The D&D Game Where The Planet Is Filled With Dinosaurs

[@WilliamSRD]

Choose from a library of thousands of maps to bring the hollow world to your table: www.patreon.com/czepeku

[@RedSunUnderParadise]

As a Warlock of Godzilla, bane of Apes, There is no Japan.

[@dorjedriftwood2731]

Announcing we got a V tuber, not even mention there name is totally an admission your just trying to do some hip for the kids with no faith that anyone actually cares about said vee tuber, kinda absurd you have such little respect for your audience you think that you can just jangle the Pavlovian keys of V Tuber and people will just throw money at you like a stripper in a rap video. It also says you don’t think much of your exclusive content if that’s your selling point. I invited a nameless anime avatar to have a chat. Perhaps keep in mind plenty of people might be seeing you or rather listening for the first time and we have absolutely no idea what you and your friend’s conversations go and adding anime avatar person might just sound like just add water for more cringe. You should focus on advertising what makes you special and make that your selling point rather than saying I invited someone else. It bespeaks a lack of faith in your own talent anytime anyone uses a random guest to sell themselves. If people are going to pay you based on your content, advertise more of you. That’s how they know you and that is what they would be paying for if they want to support you. In other words, don’t lower yourself to chasing trends just be you. Adding not you isn’t a good way to sell your own content. Just some constructive criticism. Sorry if you don’t appreciate it but I did try to be entertaining about it.

[@Bancheis]

Man I loved this game. I spent hundreds of hours replaying it, grinding, trying to get the best of the best gear. I even paid to have some of the music redone in metal covers and slapped it on my channel. I just wish it was a longer game. A nice open world version of this in this day and age would be great. Oh also, here is another tidbit of knowledge that I learned when playing. Not only did the party have a -2 hit bonus, the entire party shared the same hit rolls. So if you were going to hit with a character and you skipped their turn instead, you would hit with the next character. Damage was random, but the hit rolls were static as far as I could tell. The magic of emulators.

[@Mr_Welch]

And the hollow world wasn't even our equivalent of the underdark. That was the world below. The hollow World was so much more

[@ColumbiaBeet]

Hollow World does need to make a serious comeback.

[@tssteelx]

Where can I find your video about the invisible moon?

[@n.henzler50]

Oh God, William woke up the elder nerd.

[@Mr_Welch]

@@tssteelx Aliens of Mystara has a good chunk of info about it. At least the Rakasta. Outside of the Samurai Jungle Space Cats, there's little info on the other two nations.

[@prophetzarquon]

I need a TMNT crossover with D&D's samurai jungle space cats, so bad...

[@nonamesorry7135]

I wish Japan was a real place and not just a DND setting

[@WilliamSRD]

ITS REAL YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE ME ITS JUST INVISIBLE

[@nonamesorry7135]

@@WilliamSRD THE ANIME FANS MADE IT UP TO MAKE ANIME FEEL MORE SPECIAL

[@Mockthenerd]

Please god no...

[@jhonviel7381]

yasuke is a samurai ok! GET OVER IT!

[@Mr_Welch]

Everybody knows that there are samurai jungle space cats on the moon

[@locuas5601]

"So Mystara was designed as a pretty box standard Wester Fantasy Setting.... Anyways one of the eldest immortal deity being is a literal T-Rex Wizard who discovered the earth is shallow and decided to use it to invent a massive Natural Reserve where to store all the doomed cultures so they dont go extinct"

[@woomod2445]

Arguement, this is pretty much how nutty D&D is if you took every bit of inspiration and every supplement and jammed it into the nearest unfilled section of your map.

[@joshuakern2762]

Why did we get FR when this was clearly lit af?

[@DIEGhostfish]

​@@joshuakern2762 Novels. Fist Greenwood but really solidified with Drizzle.

[@chuth2768]

I mean this is basically the most generic Western Fantasy Story idea so

[@kagato3]

@@chuth2768 Yes, the kingdom living off a crashed spaceship screams generic Western Fantasy.

[@phantomspaceman]

"The immortal T-Rex wizard" Alright, this isn't what I thought I would be learning today and that's why I keep coming back here.

[@video-luver769]

A dinosaur wizard literally sounds like something a five year old would come up with.

[@InkWarrior]

yes, but imagine a dinosaur druid....

[@danielgehring7437]

@@InkWarrior yes, but imagine a dinosaur paladin...

[@InkWarrior]

@@danielgehring7437 Holy Avengers; every friggin tooth

[@prophetzarquon]

A recent 5e book features a blueberry dragon. So, yeah.

[@InkWarrior]

@@prophetzarquon my Barbarian would try and eat it.

[@quinnnorman9916]

Oh my god, this is the D&D game my friend had for his Sega when I was a kid and for 30 years I've wondered which D&D game it was

[@johnracine4589]

I was probably a little too young and remember this game being incredibly difficult and confusing. I kept renting it from the video store every week though!

[@garrick3727]

Lol. Same.

[@planescaped]

@@johnracine4589 relatable

[@Agent789_0]

Man, between this and Wraith you’re on a roll with games where the setting and source material are 1000% more interesting than the game itself.

[@bryan8360]

It's funny you brought up thieves being weak. There's a glitch in this game where if you activate the thieves' backstab ability on the world map then go into a first person dungeon, the back stab does not go away when they attack like it normally should. This makes a thief into a melee shredder and it's entirely possible to solo the game with only one thief as a fun challenge run.

[@Darkprosper]

"Ok, so, what do you do on your turn ?" "I backstab the world map !" Yeah, it's faithful to the original game alright.

[@alexwatts1064]

There's an incredibly fun pulp adventure ttrpg called Hollow Earth Expedition that's set in 1936 and is pretty much Indiana Jones, The Librarians, The Mummy, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire as a ttrpg setting. Annihilating Nazis with an Atlantean ray gun while riding a psionically controlled T-Rex is both expected and encouraged.

[@Ekaidseaky]

Mystara mentioned, someone call mr welch

[@WilliamSRD]

I expect he shall reveal himself when his name is said 3 times

[@ReshawnFacey]

Mr Welsh?

[@michaelthomas5433]

Mr.. Welsh

[@Mr_Welch]

It's actually Welch by the way. Like what people do when they owe me money

[@ReshawnFacey]

Mr Welch?

[@davidromeroblaya7920]

Now, I imagine Ka talking like Dr. Dinosaur from Atomic Robo. Ka: "If I treat well the unicorns, they will teach me their magic secrets. Thanks to the power of sympathetic magic!" The wizard in your party: "That's not how sympathetic magic works." Ka: "Silence, mammal!"

[@walt776]

Great review. Some more context about the setting: Hollow World was created by the late Aaron Allston, a RPG designer who had a love for pulp “lost world” stories. It was very much inspired by Edgar Rice Burroughs Pellucidar, with its mishmash of dinosaurs and ancient cultures. Allston went on to write the definitive TTRPG supplement on running lost world campaigns, Lands of Mystery. But more relevant for your channel, he wrote the story and accompanying material for another lost world CRPG: Worlds of Ultima-The Savage Empire.

[@michaelmills8205]

"The Planet Is Filled With Dinosaurs": is the Coziest D&D game. I did not expect that, but I am intrigued.

[@SusCalvin]

Thieves in Baldur's Gate would start to take on their other job, traps. Only a thief could detect and disarm traps and hidden compartments. You could do it with some spells but those are limited. Thieves in BG could also try to scout a room. Although jumping in and wrecking them and reliading if you got killed was faster.

[@Mr_Welch]

The game was fun but it took serious liberties with the actual hollow World rules. Like how the spell of preservation rewrites your memories so you think that you've always been there when you get teleported to it. There's no resurrection magic either. The biggest failing I think was you couldn't play any of the races endemic to the setting. Magic was almost impossible unless you had very high stats in wisdom or intelligence. You were stuck with the regular seven instead of the 20+ new ones in the box set

[@Santiago-Farrell]

According to the game, they are unconscious, not actually dead. If they die, they won't come back.

[@Santiago-Farrell]

Also, they came in through a hole in the ground, not teleported, and are falling victim to the neanderthals spell that turns them into savage barbarians. Your party is spared because they keep traveling between biomes, and the wizard is safe because he's using ritual magic to stay sane

[@Geeler]

Everything you thought was awesome as a kid - dinosaurs, wizards, dinosaur wizards - still is

[@hippophlebotamus]

To be fair the earth is mostly non-carbonated water so it is technically flat

[@LegalKimchi]

I had so many hollow world source books back when i was a kid.

[@WilliamSRD]

AN OG HOLLOW WORLD FAN DISCOVERED

[@Grimlore82]

I still have my box set and extra modules. It is a great setting

[@FreaKill666]

22:33 You know, if the castle flipping upside down while falling into hollow world is a reach too far, why not consider an alternative option? It didn't flip as it fell, it simply fell the ENTIRE way through the hollow and landed on the opposite side of the planet!

[@josephshriner2850]

Some of us love the bonkers creativity of the early RPG scene. No limits, expect anything. I think this basically is the fuel that powers the OSR.

[@Feuerhamster]

I mean, from my (admittedly limited) familiarity with OSR, they're mainly remaking the same game over and over. So maybe setting, but not rules and DEFINITELY not sacred cows. I would be happy to be proven wrong, though.

[@josephshriner2850]

@@Feuerhamster they're basically only remaking the BECMI and 1st rulesets. Some attempt to recreate WFRP 1st Ed. That said, some are standard clones and some are just bug nuts. Lamentations Of The Flame Princess is brutally original in its various settings (sometimes to its detriment). Old School Essentials has some fairly unique modules. Dungeon Crawl Classics is almost closer to Weird Fiction than standard high or low fantasy.

[@warellis]

​@@josephshriner2850What is Castles & Crusades like? I know it has a setting called Aihrde and I do have its 5e conversion but haven't looked at the setting in general compared to say Scarred Lands more (both 3.5, Pathfinder 1e, & 5e versions).

[@josephshriner2850]

@@warellis I honestly don't know. I haven't read any Castles and Crusades material. I know many rules sets have breakdowns on KZbin which explain their mechanics. Regarding settings, you may be able to find video or blog reviews.

[@awordabout...3061]

"Our protagonist is a dinosaur wizard-" Sold, say no more.

[@planescaped]

Warriors of the Eternal Sun and Secret of Evermore are the two most nostalgic games for me. I remember playing this a lot, or trying to, when I was 5-6 years old. Never made it very far.

[@damsonrhea]

Secret of Evermore sort of is interesting for being the mostly forgotten game that I still hear about once every couple years.

[@lawfulstupid3924]

Ahhh, finally a proper look at the best D&D setting, and it's cracked out museum.

[@zenlocke]

a setting based on one of my favorite conspiracies when i was a teenager, a guy at an art show handed me this huge thick pamphlet, and it was a massive 50 page explanation of the hollow earth, functioning in the same way to the mystara one. i wish i still had it. i thought it was some dude's weird fiction until it kept going and going. this setting is like if 5e released a "forgotten realms has been FLAT the whole time" sourcebook

[@jonothanthrace1530]

I like that you went to the trouble of explaining the hollow earth hypothesis and how it was disproving; a lot of people would not have gone that far for a video about a d&d game.

[@BMoser-bv6kn]

All those hidden dungeons along the cliffside, and I think one might be under a shrub somewhere, those were kind of neat. Watching all the overworld fighting in this vid was tough, being aware the path of least resistance to grind Fire Giants in first person mode, where they're defenseless walking bags of EXP. There's something that feels so wrong about doing that as a party of level 1 scrubs, and that's why it feels *so right*.

[@DoYouLoveTheSilverHairedGod]

Played through this game so many times. Almost always found new things with every play through. Only games I probably played through more than this one was the Shining Force games.

[@r4z0rv1n3]

Ahh Mystara, the third regular fantasy setting that everybody forgets about. (Greyhawk, and the Realms being the other two.) It's definitely the most wacky of the core settings. With some really interesting sub settings like the Hollow Earth and Red Steel. I'm glad that it got some love in the video game department considering how few people even know the setting exists now adays. This game appears interesting maybe i'll seek it out someday. There are a few settings that only got a single game so I hope that you'll get to those in the future. Love your content as always.

[@AL-lh2ht]

Red Steel?

[@r4z0rv1n3]

​@@AL-lh2ht Red Steel was a sub-setting of Mystara. Kind of the same way Al-Qadim was a sub setting of the Forgotten realms. It's main feature was a dust, vermeil, which grants extraordinary powers to anyone who brews it up and drinks it, but also may cause excruciating physical deformities, and special metal, called cinnabryl, which can be formed into jewelry that fends off the side effects of vermeil, and shaped into weapons capable of wounding magical creatures. (That's the red steel of the namesake.) The setting was set in a place called the Savage Coast and the main conceit had various groups fighting over control of vermiel and cinnabryl . It was very swashbuckly frontierish.. Also had hints of pre colonization Americas. There were also a bunch of anthroish animal races for PC's like the Tortle(turtles), Aranea(Spiders), Lupin(Dogs) and Rakasta(Cats).

[@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi]

I see - "regular" means it is not extra-dimensional or a sandy hell-hole murder planet

[@r4z0rv1n3]

​@@NicholsonNeisler-fz3gi Mystara, Forgotten Realms, and Greyhawk all were what i'd call generic/regular/standard fantasy worlds. Very stock in their ideas, you could easily put any of the old classic d&d modules into any of those worlds and not have any serious issues with themeing. Out of the three Mystara does have some of the more wacky ideas attached to it but it's really easy to do a fairly simple fantasy campaign within that world. Also each of them had more specialized sub-settings with stronger themes in them. (Though I think Al-Qadim was the only sub setting to get a fully massive printed line of products with its own logo.) You could maybe argue Dragonlance, Birthright, or Ebberon as standard, but I feel they have themes that are much more specialized. Dragonlance and it's focus on dragons, a very rich and overwhelmingly intrusive canon, tinker gnomes, kender, draconians... Birthright has all the nation ruling stuff and the strange army battle thing, and the semi-divine nature of the nobility of the world. Eberron has the noir, magicpunk, and pulp hero aesthetics. It also has the Dragonmarked houses, the post war thing, the Warforged lots of stuff making it very not Tolkienesque like the more generic settings. And then yeah the other worlds, Ravenloft being a demiplane, Spelljammer and Planescape being settings focused on everything outside a normal prime material D&D world (Ravenloft, Spelljammer, and Planescape kind of being crossover settings because they connected to all the other worlds.). Dark Sun doing the whole fantasy post-apocalypse thing.

[@RvnKnight]

I remember these....and I remember how interesting it could be. Personally, I like Dark Sun and sometimes Birthright more than Hollow World.

[@RavenloftLore]

Birthright is severely underrated. Behind Ravenloft and Mystara it's my preferred setting.

[@i010001]

My favourite subset of Mystara is the Red Steel/Savage Baronies "sub-setting." Despite being set in Mystara, it was made in the AD&D system, and can be summarized as "Swashbuckling adventures in Caelid" So like half the setting is Spanish influenced, to the point that there is a Fantasy Texas. There are also dog-people and cat-people; the Cat People are like if Britian evolved out of Feudal Japan, and the Dog people are French Musketeers. So it seems kind of wacky, but also there is a horrible, setting-defining plague called the Red Curse which gradually erodes people's bodies and minds while simultaneously granting them powerful magic. Absolutely baffling. I always thought a campaign set in Renardie (The Lupin/Dog Person settlement) in some kind of Red Curse-fueled french revolution would be fun.

[@d1halberdgnoll963]

No XP sharing is a weird design decision considering all the options they might have gone with.

[@JeremyLevi]

It's just the way oldskool tabletop D&D worked for XP balance along with other oddities like XP for treasure (which is the other way you can get your thief to level a lot faster than your other party members in tabletop if you're willing to lean into the trope a bit more).

[@danielgehring7437]

@@JeremyLevi Yeah, but at least there you had the excuse that D&D was designed for, um, 'expendable' characters, so taking what you could when you could was par for the course. Like players would bring stacks of backup characters because most dungeons were just a meat grinder and you never got attached to any one in particular. This game, you're supposed to be following the same for doofuses (doofi?) through the whole thing.

[@SusCalvin]

AD&D 2e started to use class xp more. You get xp for doing your class thing as a semi-optional rule. A thief still gets xp from loot which means they easily rake it in. A fighter wants to fight stuff. Wizards get xp from using their spell, once a day chump. Bards get xp from a bit of everything, having settled as a jack of all trades fighter-wizard-thief.

[@samuelrodriguez9801]

I'm pretty sure Mystara's Hollow Earth was mostly inspired by Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth.

[@Mr_Welch]

And high quality drugs

[@roberthunter479]

The walls at 37:22 look just like the walls on levels 4-6 in Eye of the Beholder. I don't mean just gray stone, I mean the layout of the stones in the wall. I just might have to pick this one up for the Genesis. I'm nearly through the video and haven't really seen a lot of dinosaurs, despite being promised "filled with dinosaurs" in the title. Maybe I missed it.

[@Masatakeshi]

Speaking of other dnd games, have you heard of "dungeons and dragons birthright gorgon's alliance", I played once on a friend system years ago, and your channel just remind me that it existed. (didnt even remember the name, had to google to be sure)

[@EvenstarGW]

I never knew there was so much lore that this game was based on. Very nice to find out more about a game that holds a lot of nostalgic value to me.

[@cheshiresphinx4925]

This was a great video! I really appreciate you talking about the history of hollow-world beliefs and literature - early D&D was so heavily inspired by classic pulp fantasy and science fiction that can be practically unknown to modern players, and I'm always so excited to see someone demonstrating those connections!

[@thagomizer4711]

So in BECMI D&D (Mystara) elves actually go up to 10th level, dwarves to 12th, and halflings to 8th, with all human classes (Fighter, Magic User, Cleric, Thief) being able to rise to 36th level, though they stopped gaining most major benefits at level 14. Fighters of 10th level and above could choose to become Paladins (Lawful), Knights (Neutral), or Avengers (Chaotic), with each gaining new abilities and privileges, with Clerics also being able to become Druids, gaining access to a second spell list and more abilities. In the Basic set all characters were limited to 3, and each following set (Expert, Champion, Master, Immortal, hence BECMI) raised the level limit up to the max of 36 and then eventually allowed characters to attempt ascension to the rank of immortal. Shits wild.

[@LarsOfTheMohicans]

The entire lore in this setting attached to the Moon and the Hollow World sounds like an acid/shroom trip gone wrong, where they just happened to invite their esoteric nerd pal (that would be me) who takes advantage of their dazed and receptive state to exhibit everything he knows about Agartha.

[@DraconiusDragora]

Thieves was pretty good to have in Baldur's Gate and Icewind Dale. Specially if you could get them behind the enemy. They often came into use when it came to traps, locked doors, semi-decent archer, and the sneak attacks were just wonderful.

[@Tetra_76]

I just replayed Warriors of the Eternal Sun for the second time ever YESTERDAY, crazy timing lol

[@fortidogi8620]

I like how you handled the historical background section here. Very succinct and informative.

[@alexmichelini1269]

Warriors of the Eternal Sun was my first experience with D&D

[@hansethetooly5421]

the trex wizard reminded me of the lizard wizard song named "Lizard dreams" a song about a lizard that wants magic.

[@tirirana]

Mystara is one of my favourite DnD settings and the hollow world is just wild.

[@CaptainBanjo-fw4fq]

Mr Welch’s YT channel is the best resource for Mystara lore in the world.

[@fistimusmaximus6576]

loved this game as a kid.

[@BX-advocate]

Mystara: Yo dawg we heard you like game settings, so we put a game setting in your game setting.

[@Mr_Welch]

TWICE

[@BX-advocate]

@@Mr_Welch Hey! It Mr.Welch! Of course you show up on one of the few Mystara videos not on your Channel. I guess you gotta make sure others are doing your favorite and the best D&D setting justice.

[@Mr_Welch]

@@BX-advocate it doesn't hurt that I've been tagged about seven times

[@BX-advocate]

@@Mr_Welch I mean that makes sense. If I see a Mystara video not by you I can't help but think "I wonder what Mr.Welch would think about this, and if he thinks it's accurate?" By the way thanks for being a great guide to Mystara your work has been very helpful and appreciated. Also what is the other setting you are referring too?

[@Mr_Welch]

@@BX-advocate red steel. And this game took serious liberties with the hollow world to make the video game actually playable.

[@squeethemog213]

This was so rad 🤩 Absolutely fantastic vid man. Thank you for making it🙏😃

[@MarkSmith-tu2vl]

This was one of my favorite games, couldnt remember the title thou. Thank you very much for reminding me.

[@berndsauerstein1946]

You had me at "T-Rex wizard god". That is hecking awesome!

[@TabuKat]

This makes me think of a mix of Ultima Savage Empire & Eye of the Beholder. EotB especially in the dungeons and portraits. Might have to give it a play. Thanks for this coverage!

[@Zulk_RS]

I played this game as a kid. It's hard and easy at the same time. Kinda fun actually. I wish there was "more".

[@SubtleMischief]

If you are not spamming arrows and sling stones in the caves you are doing it wrong in Eternal Suns

[@ninjaman5239]

This game was a huge part of my childhood, I'm so glad to see you cover it! Soundtrack is absolutely banger.

[@robintst]

I love Warriors of the Eternal Sun, warts and all. Westwood did some of the best music on the Genesis/Mega Drive, I always wished the title screen music was a full length song.

[@brianstewart425]

I have the title screen as my ringtone

[@InkWarrior]

You had me at campaign setting with dinosaurs.

[@nebulaegis1202]

I'm so glad to see you showing off a game from my childhood. Returning to this game as an adult was so fun.

[@Bannerman1903]

That's nae how ye say Schiehallion Wullie, but nae far aff, so cheers for given her a wee mention pal 😉

[@Ryu1ify]

I love how different D&D's versus Fear & Hunger's approach is to "dinosaurs ascending to godhood"

[@Bluehairedgirl89]

Thank you for the time and effort you put into making this video, it’s awesome seeing the weirdness of Mystara getting talked about. This game actually looked pretty fun, I wish I could get a chance to play it.

[@Omahdon]

"You had to fight a lot harder, and for a lot longer, to get your little Raistlin knockoff to be on par with everyone else" hey now. hey. It was an Edwin Odesseiron knockoff, thank YOU verr much.

[@joearnold6881]

I _love_ early science (y’know, except for the racism and stuff) It’s like, “Lord Bartlebey, look at this string dangling at an angle. I have discovered that this mountain on the planet earth… is not as massive as *the entire rest* of planet earth!” No shade. Somebody had to figure this stuff out. It’s just very funny.

[@grinningbuck]

And yet...

[@cristiancojocaru9821]

And science today is different.

[@garrick3727]

Meanwhile, 21st century science: "Lord Bartlebey, according to my calculations the universe is made of string. Now we just need to build a machine the size of Switzerland to prove it."

[@davidpa9266]

Eratosthenes paid a guy to pace off the distance from Alexandria to Syene in Egypt when he calculated the circumference of the Earth. That distance was like 800 kilometers.

[@woomod2445]

One of my favorites from childhood. Congrats on beating it by grinding, i always had to abuse my knowledge of early wands to get through the game rushing the fire dragon treasure for levels, never actually grinded up legit.

[@frazonedracaoo6981]

You know Miystera actually grabbed me with hiw interesting it is. The old lore tends to be some of my favorite parts of these videos. Maybe you could do videos just about the old setting lore without needing an accompanying game?

[@davek9608]

In this game when exploring the dungeons, once you know where the monsters are, you just need a straight line to their location and you can have all four of your PCs unload missile fire in the enemy's direction. The monster will start heading your way on the first hit but you can just spam attacks and create a steady stream of arrows, sling shots, etc so that a lot of monsters die before they can reach you and the ones that do reach you are badly injured and easy to finish off.

[@TrowaVidel]

I Grew up with this game, replied it more times then I can count. I probably still could find all the hidden Magic items in the starting town without even thinking about it ... Janky but wonderful. Always happy to see more coverage (as well as the Bonus history for Mystara).

[@mueezadam8438]

Good, expository, prose; stringing together its eclectic source analysis by familiarizing the general audience with the particular feelings and ideas the material is meant to invoke. Such writing reminds me of how the pulp fiction serials of the 20th century enhanced the reading experience with interlude commentaries. We call them editors nowadays but they used to be so much more

[@captainhawdon937]

I love this game. I bought a copy of it at a used game store attached to a grocery store back in the late 90s. I still have it. I've been thinking about replaying it.

[@nagiros4263]

Thank you so much for talking about this setting i’ve literally never heard anyone talk about the insane stuff happening in mystara 😭

[@garrick3727]

For years, whenever old dungeon crawl games come up I remember playing one on a console (Sega something) as a kid that I really liked. I remember my friend had it and we played it at his house, and I liked it so much it was one of the reasons I bought my own console (the other was Shining Force). I didn't remember what the game was until I saw this video. It's not like I remember it clearly. I remember 1st person dungeons, 3rd person overworld, aztec-like lizardmen and something about the very late levels having a purple hue. It was seeing the trolls that confirmed it for me. Even though I don't remember the name, I recall it being fancy, and Warriors of the Eternal Sun fits the bill. It's weird how some games stick with you, and many others do not.

[@DieAlteBirne]

I realy like that you explore the setting at the beginning of your Videos. And wanted to leave a comment for the good of algorythem.

[@RPGChaos-yw3bj]

Whoa! I actually owned this game back in the day. I used to sit there and try and draw the box art... quite poorly lol.

[@enderspider15]

My dad had this game on the genesis when I was growing up and until baldurs gate 3 came out WOTES was my favorite DnD game. I’ve put a ridiculous number of hours into this one over the years.

[@velwein]

Hollow World was the first setting I played a D&D game, and I still love it to this day.

[@robertbeisert3315]

7:36 so, what you're saying is, the Earth has some super dense material between us and the inner world.

[@Taricus]

25:35 had me wheezing LOLOLOLOLOL! I love this game. I still have it.

[@warlok363]

The other thing regarding XP is in BX or BECMI you get XP for gold retrieved and enemies "defeated" (meaning if you made them run away or you bypassed them you can still get XP) but the is tricky to code in a CRPG and to balance it.

[@madengineerkyouma]

Still my favorite D&D video game

[@mrmeteor64]

And we summon something amazing when you said that a few seconds after an O2 phone ad started playing.

[@KnightShade4]

17:00 I'm playing Pathfinder as I watch this you can't hide that soundtrack from me

[@jeremysmith4620]

I love just how batshit old school D&D could get. When I was a teenager in the 90s every hobby outlet, used book shop, or gaming store had a ton of old OG modules and assorted materials. Even when I wasn't playing I would still pick up the books because they were so fun to read. Wish I still had all of those, but that's how it goes I suppose.

[@IosonoRob]

I'm 10 seconds in and I'm already loving this.

[@thalamus861]

Pretty sure Mystara had an Underdark (while not properly called such) as well as it being hollow. The Champions of Mystara supplement mentioned something about a society beneath the Sind Desert, and The Lost City series allowed you to access a cavern system beyond the initial pyramid

[@falselogic]

I love the games and learning about them but even more I think I love learning about all these wild settings in early RPGs.

[@booradley6832]

The castle landed right side up because it fell through the crust and tehn floated across the gap to land right side up on the opposite side. Draw a circle, put a little castle emblem on it and then draw a straight line as it falls through until it lands as if it was falling normally and you'll see what I mean.

[@RafeLaet]

3:40 Mr_Welch is also a very good creator of 5e content for Mystara!

[@brianstewart425]

Yes! Been hoping for this episode. One of my favorite OST of all time

[@scrumpy8192]

Great video, underrated channel

[@Excellsion]

I have suddenly come to the conclusion that there is a severe shortage of dinosaur wizards in media. More dinosaur wizards!

[@n.henzler50]

I had this game! Ah, fond memories of four brave halflings cheesing every encounter by hiding in trees and pelting enemies with slings from out of reach.

[@ChaseTheVerb]

I love how identifiable your thumbnails are. everytime I see a new one I get excited lol

[@WilliamSRD]

YELLOW STRIPE BAYBEEEEEEE

[@ChaseTheVerb]

@@WilliamSRD some are calling it the new blue border

[@archmageeldran2567]

The spell of preservation is very interesting and neatly gets around the issue of how has this culture remained unchanged for so long that quite a few hollow earths don’t really address.

[@rocketrooster2410]

I wonder if you would check out the Lego DnD Set including the online available Adventure?

[@StrangeCreed]

Holy shit, I played this as a kid! 😯

[@banks3388]

Fun Fact: Actual Aztecs unironically built their society around human sacrifice and war, historians originally believed that a lot of the stuff they'd heard said about Aztecs was propaganda but then they discovered the human skull racks and evidence of Flower Wars.

[@kip_c]

"A t-rex who's brain was so large he just became a wizard"

[@DLAlucard]

Hey, Have you played Stonekeep at all? It's a first person dungeon crawler through the ruins of an old keep that was dragged into the Earth by a dark force years before the game started. You play one of the only people to survive the event. Returning in the hopes of defeating this dark force and freeing the trapped Gods. It's pretty good and certainly the sort of thing you'd enjoy I believe. Lots of exploration, strange things to find, combat and fairly well acted live action cutscenes.

[@lloydgraham2630]

There is actually a secret cave in the waterfall north of the castle and if you go outside the back you end up in a secret area with some rather tough monsters and a few areas where you can attract black and green dragons with enough bushes around that you can cheese the heck out of them. real life saver if your replying the game and do not wanna grind at the bridge

[@yazuki-wolf]

7:30 Yes! My conceptualization of the earth I got from dwarf fortress caverns is still legit.