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From: "George \"Loki\" Williams" <chaos93@?????????.net> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 22:27:13 -0500 Subject: Re: Still out there?
I would love to see it. Email me a copy at chaos93@?????????.net if you are willing. Loki, DM Warriors of the Balance: The Rise of Dukagsh Campaign New Orleans, La ----- Original Message ----- From: "Clint Whelly" <clint.whelly@?????????.ca> To: <SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 3:50 PM Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Still out there? > Well, that has lots of funny possibilities, So, does one go slowly insane > dealing with mind flayers in your game? :) > > In my game, I've made the elves one of the major powers that did have a > un-human war. I have it set up as the elves sticking their noses in other > races business, making unfair trade deals etc.. Kind of like the Americans > but much much more annoying. > > Humans and elves do not get along well in my game as they hate what humans > are doing to their environment. We are only better then the dirty orcs as we > don't eat elves:) > > For those that have interest I have a 30 page in progress write up.. > > Clint > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion list for the Spelljammer campaign setting > [mailto:SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com] On Behalf Of Danton May > Sent: July 28, 2004 12:28 Nee > To: SPELLJAMMER-L@??????.???????.com > Subject: [SPELLJAMMER] Still out there? > > > Hello? Is this list still active? I haven't seen anything from it in a > while. So tell me, where do you think illithids originated? I was reading > in the illithiad, and it suggests they came form outside the space-time > continuum. I'm thinking of renaming them the "Children of Cthulu" in my > spelljamming campaign, and saying they come form an alternate universe and > are actually several races - mindflayers, korpu, and another one I made up. > They are all related because they were spawned by Cthulu, which is from an > indescribable universe or dimension. > > The speljammer galaxy I have made was never really touched by the inhuman > wars, but was torn by a huge war called the Illithid War, so the illithids > are major players here. Them and elves. The elves came into the galaxy > only at the tail end of the Illithid Wars, and luckily for them the gith > revolted a few thousand years after they entered the war and this broke the > illithid empire. Now the elves are a major power, but they are > ultra-paranoid and hunt or guard the illithids zealously wherever they are > known to exist. > > There is even a star system with a ruined penumbra in it. Instead of the > penumbra being a singular entity, as it was in the illithid adventures, > there were at least three knwon ones existing, and maybe more. You have to > understand how huge the illithid empire was. It didn't just span galaxies, > it spanned planes of existence, universes, and dimensions. One of the > penumbras was in my galaxy, draining a star. When the star was drained, it > could phase shift to another star system, where it would drain it's star > over several hundred years. All the penumbras were like this, but it took > them hundreds of years to drain a star, and they needed the fuel of a > drained star to phase shift to another star system. > > Near the end of the illithid war, the elves and dragons united and attacked > the penumbra in my galaxy, and shattered it, breaking the illithid's power > and presence in the galaxy. Chased by the elves, dragons, and the gith, > they fled and only held on in various worlds they had colonized or that they > crash-landed on. > > Well, I just put that all out to start conversation and see if this list is > still alive. Let me know what you think. That AstroSynthesis program by > NBOS rules, I've been putting my galaxy together with it, and it's turning > out pretty kewl. Got the head almost finished, with all the elven and > illithid strongholds in it. I'm ready for more war! > > - Coyote, the Desert Dog > > _________________________________________________________________ > Planning a family vacation? Check out the MSN Family Travel guide! > http://dollar.msn.com > > ******************************************************************** > The D&D; Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Welcome.asp > The Spelljammer Homepage: http://www.darkwoodforest.com/rpg/compendium/ > To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@??????.???????.com > with UNSUB SPELLJAMMER-L in the body of the message. > > ******************************************************************** > The D&D; Homepage: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Welcome.asp > The Spelljammer Homepage: http://www.darkwoodforest.com/rpg/compendium/ > To unsubscribe, send email to LISTSERV@??????.???????.com > with UNSUB SPELLJAMMER-L in the body of the message.
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Month Index: July, 2004
| Subject | From | Date (UTC) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Still out there? | Danton May | |||
| Re: Still out there? | Mark Vorwerk | |||
| Re: Still out there? | Clint Whelly | |||
| Re: Still out there? | Michael Billard | |||
| Re: Still out there? | John_Greyhawk | |||
| Re: Still out there? | John_Greyhawk | |||
| Re: Still out there? | George "Loki" Williams | |||
| Re: Still out there? | Sebastian Lucier | |||
| Re: Still out there? | Danton May |