Re: (TFT) Land Beyond the Mountains Thoughts

["Chris Nicole" <chris_nicole@operamail.com>]

It's been a while since I looked at Dihad or Darok. I built the place names Dihad and Darok into my game world (Loran or The Land) long before I got the two books in the hope that they would provide some useful ideas. Once I'd read them, they were so far from my setting I didn't use either and I haven't persued any of the other LBtM packs. The lasting impression for me was they were more suitable to a wild west setting than fantasy.

As a contrast I found the two Dragonodon Universe solos (Silver Dragon and Unicorn Gold) very useful and a far more inspiring setting. 

On the gripping hand I don't much like Cidri as a game world either.
So I built my own place far closer to Hyboria or Newhon than MiddleEarth and just incorporated bits I do like.

Regards,

Chris


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Gacy" <marcgacy@earthlink.net>
> To: tft@brainiac.com
> Subject: (TFT) Land Beyond the Mountains Thoughts
> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 16:54:07 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> 
> Resurrecting a long-dead topic, here, to jump start the list again.
> 
> Many know the history that there were two books put out about The 
> Land Beyond the Mountains, Forest Lords of Dihad and Warrior Lords 
> of Darok.
> many also know that the two cities in the works from those two 
> lands were later converted to "In the Tyrant's Demense" for 
> "Intrigue in Plaize" and "City of the Sacred Flame" for "Soldier 
> City - Shaylle"
> 
> I just recently broke out my copies of same and was thinking about 
> the future products. I find it interesting that the Muipoco map, if 
> published, would only have two small towns and its capital city 
> Balka on the main map, while Soukor would only have its capital 
> Dibrey. Both Dihad and Darok have a number of castles and roads on 
> their maps.
> 
> Clearly it seems that Darok and Dihad were always well planned 
> compared to Muipoco and Soukhor. Soukhor is easy enough to devise 
> as they gave enough hooks about their secretive nature, but Muipoco 
> doesn't make any sense. For the strongest of the three combatants, 
> they have no fortifications at all, just a trade road monitored by 
> centaurs.
> 
> Does anyone think they really had something planned or did it all 
> just sort of peter out at an opportune time?
> 
> Just wondering,
> 
> Marc
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Chris Nicole
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