Yes, :)I am fully aware of the Mystaran community's invention of the (Outer Beings) OBs (IIRC, it is Geoff Gander's bad boy). In fact, the list moderator on the Mystara Mailing List (MML) is one of them. There are people in the Mystara community dedicated to exploring use of the Carnifex and Outer Beings in subtle ways that will enrich Mystara without taking away the mystery. For that I'd direct you to the adventure M3: Twilight Calling. For truly Lovecraftian-style Mystara, you really need to use the Carnifex, however. Next to nothing is known about the Old Ones, though one does appear briefly at the end of WotI (so my players have actually met one.). Sound familiar? They're supposed to be kept in check by the 'Old Ones', who are the gods of the Immortals. In truth they are remnants of the nefarious 'Outer Beings', who are supposed to be dark and evil gods now entrapped beyond the universe. The burrowers aren't actually Thanatos', he has just tried (and failed) to use them on occasion. They cite that Mystara's space is too cold and have no air, but actually there is nothing in Spelljammer rules preventing that as a local possibility - Krynn's space (that the Dragonlance world) is also very cold, for example. In fact, we know nothing about Mystara's space except what is described in relation to Haldemar's travels on the Princess Ark, yet many vehemently oppose the notion that spelljamming might be used for Mystara. The same goes for Spelljammer even though there are conversion guidelines for it in the Champions of Mystara set, which is the only D&D product to ever deal with space travel in any way. I guess it's just a case of people not liking having Mystara made into 'just another AD&D world' and then growing angry when they cannot find hard evidence against that being a possibility. I agree with you, but I've given up trying to define the core of the problem, since it always causes dissent and sore feelings, making it very difficult to establish a constructive dialogue. "Wariors of Heaven" seems to be universally hated by Mystara-fans (though not me), so I'd be wary of mentioning it to them. Mass combat, dominion management, Immortal rules, usable descriptions of the nations (though not as extensive as the gazetteers, of course) and maps of them - it's all there in one book, and the rest is just expanding on that. You don't have that in the old D&D stuff - if you buy the D&D Rules Cyclopedia, then you buy a complete game in one book. Monte Cook once said that people often ask him why there are no mass-combat rules in the 3e books, and his reply was that they weren't allowed to do it - WotC wanted to hold aspects of the game off for future products. They were complete systems, whereas 3e is intentionally lacking. 2e Player Option rules were more 'advanced' and 'progressive' than 3e, even though they were spread out over a gazillion books. Of course a game that's more than a quarter of century old is going to show its age - especially for RPGs - but d20 is new and yet enforces aspects that are really just as old. The games are ancient - I cannot blame a game that is 20 to 30 years old and made during the infancy of role-playing for being inferior in design and consistency to a new game that is supposed to be current and balanced. Since 27 June 1996 these pages have been visited times.Oh yes - d20 is much better designed than the old D&D stuff, but.ġ. MystaraCon 2021 Day 3: The Vaults of Pandius - Building the Community MystaraCon 2021 Day 2: The Glory Days of Mystara with Bruce Heard MystaraCon 2021 Day 2: Mystaran Cartography with Thorfinn Tait MystaraCon 2021 Day 1: MystaraCon Welcome Happy Hour with Mr. MystaraCon 2021 Day 1: Mystara in Italy (in Italian!) Updated 11 January 2022.ĭ&D Products available for Print on Demand on Dungeon Masters Guild / DriveThruRPGĭ&D Products on Dungeon Masters Guild / DriveThruRPG
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