For 1st edition I have to pick the mud palace that is just such a neat local that never really got explored. I had others but most of them got offcially explored and I was never super keen on howTSR fleshed them out.
From the 2nd edition box set I have to go with the crimson monolith(at least thats what i think it was called, i dont have my books with me) When I was younger I thought the dead lands was the coolest, but as I have gotten older and seen more doctor who I have to admit there is something about that mysterious monolith that seems to draw my attention.
What about you guys? Is there a local from the novels that you just love, or a particular expansion that you think explained a mystery from the 1st box set just perfectly? Inquiring Minds want to know.
I'm sure I'm massacring the name, but the Crater of Bones in one of the Prism Pentad novels. Apparently it's the place where nearby cities - Urik, Raam, Tyr - dump their levy, and the Dragon drains their life energy there, leaving layers upon layers of bones.
Ooo! Where's that located?
Ooo! Where's that located?
Within the Smoking Crown Mtns.
Within the Smoking Crown Mtns.
Where is that detailed?
I ended up assuming each city has their own place for the Dragon to pick up his levy. My players had such fun... especially when they did the maths, and worked out just how many people one thousand people a year, multiplied by about two thousand years, multiplied by seven cities comes to...
Where is that detailed?
The Prism Pentad novels.
I always loved Ledo. I loved the idea of dwarfs trying to make a bridge to that giant infested island. The idiotic giants destroying the bridge because they think the dwarfs are trying to invade them, instead of understanding the the bridge will raise their standare of living with all the traders going their way.
Stupid giants, can't understand simple business opportunities.
Got to agree Ledo's my favorite too, but I don't think the Giants are so stupid. The Dwarves are planning to wipe them out if not initially then by now, with all the pain and setbacks the giants have caused them.
I always have had a thing for the Isle of Waverly in the Silt Sea.
I've often wanted to place my players in that ruin but I've never done it.
In the time of the first boxed set the majority of my games were played in Nibenay or in the area called the Ivory Triangle.
After the release of the second boxed set the city of Raam is where almost all of my games took place. Raam is a real "anything goes" city in that there is no single leader. Literally anything can and probably does happen and this gives a Dungeon Master can really run wild.
Graks Pool is another interesting location. I've also always really liked Sortars Army but thats not really a location....
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I always have had a thing for the Isle of Waverly in the Silt Sea.
I've always been interested in Waverly too. Does anyone know if there is any description of what sort of city Waverly was before it was ruined. One of the Champions was from that city if I recall correctly, but I don't remember any of the books talking about what Waverly used to be like.
I've always been interested in Waverly too. Does anyone know if there is any description of what sort of city Waverly was before it was ruined. One of the Champions was from that city if I recall correctly, but I don't remember any of the books talking about what Waverly used to be like.
Abalach-Re came from Waverly but there is little in the way of discriptions of the ruins themselves or the island they sit on. There is a fountain which still pumps water withing the Ruins of the city.
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My PCs "settled" on Waverly once and built a small fort there. Always thought its a good place for a town.
It's a little "off the beaten path" for a town isn't it?
It's a little "off the beaten path" for a town isn't it?
By town I meant more of a personal outpost with a Water Cleric, and Druid
to help out with crops. Magic and/or Psionics to get back to the mainland.
Menestrel, the once Bloody DM and now Gentle Dad
I am also obligated to say the Blue Shrine. ;)
What sort of things have you come up with in regards to Blue Shrine Jon?
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Single best place to lure unsuspecting players with promises of lost riches, then come sundown it's like the Tokyo subway system, only everyone's a zombie!
