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"...faster than Disney burns out child stars." Painful, but accurate.

The elven liberation front's acronym spelling ELF is so cheesy and I love it

"The Elven Liberation Front" SPLITTER!

it's a shame Mystara didn't get that many video games Glantri would be an excellent setting for Thief or Elder scrolls style game

Sounds like it would be fun to play a Galantri fighter. Specialized in being stealthy and low-key as hitting the mage before they realized is your best bet to be effective.

Glantrii has always been a fav of mine. Love the secret crafts and this setting began my LOVE of Necromancy. To me Morphil has always been the basis for Strahd.

Mfw I'll likely have a kilt-wearing Scottish Necromancer in my first Mystara campaign

"Love child of Hogwarts and Jugoslavija" Oh noooo... Oh no!! But YES!! Not gonna lie, they had us in the fir... At first description.

Nice slipping in a picture of Dresden, that is one wizard that needs to show up in such a setting.

I love Glantri because it is so in-your-face different than any RPG setting. It is High Magic magitech done in a way that is both fantastic and dark, and so very playable!

If there's any part of Mystara I really feel could benefit from being looked at and potentially remade by DMs in the face of how D&D has evolved since the days of BECMI, it's Glantri. No other nation on Mystara feels so easy to slot strange classes or races into, thanks to Glantri's obsession with exploring and refining magic. Even AD&D added the Progeny, the assorted fruits of Glantrian wizards crossbreeding with magical creatures, and it makes sense; in a magocracy, a wizard's heir would be far more interested in courting a gynosphinx or a naga than some fat merchant's daughter who has a lot of gold but no magic. And that's before you add in the Glantrian love of experimenting. Want to play a thoul (troll/hobgoblin cross with ghoulish paralytic touch), or a norker (stone-skinned cannibal goblin) or a diabolus or a genasi or a dhampir or a maphet (half-sphinx) or a yuan-ti pureblood (half-naga) or a dragonborn? You're from Glantria, either summoned or created there. Want to play a Draconic Sorcerer in Mystara? It's a new form of magic that's on the rise in Glantri as Dracology is being refined into a "stable" school like Abjuration or Evocation. If you're not anchored to canon, Glantria is arguably the most flexible and fluid place in Mystara, and that's one of the things that I love about it.

Elves are resistant to charm and sleep, doesn't that make them questionable in the minds of a Glantrian wizard?

Nice, digging the more animated slideshow format.

Well done. Love your stuff. Starting a game in the Valley of Hutaaka. Your stuff has been an amazing help. Looking forward to buying your book.

I shudder to imagine the Glantri book at 66% size.

I didn't know there were aliens to be afraid of in Mystara.

Are sorcerer’s and warlocks and whatever a part of 5th edition? Is that why you mention the difference’s specifically? I think I’ll have to re-read the Ierendi Gaz because even though the corny TV references are outdated, I still don’t understand what needs to change/updated. That was always one of my favorite settings, particularly because a friend of mine and I lived in Hawaii for a couple of years, and we loved the fact that we could incorporate our experiences into our gameplay/gameworld. Either way, great video, the quality keeps improving and I always learn something that I forgot. Stay safe!

Love your videoa dude. A lot of memories from back in the day.

I would love to see you do some world-building of your own and make a campaign setting of your own here on youtube. As an old-school play with a different outlook and so one with extra attention to detail, I think your world would be rather interesting.

Wizarding communities and schools done right!

Great stuff, love your work, and it never fails to inspire.

I'm loving these Gazateer videos! Definitely fleshes out a childhood map that was once just; geographical features, borders & hexagons for us to adventure in.

This sounds interesting as hell.

Mystara itself has more problems than any normal Ð&Ð game And I played in one based around Rune Scape

Ah, Glantri. Game of Magic Thrones.

7:10 Real life Chungus.

Ahh Glantri, the America of the Mystra setting ;)

So what percentage of the population in Glantri is actually wizards, and what is the relative distribution by level? Not finding this demographic in the Glantri books... You do need to be a 9th level wizard to become a noble, but I would imagine there is a very high population of low to mid level wizards to crank out all those industrialized magic items. I haven't quite figured out the population demographics... I mean, it's fine to use DM handwavium to have as many wizards as you need for the adventure or location you are playing in, but it would be nice to nail down the right mix....Glantri does need to have teeming masses of yokels to farm, do the labor, act as the cannon fodder soldiers, be downtrodden by haughty wizards, and whatever. Perhaps twenty percent of the population has at least one wizard level? Maybe ten percent, or is it less, or more? Probably not 50% wizards. I do think the vast majority of those would be only 1st level though. Certainly, out of the roughly 800k inhabitants of Glantri, I would expect around a couple hundred thousand of them to have some magic? Bearing in mind ALL elves have magic...and while the gazetteer specifies half the population is farmers, that doesn't mean that some of those aren't country wizards. The really ostentatious stuff would center around the higher level wizards in Glantri City or the provincial capitals. I imagine Glantri has some serious wealth inequality going on with the wizards having almost all of the wealth, and that being concentrated at the top amongst the princes and most powerful nobles. Also, in Glantri city, the demographics are probably skewed towards a lot more wizards being around than out in the farmlands and countryside. In my (modified) BECMI Mystara game the Glantrians have all sorts of "useless" but interesting magic spells such as spells to prepare and cook specific amazing food dishes, or perform complex manual labor tasks such as turning a large tree into milled boards or deboning a chicken or fish with a wave of the hand. Or less than ideal spells such as cure blindness that requires you to replace the eyes surgically with ones recently taken from another living creature. Magic can be really interesting when you give the NPCs spells that the players would generally pass on learning or using. One of the secrets of the spell lists in early D&D that's not immediately obvious is that some of the spells are terribly inefficient or outright bad, and are actually designed for the bad guys to use on the players. e.g. the Death Spell is objectively worse than fireball, unless you WANT to decimate a crowd for show rather than outright murder them all....PCs are probably going to make that save.

Does House Belcadiz count elven blooded humans among its ranks, like Dona Marianita , the Glantrian Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Karameikos?

In my campaign the redhead is an adult Fredrikka Koorteweg.

That was a big one mana like

Why the big bunny? I am still confused. You were talking about Flame wizards "the Flamish" and you just hold up a bunny!

@Mr.Welch Q: How does Glantri's magic omnipresence compare to Ebaron's magic omnipresence?

Thanks.

What about the Werewolf prince?

"d'Amberville" would be pronounced like "Damberville".

What is the official language of Glantri? Flaemish or Thyatian?

Naw, mate, the French and Scots hae the Auld Alliance!

How do Glantri ascend to immortal status while prohibiting worship of the immortals? Why do the immortals put up with their atheism?

The love child of Hogwarts and Yugoslavia. 😆😆

How do you spell the Shi

Great great videos. not to ask a sore spot, how is the book coming and can we get an up to date one. I want to buy the hardcover but not have it affected by the present caving wizards of the coast sjw crap.

Nah, sorry man. Maybe you could do it once but that accent is still painful to listen to