Subject: MYSTARA-L Digest - 28 Jan 2007 to 29 Jan 2007 (#2007-7) From: MYSTARA-L automatic digest system Date: 30/01/2007, 19:00 To: MYSTARA-L@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM Reply-to: Mystara RPG Discussion There are 9 messages totalling 534 lines in this issue. Topics of the day: 1. "The Savage Tide" Adventure Path (2) 2. A game of darts (3) 3. The Mystara Almanach in a Blog !! (3) 4. Savage Tide on Mystara Part One: "There is No Honor" ******************************************************************** 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: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:24:17 +0100 From: Giampaolo Agosta Subject: Re: "The Savage Tide" Adventure Path Chris Davies ha scritto: > My apologies if this has already been discussed here, but would > anyone mind if I were to post some notes on how to use the > "Savage Tide" Adventure Path being published in DUNGEON as > adventures set on Mystara? Sure, we'd like to hear your thoughts. 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: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:35:39 +0100 From: Havard Faanes Subject: A game of darts I know they aren't listed in Classic, but which cultures on Mystara would be likely to use darts as weapons? Havard _________________________________________________________ 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: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:36:00 +0100 From: Havard Faanes Subject: The Mystara Almanach in a Blog !! Great idea! Havard --- Thibault Sarlat skrev: > Hello everyone > > I have managed to work out a nice blog to feature > our > common work, that is the Mystara Almanach for AC > 1019. > It is accessible right now as a sub-folder of my > main > Website (http://www.mystara.fr/almanach/) > > As I say on the website the main idea behind this > project is to syndicate the content of the Mystara > Almanach AC 1019. > Using equivalent date in the real world (January the > 1st = Nuwmont 1st), I intend to edit all the entries > of the almanach. > Then any Mystara fan (or simply any RPG interested > person) will be able to receive the corresponding > posts every day, as if it was a Newspaper, simply by > using the 2 RSS feeds of this website (one for the > posts, and one for the comments). > > As any Blog post, anyone is free to post comments > (registration is required first though). These > comments can help the editors improve the very > content > of each entry. After revision, any administrator > will > be able to unlock the publishing of any comment. > > Of course I am looking for people to help me edit > the > entries in this wite (copy/paste + some minor > addition). > idealy I would like to work with the contributors or > the editors, but anyone is entitled to a life. > > I have based my assumption upon the fact that in > this > website, real world 2007 is equivalent to AC 1019 on > Mystara (for the sake of conversion). As you can see > on the website, the dates are magically altered to > appear "Mystaran". This is the devising of Jérôme > Pinchaud my powerful wizard collegue (and > developper) > . I really want to thank him sincerely for his help > in > devising this great "spell". Alas, the spell is > limited in range, and all the RSS posts feature the > real world date. And since changing this would be > like > searching for a 12 th level spell, I don't think > it's > worth searching that much. > > Since Mystara month are each 28 days long, do not > expect to recieve much RSS feed on the 29th, 30th > and > 31st of the month (except maybe special entries like > Topic of the Month) . > I hope that my work will find interest your eyes and > that this will contribute to boosting Mystara > fame... > > As always any feedback, new ideas and partnership > offers are welcome. > > > Thibault Sarlat > http://www.mystara.fr http://www.mystara.fr/almanach/ > > > > > Thibault SARLAT > a.k.a Clenarius > www.mystara.fr > www.mystara.fr/almanach/ > ICQ 16622177 > MSN Messenger: clenarius@hotmail.com > RSS Feed : > http://feeds.feedburner.com/mystaralmanach1019 for > the latest entries in the Mystara Almanach AC 1019 > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. > http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ > > ******************************************************************** > 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: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 14:37:03 +0100 From: Havard Faanes Subject: "The Savage Tide" Adventure Path Please do! :) I'm curious to seeing what you have got, Havard --- Chris Davies skrev: > My apologies if this has already been discussed > here, but would > anyone mind if I were to post some notes on how to > use the > "Savage Tide" Adventure Path being published in > DUNGEON as > adventures set on Mystara? > > C(hristopher) Richard Davies. > Advocate for Darkness, Part-Time Champion of Light. > Jimmy: This isn't an adventure story. Is it, Mr. > Hayes? Hayes: No, Jimmy. It's not. > -- from "King Kong" (2005) > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Have a burning question? Go to www.Answers.yahoo.com and get answers from > real people who know. > > ******************************************************************** > 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: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:23:07 +0100 From: Giampaolo Agosta Subject: Re: A game of darts On 29/01/07, Havard Faanes wrote: > I know they aren't listed in Classic, but which > cultures on Mystara would be likely to use darts as > weapons? Uhm, thrown darts were used by the Romans ("plumbata"). Also, the chinese "biaoshi" translates to both "escort master" and "dart master", so the Dragon Magazine article I used as a source for the Ochalean biaoshi mentions darts as a typical weapon proficiency for these characters; thrown needles are another typical kungfu movie weapon. So, the Thyatian empire could be a good place to find dart users. Myoshima can be another area where darts are common -- shuriken can also be darts, so Rakasta ninja would use them. Also, primitive societies (in the HW or in remote regions of the OW) could use thrown darts instead of more advanced hunting weapons (i.e., bows or slings), possibly using spear throwers, though. Finally, some M-British groups (the Anglais, maybe) might use them -- though mostly in pub games, of course. 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: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:52:39 +0000 From: CAB Davidson Subject: Re: A game of darts Depends on what you think of as 'darts'. The English practice of darts as a game is said to come from throwing arrows at a target, its very much a sympton of having lots of archers. Which implies to me that states with lots of archers are likely to develop such sports. If one assumes that the use of the dart as a weapon would be linked to that, then it becomes a question of who would be likely to pick one up and throw it as such. I'd say thats most likely mages and thieves; so I'd go looking for darts in Glantri, Thyatis and Alphatia, as well as Alfheim and Wendar. Havard Faanes wrote: I know they aren't listed in Classic, but which cultures on Mystara would be likely to use darts as weapons? Havard _________________________________________________________ Alt i én. Få Yahoo! 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Plus: play games and win prizes. ******************************************************************** 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: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 11:40:11 -0800 From: Chris Davies Subject: Savage Tide on Mystara Part One: "There is No Honor" The first adventure requires very little in the way of changes, but the setting needs a few. Sasserine, with its jungle environs, can be placed pretty easily on the Jungle Coast of Davania. Personally, I favor putting it in the hex of swampland just to the right of the "Yasuko Tribal Lands" label on the big map from PWA1011. Plus, that's close to the Manacapuru Tribal Lands region, which sets up some stuff for later. The city was founded 700-odd years ago by colonists from the Isle of Dawn, named for the cleric of Noumenos who had a dream that led her, her lover Teraknian (who worshipped Thor) and a bunch of other people here. They fought a dragon, Sasserine got conveniently killed, and a city was built in her honor. The city became a relatively important stop over for traders travelling along the Davanian coastline. A century ago, though, things started to go bad. First the Lord Mayor Oren Teraknian revealed himself to be a corrupt tyrant, then he was removed from office with some help from a group of Minaen "adventurers". Unfortunately, said adventurers were actually pirates. For the next century, the city would be ruled over by one group of pirates after another -- sometimes taken by force, sometimes used as stakes in gambling games, etc. They basically looted the place and used it as a hide-out. Twenty odd years ago, the most recent of Sasserine's piratical rulers were lost at sea, and their flunkies were overhrown by a rebellion. A council of the seven surviving noble families was set up, and they've done much to draw legitimate merchants back to Sasserine. But with the general economic downturn in this part of the world (see recent almanacs) they've started to explore other methods of gaining wealth. One of the most ambitious of these projects was the establishment, by the Vanderboren family, of a colony near the Thanegioth Archipelago's notorious Isle of Dread. Unfortunately, the new leader of the Vanderboren family is unaware of this project, since her recently deceased parents hadn't gotten around to telling her about it. She's more concerned about how she's going to settle with her creditors. And that's where you come in ... (Ignore all references to Cauldron; they're meant to tie in this Adventure Path with "The Shackled City" Path. On the other hand, you could certainly put a mountain range with a city in the caldera of an extinct volcano to the south of Sasserine if you really wanted one ...) Religions of Sasserine: The Azure Cathedral is dedicated to Protius, but includes shrines to other nautical figures, many of whom are Protius' aliases. For Kord, read Thor. For St. Cuthbert, that's the name of a prominent cleric who believed in a philosophy of Law that's endured, even though he didn't actually win Immortality. (Sind can't be the only nation in the world worshipping Immortals that don't actually exist.) For Fharlanghn, read Asterius. For Olidammara, read Korotiku. (The alias of Worgul is a little jab at Asterius.) For Pelor, read Ixion. For Wee Jas, read Noumenos. For Nerull, read Thanatos. For Vecna, read Masauwu. (The cult of Vecna in the Historian's Guild is involved in blackmail, something I think Masauwu would be into.) The Church of the Whirling Fury is dedicated to Gwynharwyf, a little known Immortal of the Sphere of Energy. The Scarlet Embassy During the brief period when Ochalea was an independent nation, the Kingdom established an embassy in Sasserine, one of its closest neighbors and trade partners. While I'm not sure if Ochalea's new status as an Exarchate of the Thyatian Empire allows it to maintain independent embassies, this one at least is still open ... but it's being used by a group of sinister monks and assassins. (Don't use the word ninja. It means something unpleasant in Ochalean.) More Trivia Anwyn Arabani claims to be of shadow elven descent, rather than drow, and she's actually telling the truth ... though she has some very strange ideas about what they're like. (The spider fetish, for instance. What's up with that?) C(hristopher) Richard Davies. Advocate for Darkness, Part-Time Champion of Light. Jimmy: This isn't an adventure story. Is it, Mr. Hayes? Hayes: No, Jimmy. It's not. -- from "King Kong" (2005) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sucker-punch spam with award-winning protection. Try the free Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/features_spam.html ******************************************************************** 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: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:45:14 -0800 From: Herve Musseau Subject: Re: The Mystara Almanach in a Blog !! That's nice. I'm afraid we don't exactly put out one almanac a year, so you might run out of new events in 11 months. Maybe that will be the time to start churning out those old almanacs, rather than run them all in parallel this year? ___________________________________________________________ Herve Musseau http://www.geocities.com/hmusseau/ http://www.boincstats.com/signature/user_760066.gif Information Wants To Be Free ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/ ******************************************************************** 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: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 10:54:54 +0100 From: Thibault Sarlat Subject: The Mystara Almanach in a Blog !! I have to check, but i don't see why not... I'll see if i can find a nice and easy to use wiki solution...but wordpress as a blog engine has the adventage of updating the RSS feeds each time a new post is published or modified...(and I don't know if a wiki does that...) More to say about that in a couple of hours. Thanks Boonedale Thib ******************************************************************** 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 - 28 Jan 2007 to 29 Jan 2007 (#2007-7) **************************************************************