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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 8246082" data-attributes="member: 8863">I'm guessing WotC is letting Pandius put this up because it was an unfinished 2e product similar to how they had Ivid the Undying and some Birthright material up which I think they're letting the fan sites host since the old 2e download links seem to be dead on WotC's site.&nbsp; Pandius does have the Savage Coast stuff after all which used to be on the old 2e page, including conversions to .pdf.I read the story some time ago on Grubb's blog about what was supposed to have been the main Mystara box, and how one of TSR's VPs got his dander up over the silly logo.&nbsp; Sounds like more of the same ridiculous politics that was always going on behind the scenes at TSR.&nbsp; It sounds like the work on the boxed set wasn't finished, but it's good that at least some of the material, arguably the really important stuff will see the light of day.&nbsp; The spell conversions are probably a loss, but Mystara did get a MC, and Pandius has plenty of map resources already, so anything else would probably have been the usual filler that got stuffed in the boxes. Given the scope of what Grubb said this material contains, it's probably the most comprehensive source of material for the Known World portion of Mystara.&nbsp; X1 had the initial overview, but it was generally only a short descriptive paragraph for each kingdom in the Known World.&nbsp;&nbsp; The RC updated some of that material and included info on the Hollow World, but mostly pointed DMs to the Gazetteers.&nbsp; This box would have had an updated coverage of the whole Known World area plus Sind (which was added in X4, and expanded on by Bruce Heard in the Voyages of the Princess Ark).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 8246082, member: 8863"] I'm guessing WotC is letting Pandius put this up because it was an unfinished 2e product similar to how they had Ivid the Undying and some Birthright material up which I think they're letting the fan sites host since the old 2e download links seem to be dead on WotC's site. Pandius does have the Savage Coast stuff after all which used to be on the old 2e page, including conversions to .pdf. I read the story some time ago on Grubb's blog about what was [I]supposed[/I] to have been the main Mystara box, and how one of TSR's VPs got his dander up over the silly logo. Sounds like more of the same ridiculous politics that was always going on behind the scenes at TSR. It sounds like the work on the boxed set wasn't finished, but it's good that at least some of the material, arguably the really important stuff will see the light of day. The spell conversions are probably a loss, but Mystara did get a MC, and Pandius has plenty of map resources already, so anything else would probably have been the usual filler that got stuffed in the boxes. Given the scope of what Grubb said this material contains, it's probably the most comprehensive source of material for the Known World portion of Mystara. X1 had the initial overview, but it was generally only a short descriptive paragraph for each kingdom in the Known World. The RC updated some of that material and included info on the Hollow World, but mostly pointed DMs to the Gazetteers. This box would have had an updated coverage of the whole Known World area plus Sind (which was added in X4, and expanded on by Bruce Heard in the Voyages of the Princess Ark). [/QUOTE]

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