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I do feel that stephan not even once giving more troops to the baron after all of these occasions seems to really put Stephan in a bad light and the baron’s plight a little too clean cut. maybe one of these times instead of 400 men the baron says he needs, stephen says he can only spare him 100. still not enough for the baron’s needs, but not making stephan totally at fault.

Mmm. Good vid.

Good stuff. Has anyone made a Karameikos Royalty Family Tree?

Don Swayze, Patrick Swayzes brotherin my opinion looks like the perfect Bargle.

Mr. Welch, this amalgamation is incredibly well-done! I am in awe!

I'm running The Eye of Traldar and really needed to better understand the Black Eagle Barony.

I'll check your videos in search of more videos like this (using material from the Piazza and the Vaults, wow!!)

What's your username at the Piazza?

Thanks so much for the great content,

V

French speaking Australian friends 😂

I love the very deep character development of the people in this region. Thank you for helping bring it out for everyone to see.

This is good writing. I like that the Baron has relatable and even laudable motivations, but his methodology is what makes him a bad guy. He's definitely in a bad situation, but instead of trying to find an equitable solution--like say, allying with the Shires instead of just driving orcs and gnolls their way or taking out a loan from Darokin until Stefan finally pays up--he's doing what's expedient and makes himself look good. I also like that even though he and his family are all solidly in the Evil alignment, they do love and support one another. That's nice.

This is so juicy

As described, off screen death dosn't count. I'm not convinced Eric is dead.

Great stuff here, Mr. Welch!
I’ve been looking for good Ft Doom stuff as my group has become involved in the Baron’s schemes. One character is an escapee from the Fort, another is a refugee from Luln.

Do you have a notes page or links to your references, if I want to dive deeper into the fan-lore?

Thanks and congrats!

It doesn't have an awesome industrial music scene? Well my version does now!

Ooh, a new d&d channel!

Bargle, the same mage from the red box?

I was trying to look for details about the Von Hendriks family on pandius, but I was having trouble with the search.

congrats on your wedding ^^,

Love the recap of the region and all the family lore. Tired steering my last table towards Ft Doom but unfortunately the pandemic has killed that campaign. Which is fine, I'll set it up again for the next group. :D

Heads up everyone - a new edition of D&D is coming in 2024! Several old and new worlds are coming out with it....will Mystera be one of them? I hope so! I expect a new video telling everyone why Mystera would make a great world for D&D's 50th anniversary within the month.

Congratulations on the marriage!

In the past year, our party ventured into Fort Doom under the guise of turnip (or some sort of radish) merchants to recover the lost artifact called the "Eye of Traladara". The "EoT" was stolen by Bargle's men from the Vyalia elves and in good faith to the elves, Duke Stephan asked his <<trusty heroes>> to retrieve the artifact discretely. -- This was one of my favorite adventures as it resulted in Fort Doom erupting into turmoil and the party being polymorphed to fly out of the fort. Too many close calls, but in the end, Fort Doom was liberated.

Awesome video. Thanks for sharing!

Fort Doom! Yes, a masterpiece narration by Mr. Welch! Strangely ironically fitting just before your wedding!! Congratulations my good man. I mean that in all of your endeavors with her in the future. Highs and lows

Mazel tov!! 💏🍻

Great content from the community! Really expnds the Black Eagle. Now I'm itching to get back into a Karameikos campaign. Thanks for sharing this!

Congrats on your wedding! Have a wonderful time.

"Simple...like the entirety of Faerun." Ouch. Stick that in you pipe and smoke it WOTC.

Oh wow, that corner of the world really did get a facelift. I'd actually be stoked to run a game in that area now.

I prefer The Shadow pinball table.

A military uniform in the kid's size.

So... a little boot?

(Also, congrats on the wedding!)

Can the barony be helped? Sounds like a lot of the problems stem from external forces. Would it be that hard to throw the hobbits a heads up when humanoids are driven their way?

Hope its not that icy, focus on making her smile.

It's a shame Mystara isn't a popular setting. It's by far the best.

This is awesome!

Hey man, thanks for the new video, it's always fun to listen to you! However, do you think that you could do a video on the Game Shop's Basement, and give us a guided visit please? :D

Thank you for all of the lore/history videos of this setting! Please feel free to take the next weekend off for your wedding and honeymoon... your soon to be wife will hate all of us a little less if you do so. Who knows, she maybe even kind of like us because we keep encouraging you to do so.

Either way I, as I'm sure many other of your faithful followers, wish the both of you a wonderful time at your ceremony, reception and honeymoon! Now you two kids go and have some FUN!

Damn I gotta steal this whole idea wholesale. Its that good.

Congrats for getting married!

Well, it looks like John Balk finally has his wish. Heldann is getting a video after all

This was a very informative video on how to run villains. The description of von Hendricks in Gaz1 is a mustache twirling fool who's Evil for Evil's sake. That's boring, and the folks at TSR couldn't find a way to make him interesting so they offed him, removing a major threat to Grand Duke (later King) Stefan. By giving him understandable motives,he and his twisted family become better villains. Even Bargle the Infamous is elevated from a one note villain in this way. Kudos to you and those who worked on this story element at the Vaults of Pandius.

All that was missing was an evil laugh.
This is pure gold!

Thouls are one of the less famous humanoid races that I really love and wish they got more love. I really want to see playable stats for them in some edition.

Fantastic, My players love this area and are afraid of Bargiel the Infamous. Even though I keep wanting to run three modules that tie together and then ends with Kill Bargiel

Absolutely fantastic, this makes the Von Hendricks family as whole deep and disturbing. Thank you for providing such a sussinct summary.

You can take your wedding and honeymoon off, you know. We'll still be here

Fantastic really good.

It's kind of Game of Thronesish!

Is all of this in the players guide at all?

That was a big one

Speaking of Hobgoblins, I actually rather like them in most DnD stuff I've read. I can't find a specific video on their Mystarian version from you, does one exist and I'm just bad at googlefu or is that a "Maybe some time later" or are they lumped in with Humanoids?

Man, this is one of the best lore videos you've ever donge. Fascinating character!<