From Wildmule@aol.comTue May 28 14:23:29 1996
Date: Tue, 28 May 1996 09:32:41 -0400
From: Wildmule@aol.com
Reply to: mystara-l@io.com
To: mystara-l@io.com
Subject: Re: [Mystara] X10&WotI&CoM

Fabrizio Paoli (brizio@lunet.it) wrote:

>>I'm currently reading my copy of X10 to see how I should modify it to make
it fit into WotI, but I've some problems with the City of Sayr Ulan.
My players went there some time ago and I described it as written in CoM,
showing them the enclosed map; but the description of Sayr Ulan given in X10
is totally different from the other one.
How did you explained this to the players when (and if) you run WotI ?

BTW: I know that X10 has been printed before CoM, but I need an explanation
in game terms.  <<

The best way, IMHO, is to stick with Sayr Ulan as it's presented in
CoM (and as you presented it to your players the first time they
visited) -- and to add the Sayr Ulan of X10 (the "tent" city) *around*
the city of Sayr Ulan. After all, the tent city sprang up to house
the troops of the Master of Hule. There'd be tents everywhere --
in the royal orchards and hunting preserve, in the camp grounds (where
visiting merchant caravans once camped), in the surrounding oasis;
everywhere. This tent city surrounding the actual city would then
be the "Outer City" (as described in X10), while the Inner City would
be the actual city of Sayr Ulan as it was before the Master of
Hule came (with the addition of lots of guards and soldiers and
busy-bodies meddling with the inhabitants' lives, of course).

So far as the "Master's Camp" is concerned, you can do a number
of things, including having it be a well guarded area within the
Outer City (thereby keeping most of its original description in
X10), or you can assume that the Master would have taken over
the central palace. He can always drain the lake and turn it into
a walled, armed camp...

Hope this helps...

Ann Dupuis
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