Atlas

[HCD or SIR SPUD I]

Sylvain Tremblay wrote:
>
> Does anybody knows a way to get an atlas-like source of Anuire with the
> maps of each domain? I know there are domain sourcebooks but btw they
> didn't make every province and I don't plan to pay 8$ each for the map
> only.
>
> Also, do a boxed set or supplement on the shadow world is planned?

Check in the original box set for an atlas of the BR world.
I too would like to know if a boxed set or supplement for the shadow
world is planned.

[Paul Ming]

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> From: Undertaker
> To: birthright@MPGN.COM
> Subject: Re: [BIRTHRIGHT] - Atlas
> Date: Sunday, February 23, 1997 10:25 AM
>
> At 10:54 AM 2/23/97 -0500, Sylvain Tremblay(sylvaint@colba.net)wrote:
>

As for the SW, we can only hope our
> friends at TSR will do one in 98, since they aren't going doing one this
> year. Well hope that helped.
>

Actually, I hope that they DON'T put one out. I like the idea that *no
one* knows anything about the Shadow World. This leaves it COMPLEATLY up
to the DM.....no player or DM you meet at a con can say "Uh, NO. The SW
is......and the.....and.... So there. You're wrong." Just my opinon.

Paul "Yukon King" Ming
pming@klondike.com
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4383/

"This is gonna take Cracker-Jack timing, Wang."
---Jack Burton, Big Trouble in Little China.

[MHahn59022@aol.co]

> Actually, I hope that they DON'T put one out. I like the idea that *no
>one* knows anything about the Shadow World. This leaves it COMPLEATLY up
>to the DM.....no player or DM you meet at a con can say "Uh, NO. The SW
>is......and the.....and.... So there. You're wrong." Just my opinon.

Unless the players you are playing with are "rules lawers," (and it sounds
like they are) you, as the DM have the right to add, delete, or change
anything in any rulebook, sourcebook, or boxed set in existance. Remember,
unless a change makes the game not fun, you are within your rights to make
it.

My personal verson of the setting contains a few deviations from the
"offical" TSR source books. I.E. spelljamming nations have discovered the
crystal sphere in which Cerilia. All of the novels, sourcebooks, etc. set
after this date I ignored.

Also, many of us don't have time to detail an entire paralle game world. A
boxed set would give those of us who don't a starting place.

[Undertaker]

At 11:39 AM 2/23/97 -0800, Paul Ming(pming@klondike.com)wrote:
>
> Actually, I hope that they DON'T put one out. I like the idea that *no
>one* knows anything about the Shadow World. This leaves it COMPLEATLY up
>to the DM.....no player or DM you meet at a con can say "Uh, NO. The SW
>is......and the.....and.... So there. You're wrong." Just my opinon.
>

It all depends on how its handled. If they put out a very fixed, over
restrictive set we will have this problem. I know TSR has done the forced
storyline thing to much with adventures in the past few years, but they have
also put out some very flexible supplements as well. Flexible enough that
each DM can customize the information, and make it unique to his/her
campaign, with a little work. BR has had the largest of these types of
products. The boxed set, the DPs, and the Region mini-boxed sets, are all
good examples. They give a nice open setting that the Players can interact
with. Most of them give few stats, and hard rules, and rely mostly on
description(not so much the boxed sets). This lets the DM fill in the blanks
as he wants, and can interact freely with the PCs instead of having them
follow a forced path. If the SW is done in this fashion it would give us all
a baseline to work from, and this way at least our ideas would be much
easier to exchange, and use. TSR dosen't have to take away all the mystery,
but some basic facts, geography, and even myths would be nice. IMHO, I think
an SW guide would at least be intresting, just to know what the "official"
view of it is.

Undertaker, richt@metrolink.net
RL Homepage: http://www.metrolink.net/~veleda/sepulcher.html