The Master set covers levels 26-36, following right from the Companion rules. Today I look into these rules for the first time in detail. But this has always been something an "other" for me and my D&D game. The box also had an extra copy of the Immortal rules inside, so that was a nice bonus. The box was beaten up and the contents were water damaged, but still readable. This particular set was never on my radar and I only picked one up a couple years ago. The journey that began at level 1 in the Basic set is now seeing its end at levels 26 to 36 in the Master Set. Moving every up we are now at the apex of BECMI D&d Play for normal characters. The supercontinent Pangaea showing regions of low oxygen.The Vaults of Pandius - for everything Mystara.Would I like to see WotC produce new Mystara material? Sure, but if they don't I know the world is in fine hands. I have already seen plans in place to adapt a new 5th Edition book to Mystara months before the book even hits the shelves. The communities are also very active in detailing new places, moving the timeline forward and adapting material from other sources. What I love about Mystara (Mystoerth) is that while so much of the world is "known" there are still many, many parts to discover anew. Oestara could have been an alternate name for the planet. It sounds like Ostara, the pagan holiday that Easter comes from. While researching this I found an old post by Rich/Chatdemon that offers up an alternate name, Oerstara. The worlds share a lot of details in common so that a merge was inevitable really. So you know I was thrilled when I found the James Mischler/Chatdemon Mystoerth map. I got the western half and my DM got the eastern half. Eventually, right before college, we merged our worlds into one. It was the world of my Basic era days and when I moved on AD&D I still kept the world as "my own." It was understood that when I was a player it was in Greyhawk/Oerth but when I was a DM it was in the Known World/Mystara. Many of the same people on those lists then are still active in the various Facebook groups and websites today.įor me, I always had a soft spot in my heart for Mystara. Starting in the early days of the MPGN listserve lists run by TSR, the MYSTARA-L listserve was active back in the days when my access to the Internet was via a mainframe. In fact I would say it is far more active than most other worlds. While delving into everything Mystara would take me another month, or another year really, there is still vibrant and active community on the web to support this world. The Known World of Mystara was later expanded and given more detail in the wonderful Gazetteer Series, the Hollow Earth series and finally the Challenger series. Mystara and the Lands beneath the Waves by Grimklok It's also kind of cool to see where the places of Mystara will line up to our world. Not so throughout ALL history and prehistory. I love maps and throughout all of human history, the Earth has been the same. I will admit when I first saw maps of the really old Earth it was disquieting to me. It has many maps of the different stages of Earth history and potential future maps. Long time reader here already know of the Paleomap Map project of Earth History. That is the Late Jurassic, early Cretaceous period of the Earth, 150+ Million Years Ago. Plus there is one more bit of information I want to collect. I want to talk more about the Known World/Earth a little more in just a bit. Maybe a Mi-Go outpost or something like that. I DO however love the idea of a doomed planet in the current or future asteroid belt. So Damocles is not really in the middle of that. The asteroid belt is roughly 300 million miles from the sun. Imaginative to be sure! But Mercury is only 35 million miles and Pluto is closer to 3 billion miles from the sun. Damocles will be destroyed and the two largest pieces will fly off to become Mercury and Pluto. Fitting named for a doomed planet but doesn't fit with the names of the Roman Olympians. Mercury and Pluto are not in their orbits yet and between Mars and Jupiter where the asteroid belt is there is a planet called Damocles. The Solar system is the same, save for a few notable differences. Though, in the spirit of everything else in the book, this can be changed. We also learn that this Earth is the predecessor to our lands. We learn that the Known World doesn't just look like Earth from 150 Million Years ago, it IS Earth from then. There is a bit more here about the planes, in particular the Prime plane.
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