Karameikos - Vaults of Pandius

This Issue s AuthorsThis Issue’s AuthorsIn his house at The Piazza, Cthulhudrew(a.k.a. Andrew Theisen) waits, dreaming."That campaign world is not dead, which caneternal lie; and with strange aeons, Mystarashall once again rise."Demos Sachlas was introduced to Mystarathrough its original incarnation as thecontinental setting back in 1981. His hobbiesinclude researching medieval history andcompiling the biographies of 13th centurycrusaders. He dreams of one day writing a900-page Mitcheneresque novel entitled"Karameikos" using his article "The HiddenYears" as an outline, watching it ascend theranks of the New York Times best sellers list,and selling the movie rights to a majorHollywood studio...Even though Sturm (a.k.a. FrancescoDefferrari) loves any alternate world, hebelieves Mystara is incomparably the best forits vibrant community endlessly delving intoethnography, linguistics and history just tomake a little sense of it. Something like thereal world, but with dragons.Giampaolo Agosta (a.k.a. Agathokles) agreeswith Schiller that man "is only completely aman when he plays". Therefore, he makes apoint of taking gaming seriously, and real lifecasually. Besides Mystara, his gaminginterests include (among others) Dark Sun,Planescape, Ravenloft, Birthright, Call ofCthulhu, and Witchcraft RPG.Håvard (aka Håvard Blackmoor) does not,contrary to popular theory, have six arms.When he is not writing about Mystara at ThePiazza or is working on his Blackmoor Blog,he goes out raiding neighbouring villageslike any true Norwegian. He also runs TheComeback Inn, a forum dedicated to DaveArneson's Blackmoor.John Calvin (a.k.a. Chimpman) wasintroduced to gaming at a water park, wherehe received the D&D Red Box set for hiseighth birthday. Since then he's been trying(rather unsuccessfully) to include waterslidesin all of his adventures. His heroesinclude Darth Vader, Captain Kirk, andGodzilla.Niels Just Rasmussen. Long time Mystara fansince I started as a GM in 1990 with B10Nights Dark Terror. Combined with theBirthright experience from 1995 I havestrived to make the role playing experiencefor my players more "realistic" with a gritty"grey" political world - where the battle ofwords are as important as the martial one.[Everyone thinks of themselves as "Good"with their enemies being "Evil"] . So fromstarting in Karameikos 23 years ago I amhappy to return with this my first RPGpublication in English where it's up to "you"to stop Black Eagle Barony from being thefuture "good" of all Karameikos.2THRESHOLD: The Mystara Magazine Issue #1