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<blockquote data-quote="Mondain" data-source="post: 485585" data-attributes="member: 8948">Mondain is a Dark Lord in Ultima I.I'm new to the boards here. Anyway, I have only recently gotten back into pencil &amp; paper RPGs. When I was seven years old (1985) I had played Basic D&amp;D with some buddies and we also used to play a lot of video games (remembers flashing, blue arcades with awe) and later when I got a NES I played my first video game RPG, Ultima: Exodus (actually was Ultima III for PC) in 1988. At first, I hated the game until I played it a little longer and got the mechanics down &quot;gee this is like a D&amp;D video game&quot;. Anyway, I was enchanted by the idea of this little world in a box! You named your characters, they ate, slept, fought, talked, explored, and best of all matured as they saved this colorful lil world of Sosaria.I got the Hint Book (was just a kid!) and inside was this cool manga (japanese comic) of the previous Ultima games history. In the story of Ultima I (which I've beaten on PC and enjoyed thoroughly) a hero comes forth to battle the evil wizard Mondain. Mondain is depicted as a kind of primal barbarian type with a horned helm and looks every bit the evil emperor. I liked this character so much that he is now the villain in my current 3e game (with some creative embellishment) in a world named, yes, Sosaria (Ultima's world before the tyrant Lord British renamed it Britannia Ultima IV, I liked Sosaria better).Anyway, over the years of RPGs (video, PC, paper) I never forgot Tolkien (which I was read as a kid for bed time) and Ultima (which was the first time I really felt immersed in a fantasy myself). I've always wanted to bring the Ultima world into my DMing and having just picked up D20 am working on doing just that.Dave S</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mondain, post: 485585, member: 8948"] Mondain is a Dark Lord in Ultima I. I'm new to the boards here. Anyway, I have only recently gotten back into pencil & paper RPGs. When I was seven years old (1985) I had played Basic D&D with some buddies and we also used to play a lot of video games (remembers flashing, blue arcades with awe) and later when I got a NES I played my first video game RPG, Ultima: Exodus (actually was Ultima III for PC) in 1988. At first, I hated the game until I played it a little longer and got the mechanics down "gee this is like a D&D video game". Anyway, I was enchanted by the idea of this little world in a box! You named your characters, they ate, slept, fought, talked, explored, and best of all matured as they saved this colorful lil world of Sosaria. I got the Hint Book (was just a kid!) and inside was this cool manga (japanese comic) of the previous Ultima games history. In the story of Ultima I (which I've beaten on PC and enjoyed thoroughly) a hero comes forth to battle the evil wizard Mondain. Mondain is depicted as a kind of primal barbarian type with a horned helm and looks every bit the evil emperor. I liked this character so much that he is now the villain in my current 3e game (with some creative embellishment) in a world named, yes, Sosaria (Ultima's world before the tyrant Lord British renamed it Britannia Ultima IV, I liked Sosaria better). Anyway, over the years of RPGs (video, PC, paper) I never forgot Tolkien (which I was read as a kid for bed time) and Ultima (which was the first time I really felt immersed in a fantasy myself). I've always wanted to bring the Ultima world into my DMing and having just picked up D20 am working on doing just that. Dave S [/QUOTE]

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