Raphael Pinthus Wrote:(Not wanting to start another thread
Havard, did you actually run the Alphatia campaign including Izmer, or are the notes at the Vaults only conceptual sketches?
I'd be interested in how this played out...
The
Alphatia Izmer Campaign was just an outline for discussion with the Mystara fan community. The main reason why I got into it was that the film producer, Courtney Solomon, stated that he used Mystara as inspiration for the film. The Empire of Mages is obviously based on Alphatia. Sadly because of the way the movie turned out, very few Mystara fans were particularly interested in the idea of having anything to do with the film itself or my ideas for it.
My thinking is that even if you hate the movie there are ideas in it that can be used and as reimagined it can work quite well with Mystara. Actually I think that if Solomon had stayed true to Alphatia as presented by Allston that alone would have been an improvement on the actual movie.
In my outline, I placed the storyline of the first D&D movie 100 years into Alphatia's past. One reason for this is that it was a period of Upheaval in the Empire. A second reason for that placement in time is that since Damodar was locked away for 100 years, he would be released shortly after AC1010 meaning that the second movie Wrath of the Dragon God could take place shortly after the events of Wrath of the Immortals, in Belissaria. Dragon God does give the impression that the whole Wizard Kingdom is gone, so that fits well with the ruins of Alphatia after WotI.
Of additional interest to Blackmoor fans, I planned to make a backstory for the Dragon God (
Faluzure) going back to the Blackmoor Era, making him into one of the Blackmoor Dragons, Chamber (Neutral Evil) who was trapped in the Great Rain of Fire.
I was disappointed that there seemed to be no connection between the Third D&D movie and its predecessors. You can understand that they wanted to distance themselves from the previous ones, but OTOH I think it would have been better to use those to add depth. There are some hints in that movie that it is set in the same world as the Nentir Vale.
-Havard
