Setting Sunday!
It is said that AD&D Second Edition was the king of settings and campaign worlds.
One I always found interesting was the AD&D 2e setting Red Steel.
Essentially "Fantasy Australia where even the rocks can kill you." Credit to TSR for trying something so new so late in the game development.
I always liked the idea and wanted to explore it a lot more, just never got around to it. Though with my Mystoerth setting I could likely find a place for it.
Another great 2nd Edition setting was Masque of the Red Death, an attempt to bring AD&D to the Victorian Horror genre. For a while, this was my absolute favorite setting even if the system (AD&D 2nd Ed.) never really worked well with the setting (Victorian Era earth).
In both settings there are things in the world that can corrupt the PCs. And as it turns out both are red.
In Red Steel it is the dust and rocks, but there is also the red steel to protect you.
In MotRD it is the eponymous Red Death, the evil force that haunts Gothic Earth.
Both came out at similar times and I have to admit I wanted to explore more connections between the two other than the superficial.
See what I mean when I said I could just play D&D and never run out of ideas!
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