This is a site for discussing roleplaying games. Have fun doing so, but there is one major rule: do not discuss political issues that aren't directly and uniquely related to the subject of the thread and about gaming. While this site is dedicated to free speech, the following will not be tolerated: devolving a thread into unrelated political discussion, sockpuppeting (using multiple and/or bogus accounts), disrupting topics without contributing to them, and posting images that could get someone fired in the workplace (an external link is OK, but clearly mark it as Not Safe For Work, or NSFW). If you receive a warning, please take it seriously and either move on to another topic or steer the discussion back to its original RPG-related theme.

Sell me or Unsell me on Mystara

Started by Ocule, September 01, 2021, 02:30:01 PM

Previous topic - Next topic
Print
Go Down Pages 1 2 3
User actions

Ocule

#30
September 10, 2021, 09:50:33 AM
So I've binged on mr welches mystara videos and the one I think was the most helpful was actually the video on tying it all together. It confirmed my suspicion that the world was a bit patchwork and that the authors of the various nations didn't really talk to each other. Idk if it'll be go to for me but I think it's cool.

I did have an idea though to take Thyatis and take inspiration from elder scrolls in terms of how to tech up their empire to be a little less out of place
Read my Consumer's Guide to TTRPGs
here. This is a living document.

Forever GM

Now Running: Mystara (BECMI)

palaeomerus

#31
September 10, 2021, 10:30:45 AM
Mystara is a hollow world with more nations hidden inside the planet, and it is hinted that it may be a heavily modified Earth after a cataclysm or other event and the cultures may have been seeded at some point by colonists following particular ancient traditions rather than societies form from peoples developing cultures naturally which is why they are sorted into zones that seem arbitrarily defined. Or at least that is how I remember it being explained when they tried to tie it all together. It looks like a giant revivalist Disney World type park/preserve that went native over a long time following some disruption because it sort of IS!
Emery

Mithgarthr

#32
September 10, 2021, 10:36:26 AM
BTW, if you've not seen it, here's a really cool blog by Lawrence Schick about how he and Moldvay came up with Mystara together, before it was ever the official B/X setting: http://www.blackgate.com/2015/02/07/the-known-world-dd-setting-a-secret-history/

Neat stuff.

BoxCrayonTales

#33
September 10, 2021, 11:36:09 AM
Wasn't there also a connection to Blackmoor?

Mithgarthr

#34
September 10, 2021, 12:10:16 PM
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on September 10, 2021, 11:36:09 AM
Wasn't there also a connection to Blackmoor?

Yes. Blackmoor is canon Mystara. It existed thousands of years before the "current" time (~1,000AC), blew itself up and altered the planet and pissed off some elves.

Pat

#35
September 10, 2021, 04:14:19 PM
Quote from: Mithgarthr on September 10, 2021, 12:10:16 PM
Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on September 10, 2021, 11:36:09 AM
Wasn't there also a connection to Blackmoor?

Yes. Blackmoor is canon Mystara. It existed thousands of years before the "current" time (~1,000AC), blew itself up and altered the planet and pissed off some elves.
The prehistory of Mystara seems to be the result of massive overdoses of crack and LSD.

I mean hell, the only reason there's magic in the world is because a spacecraft crashed in the mountains thousands of years ago and the reactor's leaking.

BoxCrayonTales

#36
September 11, 2021, 05:32:51 PM
Sounds delightfully 80s
Print
Go Up Pages 1 2 3
User actions