this was the campaign my dad introduced us to for dnd. We never got to finish it sadly enough. it was amazing!
@briancherry8088
3 жыл бұрын
My friend bought this box and we passed it back and forth. But, neither ended up reading enough to actually implement it. I sure wish I had kept it.
@maxwellchris
4 жыл бұрын
This was one of several "alternate" settings that I bought, read, and loved, only to find that my D&D-playing friends had no interest in it whatsoever :(
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
Awww, that stinks. Its frustrating when that happens!
@AaronAlso
4 жыл бұрын
That is pretty much what happened to me when I was a teen. After being introduced to D&D I spent all summer mowing yards and bought the Rules Cyclopedia, and all the Hollow Earth setting books available at the time. Only to find out that my friends were buying 2e books and didn't want anything to do with that basic stuff.
@theobstinategentleman4094
4 жыл бұрын
The best way to do it is to have an adventure that goes into hollow world before returning to their world. Then once the campaign is over do it in hollow world. Or at least that's what worked on me when i was like your players.
@HadesESL
2 жыл бұрын
Hahaha. That happened to one of my friends, and I was one of those that was not interested. I would give it a go now, but back then I thought Mystara already had plenty of adventures to have, as the DM, and I wasn't at all interested in Hollow World stuff.
@sunsin1592
4 жыл бұрын
We used this a fair amount back in the day. I later wrote a sequel campaign following up the Desert Nomads series (X4-5 & 10) that involved a trip to the Hollow World to retrieve an artifact needed to stop the big bad.
@fairytalejediftj7041
4 жыл бұрын
Great review (as was your earlier Mystara series). Looking forward to DL !
@MrRourk
4 жыл бұрын
The very interesting and unusual Hollow World. Ran and played a few games with this back in the day. :)
@captainharris8980
Жыл бұрын
Aaron Allston was really a genius author. A real creative mind in gaming. I'm sorry he passed away some years ago. But, looking at that photo of him on the back of Autoduel Champions .... I'm surprised he didn't die earlier.
@fleetcenturion
4 жыл бұрын
2:29 - Sir Edmond Halley (not Edward). Famed for tracking the periodicity of Halley's Comet, and as a drinking buddy of Peter the Great.
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, big typo in my script. sorry
@RIVERSRPGChannel
4 жыл бұрын
We still play 3.5 on the known world of Mystara Good video
@Cuthbo
Жыл бұрын
A few years too late but watching this excellent review reminded me that they made a video game called D&D: Warriors of the Eternal Sun for the Sega Genesis and it was very faithful to this setting!
@jamesvwest2511
3 жыл бұрын
I picked up this box set a few years ago and its been sitting on my shelf next my collection of Al Qadim boxes. Both have been begging me to run them! This review rekindles that flame.
@captcorajus
3 жыл бұрын
Aaaand THAT's why I make these videos. Great to hear!
@drewwill6497
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the great review Cap. I never managed to play in the Hollow World but always wondered what it was like. Now I'm going to have to give it a try! Really enjoy these videos. Looking forward to your DCC review. Played that for a few years, and it was a blast.
@Se7enBeatleofDoom
22 күн бұрын
The Holo-Earth is such a cool and underrated setting. At least a lot of people got introduced to it by the Monsterverse movies.
@udasu
4 жыл бұрын
Always good to see all the great vids, cap. "The kids these days" (old man lol) need to know about the RPG awesomeness from the past. And it's great that you show how much the Howard and Cthulhu Mythos has affected sci-fi and fantasy our whole lives. Heck, even Star Wars had a slimy tentacled monster and a barbarian wookie.
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah. I think about 20 years ago, I started reading Lovecraft and I was hooked. Then I read S.T. Joshi's biography on him, and the devoured everything he ever wrote. After that, you start realizing just how much influence Lovecraft has had on late 20th century horror fiction and movies, and of course Dungeons & Dragons.
@johnevans9156
4 жыл бұрын
Always top quality content! This will be the go to review channel as time goes on. Thorough, thoughtful, complete. Nothing like it out there so keep it up!
@ianedmonds9191
10 ай бұрын
I'd argue it owes a lot to Ringworld by Larry Niven. That book also has a large space built by godlike creatures to preserve individual cultures and separated by local barriers that gradually interact and evolve in to a locally congruent whole. Great book. Luv and Peace.
@bskec2177
4 жыл бұрын
I would really like Mystara/Hollow world materials for 5e. That was a really great world setting, and with only slight mods can accomadate most races. Even Warforged and Simic hybrids could be brought into Alphatia through Shraek and the Darkheart Forest.
@bskec2177
4 жыл бұрын
I remember playing the Isle of Dread.
@NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself
4 жыл бұрын
5e should do anything other than Forgotten Realms. I don't play any FR post 1385 DR, and while I appreciate D&D updating and revisiting 2e and 3e FR stories / adventures, I think FR needs to be retired as Greenwood's opus. Modern D&D should be diversifying its campaign setting content.
@TheWiseRabbit
4 жыл бұрын
Wow this review is fantastic. I never understood all the breadth of this for adventures.
@rodneymeadows7658
3 жыл бұрын
This is one I heard something about, but didn't have a group.....
@johnhe0414
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks Capt. C!
@MrChupacabra555
4 жыл бұрын
Never actually played in the Hollow World, but I did love the setting, kind of like a Dyson Sphere in 'miniature' ^_^
@seangunner6524
3 жыл бұрын
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@kharibrooks7511
3 жыл бұрын
@Sean Gunner instablaster ;)
@seangunner6524
3 жыл бұрын
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@seangunner6524
3 жыл бұрын
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@kharibrooks7511
3 жыл бұрын
@Sean Gunner Happy to help :)
@seop1721
2 күн бұрын
Forgotten Realms didn’t do it for me; Greyhawk hasn’t done it for me. But I think with Mystara I have finally found my D&D campaign setting. Just great stuff. Mainly I love the reference to some real-world historical cultures, which provides an easy way to imagine some of Mystara’s peoples. Greyhawk kept losing me with various ethnicities that had lots of description but no doorway in, I found, along with a confusing historical timeline that made starting with the setting a difficult one. Here, one could even lift much of the Hollow World ideas for a game ostensibly set in the real world, but with Nithia instead of Egypt. There’s much more going on in Mystara, too. And it still feels, as imaginative as it is, more grounded than Forgotten Realms.
@BrettCaton
4 жыл бұрын
I loved "Land of the Lost"!
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
Yes! Loved that show as a kid.
@gwillco5100
4 жыл бұрын
As usual fantastic video! Always look forward to your content. Ur one of the few content creators I follow who almost always replies to your viewers comments, so I have a strange question. Making some assumptions, does a viewer have to watch an entire ad for you to get credit and how much of the content has to be viewed for it to count as a view? Thanks!
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
KZitem places ads bases on a few things. Views obviously. Also likes... but there's also click thru.. which what percent of viewrs click on a video when they present it. Average 2% my channel's average is 4%. There's also view time.. which is how much is actually watched. KZitem average is around 30 to 40% my channels average is around 50%+. these are what determine what vids get ads, etc. Its complex.
@gwillco5100
4 жыл бұрын
captcorajus got it, thanks for replying!
@patrickholt2270
4 жыл бұрын
It was very much peak BECMI to me, apart from B/X10. I understood why they wanted to shut down BECMI and port Mystara over to AD&D 2nd Ed, but it just wasn't the same. Firstly it imposed a workload on DMs and players, adapting existing material and characters, secondly it ensured that most campaign setting products were going to be repeating the same information as already sold in the Gazeteers, rather than opening up new ground, which wasn't very exciting or good value, and lastly it just subtracted some charm. The 2nd Ed art style created a very different feeling, not as friendly or endearing. Races-as-classes was a severe limitation, but one which simplified the game and helped define the world. For example here in the Hollow World, it massively simplified the introduction of new playable races. 2nd Ed was such a different rule set form Basic and Expert, so the adaptation was clumsy and complicated. 3rd Ed was a better fit, with the character statistic bonuses being as generous as in Basic and expert, beginning at 13s rather than 15s, and the potential to increase a base stat. So it was unsurprising when the setting was mothballed after trying to make it a 2nd edition world, which was a tragedy, because setting material like the Hollow World and the Savage Coast had really reached a very high level, after the dross of early Basic modules which weren't even set anywhere specific in the Known World.
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
Speaking on modern takes on Mystara. I'm going to be doing my review of Goodman Games Dungeon Crawl Classics this week, and wow.. its so appropriate for Mystara. I'm thinking I'd do a character funnel, where everyone starts out as hands on a ship, and play out the first adventure that has a very nice ship board mystery, and a single dangerous opponent. Then, when they end up in the Hollow World, they're first level.
@patrickholt2270
4 жыл бұрын
@@captcorajus Great! I'd love to play that.
@BTsMusicChannel
4 жыл бұрын
1:33 "Cataclysm"....Hmmmm...That's a word out of Robert E. Howard's "The Hyborian Age." I think that essay is a must read for those who want to do world building (along with Lovecraft's approach to laying out the Dreamlands in the little stories that expand upon things mentioned in "Unknown Kadath"). I used to refer to them as historical "turning points" before I read Howard. Definitely "pulp roots," as you say.
@lynnkain
4 жыл бұрын
I’m a huge fan of ERB I would have bought this in an instant if I’d known about it.
@MrRourk
4 жыл бұрын
Do the Blackmoor Modules! So little exposure of these classics.
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
The DA Series? Yeah, those were amazing.
@senangardiner6495
4 жыл бұрын
First off. Kon - stop watching - this is an order from your DM. Right, now that that's out of the way. Thank you so much for your review. If you ever do plan to review the subsequent adventure modules set in HW, could you wait at least 2 months? Probably the first time you've been requested "not to review something". Seriously though, I'm delighted you've finally reviewed HW. This came out a few years before I started properly gaming, but I'd always heard of it from other players. It wasn't until I played the sega megadrive official DnD game "warriors of the eternal sun" that I knew I had to track down the original source material. Over the course of many more years I collected all I could about the world, found myself a stable homebase and finally started running my campaign. I'm running the campaign in 3.5 but might switch to 5th ed eventually. The website Pandius and Mr Welch and your channel on YT have been invaluable to me in doing so. So thanks a lot for your reviews - the warning above was because only half my adventuring party currently have a clue where they are. :D
@kainshannarra2451
4 жыл бұрын
lol nice. Once they're firmly entrenched into HW I suggest (if you have it) running HWQ 1 The Milenian Scepter - excellent adventure with some great characters, impressive battles, very cool magical items, and a challenge rating worthy of those who call themselves Heroes
@Johnny_Nitro
4 жыл бұрын
Hey Cap, did you ever play Order of the Griffon for Turbo Grafx-16? I think the game was set in the world of Mystara.
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
No, but I have a MAME arcade cabinet and I have both of the Mystara Arcade games from the 90s :)
@Johnny_Nitro
4 жыл бұрын
@@captcorajus Tower of Doom 1 and 2? Sweet man! I loved those in the arcade!!
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
@@Johnny_Nitro Yes! I have a full arcade set up in my basement... 4000 arcade games, love the Mystara game with unlimited Quarters. :)
@smeefman6923
4 жыл бұрын
Man wouldn't it be cool if they made a hollow world module for 5e
@drorbital3034
11 ай бұрын
Great Video if you don't mind what edition is the Gazetteer?
@hexkwondo
4 жыл бұрын
Ive never heard of this. Awesome! Im going to see if i can track this campaign set down.
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
There's a link for the POD in the description. :)
@kainshannarra2451
4 жыл бұрын
HWQ 1 The Milenian Scepter- awesome adventure taking place in the Hollow World. One of my favorite modules for characters above 3rd level
@AgoodITguy
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the review 😁
@AeonVoom
4 жыл бұрын
Aw yiss. Saturday rescued by da captn
@mikrogamis721
4 жыл бұрын
I've been trying to get a copy of that for years!
@Dracopol
4 жыл бұрын
How many published adventure modules in all were set in Greyhawk?
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
I have no idea. A lot? ha ha. Good question.
@HowtoRPG
4 жыл бұрын
I feel like your channel is required D&D study.
@CastleArchon
4 жыл бұрын
Are you going to do The Fantasy Trip (In the Labrynith) sometime?
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
'sometime' i'm sure. Never played it, and don't have the pdfs or a hard copy to look over yet, and a LOT of other things in the cue. But i'm really interested in taking a look at it.
@fulminatus6241
4 жыл бұрын
i never heard of this in the old day. Was it not well promoted? Or was it just the size of the rock I live under?
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
TSR Under promoted it. It was one of the last Gazetteer supplements. The D&D line was not favored by many at TSR and apparently that led to them under promoting it. It should have gotten a lot more attention.
@fulminatus6241
4 жыл бұрын
@@captcorajus - That's really too bad. It's really creative and different, especially for the time period. Great review and I'm really looking forward to the three new ones you announced.
@kevinkrueger7479
3 жыл бұрын
This is a DriveThruRPG advertising source, isn't it?
@captcorajus
3 жыл бұрын
Newp
@bloodredcrown
4 жыл бұрын
⚒🌎🦖🌍⚔️
@AgoodITguy
4 жыл бұрын
Can one could run a Basic D&D game on Fantasy Grounds? I dont see the core rules added 😕
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, don't get me started. I've been trying to get the rules set up for FG for an OSR type thing for years. The core issue is that creating rule sets in FG is so damn labor intensive when it should be EASY. It should be a simple matter of going through a few tick boxes to get the core rules you want to play by and then simple data entry for the spells, monsters and classes. But its not. You have to have some scripting knowledge, and it can get pretty in depth.
@AgoodITguy
4 жыл бұрын
@@captcorajus Thanks by the moment im runing session on Discord
@AgoodITguy
4 жыл бұрын
@@captcorajus Can an AD&D module be played with Basic D&D system?
@captcorajus
4 жыл бұрын
@@AgoodITguy Absolutely. With little or no modification.
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