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Tortles actually returned about year or less before the Lupin in Dragon Magazine. It was in one of their much ballyhooed January issues of rehash and specifically on Mystara. Spot Check: How close are the new Catfolk to Rakasta?
Every time i read or hear the slightest hint of comparison between "Catfolk" and Rakastas, my bones chill...
Apart from being both "catlike" races they do not have anything else in common! Abilities and culture of the Rakastas are unique!An official conversion on one of the most emblematic races of Mystara is missing...
Who cares if other "cat" races already exists, Rakastas are Rakastas!
While i await for that day to come... (zzzzzzz)... i use my own conversion.
:)
Remember that in Mystara, Demogorgon is a woman.
A woman who like to hide by rodesides and make crying child noises so she can eat gullible adventurers.
Having finally gotten my hands on the first three parts of STAP, I'm inclined to substitute Ierendi City for Sasserine, myself. Cauldron is instead Citadel, on Honor Island. Rowyn is Hanni of Mage Marine, etc. I'm finding the fit to be pretty good.
[uncloaking from lurker mode]When I first read Shackled City and then Savage Tide, I thought that Ierendi or Minrothad Guilds made excellent sense. But I've just recently returned to Mystara (silly me got rid of all my Mystara products), and I'm really not sure where to place these on the islands.
Would you please provide more detail on where you placed the locations and how you made them fit?
[back to lurking]
Would you please provide more detail on where you placed the locations and how you made them fit?
The conventional wisdom is that Sasserine should be placed on the northern coast of Davania at position #1 on this map.
Map of Davania
As for how I've run STAP, I haven't yet, but I am thinking of dropping the Demogorgon/Sasserine connections entirely and rolling the new IoD information back into the original module. Whether I do this or not will depend on how the AP develops. I'm just not interested in planner travel to defeat a BBG.
--Ray.
Would you please provide more detail on where you placed the locations and how you made them fit?
For myself, I found that Sasserine fits really well with Ierendi City. The Council described for Sasserine fits pretty well with the Ierendi Tribunal and Council of Lords. The map, obviously, doesn't really fit all that well, though it could be used very easily to expand the existing Gaz4 city map (or, if you don't have your products on you, as you mention, you could definitely use it as a substitute for the city).
I'll try and remember some more of the specific changes that I thought to make/adapt- I know some of them involved using the Adventurer's Guild (whatever it was called in Gaz4) in place of the Seekers, and adapting the churches to fit the Gaz4 religions better.
Again, I substituted Cauldron and much of its surrounding area for the town of Citadel and Honor Island- though that requires a bit more work, due to the nature of the inhabitants of Honor Island (all spellcasters, many/most of mid-levels). The Shackled City plot I'm still trying to fully adapt, but it involves using an NPC from Gaz4 (the Honor Island representative Gherynid) and her stated goal to rule the Ierendi Isles, and tying that in with the goals of the Cagewrights.