Mystara
Sign in to saveMystara is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game. It was the default setting for the "Basic" version of the game throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Most adventures published for the "Basic" edition of D&D take place in "The Known World", a central continent that includes a varied patchwork of both human and non-human realms. The human realms are based on various real-world historical cultures. In addition, unlike other D&D settings, Mystara had ascended immortal beings instead of gods.
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Encyclopedic overview
30 sectionsContents
- Development
- Planet of Mystara
- The continent of Brun
- The Known World
- The Savage Coast
- Atmosphere
- Publication history
- The continent of Davania
- The continent of Skothar
- The Hollow World
- Moons
- Blackmoor
- Mystara video games
- Novels
- First Quest
- Dragonlord Chronicles
- Penhaligon Trilogy
- Source material
- ''Dungeons & Dragons'' BECMI rules
- Notable adventure modules
- ''Dungeons & Dragons'' Gazetteers
- ''Dungeons & Dragons'' Trail Maps
- ''Dungeons & Dragons'' Creature Crucible
- ''Dungeons & Dragons'' Hollow World
- ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' Mystara
- ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' Red Steel
- ''Advanced Dungeons & Dragons'' Odyssey: Savage Coast
- Notes
- References
- External links
Mystara is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game. It was the default setting for the "Basic" version of the game throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Most adventures published for the "Basic" edition of D&D take place in "The Known World", a central continent that includes a varied patchwork of both human and non-human realms. The human realms are based on various real-world historical cultures. In addition, unlike other D&D settings, Mystara had ascended immortal beings instead of gods.
The Mystara planet also has sub-settings. The older Blackmoor setting was retconned to exist in Mystara's distant past. The Hollow World refers to the inner surface contained within the world of Mystara, similar to the real world legends of the Hollow Earth, while some adventures take place on the Savage Coast, a -long frontier coastline about 2,000 miles to the west of the Known World.
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