Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 21 Dec 2006 to 22 Dec 2006 (#2006-194) From: MYSTARA-L automatic digest system Date: 23/12/2006, 19:00 To: MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 8 messages totalling 397 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Happy festive season (6) 2. Mystaran PbeM opening for one player (2) ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:36:34 +0200 From: Ville V Lahde Subject: Happy festive season Have a nice festive season everyone, whatever you may call it. I have a much needed DMing break after a hectic autumn. Although I will concentrate on good food, reading American Psycho again after 12 years (nice counterbalance to all the jingle jingle jingle), good company and purring of my wife's cat, still my subconscious will happily work on a coming Thyatian-Alphatian conflict in the Northern Reaches and Heldann. Ville ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:28:42 +0100 From: Havard Faanes Subject: Happy festive season Yeah, Merry Christmas everyone! :) Havard --- Ville V Lahde skrev: > Have a nice festive season everyone, whatever you > may call it. > > I have a much needed DMing break after a hectic > autumn. Although I will concentrate on good food, reading American > Psycho again after 12 years (nice counterbalance to all the jingle jingle > jingle), good company and purring of my wife's cat, still my > subconscious will happily work on a coming Thyatian-Alphatian conflict > in the Northern Reaches and Heldann. > > Ville > > ******************************************************************** > The Other Worlds Homepage: > http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com > To unsubscribe, send email to > LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. > _________________________________________________________ Alt i én. Få Yahoo! Mail med adressekartotek, kalender og notisblokk. http://no.mail.yahoo.com ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:17:15 -0400 From: Steven Carter Subject: Re: Happy festive season Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, etc (as CBC Radio 1 just reminded me on my drive to work it's also Hanukkah... mmmm, so much good food this time of year... and Chinese New Year isn't far off.) On 22/12/06, Havard Faanes wrote: > Yeah, > Merry Christmas everyone! :) > > Havard > > > --- Ville V Lahde skrev: > > > Have a nice festive season everyone, whatever you > > may call it. > > > > I have a much needed DMing break after a hectic > > autumn. Although I > > will concentrate on good food, reading American > > Psycho again after 12 > > years (nice counterbalance to all the jingle jingle > > jingle), good > > company and purring of my wife's cat, still my > > subconscious will > > happily work on a coming Thyatian-Alphatian conflict > > in the Northern > > Reaches and Heldann. > > > > Ville > > > > > ******************************************************************** > > The Other Worlds Homepage: > > http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________ > Alt i =E9n. F=E5 Yahoo! Mail med adressekartotek, kalender og > notisblokk. http://no.mail.yahoo.com > > ******************************************************************** > The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp > The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com > To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. > ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 17:12:31 +0100 From: Giampaolo Agosta Subject: Re: Happy festive season On 22/12/06, Steven Carter wrote: > Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, etc (as CBC Radio 1 just reminded me > on my drive to work it's also Hanukkah... mmmm, so much good food this > time of year... and Chinese New Year isn't far off.) Happy winter solstice & new year :) GP ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:23:22 -0800 From: "Kelly, Joe" Subject: Re: Happy festive season Have a great time over the holiday's everyone. Not sure when I'll get back to D&D since my players destroyed my campaign. Going to need some new ideas. =20 JKWolf=20 -----Original Message----- From: Mystara RPG Discussion [mailto:MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM] On Behalf Of Ville V Lahde Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 3:37 AM To: MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM Subject: [MYSTARA] Happy festive season Have a nice festive season everyone, whatever you may call it. I have a much needed DMing break after a hectic autumn. Although I will concentrate on good food, reading American Psycho again after 12 years (nice counterbalance to all the jingle jingle jingle), good company and purring of my wife's cat, still my subconscious will happily work on a coming Thyatian-Alphatian conflict in the Northern Reaches and Heldann. Ville ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. This e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and may be privileged If you are not the intended recipient please notify me immediately by return e-mail, delete this e-mail and do not copy, use or disclose it. Please advise us if you do not want to receive unencrypted e-mails. =20 ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:29:27 +0000 From: wombat Subject: Re: Happy festive season Happy Holidays to all, even those punkmonkeys in the Serpent Peninsula who need to diiiiiiie. Good thing they're imaginary. ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 01:40:42 -0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9?= Subject: Mystaran PbeM opening for one player Hi, I have a Mystaran PbeM going on for about five months and I need one more player, to get the group better balanced. What we really lack is someone with stealth abilities (be it a rogue, a bard, some kind of scout, a spy, anything). Right now, the PCs haven't me yet, each one is playing their own adventures (that allowed me to figure who would stay for the long run). This means that, although your character will have less to tell about her/his previous adventures, the new PC will be there from the start. We are still to set a date for the meeting of the PCs, right now I think that should happen in about two months. The rules behind the scenes are D&D 3 (or 3.5), but, most of the time, they are hidden. If anyone is interested, send me an email and I will provide more information. It won't hurt your chances to be accepted if you send some details about the kind of character you have in mind. And, about other details of the game, I will copy the original recruiting post bellow: "I am looking for players for a new campaign that is about to start, one that should last for years of game and real life time. Therefore, I need dependable players, who will last more than a few weeks or even a few months. I need adult, mature players who understand what a moral challenge is and that those are bound to happen. They should also know that everything their characters do can and will have consequences, for better or for worse. I need players who can use a spell-checker (a few errors are acceptable, of course, but only a small reasonable amount) and who will send at least three times a week posts that are not one line only. Finally, I have no room for rule lawyers or players who think they can solve any problem with brute force. There will be many opportunities for the players to influence the fate of the world and it is ok to have an extremely ambitious character, if you will play your PC correctly. But real power will come from politics and diplomacy as well as character power. There are powerful NPCs and gods who will not sit still while the characters get stronger and things will happen and change with or without PC intervention. In order to get the players I want, I have decided to set a pre-game. Each player will start a solo game on its own, at its home town or whatever place he or she is at the start of her or his adventuring career. That is, everyone starts at first level and I will play solo adventures for a while, until all characters finally meet (about a year later, in game time). That way, when we really start as a group, I hope I should only have really interested players and interesting characters. If you are still interested, we will be using D&D rules as basis, but most of the play will basically be rule-free. Posts should be in-character and game mechanics should be dealt with in a different email or clearly separated from the in-character part. The game will not be free-form, but you will have some liberty on controlling your character and the outcome of his actions, although my word will always be final. We will also be using an old TSR setting, Mystara, to save me enough time to focus on the plotting and the story going on. However, there are enough twists that you should be checking with me even if you know the setting very well. Many of those will not be readily noticed initially, but they are there. No familiarity with the setting or the game rules is required as that should come naturally as we work to create your PCs and they have their first adventures. The first thing I need is an idea for your character. By that, I mean things like personality, a short story about her/him that reflects the fact all characters have no experience and a few details about the people he/she depends on (family, friends, etc.). Once that is ready, you should be able to send me a character sheet (I can help with that, if needed) and we can start playing the solo game. There is only one requirement about your character interests, so that I can bring everyone who keeps playing together later. A number of posts have been distributed in many cities around the Known World, inviting adventurers willing to accept a dangerous task: "To all adventures seeking glory and fame A task of great importance requires the assistance of resourceful adventurers. Interested people should ask for Dombur Deephill at The Never-Empty Flagon Bar in Selenica at the third day of Kaldmont, in the year of 1004 AC. Not a day earlier or later." It seems a normal post. But, as the PCs read the post, the month is Kaldmont, but the day is 24 and the year, 1003AC. And somehow, it catches the attention of your PC, who plans to attend it. Other than that, the PCs will be completely free to decide on their course of actions (some might even decide later not to show at the inn, but they should plan to be there, at first). Finally, you should expect to gain some experience prior to the meeting and find a way to get to Selenica in time. The amount of experience will depend on the actions of your character during this one year period. So, send me your initial ideas for a PC and get ready for trouble for a long time. Expect a game where things have been thought to make sense and where if something seems odd, there is probably a reason for that (or I will make one, as needed)." ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 21:50:41 -0600 From: "Jonathan M. Thompson" Subject: Re: Mystaran PbeM opening for one player Characters made in D&D 3.5? Jonathan M. Thompson President, Battlefield Press, Inc. (www.battlefieldpress.com) jthompson@battlefieldpress.com Makers of d20, d20 Modern and Open Core Campaign Settings. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.15.26/597 - Release Date: 12/21/2006 6:45 PM ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.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 - 21 Dec 2006 to 22 Dec 2006 (#2006-194) ****************************************************************