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Author Topic: #TBT - revisiting Mystara  (Read 8321 times)

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on: November 14, 2019, 09:51:26 AM

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Reply #1 on: November 14, 2019, 01:36:20 PM
Damn. 

I always manage to forget -- or perhaps not fully realize in the first place? -- just how much content/material was available for the original D&D.  I suppose that's a combination of my age (I'm one of the (relatively) younger blokes here), plus not really getting into the game until 3.0 came out.  I have a passing familiarity with AD&D, but I've never played the original. 


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Reply #2 on: November 14, 2019, 02:10:58 PM
I have a lot of those old modules. I have no idea where they are right now though...lol.

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Reply #3 on: April 11, 2020, 10:56:06 AM
So over the past 10 days or so, this article has hit over 300 views, with over 50 hits on some days.  The thing is, I can't figure out where the hits are coming from.  I've tried double-checking all the usual suspects: The Piazza, Dragonsfoot, ENWorld. etc, but I can't find it.  Our Google/Jetpack tracking stats aren't showing a specific inbound link or referral that would explain it.  I'm just curious where the traffic is coming from.  It doesn't appear to be anything spammy.  Anyone got any ideas?

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Reply #4 on: April 11, 2020, 11:41:07 AM
Bots.

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Reply #5 on: April 11, 2020, 12:14:58 PM
Bots.


Unlikely, because our stats tracking tools segregate those into their own category

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Reply #6 on: April 11, 2020, 01:23:43 PM
My B2 and B3 modules are in excellent condition. I still have the original DD box and dice when I bought them. We used to forgo outside recess in grade school to get a little time in playing with four or five friends.




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Reply #7 on: April 11, 2020, 01:58:25 PM
Smart Bots.

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Reply #8 on: April 14, 2020, 04:43:50 AM
Bored quarantine searches?



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Reply #9 on: April 14, 2020, 07:38:51 AM
Bored quarantine searches?


 Maybe, but usually when you get a cluster of hits like that it's because someone had a link referring people to it

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Reply #10 on: April 14, 2020, 07:45:00 AM
Could it be that the referral was buried in the comments section of some random blog post or posted on a site like Facebook, or Pinterest?

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Reply #11 on: April 14, 2020, 09:16:40 AM
Could it be that the referral was buried in the comments section of some random blog post or posted on a site like Facebook, or Pinterest?


yeah, it totally could be, but the inbound traffic sources aren't indicating that, and that's part of my annoyance  :-\


I can see what's coming in from search engines, but not always the terms they used.  :nope:
We've got the referrals from "Facebook" but not specifically where in FB, and I'm in all the major BECMI/Mystara groups on FB already.  :worried:
They're not coming in from CSW or GMT Games  :hehe:


I'm just wondering what other Mystara colonies there are out there on the web that I didn't already know about  :waiting:

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Reply #12 on: May 24, 2021, 10:24:39 AM
someone stitched the trail maps together

https://mystara.thorfmaps.com/tm1-tm2-western-and-eastern-countries-8/

the PNG you can download on that page is HUGE - 71.6mb - and is over 17k x 12k at 300 px/in

they've chopped out all the marginal info, so it's just the map key + map, but it's still pretty awesome.

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Reply #13 on: May 24, 2021, 12:05:26 PM
71.6MB huge? Nah, in 1988 it might have been huge.

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Reply #14 on: May 24, 2021, 12:11:43 PM
71.6MB huge? Nah, in 1988 it might have been huge.

It's going to choke my dial-up connection.

Being able to Google shit better than your clients is a legit career skill.