Recent content by ParanoidObsessive

I was skimming through some of the Lone Wolf books the other day for campaign ideas, when something occurred to me. If the entire premise of Magnamund started out as Joe Dever's ideas for a homebrew D&D setting, with the various classes and setting details being worked out before he ever really...

This reminds me of a conversation I had as a child (this has to be something like 22 years ago), which I've never forgotten. A friend of mine and I were basically running around and playing pretend Lone Wolf-style, and since he had the first 8 LW books while I had the 4 Grey Star books, he was...

Someone else asked this question on the forum a long, long, LONG ago (at least in Internet Time), but the question was never really answered, and then the topic sort of devolved into a discussion about the Magnamund Companion. So, since this was something I was thinking about recently, I...

Actually, if memory serves, doesn't Lone Wolf actually FIND said gate in Caverns of Kalte, if you go the right way?

Keep in mind that they're not entirely forgotten in Southern Magnamund (Grey Star winds up in a prison cell with a Shianti priest, after all), so SOME lore still exists, as distorted as it might be (people seeing them as gods, etc). I'd say in Northern Magnamund, there's probably not much known...

Personally, I'd be curious as to which bookstore this was... if they had that much, whoever got rid of them (if it was a single person) might have dropped some other nice books. Either that, or this is just the some sort of mysterious occult bookstore which only appears once every hundred years...

This gives me a somewhat parallel idea, but one just as evil. What if one of the player characters is a Brotherhood mage, and, over the course of the game, THEY are slowly embittered by the Guild? Eventually, THEY are the ones who turn on Sommerlund, betraying the Kai and turning to the...

Yes, but that's more or less the point. If Dever used certain ethnic stereotypes to develop the look/culture of a specific nationality on Magnamund, knowing that allows us to "reverse engineer" what people look like. It's fairly blatant that if I'm making a Sommlending character, they're going...

This is very much a grey area, I'd think. We have no idea what the general life-expectancy of Magnamund is. On the one hand, a pre-Industrial world should peak at around 40 or so... but with magic, laumspur, and the like, disease seems to be far less of a factor. Plus, as much as we tend to...

Yeah, but my point was more along the lines of, you're pretty much right in the place where you're going to blow up the transfusor and destroy Helgedad anyway, so who cares if Gnaag does run off, when the entire city is about to blow anyway? Granted, from a STORY perspective, it's better to...

The impression that I got, and this might be completely wrong, is that in order for Agarash to be freed, someone must take his place. In the book, Shasarak offers to do this when Grey Star whoops him (though, because the Door is destroyed before Agarash comes through, the net effect is that...

Yeah, the Drakkarim are their own separate and distinct race, who tend to dwell in the regions south of the Darklands... they were actually in Magnamund BEFORE the Darklords were, and swore fealty to the Children of Naar when they arrived. The Drakkarim lands are on the other side of Magnamund...

There's a third - the one in the basement of Torgar. It would have to be somewhat permanent, since the set-up of that chamber seems to have been built around it. And I'd doubt Gnaag had the power to catch a mobile Shadow Gate and nail it in place, as it were, since even Naar needed the...

Page 44, and page 46 - in both cases, right after the "Victory" box: The voices and Anyone using any kind of magically enhanced vision will clearly be able to see...

Well, it's not like the Magnamund Companion really went into their differences either... we get migration drift charts for all the races, then MAYBE, if we're lucky, a picture of your average citizen of a specific country, without any real description of the average features of said racial...