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Other Gaming => RPGs & Adventure Gaming => Topic started by: bayonetbrant on November 14, 2019, 09:51:26 AM
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another article from the archives
https://www.armchairdragoons.com/feature/revisiting-mystara-and-the-becmi-dd-game/
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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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I have a lot of those old modules. I have no idea where they are right now though...lol.
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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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Bots.
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Bots.
Unlikely, because our stats tracking tools segregate those into their own category
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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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Smart Bots.
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Bored quarantine searches?
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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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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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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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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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71.6MB huge? Nah, in 1988 it might have been huge.
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71.6MB huge? Nah, in 1988 it might have been huge.
It's going to choke my dial-up connection.
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It will get all the way to 68.4MB downloaded and then someone will pick up the phone. :2funny:
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It will get all the way to 68.4MB downloaded and then someone will pick up the phone. :2funny:
Sadly, I remember those days.
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There's an all-new 5th Ed players guide for Mystara, compiled by some community members, and it's a free PDF download.
https://rpgmp3.com/mystara-players-guide/
Maps by Thorfinn Tait, and mini-GAZ intros for each of the different areas of the map, and a LOT of 5e-compatible info for the setting
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here's a link to a G-drive archive of the original OD&D campaign from Moldvay & Schick that that they developed back at Kent St in the 70s that eventually became Mystara
https://thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?p=300819
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https://www.armchairdragoons.com/articles/reviews/unbox/unboxingday-mystara-5e-players-guide/