[Age of Id] AoI Project? (was: Call for Blackmoor Writers)

[Havard]

Let me rephrase, perhaps - what would be the basic ramifications of the "ecology" that the Id Monster inhabits, then? - Or, do you leave that completely to the respective DM? And how would you personally describe this in actual play?

Mind you that this is not my attempt to politely poop on what I consider a pretty great idea, and I totally agree, you can perfectly work around the subject without ever having to give deeper explanations for it. - And BM, in particular, is a setting that uses the narrative device of the "unnoticed neighbor" a lot - that, or the whole premise of a king living above an active dungeon wouldn't really work. Like, does he share the kitchen with the orcs, I wonder? Who buys the milk when it is out?

Sorry if it seemed like I was being evasive here. I feel like sometimes if I present my version of things it just leads to an end of the discussion. So far my project has actually avoided answering this answer. I have focused on the Order of Id rather than the monster itself and where the Order got it from. It is possible that the Id Monster was even very different during the Age of Id than it was 500 years later.

I think the monster could either be an epic level Displacer Beast, or more of a being of energy. IMC I don't have a definitive answer to when the FSS Beagle crashed, but I think it is unlikely that it was the Beagle that brought the Id Monster to Blackmoor. Although this contradicts the Black Destroyer novella, so many other things are linked to the FSS Beagle, it seems it would be better to diversify a bit. Perhaps the FSS Beagle did indeed encounter such a beast on its voyage, but in this case it was actually the Priests of Id who summoned it to Blackmoor. The D20 line makes the Priests of Id, Clerics of Thanatos, which fits well for a number of reasons.

What is the exact origins of this cult? It seems it was a Thonian cult, brought with settlers to Blackmoor. Probably drawn there by the same forces which once attracted the Sar-Aigu and later the mages that started the mage wars.

...Did I think that there had been more to this!!

http://blackmoormystara.blogspot.de/201 ... -king.html

You don't have your AoI threads collected somewhere, or do you?

Indeed, there is quite a bit. I have a PDF in the works, but it is still only about half-way done

-Havard