'Classic' Splitpaw

[gcobb]

tl;dr - I tried to remake original Splitpaw on my personal emu server, and here's a short video of mediocre quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J58H...ature=youtu.be

For reasons that remain obscure to me, I've developed an unhealthy fascination with the original version of Lair of the Splitpaw, i.e., the low-level version from EQ's launch. As you may know, Paw was originally populated with the white-furred Splitpaw gnolls and designed for players roughly level 6-25. Some of the trash mobs were later moved out to Lake Rathetear, while the original bosses included Ghanex Drah, the gnoll shamans that figure in the Qeynos monk quests, and Kurrpok Splitpaw, who would later be repeatedly beheaded by his brown-furred conquerors in the mid-level revamped version of the zone.

Somewhat predictably, a newb dungeon situated in the middle of South Karana didn't see much traffic in the early days. Apparently, the promise of such phat lewtz as the https://wiki.project1999.com/Runed_Totem_Staff wasn't quite enough to lure groups of level 8-10s halfway across Antonica. For this reason, it was revamped before much specific information found its way onto everlore.com, leaving would-be reconstructionists little to work with.

But just for fun, I took a stab at reverting the zone on my personal emu server. Take a gander if you want, let me know what you think, what you remember from the very old days, etc.

/salute