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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tratyn Runewind" data-source="post: 160552" data-attributes="member: 685">Hi again!Well, Thyatis got a pretty good pasting too, but yes, I'm sure the fighter-types weren't shedding too many tears over the colossal damage done to the two haughty magocracies of the Known World... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />And potential for at least a couple of the really major events was hinted at in some of the Expert- and Companion-level modules for BD&D, but I admit I never thought they'd have the guts to actually put them in a published product and make them part of the official current continuity.  Shows what I knew.You're obviously blessed with foresight.  A friend and I had pretty much everything between us, but we live very far apart now, and so both have big gaps in our individual collections.  And the Poor Wizard's Almanac series is worth looking into; they're handy little references for when you don't want to dig through a big stack of books for some world data, and they're also about the best source of info I have on Wendar, since I'm still waiting on GAZ 15 (especially with what was done to Alfheim post-Wrath!).If I had to pick just one AD&D setting to get the lavish 3e Realms-style treatment, it would probably be Mystara (though passing over Birthright would be a real heartbreaker).  I know what you mean about the "kidifying", though - it started to show up even under the BD&D rules, when they ditched the term "witch doctor" for "wokani".  Still, it didn't seem quite so bad in Mystara, which was pretty youth-oriented to begin with.Ach!  A published author of Mystaran materials posts here, and I don't recognize him until someone else points him out.  I've been too long without a good read through my materials... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />Here are a few more good words, though.  I was very impressed by the Creature Crucible series in general, and I thought Tall Tales of the Wee Folk did an excellent job of setting up and maintaining the whole "fantasy-Celtic" atmosphere.  Though I'm echoing Dahak here, I'll say that your treatment of the Fair Folk as dwindled quasi-deities displays a wonderful feel for both the Celtic source legends and the BD&D/Mystara cosmology.  And ya gotta love rules for playable PC treants, hsiao, and POOKA! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />  Your Dreamland court unfortunately got rather short shrift post-Wrath.  If I remember correctly, their only mention was in a "Known World Grimoire" column in Dragon, where it was basically said that they were withdrawn into a pocket dimension, and wouldn't be coming back anytime soon.  Serraine popped up from time to time in the Poor Wizard's Almanacs, and the crew from Night Howlers got Morlay-Malinbois, but I don't remember seeing anything about the vast territories of the Sea People.  Might make for some interesting adventures...May it one day be so.  I'd settle for just one really, really good one (again, using the 3e Realms hardcover as my standard of excellence), though that Wendar Gazetteer would be nice as well...  <a href="http://dnd.starflung.com/" target="_blank">The Vaults of Pandius</a> is a valuable resource with some excellent articles (my favorite is the one on Ochalean Immortals), and it has helped keep the flames of Mystara fandom alive, but it's no substitute for books in hand, and much of the new material there (like the NACE and other timeline additions) seems uninspired.  Ah well, one can dream... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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