========================================================================= Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 00:08:46 -0800 Reply-To: Mystara Sender: Mystara From: "David S. Leland" Subject: GAZ1 city map scale Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Does anyone find the map scales for Specularum, Kelvin, and Threshold on the GAZ1 map strange? Notice that visually, the Threshold map looks like it's at a much denser scale, as if seen from far higher above, than for instance Kelvin, and yet Threshold is shown 1" = 500' while Kelvin is 1" = 400', not all that different. For a "standard," look at the size of the boats and docks on the Specularum, Kelvin, and Threshold maps, and then consider that they are supposedly 600', 400', and 500' to an inch, respectively. Clearly something's wrong. Any ideas? Thanks, Magus Coeruleus ******************************************************************** 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: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:00:57 +0100 Reply-To: Mystara Sender: Mystara From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9s_Piquer_Otero?= Subject: more map scale queries MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, I also have a map scale query: i'm going through the HWA trilogy again and now my PCs are treking from Atacalpa into the Azcan empire: big problem: the big Azcan Epire map in HWR1 has no scale key: I assumed it is 8 miles per hex, as the other HWR products. I also checked the HW boxed set maps (of Northern Iciria) and there are no keys either... I tried to figure out the scale by comparing distances, and it gives some weird number, around 40 miles per hex... I don't know of that scale being used in D&D products (8, 24 and 72 miles are the standard), but 24 is too small and 72 too big to keep a ratio between the maps... also, the HWR1 booklets include black and white maps which are weird: the general player's map gives 30 miles per inch, and, measuring, it makes the Azcan Empire absurdely tiny!!! Can anybody cast any light in this mapping madness of the Azca??? thanks Andr�s ******************************************************************** The Other Worlds Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/OtherWorlds.asp The Mystara Homepage: http://www.dnd.starflung.com/ To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@ORACLE.WIZARDS.COM with UNSUB MYSTARA-L in the body of the message. ========================================================================= Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 22:44:48 -0500 Reply-To: Mystara Sender: Mystara From: David Knott Subject: Re: Sylvan Ream, part 2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: John Hofmann > > What exactly is the Elvenbane? I'm not familiar with this. Not a "what" but a "who" -- a wizard named Moorkroft who has been using the essences of Elves preserved in trees to extend his lifespan. Any successful outcome to the "Tree of Life" adventure would include his destruction. ******************************************************************** 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: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 10:14:31 -0500 Reply-To: Mystara Sender: Mystara From: Geoff Gander Subject: Re: Merry Christmas - Dark Revelations... Good story there, Stalker! Now we know part of "your" history and motivations, perhaps there will be other instalments? :-) Geoff -- Geoff Gander, BA 97 Cartographer/Game Designer/Government Peon Carnifex Loremaster au998@freenet.carleton.ca : www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/2091 ******************************************************************** 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: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 10:37:23 -0500 Reply-To: Mystara Sender: Mystara From: Geoff Gander Subject: Re: Mystara Map Navigator Darkblood wrote: Very cool, very cool indeed! :-) Keep it up! Geoff -- Geoff Gander, BA 97 Cartographer/Game Designer/Government Peon Carnifex Loremaster au998@freenet.carleton.ca : www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Realm/2091 ******************************************************************** 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, 30 Dec 2000 00:59:51 +0100 Reply-To: Mystara Sender: Mystara From: The Stalker Organization: Angelfire (http://email.angelfire.mailcity.lycos.com:80) Subject: Re: Merry Christmas - Dark Revelations... Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 10:14:31 Geoff Gander wrote: > > >Good story there, Stalker! Now we know part of "your" history and >motivations, perhaps there will be other instalments? :-) > Hehe... perhaps... indeed, though much of my past is forgotten to history or the people involved are no longer alive, for various reasons, to reveal its intricacies! Many have speculated about my past, my age, my origin, but, alas, there are things that cannot be revealed, and things that are best not revealed... But then, perhaps. And... Thanks! ;) - The Stalker (whose name shall never be spoken!) Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com ******************************************************************** 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, 30 Dec 2000 11:06:58 +0100 Reply-To: Mystara Sender: Mystara From: Caroletti Subject: Inner Circle Gaz: 7) Duchy of Wolven MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit WOLVEN Area: 43,205 kmq Population: 156,400 (90% humans, 10% rakasta) Government Type: Wolven is a monarchy, although its ruler has the title of Duke. Important Figures: Randolph Iuga, Duke of Wolven Description: Southernmost kingdom of the Inner Circle, Wolven is also one of the most ancient. It is divided in a northern zone, called Ayxia, a plain where farmers cultivate corn and breed cows, and a southern one, known as the Fork Hills, mostly used as pasture lands for sheep. Wolven has a good military force, among the best of Nentsun, but it is a region where few magic users are found. The official religion of Wolven is the Church of Dragor, a wolfman divinity who bless its clerics with lycanthropy. The Church of Dragor discourages intelligent youths from becoming wizards, and those who become so are watched with suspicion in this country. It is interesting to notice that the wolf-clerics of Dragor seem to be the only example of lycanthropy in the Inner Circle along with the shapeshifting clerics of the Bear in Ursi. Wolven�s capital is the city of Alba Mater (pop. 26,000), built along the river Alius, in the northwestern part of Ayxia; the �Mark of White�, main temple of Dragor, is located here. The Duke lives in a palace a couple of kilometers away from the city. Another important city is Mizar (pop. 17,000), built on the road which leads from Alba Mater to Shuyra. Last but not least is the city of Shuyra (pop. 9,700), an important military outpost on the frontier with the hostile state of Glajura. ******************************************************************** 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, 30 Dec 2000 17:07:03 -0000 Reply-To: Mystara Sender: Mystara From: Paul George Dooley Subject: Re: GAZ1 city map scale MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "David S. Leland" To: Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 8:08 AM Subject: [MYSTARA] GAZ1 city map scale > Does anyone find the map scales for Specularum, Kelvin, and Threshold > on the GAZ1 map strange? Notice that visually, the Threshold map > looks like it's at a much denser scale, as if seen from far higher > above, than for instance Kelvin, and yet Threshold is shown 1" = 500' > while Kelvin is 1" = 400', not all that different. For a "standard," > look at the size of the boats and docks on the Specularum, Kelvin, > and Threshold maps, and then consider that they are supposedly 600', > 400', and 500' to an inch, respectively. Clearly something's > wrong. Any ideas? > The Threshold map is older than the others for one thing IIRC as it originally appeared in the Expert rulebook. Also it probably shows individual buildings rather than the large blocks in the other maps due to the Baron's ruling about proximity. Remember too that usually the boats in TSR maps are artistic licence and have no relationship to the actual mapscale. However there is the point that the Kelvin city map would place it a hex further south on the kingdom map and it seems that the Duke's Road branches at Kelvin with one part heading off into the moors, probably to Castellan Keep, whilst the other, not actually called the Duke's Road anymore, heads north to Penhaligon and Duke's Road Keep. Hamlet I, v, 166 Words to live by? Paul ******************************************************************** 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, 30 Dec 2000 17:34:01 -0000 Reply-To: Mystara Sender: Mystara From: Paul George Dooley Subject: Re: more map scale queries MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andr�s Piquer Otero" To: Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 1:00 PM Subject: [MYSTARA] more map scale queries > Hi, > > I also have a map scale query: i'm going through the HWA trilogy again and > now my PCs are treking from Atacalpa into the Azcan empire: big problem: the > big Azcan Epire map in HWR1 has no scale key: I assumed it is 8 miles per > hex, as the other HWR products. IIrc it is 8 miles/hex on the HWR1 map like usual I also checked the HW boxed set maps (of > Northern Iciria) and there are no keys either... I tried to figure out the > scale by comparing distances, and it gives some weird number, around 40 > miles per hex... Yep that's the right number for the hexsize in those maps too. I don't know of that scale being used in D&D products (8, > 24 and 72 miles are the standard), but 24 is too small and 72 too big to > keep a ratio between the maps... You do now! ;^) also, the HWR1 booklets include black and > white maps which are weird: the general player's map gives 30 miles per > inch, and, measuring, it makes the Azcan Empire absurdely tiny!!! > You want accurate maps as handouts for your players?! (Shudders) Actually you are right about this one being way out of scale one inch is approximately 160 miles is better. Hamlet I, v, 166 Words to live by? Paul ******************************************************************** 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: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 04:57:45 +0100 Reply-To: Mystara Sender: Mystara From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Andr=E9s_Piquer_Otero?= Subject: Re: more map scale queries MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >You want accurate maps as handouts for your players?! (Shudders) >Actually you are right about this one being way out of scale one inch is >approximately 160 miles is better. Yes, I thought that at first, too, but the out of scale thing was a bit too much, especially when the booklet says that most of the info is for native azcan characters, who would be a more savy than outsiders, and, the really crazy map, the one of the southern part of the Empire, is only slightly bigger scale and it's 10 miles per inch!!! and it's in the DM booklet (these areas don't appear in the color poster map)... I really like HW products, but I feel that they have "bugs" here and there due to production rushes... mostly true for HWR2, sososo promising and so lame! It's a good thing to have people in the list to clear things up :-) thanks, Andr�s ******************************************************************** 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: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 11:27:46 +0100 Reply-To: Mystara Sender: Mystara From: Caroletti Subject: Poll Results: What is your favourite nation? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Happy New Year to everybody! Ok, here's the last (for this year) update to the poll. I still wait for a lot of votes. Muhahahahaha. Voters: 87 Alfheim: 6 Alphatia: 6,5 Bellayne: 1 Broken Lands: 1 Cynidicea: 1 Darokin: 6 Dunwick: 1 Ethengar: 3 Five Shires: 1,5 Glantri: 12,5 Heldann: 1 Hule: 2 Ierendi: 1 Karameikos: 14 Minrothad: 1 Nithia: 1 Northern Reaches: 2,5 (1 Ostland) Norwold: 3,5 Rockhome: 3 Serraine: 1,5 Thyatis: 9 Shadow Elves: 1,5 Wendar: 1,5 Yavdlom: 1 Ylaruam: 4 ******************************************************************** 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.