Erik Mona's Latest Secret Project

[Rob Kuntz]

oji040870 wrote:

Uncle

Go to e-bay if your looking for individual pieces; although I must warn you, monsters such behoder and other great classics carry a hefty price, but for some reason paizo seems to have doubled or even tripled prices, e-bay is where you'll find more reasonable prices. Check out my store crafty collections.

Yes the miniature game sell boosters with random contents. The way around this is to buy by the case. Online dealers sell cases for around 90.00 dollars 8figs per booster 12 boosters per case thats 96 figs, thats a dollar a fig. cases also insure a good chance of getting the whole set minus 4-8 fig.

I have like 4,000 mini's

Thanks OJ (and Aberzombie, too). I'll probably look into a few I like from Paizo to note the quality first and then may get more later. I'm a discriminate spender aand mostly invest in books and magazines, but prepainted minis are very tempting. I used to paint many minis in the day, and for many historical periods, well over 2,000 when I lost count. It's nice to have someone nowadays do the painting for me, so there's great value in that for me. Kudos to WotC for providing that for people like me, and others, who have little time to paint.

[Vattnisse]

Hi uncle Rob,

As we are in the questioning mood... I was wondering if Drawmij was ever anybody's PC? He seems so standoffish and distant, it becomes difficult to imagine him ever being played by anyone, or being a member of a party.

[Rob Kuntz]

Vattnisse wrote:

Hi uncle Rob,

As we are in the questioning mood... I was wondering if Drawmij was ever anybody's PC? He seems so standoffish and distant, it becomes difficult to imagine him ever being played by anyone, or being a member of a party.

Nope. That was made up by reverse positioning Jim Ward's surname and then spelling it backwards, though. :) Gary often scrambled letters around (or reversed) to make names up on the fly and to pay tribute in one way or another to a close associate or friend (much the same way Pulp writers like Lovecraft, Bloch and CA Smith did), and I followed the same path, even in Maure Castle, for instance. A piece I'm writing at the moment includes a Noreht Zunk, for instance. :)

Edit: Grodog maintains a superb site on Greyhawk lore and the link provided hereafter unscrambles most of the anagrams which occur in print. He still has to keep up with my current ones. :)

http://www.greyhawkonline.com/grodog/gh_anagrams.html

The rest of his site is well done, too, and worth investigating for the Greyhawk-curious. :)

[oji040870]

Uncle
Thanks for that link; That's really neat how you guys came up with those names-Quij from a scrabble game right?

[The Jade]

Ditto. That list was a wild revelation. I do anagrams all the time and some of the obvious ones never occurred to me.

Haters of Greyhawk sentimentalism turn away now or prepare to vomit a little in your mouth:

I feel warmer and fuzzier knowing that so many of Greyhawk's funky names are just tribute twists of the original D&D gamers and their characters. Makes it seem as if Greyhawk itself is an enduring "we were here" and confirms that its genesis must have been a true labor of love.

[Rob Kuntz]

oji040870 wrote:

Uncle

Thanks for that link; That's really neat how you guys came up with those names-Quij from a scrabble game right?

OJ--

You are correct. EGG and I played lots of board games over many years. Some of our favorties we contested each other at were chess, shogi (Japanese Chess), Avalon Hill games (many), Stratego (I was a champ at that) and Scrabble. During one particular fitful Scrabble match between us I was stuck with the usual unusable letters and plopped down "Quij," which he paused only brefly at before challenging it as a "non-word". We both laughed at it, though, for it almost seemed like it should have been a word, so he informed me the next day that my orc hero's name was the same--and thus Quij's name was born. :)

[Rob Kuntz]

The Jade wrote:

...and confirms that its genesis must have been a true labor of love.

And indeed it was.

[Black Dougal]

Uncle wrote:

The Jade wrote:

...and confirms that its genesis must have been a true labor of love.

And indeed it was.

Medium Rary?..groan..

and I suppose when he sent off a fireball that was miscast and blew up the party everyone would say "Well Done Rary!"..

[Rob Kuntz]

Black Dougal wrote:

Uncle wrote:

The Jade wrote:

...and confirms that its genesis must have been a true labor of love.

And indeed it was.

Medium Rary?..groan..

and I suppose when he sent off a fireball that was miscast and blew up the party everyone would say "Well Done Rary!"..

Now that's the punning spirit! :) Everyone got into te mix with such bad punnery, but it did lighten up things when needed.

[Erik Mona]

Gavgoyle wrote:

Aberzombie wrote:

As far as Greyhawk minis, I know they did Mordenkainen. Not sure who else.

I think that the totallity of Greyhawk specific minis can be counted on one hand...

Mordenkainen, Scarlet Brotherhood monk, King Snurre, and Warduke (although he's a bit shoe-horned in). I can't think of any others off the top of my head.

Lareth the Beautiful

Aspect of Kord
Aspect of Nerull

--Erik

[Heathansson]

Any idea when the nebulous beans will get their actual spilling on this one?

[emperor norton]

Erik Mona wrote:

Gavgoyle wrote:

Aberzombie wrote:

As far as Greyhawk minis, I know they did Mordenkainen. Not sure who else.

I think that the totallity of Greyhawk specific minis can be counted on one hand...

Mordenkainen, Scarlet Brotherhood monk, King Snurre, and Warduke (although he's a bit shoe-horned in). I can't think of any others off the top of my head.

Lareth the Beautiful

Aspect of Kord
Aspect of Nerull

--Erik

Yeah.

And that's about as much as we'll get out of him.

[oji040870]

Uncle wrote:

OJ--

Oji-(not OJ) uncle-is my 1st edition character from World of Greyhawk she is Magic-user/Thief 9/9 CN Elf female-from Vesve forest!

[oji040870]

Uncle

1)I was wondering if Robilar had a last name?
2)And was he indeed Lawful Evil?

3)And was he Evil to the core like kill innkeepers and children or just out for himself evil?

4)Was he good at one time and turned evil?

5)And he journey into Blackmoor to the city of the gods with Mordy?

6) Did Mordy ever die? or Robilar?(Then be Resurrected?

[MerricB]

Erik Mona wrote:

Gavgoyle wrote:

Aberzombie wrote:

As far as Greyhawk minis, I know they did Mordenkainen. Not sure who else.

I think that the totallity of Greyhawk specific minis can be counted on one hand...

Mordenkainen, Scarlet Brotherhood monk, King Snurre, and Warduke (although he's a bit shoe-horned in). I can't think of any others off the top of my head.

Lareth the Beautiful

Aspect of Kord
Aspect of Nerull

--Erik

Aspect of Hextor (I got mine just too late for Age of Worms!)

Warpriest of Hextor
Bugbear Champion of Erythnul
Cleric of St. Cuthbert

Rob: Good luck with your current projects!

Cheers,
Merric

[Rob Kuntz]

oji040870 wrote:

Uncle

1)I was wondering if Robilar had a last name?
2)And was he indeed Lawful Evil?

3)And was he Evil to the core like kill innkeepers and children or just out for himself evil?

4)Was he good at one time and turned evil?

5)And he journey into Blackmoor to the city of the gods with Mordy?

6) Did Mordy ever die? or Robilar?(Then be Resurrected?

Sorry, Oji, my eyes aren't what they usd to be for almost 51 years of age. "Oji" rings slightly French to my ears. I will make sure to mention her in an upcomimg work when I have a chance, just for the slight. ;)

BTW--You ask the darndest questions. But I don't mind answering them. :)

1) Robilar never had a last name, which may sound odd, but then maybe I could claim Scandanavian-like descent and just be called Robilarson (as the Scands never really used last names, either). But, that would be a dodge. The real truth is we never gave him one, but maybe that will change in he future, eh?

2) He was originally Neutral and I chose to turn him LE in order to explore that side of the game during the playtest years.

3) No, not really. As stated in the ROGUES GALLERY (TSR), even though he was evil he could still be dealt with (the lawful side ), but caution was to be maintained while doing so. Actually he was less evil in his acts than anyone knows or presumes, well at least in the campaign, not taking into account some of the silly stuff written on him and published afterwards.

4) Answered above.

5)The short story w/commentary appears on my website here:
http://www.pied-piper-publishing.com/index.php/robilar_remembers/journey_to _the_city_of_the_gods

He was presumed to be neutral in alignment while adventuring with Mordenkainen, who he knew and trusted.

6) Mordenkainen & Robilar never died. The closest Mordenkainen came to death was in the original iron golem encounter (WG5) and Robilar came close to death in the Troll Caves beneath Castle Greyhawk, which is related in an unpublished story I've written on the encounter. Robilar and Mordenkainen also came close to death in the Journey to the City of the Gods story-adventure that I've just linked you to. :)

Ciao!

RJK

[kikai13]

It would be awesome to see a Robilar mini made by WOTC.

[Rob Kuntz]

MerricB wrote:

Erik Mona wrote:

Gavgoyle wrote:

Aberzombie wrote:

As far as Greyhawk minis, I know they did Mordenkainen. Not sure who else.

I think that the totallity of Greyhawk specific minis can be counted on one hand...

Mordenkainen, Scarlet Brotherhood monk, King Snurre, and Warduke (although he's a bit shoe-horned in). I can't think of any others off the top of my head.

Lareth the Beautiful

Aspect of Kord
Aspect of Nerull

--Erik

Aspect of Hextor (I got mine just too late for Age of Worms!)

Warpriest of Hextor
Bugbear Champion of Erythnul
Cleric of St. Cuthbert

Rob: Good luck with your current projects!

Cheers,
Merric

*Waves at Merric*

Merric's the fellow I mentioned who translated Maze of Zayene #4 for me and from what I understand is up to his ears in D&D miniatures these days.

Nice to see you hanging around Merric! :) Put pressure on WotC to design a Robilar mini for me. ;) lol! Mounted on a dragon, of course...

R

[Gavgoyle]

Duh! I forgot completely about Lareth, which is stupid as he's sitting on top of my CPU in all his scarred beauty.

I intentionally didn't count the Aspects, since I wasn't sure if having them in the 'default diety' crew meant they were Greyhawk specific or pan-setting now. They will always be Greyhawk to me, but I wasn't sure that it couldn't be parsed otherwise.

[oji040870]

Uncle wrote:

A fellow (MerrcB from Australia) who helped translate one of my adventures to d20.

Does this mean you still use 1st edition AD&D and somebody changes it over to 3.5?

[Rob Kuntz]

oji040870 wrote:

Uncle wrote:

A fellow (MerrcB from Australia) who helped translate one of my adventures to d20.

Does this mean you still use 1st edition AD&D and somebody changes it over to 3.5?

Mostly, though I did write Maze of Zayene 1-3 and Dark Druids in d20. I find it more expedient now to let others do the translation work and for me to concentrate on what I do best, which is creating innovative adventures. It was actually taking me 3x the work to finish d20 adventures compared to writing in 1E and then having these translated. Just me, I guess.

[oji040870]

Uncle wrote:

Mostly, though I did write Maze of Zayene 1-3 and Dark Druids in d20. I find it more expedient now to let others do the translation work and for me to concentrate on what I do best, which is creating innovative adventures. It was actually taking me 3x the work to finish d20 adventures compared to writing in 1E and then having these translated. Just me, I guess.

Lot of work in the format now. Back in Highschool I sent away to TSR for guidelines simple back then compared to now, I read over paizo's a little it made my head hurt.

I have those modules Getting ready to perhaps run them, then the updated version of Maure Castle from Dungeon #112. Dark Druids I think I'll save that one.

I know I been pounding you with questions but alas I have more.

1.) When the 3.0 came out what did you and EGG think of it?

2.) Did you make characters using the new rules?

3.) How come EGG is not doing Castle Greyhawk-Yet something else called Yssberg? Castle Zyagy? Will it be anything like Castle Greyhawk?

4.)Where are you at?

4.)

[Rob Kuntz]

oji040870 wrote:

Uncle wrote:

Mostly, though I did write Maze of Zayene 1-3 and Dark Druids in d20. I find it more expedient now to let others do the translation work and for me to concentrate on what I do best, which is creating innovative adventures. It was actually taking me 3x the work to finish d20 adventures compared to writing in 1E and then having these translated. Just me, I guess.

Lot of work in the format now. Back in Highschool I sent away to TSR for guidelines simple back then compared to now, I read over paizo's a little it made my head hurt.

I have those modules Getting ready to perhaps run them, then the updated version of Maure Castle from Dungeon #112. Dark Druids I think I'll save that one.

I know I been pounding you with questions but alas I have more.

1.) When the 3.0 came out what did you and EGG think of it?

2.) Did you make characters using the new rules?

3.) How come EGG is not doing Castle Greyhawk-Yet something else called Yssberg? Castle Zyagy? Will it be anything like Castle Greyhawk?

4.)Where are you at?

4.)

Hi Oji.

1) I thought the game went a different direction than the first two editions but it was a hit anyway. The OGL was a very nice blessing along the way, and Kudos to WotC for that. All I know is that EGG doesn't care for 3E+/d20 and prefers a simpler rules set, which is understandable considering how many complicated rules sets he's designed in his life. Remember, we played and designed simple and complex games back then, but when it came down to it simple and fun games ruled.

2) I haven't been playing a lot except at cons, so no, I haven't made any. I will be at next Year's GENCON and will be DMing and possibly playing then. :)

3) Greyhawk™ is a trademark of WotC, and Gary, according to his settlement with TSR so many years ago, can not use the name, though he had certain rights extended to him to use derivatives of his own name (spell Zagyg backwards and you get my meaning).
Yggsburgh. Again a partial compilation of EGG's intials (G+GY) + 'Burgh,' or, "EGG's Town" (or City), the latter root as in the old spelling of "burg".

4) Physically I'm in Milwaukee, WI; just a bit ago I was on EBay pickin' up a few books and game items (no minis yet, I need a Robilar look-alike mounted on a green dragon, and waiting upon WotC could take a while, so I believe I'll commission someone for that job, though I havent a clue as to who). And now I'm off to sleep, as I've overstayed my visits on the Net, tonight. But I did "nab" a signed and numbered copy of ART OF DRAGON, which was really great. :)

Later.

Robilar

[oji040870]

"Uncle"
Contact these cats over at wotc Matt Sernett and Stephen Schubert,These two are the Miniatures design team perhaps they are Robilar fans!.

[MerricB]

Uncle wrote:

Nice to see you hanging around Merric! :) Put pressure on WotC to design a Robilar mini for me. ;) lol! Mounted on a dragon, of course...

R

G'day, Rob!

Oh, if only they'd done that miniature instead of the Sorcerer on Black Dragon... (and then had Paizo distribute it as a promo.) Erik should have pushed for it! :)

Cheers,
Merric

[kikai13]

A pre-painted mini of Robilar on a green dragon? I would quickly and happily pay anywhere up to $50 for such a thing. That should be Paizo's next promo mini!

[Rob Kuntz]

kikai13 wrote:

A pre-painted mini of Robilar on a green dragon? I would quickly and happily pay anywhere up to $50 for such a thing. That should be Paizo's next promo mini!

Yes, very nice, but hopefully somebody there knows his history, and doesnt put him on the silly pony or iron bull or whatever he's riding these days. In that case I wont be buying, goes without saying. Heh. Pony/bull. "Giddy-up there, get-along, lil pony." Heh.

Definately not Robilar--he flew on green dragons and also had griffon steeds. Either would be cool.

Oji--I'll leave the political pressures to the fans--I'm just a rouser of events. ;)

*Waves at Merric*

Robilar (giddy-up!) lol!

[oji040870]

"Uncle"
The set up of Castle Greyhawk in EGG's campaign, was it set up that you could enter dungeon level 1 at 1st level and encounter monsters based on the level of the dungeon you were on.

[Rob Kuntz]

oji040870 wrote:

"Uncle"

The set up of Castle Greyhawk in EGG's campaign, was it set up that you could enter dungeon level 1 at 1st level and encounter monsters based on the level of the dungeon you were on.

Yes and no.

There were some encounters that were meant to be too tough but for later adventures, and of course non-set (wandering) encounters could be higher as well. The "modularity" of adventures later turned this more realistic concept (monsters wander and settle where they want to, not just according to "scaling mechanics") into the streamlined CRed encounters we see today. The difference between a loose hombrew feel and a set piece or scaled adventure, for instance. This was promulgated for the most part by TSR's/RPGAs Tournament modules where this concept had to be used in order to minutely assess each party's
advances through these along "equal" lines.

Of course, if one wanders the outdoor in the !E game (or OD&D for that matter), you get what you get, for wandering encounters at least.

Unca Rob

[emperor norton]

No offense, Rob, but I've read that you recently dropped out of the Castle Zagyg project and have left Gary to work on it withe people at Troll Lords. My question is: if you're done with the project (for whatever reasons), why spend so much time on a thread where the main topic continues to be Castle Greyhawk?

Seems odd.

[Rob Kuntz]

emperor norton wrote:

No offense, Rob, but I've read that you recently dropped out of the Castle Zagyg project and have left Gary to work on it withe people at Troll Lords. My question is: if you're done with the project (for whatever reasons), why spend so much time on a thread where the main topic continues to be Castle Greyhawk?

Seems odd.

Well, I am answering quetions, not talking about the Castle in any other way but; and of course I am not speaking here of the TLG project at all, but I might be inclined to at some future time as the last time I checked I still had volition and choice.

[Black Dougal]

""This was promulgated for the most part by TSR's/RPGAs Tournament modules where this concept had to be used in order to minutely assess each party's
advances through these along "equal" lines.""

Thank you Rob...this quite clearly illuminates what I hate about the 3rd edition rules..higher level characters must always have challenges that match up with their skill sets, for fear of setting up encounters that provide no xp. So as a result characters are always going up against legions of powerful creatures where logically it makes no sense for that many to exist in the same place. Take Kings of the Rift in the last Adventure Path..how many dragons do the PC's fight? I lost track..Either that or you get common humoinoids with stacks of character levels and all with +1 gear...bah..

sorry, I like the feel of the older versions where wandering monsters for a 10th lvl party could be trolls or slimes or kobolds, but you knew that for the worst monsters, they were not going to be dozens of them co-existing or with 4 different templates on them..

Rant over..

feel much better now.

[farewell2kings]

Well said, Black Dougal. I've ranted about the same thing many times. I love 3.5, but the facts you posted about are my main annoyance with the system and the thing I miss most about AD&D.

[Rob Kuntz]

Black Dougal wrote:

""This was promulgated for the most part by TSR's/RPGAs Tournament modules where this concept had to be used in order to minutely assess each party's

advances through these along "equal" lines.""

Thank you Rob...this quite clearly illuminates what I hate about the 3rd edition rules..higher level characters must always have challenges that match up with their skill sets, for fear of setting up encounters that provide no xp. So as a result characters are always going up against legions of powerful creatures where logically it makes no sense for that many to exist in the same place. Take Kings of the Rift in the last Adventure Path..how many dragons do the PC's fight? I lost track..Either that or you get common humoinoids with stacks of character levels and all with +1 gear...bah..

sorry, I like the feel of the older versions where wandering monsters for a 10th lvl party could be trolls or slimes or kobolds, but you knew that for the worst monsters, they were not going to be dozens of them co-existing or with 4 different templates on them..

Rant over..

feel much better now.

Well, I in no way was attempting to incite anyone about the falabilities of any system--too each their own, I feel. It was just part and parcel of my summary for Oji.

A work-around to this, as is the case with any rules system, is to sculpt the adventure to your liking as we did in the original Greyhawk and the Kalibruhn campaign settings.

Also, AD&D's wandering monsters, IIRC, scaled downward four levels and upward some, so you could run into monsters from different (lower or higher) levels but not the whole inclusive range. In fact my brother's NPC, while guiding a newbie party within Greyhawk Castle while EGG and I co-DMed the adventure ran into a Balrog on the 4th level, and he was only a zixth level fighter and the newbies were 2nd levels.

Erik was a long time RPGA head and coordinator and perhaps could give better or different insight than I into other work-arounds as well, but I feel that if your campaign relies a lot on published material rather than sculpting your own, then the only option is to scale it to your liking. But that's what home-brews are about, eh?

RJK

[MerricB]

Uncle wrote:

Also, AD&D's wandering monsters, IIRC, scaled downward four levels and upward some, so you could run into monsters from different (lower or higher) levels but not the whole inclusive range. In fact my brother's NPC, while guiding a newbie party within Greyhawk Castle while EGG and I co-DMed the adventure ran into a Balrog on the 4th level, and he was only a zixth level fighter and the newbies were 2nd levels.

Heh. And _then_ what happened, Rob? Don't leave us hanging like that! ;)

(As a side note, it *is* possible to run into a Balrog on the 4th level of the dungeon using the 3.5e encounter tables, although very, very unlikely).

My players should be getting the idea by now that they should think up their own PC names, or I'll invent them for them - in a typically Greyhawkian fashion. The bard Nerie (Ernie), the fighter Tarmin (Martin), and a few others grace my version of Greyhawk due to such lapses in creativity.

(The personage of Cirrem is an entirely creative endeavour, of course!)

Cheers,
Merric

[Rob Kuntz]

MerricB wrote:

Uncle wrote:

Also, AD&D's wandering monsters, IIRC, scaled downward four levels and upward some, so you could run into monsters from different (lower or higher) levels but not the whole inclusive range. In fact my brother's NPC, while guiding a newbie party within Greyhawk Castle while EGG and I co-DMed the adventure ran into a Balrog on the 4th level, and he was only a zixth level fighter and the newbies were 2nd levels.

Heh. And _then_ what happened, Rob? Don't leave us hanging like that! ;)

(As a side note, it *is* possible to run into a Balrog on the 4th level of the dungeon using the 3.5e encounter tables, although very, very unlikely).

My players should be getting the idea by now that they should think up their own PC names, or I'll invent them for them - in a typically Greyhawkian fashion. The bard Nerie (Ernie), the fighter Tarmin (Martin), and a few others grace my version of Greyhawk due to such lapses in creativity.

(The personage of Cirrem is an entirely creative endeavour, of course!)

Cheers,
Merric

Hey Merric,

Ooh! I like Nerie. And it moves so well from common to fantastic. Must remember that one... :)

I like fiddling with words too, what can I say? :) Cirrem, a new form of ancient warship? Just kidding. Has possibilities.

Well the Balrog encounter is another unpublished (though finished) tale I have out of the 30 or so I am crafting regarding the exploits within both the Original Greyhawk and Kalibruhn campiagns back then. I will say only that it was a very strange encounter as Teric's henchman fighter had to confront it himself (the other PCs did not have magic weapons) and he won the battle, but in a _very strange_ way. Not wanting to ruin the tale before it is published, I will wait til then to relate in full.

Hey, is that sorcerer on black dragon mini a single piece as cast or is the sorc. removable?

Ciao!

RJK

[MerricB]

Uncle wrote:

Hey, is that sorcerer on black dragon mini a single piece as cast or is the sorc. removable?

It's not a single cast, but the sorcerer isn't entirely removable. The legs and waist are part of the dragon mold. So, if you manage to cut off the top half, you could theoretically put an armoured figure on top. (I wonder if anyone has done so?)

The DDM line is at its best for those just starting a miniatures collection - a few dozen boosters, and the purchaser has many of the staples of D&D adventuring - PC types, orcs, goblins, ogres, skeletons, zombies, etc. Of course, you need to pay attention to what figures appear in which set!

The line also works well when there are several purchasers of it in the area, thus allowing trading or borrowing of the figures you need for a particular encounter.

I've got slightly over 2,000 of the figures at present. One great advantage of them over metals is their near indestructability and thus ease of transportation. Given I need to travel 30 km (20 miles) to each game, this is essential!

It's interesting to see how they influence my adventure design. There are times when I select monsters based on the miniatures I have available rather than the other way around. :)

Cheers,
Merric

[Aberzombie]

MerricB wrote:

The DDM line is at its best for those just starting a miniatures collection - a few dozen boosters, and the purchaser has many of the staples of D&D adventuring - PC types, orcs, goblins, ogres, skeletons, zombies, etc. Of course, you need to pay attention to what figures appear in which set!.

The line also works well when there are several purchasers of it in the area, thus allowing trading or borrowing of the figures you need for a particular encounter.

That's me, just starting out collecting and I've bought a starter pack and about 6 or 7 booster packs. Of course, I don't plan on using them to play the miniatures game. I'd rather just use them in a regular D%D game.

Luckily, two of the guys in my gaming group both do the mini's game, so maybe I'll trade with them if I have something they want. In the mean time, I'll be buying some extras off my little brother down in Houston.

[Rob Kuntz]

Aberzombie wrote:

MerricB wrote:

The DDM line is at its best for those just starting a miniatures collection - a few dozen boosters, and the purchaser has many of the staples of D&D adventuring - PC types, orcs, goblins, ogres, skeletons, zombies, etc. Of course, you need to pay attention to what figures appear in which set!.

The line also works well when there are several purchasers of it in the area, thus allowing trading or borrowing of the figures you need for a particular encounter.

That's me, just starting out collecting and I've bought a starter pack and about 6 or 7 booster packs. Of course, I don't plan on using them to play the miniatures game. I'd rather just use them in a regular D%D game.

Luckily, two of the guys in my gaming group both do the mini's game, so maybe I'll trade with them if I have something they want. In the mean time, I'll be buying some extras off my little brother down in Houston.

So, does anyone here know what available mini line features an armored fighter mounted upon a dragon?

RJK

[Aberzombie]

Uncle wrote:

So, does anyone here know what available mini line features an armored fighter mounted upon a dragon?

RJK

As a matter of fact....I believe the forthcoming (October maybe) Bloodwar line will contain a Githyanki Knight riding a Red Dragon. Here is an address to the WotC wesbite where they show a picture:

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/mi/20060817a

And didn't you say that Robilar would sometimes ride a griffon? If so, the War of the Dragon Queen line contains a Griffon Cavalry mini. The only problem is I think the griffon rider is an elf. And in the same line, you also have the Blackguard on Nightmare mini, which is another excellent mounted warrior, although I think it is a female. Lastly, there is the Mounted Paladin in the Angelfire line. There may be others that I'm not familiar with.

[Rob Kuntz]

Edit, to include any product line outside of WotC:

"So, does anyone here know what available mini line features an armored fighter mounted upon a dragon?"

:)

R

[Aberzombie]

Uncle wrote:

Edit, to include any product line outside of WotC:

"So, does anyone here know what available mini line features an armored fighter mounted upon a dragon?"

:)

R

Yeah, sorry. As I am new to the whole mini thing, I'm not familiar with what other companies put out. I've emailed a friend of mine who knows way more than me, and hopefully he can come up with what you're looking for.

[Rob Kuntz]

Aberzombie wrote:

Uncle wrote:

Edit, to include any product line outside of WotC:

"So, does anyone here know what available mini line features an armored fighter mounted upon a dragon?"

:)

R

Yeah, sorry. As I am new to the whole mini thing, I'm not familiar with what other companies put out. I've emailed a friend of mine who knows way more than me, and hopefully he can come up with what you're looking for.

Thanks Aberzombie, real neighborly of you. :)

R

[Aberzombie]

Uncle wrote:

Aberzombie wrote:

Yeah, sorry. As I am new to the whole mini thing, I'm not familiar with what other companies put out. I've emailed a friend of mine who knows way more than me, and hopefully he can come up with what you're looking for.

Thanks Aberzombie, real neighborly of you. :)

R

My friend responded sooner than I expected. He suggested the following:

http://reapermini.com/store/customer/product.php?productid=3652&cat=0&a mp;page=2

It shows a female rider, but you could clip that off and put on whatever upper torso you wanted. Hope this helps.

By the way, just finished reading through the latest Maure Caslte adventure. It rocks!

[Rob Kuntz]

Cool, I'll check it out and continue my quest to find one that dosn't have to be converted. There must a male dragon-rider mini out there somewhere...

Tkanks for the "rockin" comment on MC--more definately on the way, two more by March, with Istus's approval. ;)

[oji040870]

Uncle
I have named Robilars Dragons for you!
Rukoreb(Male)
Jezokru(Female)
Krebor(Young)

[Rob Kuntz]

oji040870 wrote:

Uncle

I have named Robilars Dragons for you!
Rukoreb(Male)
Jezokru(Female)
Krebor(Young)

Thanks Oji.

One had already been named as Schwartzmorgen (and fondly so with a lot of tongue-in-cheek, but the dragon didn't seem to mind as long as it was fed and had piles of gold) ;)

I was about plying the ways of the Draconian language for this, seriously. Thinking of their sibilant tongue and how their names might translate in ways which would be proto-pronounceable in the human language, like "Hlooshspetuu," who was a great white dragon killed in the seige of the City of Brass (in my module written on that).

I shall seriously consider the names (which all look to be familiar scrambles of the same letters, probably good for them as a family unit) :)

RJK

PS--Btw, I like the way that each of their first letters form my own intials in a run. Very clever.

[Michael Gonzalez]

Samuel Weiss wrote:

For the record, for those who are interested in the truth about Living Greyhawk:

1. Every Living Greyhawk region maintains a website. (Although some have been unvailable because of real world issues related to them being maintained at the expense of the volunteers.) At these websites, you can find, freely available to the greater public, significant amounts of gazzetteer information on the specific region. And I mean "significant" to the point of being 50,000 word tomes on a single, specific region. Multiply that by 29 regions, all for free (well, except for the time it takes to open a window from the RPGA home page and then read all those pages, I'm sure many will complain about that), and compare it to the support other settings have received from WotC.

This is not necessarily true of all sites. I became an RPGA member thru the WOTC heraldry test online, but descriptive materials are denied in my region's (Verbobonc) website. From what I understand, unless I actually go to a con and register a character I am not allowed in. I cannot make the time commitment to go to a con because of real life and children too young to game (I have HeroQuest ready for him when he turns 6!). Nonetheless, I still lurk the net for goodies. I have checked from time to time to see if this changes...

See Erik 'hawk.
'Hawk Erik 'hawk!

[Michael Gonzalez]

Hi. This is one is for "Uncle".

WOTC published stats in Epic Level Handbook for for some famous "Greyhawk" characters, namely Cat-Lord, Eclavdra, Mordenkainen, Rary, and of course Lord Robilar. How much, if any, of their backstory came from the original campaign? For example, did Robilar have the "Sword of Black Ice" back then or was that a rewrite/add-in to jazz up the Robilar to "Epic" status for the book?

[Rob Kuntz]

"...did Robilar have the "Sword of Black Ice" back then or was that a rewrite/add-in to jazz up the Robilar to "Epic" status for the book?"

Well, that was all jazz (for what reason, I do not know, as I was not involved with that project), including that silly thing he is now riding on. Heh. Sorry. But that's literary license for you.

RJK