromancers had forged with the aid of the Dark Elves to help in the destruction of the dwarven race, and he found two, the Footspear of Brissard and the Shield of Ryleegh, that he hid in the deep of a Black Basalt Tower that he found thanks to a dream omen sent by Garalin himself. Later in his life, Arwarfin met with King Denwarf, and the chronicles of this event are in possession of the Clans Hurwarf and Everast. It wasn't a happy meeting. Denwarf was a hard and uncompromising ruler, and he refused to forgive even one single dwarf of the Hrukats Clan. Saddened, Arwarfin returned to his companions. Following the desires of Arwarfin, the Dwerg separated in small groups to live among the other Hrukats. "It's no use to close ourselves in the towers of granite of our purity. Our brothers in the west have made this mistake, refusing to see the good in the heart of every Dwarf and refusing to admit that we repented for our sins. Now we must not make the same mistake and look with scorn and arrogance on our brothers in the Clan that have refused the words of Kagyar and Garalin, and have decided to seclude themselves from the world. We must live among them and remember them with our example that our past is great and our present may also be of greatness. We must reconcile the Dengar and the Hrukats, because only being one race and one blood we will be able to fight against our enemies. Everything went wrong the day the King of the Hrukats left our brothers to follow the delusion of the Father of Demons." It is said that when Arwarfin died, he and his closest followers were blessed by Garalin: their bodies were put to guard the weapons hidden in the Basalt Tower, to avoid forever the use of the weapons against a Dwarf. Most of the Hrukats Dwarves ignored Awarfin's followers' preaching, and their ambitions (4). The Hrukats chose the new name of Modrigswerg (that is a pejorative of "dwarves who lost their way", more or less "mad dwarves"), demonstrating a heavy self-irony, and a bitter sarcasm against the hope of "rehabilitation" of the Dwerg, whom their name mocked. The Modrigswerg separated in many small groups hidden in the depths of the mountains (1800-1400 PC). Their philosophy of life became paranoid and pessimistic: forgotten by Kagyar and Garalin, aloof deities that had demonstrated to be uninterested in their fate in the hard days after the Rain of Fire, and cheated by the Father of Demons and the Dark Elves, they felt that their exile was an unjust punishment at the hands of their brothers that they had tried to help: what happened was just a mistake, and they couldn't be accused of it! They had been cheated, after all! So why respect and worship the Immortals, if the Immortals didn't care in the first place? And why ask their brethren for forgiveness? And why have any contact with other races at all? The consequences of the necromantic arts that had cured the rotting plague aggravated their paranoia and depression: the Modrigswerg, due to the taint of the necromantic magic, now an inherent part of them, developed an inclination for madness and manic depressions even culminating in suicides, psychoses that are especially evident and frequent among the oldest members of the race. Neutral to most conflicts between the surface races, the Modrigswerg became soon even more greedy than their relatives of the west, agreeing to sell magical weapons and artifacts to anyone, if only paid a good price for it, generally uncaring of any moral and without asking what use would be made of the items they built. Given the taciturn nature of all Dwarves, when the Northmen met with the Modrigswerg, they didn't even suspect that the two people were separated kinds; this, along with the Modrigswerg's isolationist and greedy attitude, has helped to spread the latent distrust the Northmen have for the dwarven race in general. ---------------------------------------------------- DM NOTES (1) Like we said before: The truth is that the Denwarf dwarves were resettled in Rockhome, because the ancestral land of the Dwarves are the Northern Reaches. However, the Immortals Kagyar and Garal gave them false memories of having always lived in Rockhome. (2) Garalin and Kagyar had removed all remaining dwarves from the Known World, transplanting half of them to the Hollow World, and reshaping the other half into a new dwarven race, which is planted in the Rockhome region. The new dwarves are given false memories and believe that the Modrigswerg also originally lived in the Rockhome lands. Garal and Kagyar decide to split among them the duties of caring for the dwarven races: Kogolor dwarves will be mainly followers of Garal, while the Rockhome ones will mainly follow Kagyar. Kagyar and Garal also confront Loki, the actual Father of Demons behind the Dark Elves. Kagyar is especially furious and he basically bullies the Entropic Immortal to remove the leaders of the Morkwarf, otherwise he will have the new dwarves destroy them entirely. Kagyar is upset that the former Hrukats Clan gave up his worship, but he wants to give them the chance to return to him and doesn't think it's possible with their leaders actively worshipping Loki. The three Immortals come to an agreement: the wizard-priests of the Father of Demons will be removed from the Morkwarf and brought to the Hollow World, along with some of their apathetic followers; the rest will be slain by the allied Clans (see previous chapters) or by the followers of Awarfin (see later). They are placed far away from the dwarves of Kogolor, on the continent of Suridal. (3) As this is the story from the dwarven perspective, it's no problem for a DM to decide that some Morkwarf escaped the wrath of the Dwerg and were able to build a hidden fortress somewhere. (4) The remaining Hrukats remain untouched, apart from giving them false memories of having been exiled from Rockhome by the other dwarves, because of their leaders making an unholy alliance with the Dark Elves. They are supposedly left alone by the three Immortals, free to choose the path to pursue in their future. Kagyar's hope is that they will return to his worship (without any active encouragement) and repent their sins, otherwise he is willing to let them fall into decay and eventual slumber. However, Loki goes behind the others' backs, and plant ideas that convince the Hrukats that the Immortals don't really care for the fate of mortals. They come to believe that Kagyar and Garal have refused to involve themselves for centuries, allowing the dwarves to suffer and decline. The Immortals who do involve themselves only play with mortals for their own amusement, as they could see that the Father of Demons (in fact Loki himself!) did, by tricking them into madness and destruction. The Modrigswerg become frustrated and isolate themselves, both from outsiders and from each other. Although they are not really evil, they are prone to unpredictable psychotic episodes, which drive them further apart. ______________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: 6MB di spazio gratuito, 30MB per i tuoi allegati, l'antivirus, il filtro Anti-spam http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/?http://it.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 5 Mar 2004 to 6 Mar 2004 (#2004-58) *************************************************************