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<blockquote data-quote="Cam Banks" data-source="post: 4827586" data-attributes="member: 3817">I had a long reply but my youngest hit some buttons on my laptop and I lost it. Swell.Long story short: Mystara IS the 4E core world, or at least it very well could have been. The 4E play experience seems so heavily influenced, whether by design or chance, on the Basic/Expert/etc experience that I would be hard-pressed to think of a campaign setting that is MORE suited to 4E than Mystara.Mystara isn't &quot;about&quot; skyships and rakasta and Red Steel and Thyatis. Those are developments that came later, for the most part, in an effort to tell new stories or spin off the core. I'm talking Bargle at Mirrormere, the small town of Threshold, the great city of Specularum, the Black Eagle Barony, and then on and upwards into the wilderness, the ruling of kingdoms, and eventually the quest for immortality. It's heroic, paragon, and epic right there.The only thing wrong with all of this is that WotC already provided this kind of world in the core books. They could easily have gone with Karameikos instead of Nentir Vale et al, but they didn't. Lost opportunity? I'm not sure. I do think it's really, really close though.Cheers,Cam</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cam Banks, post: 4827586, member: 3817"] I had a long reply but my youngest hit some buttons on my laptop and I lost it. Swell. Long story short: Mystara IS the 4E core world, or at least it very well could have been. The 4E play experience seems so heavily influenced, whether by design or chance, on the Basic/Expert/etc experience that I would be hard-pressed to think of a campaign setting that is MORE suited to 4E than Mystara. Mystara isn't "about" skyships and rakasta and Red Steel and Thyatis. Those are developments that came later, for the most part, in an effort to tell new stories or spin off the core. I'm talking Bargle at Mirrormere, the small town of Threshold, the great city of Specularum, the Black Eagle Barony, and then on and upwards into the wilderness, the ruling of kingdoms, and eventually the quest for immortality. It's heroic, paragon, and epic right there. The only thing wrong with all of this is that WotC already provided this kind of world in the core books. They could easily have gone with Karameikos instead of Nentir Vale et al, but they didn't. Lost opportunity? I'm not sure. I do think it's really, really close though. Cheers, Cam [/QUOTE]

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