by Jaraman » Sun Sep 10, 2006 9:59 am
Jara may have just been lucky, but I have to second the Plane of Mischief route. I went into the zone, invised and carefully made my way past the bixies and shrooms (had to kill a couple) to the moat. Opened the map, saw the leftmost invisible bridge and went up. Camped the masked halflings right there at the top, and within 30 minutes I had the "rare" page drop.
I remember considering LDoNs, and I was one who put together many a group back when, and even after, it was popular. I considered getting 800 points too much time to invest. I camped the bazaar for awhile hoping for that rare Yaeth page, and always saw the wrong one (left side instead of right). Later, after trying a few other leads, I ran into PoM with a jaded hope of getting the page drop. I didn't know about the invisible bridge at first, so spent a couple runs just trying to figure out how to get inside the building. Someone finally clued me in about the invisible bridge, and the rest is history. I was 65 or younger then, because I had a list of researchable spells and parts I needed to get scribbled down in a notebook... got Form of the Greater Bear, Levitation, and a couple others that way.
I never went inside that building, but maybe someday I will, as I seem to recall there are some interesting drops in there that might still be worth getting even if just for novelty's sake.
The best solution is not either/or, but best-of.