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High level play: Karma Points

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 Every once in a blue moon, I have the urge to doomscroll The Vaults of Pandius .  A bit like with Greyhawk and its online community , the Vaults of Pandius were at one point the primary way for me to explore the world of  Mystara  at a time when what I had of published materials were Mentzer's  Expert Set , the In Search of Adventure module anthology, loaning the  The Grand Duchy of Karameikos  Gazetteer when I could from the library and prodigious access to Dragon Magazine at the local library, where I was seemingly the only loaner ever interested in the older issues. The original adventure path. I have an irrational amount of love for this book. I will need to review it at one point. When I discovered the Vaults, it was like a world opening up to me, of a swathe of gamer archeologists who have studied the setting in depth and extracted a bunch of nuggets for me to take in, in the absence of a cohesive setting book to help make sense of it all. I spent many hours as a teenager p