Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 10 Apr 2006 to 11 Apr 2006 (#2006-69) From: MYSTARA-L automatic digest system Date: 12/04/2006, 17:00 To: MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 26 messages totalling 1411 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. Claw (Was: Re: [MYSTARA] Anyone do Red Steel?) (2) 2. Question about Pandius (3) 3. How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon (10) 4. Moon Madness! (6) 5. Hello (3) 6. Emirikol the Chaotic 7. Blackmoor sources ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:36:53 +0200 From: Giampaolo Agosta Subject: Re: Claw (Was: Re: [MYSTARA] Anyone do Red Steel?) Átila Pires dos Santos ha scritto: > > By the way, Wolvenfolk is a different breed of lupin? (and again, I just > loved the idea, Wolvington from Dunwick ^^) Yes, it's a wolf-like subrace with an affinity for death magics. > I guess the torreoner lupins fits perfectly. But there's place for many > subraces of lupins since there are a lot of "dog-people" enemies in the > game: some are bulldog-like, some are rottweiler-like, some even more > fox-like. > By the way, what's the (physical, specially) characteristics of the > Pistolero, Maremma and Carrasquito breeds? The Pistolero and the Carrasquito are small breeds. From the description given, the Carrasquito should be a Chihuahua (very small, curious and aggressive beyond his size) and the Ispan Pistolero should be a Spaniel (probably English Cocker Spaniel), since it's a Ispan gun dog. The Maremma is just a humanoid Maremma Sheepdog -- a pure white lupin. However, it is not that suited as a bad guy, since it has strong lawful and good tendencies. Bye, 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:53:22 +0200 From: Giampaolo Agosta Subject: Re: Question about Pandius Gilles Leblanc ha scritto: > Do you guys use the quests on Pandius. I know I submitted some years ago. > Personnally I don't like using the quests on pandius but I love the site for > the Atlas section to get info and ideas of countries and the resources > sections. You mean the "adventures" section in general? Well, not having an active campaign right now, not much. Though there are certainly a number of good adventures -- and a few excellent ones. I see you've contributed some Hollow World adventures, but I haven't read them yet -- maybe you sent them directly to Shawn without posting here? I tend to miss a lot of stuff that get posted directly to the Vaults: just yesterday I've seen an amazon-themed nation I didn't even know was there! Bye, 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:56:47 +0800 From: Jason Murphy Subject: Re: Claw (Was: Re: [MYSTARA] Anyone do Red Steel?) > > The Maremma is just a humanoid Maremma Sheepdog -- a pure white lupin. > However, it is not that suited as a bad guy, since it has strong lawful > and good tendencies. > Of course the flipside is....how funny would a villainous sheepdog look. Reminds me of the psychotic Rory Breakerr from Lock Stock and 2 smoking barrels :-) ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 06:45:01 -0700 From: Geoff Gander Subject: Re: How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon Hi folks, I used to subscribe to Dragon, years ago, but stopped when Mystara was discontinued - my little show of protest, I suppose (well, that, and writing TSR a letter). Since then, I've bought some back issues, and a few newer ones that had something Mystara-related in them (i.e., the lupin issue), but I find the online community provides me with all the resources I need. Given that the PA is due to return for an encore, I'll probably buy the June issue. Geoff PS - Good to see you both again, Stone and Gilles! ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:48:29 -0400 From: Gilles Leblanc Subject: Re: Question about Pandius The vaults is so great, I can spend a lot of times there. On 4/11/06, Giampaolo Agosta wrote: > > Gilles Leblanc ha scritto: > > Do you guys use the quests on Pandius. I know I submitted some years > ago. > > Personnally I don't like using the quests on pandius but I love the sit= e > for > > the Atlas section to get info and ideas of countries and the resources > > sections. > > You mean the "adventures" section in general? Well, not having an active > campaign right now, not much. Though there are certainly a number of > good adventures -- and a few excellent ones. > I see you've contributed some Hollow World adventures, but I haven't > read them yet -- maybe you sent them directly to Shawn without posting > here? I tend to miss a lot of stuff that get posted directly to the > Vaults: just yesterday I've seen an amazon-themed nation I didn't even > know was there! > > Bye, > 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. > ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:42:02 -0400 From: Gilles Leblanc Subject: Re: How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon On 4/11/06, Geoff Gander wrote: > > my little show of protest, I suppose (well, that, and > writing TSR a letter). Wow, I should have written a letter to. Your a real fan. PS - Good to see you both again, Stone and Gilles Glad to see you remember me. I was on the list on and off for years under 2 names but I stopped last time cause I tought I had stopped playing DnD but = I couldn't escape it, now I have 2 Mystara groups running at the same time :) ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:17:23 -0700 From: Joe Kelly Subject: Re: How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon Just to let you all know. Dungeon and Dragon were sold. They are now owned = by Pazio.com. a company that does the magazine side. It still has a deep = relationship with WOTC but it is now an entirely seperate company. Joe Kelly Joe Kelly Office Services Clerk DAVIS & COMPANY LLP Suite 2800, Park Place 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2Z7 Phone 604.643.6365 >>> gilles.leblanc@GMAIL.COM 04/11/06 06:42am >>> On 4/11/06, Geoff Gander wrote: > > my little show of protest, I suppose (well, that, and > writing TSR a letter). Wow, I should have written a letter to. Your a real fan. PS - Good to see you both again, Stone and Gilles Glad to see you remember me. I was on the list on and off for years under = 2 names but I stopped last time cause I tought I had stopped playing DnD but = I couldn't escape it, now I have 2 Mystara groups running at the same time = :) ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp=20 The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com=20 To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM=20 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. ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:20:15 -0700 From: Joe Kelly Subject: Re: How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon Oops. Sorry its Paizo.com Here's the addy: http://paizo.com/dungeon Joe Kelly Office Services Clerk DAVIS & COMPANY LLP Suite 2800, Park Place 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2Z7 Phone 604.643.6365 >>> joe_kelly@DAVIS.CA 04/11/06 08:17am >>> Just to let you all know. Dungeon and Dragon were sold. They are now owned = by Pazio.com. a company that does the magazine side. It still has a deep = relationship with WOTC but it is now an entirely seperate company. Joe Kelly Joe Kelly Office Services Clerk DAVIS & COMPANY LLP Suite 2800, Park Place 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2Z7 Phone 604.643.6365 >>> gilles.leblanc@GMAIL.COM 04/11/06 06:42am >>> On 4/11/06, Geoff Gander wrote: > > my little show of protest, I suppose (well, that, and > writing TSR a letter). Wow, I should have written a letter to. Your a real fan. PS - Good to see you both again, Stone and Gilles Glad to see you remember me. I was on the list on and off for years under = 2 names but I stopped last time cause I tought I had stopped playing DnD but = I couldn't escape it, now I have 2 Mystara groups running at the same time = :) ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp=20 The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com=20 To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM=20 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. 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Please advise us if you do not want to receive unencrypted e-mails. ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:23:43 -0400 From: John Hofmann Subject: Re: How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon I'll jump in on this one. I've been reading a lot of back issues of Dragon and Dungeon on PDF, and I'd have to say that there's a lot of good material in there, much of it could be applicable to Mystara. Dungeon magazine, especially, has been exceeding all my expectations with its content. I know that Dungeon is known mostly as a mag with adventures in it, but now they have some articles that are some of the best campaign material I've ever seen. Dragon is hit or miss with each issue. Some of them I skim over in about 20 minutes and never look at again, and some of them have so many good articles that I come back to them over and over again. I actually just dug up one Dragon that was dedicated to drow elves and it was so good I'm seriously considering making some of the articles the bedrock on which I build my next campaign. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Kelly" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:17 AM Subject: Re: [MYSTARA] How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon Just to let you all know. Dungeon and Dragon were sold. They are now owned by Pazio.com. a company that does the magazine side. It still has a deep relationship with WOTC but it is now an entirely seperate company. Joe Kelly Joe Kelly Office Services Clerk DAVIS & COMPANY LLP Suite 2800, Park Place 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2Z7 Phone 604.643.6365 >>> gilles.leblanc@GMAIL.COM 04/11/06 06:42am >>> On 4/11/06, Geoff Gander wrote: > > my little show of protest, I suppose (well, that, and > writing TSR a letter). Wow, I should have written a letter to. Your a real fan. PS - Good to see you both again, Stone and Gilles Glad to see you remember me. I was on the list on and off for years under 2 names but I stopped last time cause I tought I had stopped playing DnD but I couldn't escape it, now I have 2 Mystara groups running at the same time :) ******************************************************************** 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. ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:31:45 -0700 From: "Richard B." Subject: Re: How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon Where can you find PDFs of Dungeon? John Hofmann wrote: I'll jump in on this one. I've been reading a lot of back issues of Dragon and Dungeon on PDF, and I'd have to say that there's a lot of good material in there, much of it could be applicable to Mystara. Dungeon magazine, especially, has been exceeding all my expectations with its content. I know that Dungeon is known mostly as a mag with adventures in it, but now they have some articles that are some of the best campaign material I've ever seen. Dragon is hit or miss with each issue. Some of them I skim over in about 20 minutes and never look at again, and some of them have so many good articles that I come back to them over and over again. I actually just dug up one Dragon that was dedicated to drow elves and it was so good I'm seriously considering making some of the articles the bedrock on which I build my next campaign. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Kelly" To: Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:17 AM Subject: Re: [MYSTARA] How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon Just to let you all know. Dungeon and Dragon were sold. They are now owned by Pazio.com. a company that does the magazine side. It still has a deep relationship with WOTC but it is now an entirely seperate company. Joe Kelly Joe Kelly Office Services Clerk DAVIS & COMPANY LLP Suite 2800, Park Place 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2Z7 Phone 604.643.6365 >>> gilles.leblanc@GMAIL.COM 04/11/06 06:42am >>> On 4/11/06, Geoff Gander wrote: > > my little show of protest, I suppose (well, that, and > writing TSR a letter). Wow, I should have written a letter to. Your a real fan. PS - Good to see you both again, Stone and Gilles Glad to see you remember me. I was on the list on and off for years under 2 names but I stopped last time cause I tought I had stopped playing DnD but I couldn't escape it, now I have 2 Mystara groups running at the same time :) ******************************************************************** 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. 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Call regular phones from your PC and save big. ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:34:52 -0700 From: Joe Kelly Subject: Re: How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon I also found out you can download the Pics from the Magazines! If you like = the NPCs in the mag of back issues here's the addy! http://paizo.com/dungeon/products/downloads Joe Kelly Office Services Clerk DAVIS & COMPANY LLP Suite 2800, Park Place 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2Z7 Phone 604.643.6365 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. ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:35:46 -0700 From: Joe Kelly Subject: Re: How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon I'm really hoping they do this with Dragon too! Joe Kelly Office Services Clerk DAVIS & COMPANY LLP Suite 2800, Park Place 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2Z7 Phone 604.643.6365 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. ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 08:37:20 -0700 From: Joe Kelly Subject: Re: How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon Oops wrong addy. Here it is the correct one.. http://paizo.com/dungeon/news Joe Kelly Office Services Clerk DAVIS & COMPANY LLP Suite 2800, Park Place 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2Z7 Phone 604.643.6365 >>> joe_kelly@DAVIS.CA 04/11/06 08:34am >>> I also found out you can download the Pics from the Magazines! If you like = the NPCs in the mag of back issues here's the addy! Joe Kelly Office Services Clerk DAVIS & COMPANY LLP Suite 2800, Park Place 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2Z7 Phone 604.643.6365 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. ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp=20 The Mystara Homepage: http://www.pandius.com=20 To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM=20 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. ******************************************************************** 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: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 00:51:06 +0900 From: Thorfinn Tait Subject: Re: How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon Interesting... I've been looking at Dragon PDFs a lot lately, too. I bought the PDF collection from Ebay last year, and I have to say reading the old Dragon issues, especially between issues 80 and 200 or so, is really fascinating. Firstly, there are quite a lot more things relevant to OD&D/Mystara than the guide in the FAQ at the Vaults would indicate (I'm specifically referring to the older issues). But it's not just that, there are also some very interesting general articles, nominally for AD&D but with relevance to OD&D and roleplaying in general. I also enjoy the "historical" feel of reading old issues, trying to get a sense of how things were at the time they were written. As far as new Dragons are concerned, sad to say I have not been impressed with what little I've seen. I have only seen a few issues of the recent stuff, and compared to the old stuff in the archive it just seems a bit dull and uninteresting. :-( Thorf > -----Original Message----- > From: Mystara RPG Discussion [mailto:MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM] On Behalf Of John Hofmann > Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 12:24 AM > To: MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM > Subject: Re: [MYSTARA] How many of you read Dragon or Dungeon > > I'll jump in on this one. > > I've been reading a lot of back issues of Dragon and Dungeon on PDF, and I'd have to say that there's a lot of good material in there, much of it could be applicable to Mystara. Dungeon magazine, especially, has been exceeding all my expectations with its content. I know that Dungeon is known mostly as a mag with adventures in it, but now they have some articles that are some of the best campaign material I've ever seen. Dragon is hit or miss with each issue. Some of them I skim over in about 20 minutes and never look at again, and some of them have so many good articles that I come back to them over and over again. > > I actually just dug up one Dragon that was dedicated to drow elves and it was so good I'm seriously considering making some of the articles the bedrock on which I build my next campaign. ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:39:29 -0700 From: "Richard B." Subject: Moon Madness! Had a kooky idea about the moons the other day and thought I'd pass it on. Once every, say, 50 or 100 years or so invisible Patera passes in front of Matera while Matera is full causing a serious magical and/or gravitic bending of the light which, in turn, causes a rather startling effect. Visually, Matera increases from 5 to 10 times its actual size (whatever is most dramatic. I don't know how big the moon appears in the sky, obviously) and takes on a not-so-natural color (again, whatever would freak people out the most. Red should do the trick). Now, this could be played different ways and I'm thinking firstly that it would be seen by most as an omen of no small import. It could also have serious effects on magic, particularly of the clerical variety if your Immortals aren't played as omnipotent, not to mention what it might do to Mystaras lycanthropic denizens. Then there's the "moon madness" bit. Could be contained to localized areas, could be planet-wide, etc. Anyway, you get the general idea. Lots of ways to play something like this out and wreak havoc on your players. Not to mention what it could do to the population of Matera, if anything. Dementia Felix! R. --------------------------------- New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big. ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 09:49:49 -0700 From: Joe Kelly Subject: Re: Moon Madness! Actually IMC, during the full moons characters can access Myoshima by = taking a ghostly ladder that appears to go to the heavens. In actual fact = it leads all the way to the moon. To the characters it seems a long climb = but they are in fact going faster than they think. Eventually they get to = the point where they feel are going upside down and have to turn around, = as they descend the ladder...into Myoshima.=20 I also have secret leylines. These are planar paths that propel a = character across the world by walking them. The thing they must remember = is to not walk off the path, lest they renter the material plane with = possible bad effects (like being over an ocean!) Joe Kelly Joe Kelly Office Services Clerk DAVIS & COMPANY LLP Suite 2800, Park Place 666 Burrard Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 2Z7 Phone 604.643.6365 >>> demon_star2002@YAHOO.COM 04/11/06 09:39am >>> Had a kooky idea about the moons the other day and thought I'd pass it on. = Once every, say, 50 or 100 years or so invisible Patera passes in front of = Matera while Matera is full causing a serious magical and/or gravitic = bending of the light which, in turn, causes a rather startling effect. = Visually, Matera increases from 5 to 10 times its actual size (whatever is = most dramatic. I don't know how big the moon appears in the sky, obviously)= and takes on a not-so-natural color (again, whatever would freak people = out the most. Red should do the trick). =20 Now, this could be played different ways and I'm thinking firstly that = it would be seen by most as an omen of no small import. It could also have = serious effects on magic, particularly of the clerical variety if your = Immortals aren't played as omnipotent, not to mention what it might do to = Mystaras lycanthropic denizens. Then there's the "moon madness" bit. Could = be contained to localized areas, could be planet-wide, etc. =20 Anyway, you get the general idea. Lots of ways to play something like = this out and wreak havoc on your players. Not to mention what it could do = to the population of Matera, if anything. Dementia Felix! =20 =20 R. =09 --------------------------------- New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. 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Please advise us if you do not want to receive unencrypted e-mails. ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:52:26 EDT From: "Dennis A. Pascale" Subject: Hello Hi All: I've been lurking on the list for a few weeks now and figured it was time to say a formal hello. My name is Dennis, I'm 35 and been playing the D&D game since the "Easy to Master" boxed set...wow, seems like such a long time ago. Always have had a small group of players, usually between 3 to 5. Started with the Known World and have devored everything Mystara I could get my hands on. I also have been a Ravenloft fan and currently DM my group through that campaign. However, I've made strong ties between Mystara and RL, including the fact that our newest PC is an Outlander from Karameikos. Plus, my group has already played through "Castle Amber" as part of the RL game. We've been playing with Second Edition rules till just recenlty. Now with the 3E rules I realized how great they are for Mystara and now been thinking of running a new Mystara campaign in 3E, hence I figured I'd resign up to the list to see what everyone's been up to with such a great setting. So far I've seen some great threads and it's great to see so many fans keeping the setting alive. Keep up the great work and if I ever get around to it, I'll post what I can. I even joined the message board and added my name to the petition! Thanks again, looking forward to more great things! --Dennis ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:16:09 -0300 From: vinimagus Subject: Re: Hello Welcome, Dennis!!! Pls tell us more about thr RL and Mystara links. I also see it that way! I love the werebeasts and vampires in Karameikos.= Isee that Kingdom as Romenia, do you agree? I have a very special role f= or the Nosferatu who rules a city (forgot city and nosferatu's name now) = IMC. Not to mention Korizsgy (?) Keep. I also put the heroes in an adventure ("The Ghost of Harrow Hill" that ca= me with the First Quest box) set in Penhaligon. There was no city, so I c= hose it. South of P there was a hill (I put it there, hehehe) and one of = the players dreamt of a woman asking for help. So there they headed. When= climbing the hill, ther was fog, was very hard to see, haeavy rain... an= d a manor appeared (it could not be seen from afar). Does it seem familia= r? :-P Vini ---------- Cabe=E7alho original ----------- De: "Mystara RPG Discussion" MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM Para: MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM C=F3pia: Data: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:52:26 EDT Assunto: [MYSTARA] Hello > Hi All: > > I've been lurking on the list for a few weeks now and figured it was ti= me to > say a formal hello. My name is Dennis, I'm 35 and been playing the D&= D game > since the "Easy to Master" boxed set...wow, seems like such a long tim= e ago. > > Always have had a small group of players, usually between 3 to 5. Sta= rted > with the Known World and have devored everything Mystara I could get my= hands > on. > > I also have been a Ravenloft fan and currently DM my group through that= > campaign. However, I've made strong ties between Mystara and RL, inclu= ding the > fact that our newest PC is an Outlander from Karameikos. Plus, my gro= up has > already played through "Castle Amber" as part of the RL game. > > We've been playing with Second Edition rules till just recenlty. Now = with > the 3E rules I realized how great they are for Mystara and now been th= inking > of running a new Mystara campaign in 3E, hence I figured I'd resign up = to the > list to see what everyone's been up to with such a great setting. > > So far I've seen some great threads and it's great to see so many fans = > keeping the setting alive. Keep up the great work and if I ever get ar= ound to it, > I'll post what I can. I even joined the message board and added my na= me to > the petition! > > Thanks again, looking forward to more great things! > > --Dennis ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:16:40 +0200 From: Arnt Olav Foseide Subject: Re: Emirikol the Chaotic On 4/6/06, Havard Faanes wrote: > --- "Richard B." skrev: > > > Thanks for finding this! It's nice to see DAT's work > > get appreciated that way. I have to agree that he, > > more than any other D&D artist (with the possible > > exception of Erol Otus), defined the look of the > > game. > > No problem! :) > > > I'm surprised that he didn't include Tramp's art > > from > > the AD&D DM's screen- one of my favorite old school > > images. > > This all makes me sad I never had a chance to play > AD&D 1E. > > > Maybe I'll just have to do a write-up of ol' > > Emirikol. > > Go for it! :) > > It would be especially interesting if you can provide > an explaination for his dealings in Glantri too... > > > H=E5vard I thought Emirikol was detailed as a 30th level wizard in 2e, in Paladin in Hell? I might be wrong, of course... AOF > ******************************************************************** > 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:32:19 -0300 From: vinimagus Subject: Blackmoor sources Besides the wonderful, amazing Vaults' prodlist page (about which I alway= s speak), we recently discussed other Blackmoor pages, right? What are th= ey? Is there general info and material list? What would the "VoP Blackmoor" page? I will start buying the new Blackmoor material (see my post from 2 min ag= o). Trying to catch up, Vini ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 16:48:15 EDT From: "Dennis A. Pascale" Subject: Re: Hello In a message dated 4/11/2006 2:19:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time, vinimagus@TERRA.COM.BR writes: Pls tell us more about thr RL and Mystara links. Thanks for the welcome Vini. I have used "The Ghost of Harrow Hill" myself, it's definately got a RL feel, especially with the house appearing out of nowhere and the PC's trapped inside, fighting for survival. Yes, I usually keep Romania in mind when playing within Karameikos as well. The sturdy, supersticious peasants, the forests full of Lycanthropes and other undead creatures. As for my RL/Mystara links, I'll try to sum it up as quickly as I can. (A task in itself). My PC's are actually natives from the demiplane. I took them out of the setting briefly, when they played "Castle Amber." I always thought this was the demiplane that the castle was taken to as part of Etienne's curse. After playing through this module, (complete with the entire romp through Old Averiogne, I think I spelt that alright), they made allies with Etienne and Genvieve de Sephora. (Man this is hard to spell). As I played this module I realized that Old Averiogne didn't have much background information and as it was also the home world of Brannart McGreggor and clan, I started thinking of what other connections it had. Definately a French but also a Celtic feel. This of course led me to look at some of RL domains that had celtic backgrounds. I began to combine the history/timelines of these domains (Avonleigh, Tepest, and Forlorn), and mixed them with the background from Castle Amber. With so many domains connected, it's easy for me to shift between the two worlds. If you know anything about the history of the RL "Shadowborn family," then you can guess that one of the PC's is actually part of this bloodline, a family that has it's roots in Old Averoigne. In addition, I broke the cardinal rule of "no escape" from the Demiplane and Etienne gave a PC a powerful artifact that temporarily breaks the bonds and allowed him to return to Mystara to seek Etienne's help. Now, in the course of the campaign, that route has been cut off, but it sets us up for when the PC's will return to Mystara. Not sure if this made a lot of sense, but that's kinda the gist of the connection. Many domains with little background were easily adaptable to Mystara. Even with the new RL material from White Wolf, they don't mention original homeworlds, thus it's easy to change around what I need. ******************************************************************** 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: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 06:48:34 +0800 From: Francisco Navarro Subject: Re: Moon Madness! Hi! IIRC, this is already what happens on the Night of the Red Moon over Glantri - Patera passes over Matera, causing it to appear red. The Glantrians already have such supersitions (maybe true) regarding arcane magic. (I don't have my canon sources right now.) Of course, this may also occus in some other latitude/longitude at some other occasions over Mystara, but AFAIK, it's a regular occurrence over Glantri. Another consideration is that Glantrians don't know it's effect on clerical magic. Kit Navarro Glantrian Astronomer/Astrologer/Astromancer On Wednesday, April 12, 2006, at 01:48AM, Richard B. wrote: > Had a kooky idea about the moons the other day and thought I'd pass it on. Once every, say, 50 or 100 years or so invisible Patera passes in front of Matera while Matera is full causing a serious magical and/or gravitic bending of the light which, in turn, causes a rather startling effect. Visually, Matera increases from 5 to 10 times its actual size (whatever is most dramatic. I don't know how big the moon appears in the sky, obviously) and takes on a not-so-natural color (again, whatever would freak people out the most. Red should do the trick). > Now, this could be played different ways and I'm thinking firstly that it would be seen by most as an omen of no small import. It could also have serious effects on magic, particularly of the clerical variety if your Immortals aren't played as omnipotent, not to mention what it might do to Mystaras lycanthropic denizens. Then there's the "moon madness" bit. Could be contained to localized areas, could be planet-wide, etc. > Anyway, you get the general idea. Lots of ways to play something like this out and wreak havoc on your players. Not to mention what it could do to the population of Matera, if anything. Dementia Felix! > R. > > > --------------------------------- > New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big. > > ******************************************************************** > 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:40:56 -0300 From: "Vinicius R. de Moraes - USP Solar" Subject: Re: Question about Pandius I'd love some hints on printing. Vini At 20:29 10/4/2006, you wrote: > The thing I love about shawns site is the awesome maps. Anyone have paper versions? I would love to print them off. > > Joe Kelly > Office Services Clerk > DAVIS & COMPANY LLP > Suite 2800, Park Place > 666 Burrard Street, > Vancouver, B.C. > V6C 2Z7 > Phone 604.643.6365 > > >>> gilles.leblanc@GMAIL.COM 04/10/06 04:21pm >>> > Do you guys use the quests on Pandius. I know I submitted some years ago. > Personnally I don't like using the quests on pandius but I love the site for > the Atlas section to get info and ideas of countries and the resources > sections. > > Btw, when I read back the stuff I submited years ago I cringe because of my > lack of english skills at the time :) At least it gives me the feeling I > have made some progress in english ;) ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 20:46:13 EDT From: Erol Bayburt Subject: Re: Moon Madness! In a message dated 4/11/2006 11:40:38 AM Central Daylight Time, demon_star2002@YAHOO.COM writes: > Had a kooky idea about the moons the other day and thought I'd pass it on. Once every, say, 50 or 100 years or so invisible Patera passes in front of Matera while Matera is full causing a serious magical and/or gravitic bending of the light which, in turn, causes a rather startling effect. Visually, Matera increases from 5 to 10 times its actual size (whatever is most dramatic. I don't know how big the moon appears in the sky, obviously) and takes on a not-so-natural color (again, whatever would freak people out the most. Red should do the trick). No - blue! That way Mystara can have the saying "Once in a blue moon..." ******************************************************************** 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: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:49:27 -0300 From: "Vinicius R. de Moraes - USP Solar" Subject: Re: Moon Madness! At 19:48 11/4/2006, you wrote: > Hi! > > IIRC, this is already what happens on the Night of the Red Moon over Glantri - Patera passes over Matera, causing it to appear red. The Glantrians already have such supersitions (maybe true) regarding arcane magic. (I don't have my canon sources right now.) > > Of course, this may also occus in some other latitude/longitude at some other occasions over Mystara, but AFAIK, it's a regular occurrence over Glantri. > > Another consideration is that Glantrians don't know it's effect on clerical magic. Because they don't have it? > Kit Navarro > Glantrian Astronomer/Astrologer/Astromancer What is an Astromancer? Vini > On Wednesday, April 12, 2006, at 01:48AM, Richard B. wrote: > > >Had a kooky idea about the moons the other day and thought I'd pass it on. Once every, say, 50 or 100 years or so invisible Patera passes in front of Matera while Matera is full causing a serious magical and/or gravitic bending of the light which, in turn, causes a rather startling effect. Visually, Matera increases from 5 to 10 times its actual size (whatever is most dramatic. I don't know how big the moon appears in the sky, obviously) and takes on a not-so-natural color (again, whatever would freak people out the most. Red should do the trick). > > > > Now, this could be played different ways and I'm thinking firstly that it would be seen by most as an omen of no small import. It could also have serious effects on magic, particularly of the clerical variety if your Immortals aren't played as omnipotent, not to mention what it might do to Mystaras lycanthropic denizens. Then there's the "moon madness" bit. Could be contained to localized areas, could be planet-wide, etc. > > > > Anyway, you get the general idea. Lots of ways to play something like this out and wreak havoc on your players. Not to mention what it could do to the population of Matera, if anything. Dementia Felix! > > > > > > R. ******************************************************************** 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: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 13:59:35 +0800 From: Francisco Navarro Subject: Re: Moon Madness! Glantrians are not familiar with the effect of the Red Moon over Glantri (when Patera passes across a full Matera) on clerical magic, because clerical magic is not commonly practiced in Glantri. In fact, until very recently (soon after the Wrath of the Immortals War), clerical magic was completely forbidden in the Principalities. An astromancer is actually an idea I'm toying around with. Whereas astronomers are the "scientists" of the stars and heavenly planets, and astrologers are the mystics in the field, astromancers would be wizards who can harness the powers of the planets and stars... A bit complicated, because one has to study the mundane field of astronomy, understand the mystical/supernatural effects of astrology, then actually apply it in the magic of astromancy. Kit Navarro On 04 12, 06, at 8:49 AM, Vinicius R. de Moraes - USP Solar wrote: > At 19:48 11/4/2006, you wrote: >> Hi! >> >> IIRC, this is already what happens on the Night of the Red Moon over Glantri - Patera passes over Matera, causing it to appear red. The Glantrians already have such supersitions (maybe true) regarding arcane magic. (I don't have my canon sources right now.) >> >> Of course, this may also occus in some other latitude/longitude at some other occasions over Mystara, but AFAIK, it's a regular occurrence over Glantri. >> >> Another consideration is that Glantrians don't know it's effect on clerical magic. > > Because they don't have it? > >> Kit Navarro >> Glantrian Astronomer/Astrologer/Astromancer > > What is an Astromancer? > > Vini > > >> On Wednesday, April 12, 2006, at 01:48AM, Richard B. wrote: >> >> >Had a kooky idea about the moons the other day and thought I'd pass it on. Once every, say, 50 or 100 years or so invisible Patera passes in front of Matera while Matera is full causing a serious magical and/or gravitic bending of the light which, in turn, causes a rather startling effect. Visually, Matera increases from 5 to 10 times its actual size (whatever is most dramatic. I don't know how big the moon appears in the sky, obviously) and takes on a not-so-natural color (again, whatever would freak people out the most. Red should do the trick). >> > >> > Now, this could be played different ways and I'm thinking firstly that it would be seen by most as an omen of no small import. It could also have serious effects on magic, particularly of the clerical variety if your Immortals aren't played as omnipotent, not to mention what it might do to Mystaras lycanthropic denizens. Then there's the "moon madness" bit. Could be contained to localized areas, could be planet-wide, etc. >> > >> > Anyway, you get the general idea. Lots of ways to play something like this out and wreak havoc on your players. Not to mention what it could do to the population of Matera, if anything. Dementia Felix! >> > >> > >> > R. > > ******************************************************************** > 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. ------------------------------ End of MYSTARA-L Digest - 10 Apr 2006 to 11 Apr 2006 (#2006-69) ***************************************************************