Just a little complaint.. about myself
I've played RM for a long time, but I actually never played in Shadow World, though I've read some of the books a loooooooooong time ago. (15 years ago)
From I started as a GM I made up my own world (Called D?ron) and more or played there ever since, feeling that D?ron was somewhat more original than most other worlds.
So the other day I bought Shadow World Master Atlas in a fit of curiosity and
got myself quite a chok: It is very similar to D?ron. In fact there are so many things in common that I've started thinking that while I've been making my own world, the shadow world books that I read so long ago, have seriously influenced it.
Ofcause there are good and bad sides to this. The bad side is that I could never publish what I've made, without being accused for copying Shadow World. (But since I've no plans about that, thats not really a problem).
The good side it that it's really easy to integrate D?ron into Shadow World. So easy that I am considering to simply make D?ron part of the eastern hemisphere and be done with it.
Hmm I think that I'll go buy some more Shadow World material and see if it fits in