Re: Moon of the Month: Asylum

> In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Sun 08 May, Night_Druid wrote:
> > Asylum
>
> A really, really nasty design.
>
> Good job!

    :)  Glad you enjoyed it!

> You could have real fun if a PC had a magic item, which allowed
> them to do Cure Insanity at will, but only for a limited period,
> decided to use Asylum for their good works! [grin]
>
> Or, some PCs got hit by a temporary (duration a least a few
> weeks) insanity effect, in a place where they aren't known, and
> got shipped off by uncaring locals, in a group, to Asylum!

    Yup, nasty place to wind up in!  In the hands of a twisted DM, he could
really screw over his PCs.

> It seems likely that somewhere among the gods of knowledge or
> forces of good there is _someone_ who is at least suspicious
> about the place! Some gods of healing might really, really,
> object to it as well! Should you mention this?

    Maybe, heck, probably.  Trick is, since Asylum preys on the poor &
familiness, most people just don't care.  It plays a little on the attitude
people from the Middle Ages had about insane people: they locked them in
asylums and pretty much forgot about them.
    Add to that the fact that the cultists don't show up too often, since
the operations is spread over literally many hundreds of cities across
scores of spheres, nobody truly appreciates the scope of the operations.  As
far as most people are concerned, all it amounts to is a few less crazies on
the streets.

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> So, all of the above might be practical, but unless there was
> some special property of the world, a fertility effect, or at
> least a miscegenation effect, or an immensly powerful artifact
> effect, I could not make use of it in my gaming setting.

    Could just say the open portal to the Abyss causes weird effects, too :)

> I don't believe the interbreeding of Outer Planar beings and
> beings of the Prime Material existed in basic AD&D 1st Ed rules,
> though I am happy to be proved wrong, so I suppose it is
> something that appeared in a scenario, or in 2nd Ed?

    Somewhat; the 1e MM II gives us cambions (the children of male demons &
female mortals) and alu-fiends (the children of succubi & male mortals).
"Halvies" races beyond these two are largely a 2e invention.

> Anyhow, good world design!

    Thanks!

Adam

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