Welcome to Mystara: Wrath of the Immortals 

If they ever do ever bring Mystara into 5e, I really hope they use the pre-Wrath world.

I always liked Wrath of the Immortals. I have always bought material for inspiration rather than canon and WotI inspired me. I liked the grand scope of the campaign, spread over the entire known world and six years. I much preferred the relatable immortals in this set as compared to the more conceptual and abstract ideas in the Immortals set. Anything I disliked, I changed, as I have done from the first module I owned, Keep on the Borderlands. I aimed to have the players battling Innocenti, and trapped in a wall of force when the meteor struck Caurenze and buried them deep under the surface of the world - to be a survivor of a direct meteor strike was pretty cool!

My view is simple: The correct starting point is (shortly) before *any* of the module happen -- its a setting, the modules are a short cut for creating adventures, and none should be seen as inherent cannon. (Setting books and rule expansions likes, like Gazetteers, though technically also optional originally, are different and should probably be called "supplements" instead of "modules.)

This takes me back. Thank you so for this. Very gnostic ideas

I always considered the timeline to be what would happen if the party didn't do anything. I've DM'd three long campaigns based during this time period. The first one saved the elves. The second failed to save Glantri from the asteroid - but the option was there. And the third one is still in progress. I enjoyed the review - excellent as always

*background noise*... Aaron Allston. You *now* have my attention. Also, RIP Aaron Allston.

The Count of Hattias was Thanatos in a mortal identity, and he had been doing that to the Hattians for centuries.

Sounds more like a novel than a campaign setting. Use it as a reference to make changes you might make to your own campaign.

I liked the idea of progressing the international and political history of the Known World (which I prefer to call it), because there were a number of enmities and imbalances of power which were likely to lead to wars and changes. I feel like too much was done, and in a world breaking way, especially the imminent death of Magic because of the events of WotI combined with Radiance abuse in Glantri, but parts of it made eminent sense, like a renewed war between Glantri and Alphatia, and Alphatia losing, and like another round of war against the Master of Hule. The Humanoids of the Broken Lands breaking into Glantri makes sense politically, because its internal divisions make for an easier target than Darokin, and because, yes, they have spell casting Wokans, so they could insinuate themselves as another principality. I feel like the Shadow Elf takeover was premature, since they've been preparing very slowly for hundreds of years - they could wait another couple of hundred, but spying and raids could begin, which players could get involved in, and of course I hate the effects, which were basically to destroy both nations. But I absolutely loved tha Almanacs, because of that progressing of the history and the tying of the the Known World together with the daily events, which again, players could get involved with.

Thanks for sharing .

Re: reviews. What about reviews of the various Mystara games? Warriors of the Eternal Sun was my entry into DnD and I still love it. Keep up the good work!

I dunno if anyone brought this up. But I got it for free on Drivethru.

Alphatia sinking was always a given, especially if you read CM1 Test of the Warlords (1984) carefully, and you found out that the secret name of Alphatia is... wait for it.... spoiler incoming... ATLANTIS. That foreshadowing was almost 10 years in the making... or did everyone else miss that little tid bit? :D

8:06 I heard that the reincarnation makes the choice in class random in the Path of the Polymath, but is that the case still in 5e Mystara? In OG Mystara there was no race/class separation, so it made sense that when you reincarnated your class was random, as you cannot choose what you reincarnate as. But in 5e there is a separation between class and race. While I see no reason to have the option to choose the race, as this is how the reincarnate spell works. But when I reincarnate, shouldn't I be able to choose which "profession" to go with? Even if it were random, the multiclassing rules still allow one to choose what class levels to take when leveling up.

Wow, I should sell mine!

Pretty sure this is now free on drivethrurpg

I remember reading about how to become an Enthropy Immortal, where could it have been?

Mr Welsh, please forgive me, but I think you made a mistake. The Ruler of Hattias, I believe, is an avatar of Thanatos, not Atzanteotl.

Do you have a link to your new classic RPG reviews?

Too bad when you start adding things like time travel you can always go back to when that place existed and have those powerful Wizards come along with you and bring them right to the Forgotten Realms that start f****** their s*** up

Oof learning my favorite SW author's responsible for something so divisive and well, railroady. Is pretty sad.

I found it at drivethrurpg.

The elven immortals were too busy doing their hair and polishing their pointy ears to be bothered.

Wtf i got this one on my shelf. It was 100 dollars worth in 2018? Aren't we in the age of internet with free copies everywhere?

any rpg game book for free, including every D&D books, all versions. thetrove.net and yes it has wrath of the immortals. all pdfs. even stuff for your roll20 program.

I've said it before, I will say it again...I hated the Adventure. But I liked the lists and "fluff" that came with it .