Kobold. Though I wouldn't be surprised to see done straight Mystara stuff, the usage of the PKlJN characters does not automatically mean it is Mystara here.View attachment 363452
Ierendi is the fourth nation in the Gazetteer line, an island chain south of the mainland. That makes this Mystara art, though not sure who the tiny lizardmen are supposed to be. Maybe evil Caymas?
They put it in our gazetteer. We'll take it. It's about all we'll probably get.Kobold. Though I wouldn't be surprised to see done straight Mystara stuff, the usage of the PKlJN characters does not automatically mean it is Mystara here.
We noticed. They noticed he was a shadow elf and made him shadar kai, when Mystaran shadow elves are more like cave fish, naive, badly led and highly religious TN cave fish.For what it's worth, the adventure in the new Planescape has a brief appearance by the shadar-kai Farrow, who (like his 2e shadow elf incarnation) is explicitly noted as being from the material plane world of Mystara.
Interesting. Re-imagining Mystara's shadow elves as shadar-kai, a different kind of shadow elf. It's worth mulling over as something to adapt if I ever convince my players to take a run through Mystara.For what it's worth, the adventure in the new Planescape has a brief appearance by the shadar-kai Farrow, who (like his 2e shadow elf incarnation) is explicitly noted as being from the material plane world of Mystara.
Doesn't go into any further detail, but thought it was worth a mention.
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Ierendi is the fourth nation in the Gazetteer line, an island chain south of the mainland. That makes this Mystara art, though not sure who the tiny lizardmen are supposed to be. Maybe evil Caymas?
This was mostly done in jest. Reaching isn't the right word, this is stretching like Reed Richards. I have no faith that Mystara gets any attention from WOTC outside of brief mentions. They are avoiding real-world allegories which was Mystara's focus. They have 5 Spains, 4 Romes, 3 Indias and 2 Germanys. They SERIOUSLY liked Spain. Plus major parts of the setting arc involves mature topics similar to Dark Sun though without the multiple attempts at psionics. I just want them to open up the guilds to the lost settings (hi Birthright!) and let people create more books for Mystara.Meh.
I grew up on the Mystara campaign, back before it was Mystara! Long live the Known World!
However, you're reaching here. Sure, the action-figure characters were incorporated into the BECMI line in a handful of products, but it was done poorly and, IMO, didn't really fit.
These characters were created independently from the Mystara setting, were co-opted into the setting clumsily, but still were a separate thing. Very similar to how Arneson's Blackmoor modules were clumsily co-opted into the setting as well.
However, Mystara got an equal mention in the 2014 core books, I don't expect differently in the 2024 books. I'm hoping Aleena or some other classic Mystara character makes it into the PHB art . . . or maybe Bargle in the DMG . . .