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Hi Wanderer and Welcome to my little corner of the Web.
This page was created on the 1st of July 1997 and it's updated whenever I find the time.
If you arrived here following a link from another page (and that's likely, since that's how the web normally works), then you already know or expect what to find in my homepage. However, for those of you unexperienced netsurfers who lost in Cyberspace and stumbled upon this site with no clues about what Role Playing Games or Mystara are, then let me introduce you to the wondrous world of Mystara.
And remember: there can be nothing without love...
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Once upon a long ago, there was a man who
liked to dream and played with his imagination. He created endless wastes of fields and
woods and mountains, great continents surrounded by deep and murky oceans, bright azure
skies crossed by lazy clouds and marvelous birds. In this world, myriads of animals and
other fantastic creatures dwelt in the woods, in the mountains and everywhere nature could
give them shelter and food. Alongside animals there lived also men and other races of
intelligent beings: slim and graced elves, stout and gruffy dwarves, merry and friendly
halflings and the mysterious and beautiful fairies.
But in the dark of crypts and caves, of woods
and ruins, the monsters lurked, hungry for meat and richness and power and driven by the
darkest thoughts and spirits. And so it came, that the Shadow lurked out of its hideout
and seeked to control the world and to cast its yoke upon the animals, the fantastic
creatures of nature and the intelligent beings. But the world was not without brave men,
and so the Great War between Good and Evil began: Heroes of Light against Fiends of
Darkness...
The war is still being fought, and now it's up to you to join it or to remain a passive
beholder, waiting for the things to happen without influencing them...
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This is Fantasy, but above all this is a Game
(you might call it the game of life though). Role Playing is what this game is called, and
our Role Playing Game bears the name of Dungeons & Dragons (or D&D for the
intimate ones). The man who invented it, the one who created the universe of the game
(called campaign) is E. Gary Gygax, but he couldn't have done it without the help of
friends and collaborators who shared his dream and supported him all the way long, in
particular the great Dave Arneson, Frank Mentzer, Aaron Allston, and Bruce A. Heard.
Kudos to them and to all the people who worked to bring D&D to life and to keep
Mystara (D&D First World) alive thru the good and bad times.
Mystara died in 1995 because TSR, the publishing house that "owned" it, decided to "close the line", not to feed it anymore (metaphorically speaking). As you can see, not all the fairy tales have a happy ending...
Yet the Greater Powers couldn't allow this
ominous act to pass unnoticed, and so they intervened to save Mystara from an eternity of
darkness and grief. Through complicate surgical operations and obscure magical
enchantments Mystara was finally raised back and put into a state of suspended animation
in a safe place where the Grim Reaper could not reach it: the endless swirling chaos known
only as Cyberspace.
Today Mystara still lives there, her body floating into an ocean of flickers and words,
drifting along with the virtual currents and awaiting the time of her final
Resurrection...
A small group of people known as the List
constantly guards and protects Mystara from any danger, feeding her with their dreams and
keeping her company during her slumber. They are the ultimate Defenders of Mystara, and
they know they must not fear, for the time of the Coming is drawing nearer every day.
And at the end, we will all see again the sweet smile of our beloved Mystara shine upon
us...
Here follows a brief description of what you will find in the
different areas of this site:
The Mystara Webring: Click here to join it! The first and
only Web Ring for Mystara related Homepages!
If you want to subscribe to the Mystara Mailing List, simply send an e-mail to listserv@wizards.oracle.com with the
sentence "subscribe mystara-l" in the body of the message! Then you'll be part
of the Mystara Mystic League and you'll help us revive our dearest Goddess..
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