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<blockquote data-quote="The Glen" data-source="post: 8949698" data-attributes="member: 6800327"><p>Ylaruam is a strange one because it was part of the early 'fill in the blank' design focus TSR dabbled with. It gives the culture of the Ylari, but no details on cities, NPCs, hardly any crunch at all. Players were supposed to decide if the Sultan was a good guy or bad guy, and make the vizier the complete opposite of him to balance it out. Eventually they had to give the Sultan some background, and made him indecisive and fickle. But never gave use the vizier at all, though that should make him competent and quick thinking.</p><p></p><p>TSR had a silly phase that hit Orcs of Thar. It wasn't the only one that fell victim to it, with Castle Greyhawk and Top Ballista coming to mind. Ierendi had a little silliness, and that's the closest you'll get, but even then it was just a small part of the module. Orcs did have large swathes done straight, but the art was just pure comedy almost entirely. Still it gave us Oinkmar which turned into one of the more iconic locations for Mystara. I went completely straight in the handbook, hard to have just one comedy gazetteer sandwiched between the far more serious Minrothad and Darokin. Even the Shadow Elves which was the only other World Below module was done without the comedy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Glen, post: 8949698, member: 6800327"] Ylaruam is a strange one because it was part of the early 'fill in the blank' design focus TSR dabbled with. It gives the culture of the Ylari, but no details on cities, NPCs, hardly any crunch at all. Players were supposed to decide if the Sultan was a good guy or bad guy, and make the vizier the complete opposite of him to balance it out. Eventually they had to give the Sultan some background, and made him indecisive and fickle. But never gave use the vizier at all, though that should make him competent and quick thinking. TSR had a silly phase that hit Orcs of Thar. It wasn't the only one that fell victim to it, with Castle Greyhawk and Top Ballista coming to mind. Ierendi had a little silliness, and that's the closest you'll get, but even then it was just a small part of the module. Orcs did have large swathes done straight, but the art was just pure comedy almost entirely. Still it gave us Oinkmar which turned into one of the more iconic locations for Mystara. I went completely straight in the handbook, hard to have just one comedy gazetteer sandwiched between the far more serious Minrothad and Darokin. Even the Shadow Elves which was the only other World Below module was done without the comedy. [/QUOTE]
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