In the mean time Thorfinn Tait, the cartographer of Caldar takes us on a trip around the great caldera. I was delighted to support the Kickstarter project on page 25 my step daughter Olivia Evans is immortalised as Olyffia Efanas (although I had no creative control over her behaviour in the story!), an island to the north west of the great caldera bears the name Pearcelsus Island and in a future publication the Airship the Lady Karevana will carry a crew through the skies or maybe between the planets & moons of the Soltan Ephemeris, we shalll just have to wait and see. Inside you will find a great deal of new material which furthers the Mystara setting. In World of Calidar some of the themes are revisited in a totally new world, where airships are once more at the heart of the game and there is once again a new world to be explored. From the website: Vaults of Pandius is the official website for the Dungeons and Dragons setting of Mystara. With the advent of AD&D 2nd edition, Mystara was moved to that rules set, its players went off got jobs, married, had children but the world never went away even once Wizards of the Coast stopped supporting it and even once Hasbro bought out Wizards of the Coast and turned D&D into something unrecognisable from its libertarian origins into something more resembling warhammer.īruce tried to get permission from Hasbro to revisit the world of Mystara, but Hasbro would rather leave the IP locked away from its willing audience. Buy online: Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara brings reworkings of two of Capcom’s classic arcade hits - Dungeons & Dragons: Tower of Doom and Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara. Vaults of Pandius: D&D / Basic 3: Kings & Queens: TSR: D&D / Basic 2: Norworld Cycle: Vaults of Pandius: D&D / Basic 3: O (One-On-One) Modules: Metro Detroit Gamers TSR: D&D / Basic 2 D&D / Original 1: Penhaligon Trilogy: TSR: Fiction: Poor Wizards Almanac: TSR: AD&D 2 D&D / Basic 3: RPGA Adventures: RPGA: AD&D 1 D&D / Basic 2: The 'AC. Eventually with "Wrath of the Immortals" removing the continent of Alphatia from the face of Mystara and depositing it inside as part of the Hollow World setting, we lost our hero. These writings were later expaned on in the box set The Champions of Mystara, Red Steel and The Savage Baronies. In the pages of Dragon Magazine Bruce wrote the column "The Voyage of the Princess Ark" about an Alphatian Airship which travelled to previously unexplored regions of Mystara. There followed "The Hollow World" by Aaron Allston which revealed that Mystara was a hollow world and ancient empires were preserved by the Immortals on the inner side of Mystara's surface.
VAULTS OF PANDIUS MYSTARA SERIES
The major innovation was the release of the Gazetteer series which fleshed out a lot of the world that latterly was coined "Mystara" but till then had simply been "the Known World". Eventually the dispute was resolved and Frank Mentzer proceeded to produce the Companion, Masters and Immortals rules sets.Īt this time Bruce Heard was given charge of the freelance writing team at TSR and also responsibility for the less popular (although I suggest only in the United States) Dungeons & Dragons. Stefan Poangs Blackmoor Campaign, has a good presentation of Blackmoor with a map and coats of arms. Project Blackmoor, this site is under construction, but has a few intersting articles. Whilst the dispute went on the Original Dungeons & Dragons game and the Tom Moldvay Purple Basic Set and Light Blue Expert Set were all players had. The Vaults of Pandius The Official Mystara Website. Not as a judgment against the folks who create that stuff, or their creations, just due to my own inability to easily tell what’s what.The history of the Dungeons & Dragons game as those of us who indulged our curiousity into the corporate shennanigans of TSR through its lifetime will know was a victim of a disagreement between the two main creators of Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson over royalties for the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons game. That would be the gazetteers, the rules cyclopedia, the newbies guide to mystara on the vaults of pandius, or going back to the source: X1 isle of dread. When it comes to fluff, I’m perfectly willing to look outside of canon, but with crunch, I’d rather play it safer. well, centaurs (and Kenku as hsaio isn’t out of the question with a little work), etc. So I like to stick to reskinning official 5e races as new options: Tieflings can become diaboli, fauns and centaurs from Tall Tales can become satyrs and. While “official” is no guarantee of balance, it’s a lot more likely than the alternatives. I love Threshold! I’ve been running the last seven months of my Spelljammer game in Mystaraspace using issue #15 as a main inspiration source! We’ve visited Damocles, Sarimaar, Patera, and a lot of space in between, and will soon be making it down to the main attraction: the Known World.īut I’m a crap judge of homebrew balance and I still feel fairly new to 5e.