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TBeholder
Great Reader
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 Posted - 25 Aug 2025 : 19:22:55
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Originally posted by questing gm
On dualism in AD&D 2nd edition
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1953887003264921811
Aug 9, 2025
@AstralMangudai
Hey @TheEdVerse how does dualism work in aD&D 2e mechanics? We know elves are barred from most of specialist wizard classes. Is dualism a kit or W/W multiclass or a special class like Alunakkar, Dijakkar, Encikkar, Nelluonkkar? Would they need requirements of both base classes?
@TheEdVerse
As a never-TSR-staffer, I can't give you any "official" rules answers, but I did design a lot of 2e via Realms products, and I handle it thus: most players ran generalist all-in wizards.
Anyone can dual class, but yes, must meet requirements of both base classes. #realmslore
Dual classes
So, any bets?
- The elven dualist was a curious experiment, but did not go anywhere and was quite forgettable.
- Alas, "memoria fractalia est".
- These answers are typed and sometimes "helpfully" given by a press-secretary who knows FR as deep as the blurbs and "cannot into" search engines. |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1731 Posts |
Posted - 29 Aug 2025 : 11:08:20
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On order of clerics or a group that would respond to disasters like the salvation army or red cross
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1959663308874658167
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1962627743301931478
Aug 25, 2025
@armrdporcupine
@TheEdVerse sorry to bother you, however since you are the learned wizard perhaps you know, in the d&d universe is there an order of clerics or a group that would respond to disasters like the salvation army or red cross would do in our world?
@TheEdVerse
In the Realms, temples of every faith will respond with aid to local disasters.
Priests of Tempus follow armies on the march to tend wounded combatants and harmed civilians.
The priests of Ilmater rush everywhere, a la the Red Cross, to deliver humanitarian aid.
@armrdporcupine
How well do you think Ilmater would work with this cleric domain?
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@TheEdVerse
Very well. :}
As long as the feast and abundant food is for other people, not the cleric themselves (Ilmater embraces personal suffering).
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Edited by - questing gm on 09 Sep 2025 10:55:43 |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1731 Posts |
Posted - 29 Aug 2025 : 11:30:03
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On Lyonsbane Keep's location
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1959788457036849333
Aug 25, 2025
@RadicalRollo
Hi @TheEdVerse, do you know roughly where Lyonsbane Keep, the long since abandoned keep where Kelemvor's clan once resided, is located? I've found forums asking about it since 2004, but no one's ever gotten an answer. Thanks in advance!
@TheEdVerse
Yes. It stood in westernmost Chessenta, due south of the southern end of the Akanapeaks, in a verdant valley within sight of the river that drains from them into the Akanamere.
Today, Lyonsbane Keep no longer exists, as it was shattered in warfare and rebuilt several times, but ultimately its stones were robbed from its site to make many new stone buildings.
The trouble is that the map of Chessenta changed constantly throughout the 1200s and 1300s DR, as petty baronies and self-styled dukedoms rose and fell. |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1731 Posts |
Posted - 09 Sep 2025 : 11:04:13
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On traveling by land from Daggerford to Waterdeep during the month of Hammer
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1964152987430883730
Sep 6, 2025
@rwgs76
Dear @TheEdVerse, given the harsh Winters in the Sword Coast, would it be possible to travel by land from Daggerford to Waterdeep during the month of Hammer? Is the Trade Way open during Hammer, or the snow prevents any travel between them? Thanks in advance.
@TheEdVerse
In most winters, large armed parties (because of wolves) can almost always make this trip trudging on snowshoes. What can't happen is caravan travel: i.e. bringing lots of stuff. Bringing personal gear is done by each person towing the equivalent of a loaded toboggan. |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1731 Posts |
Posted - 09 Sep 2025 : 11:23:54
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On Manshoon as Chosen of Mystra
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1964476466168811596
Sep 7, 2025
@DecryptedTech
@TheEdVerse Something I have always wondered. How does Manshoon (and his seemingly endless supply of clones) remain a chosen of Mystra? How does each clone keep that, especially the one that became a Vampire?
@TheEdVerse
He's not a Chosen. He rejected Mystra (see the relevant scenes in my Sage of Shadowdale trilogy). He is an (unwitting and unwilling) Weave anchor. |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1731 Posts |
Posted - 05 Oct 2025 : 02:24:03
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On native tropical fruits in Baldur's Gate
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1967741443151454654 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1967795729344368661
Sep 16, 2025
@ItalianKarsus
@mikemearls Hello, Mr. Mearls! I know you're not Sage Advice any more, but might as well try - any chance you remember the question to this answer?
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@TheEdVerse
@nlghty @DPennyway @mikemearls The monks grow some tropical fruits in building-south-wall-shed giant growing frames they call "warmbreaths."
@TheEdVerse
This was a question from Larian designers regarding the availability of locally-grown fruit in Baldur's Gate (for lore, as BG3 was being designed). #realmslore
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Critical #Dragonspear lore question: are pears native to the Sword Coast? @mikemearls
Dee Pennyway (@DPennyway) September 1, 2015
@DPennyway that's a great question for @TheEdVerse
Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) September 1, 2015
@mikemearls @DPennyway Hi! Pears are native to the Lake of Steam and Border Kingdoms areas, but were long ago farmed into Tethyr. Wine expt.
Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 1, 2015
@TheEdVerse @mikemearls That was very enlightening. Thanks, Ed!
Dee Pennyway (@DPennyway) September 1, 2015
@DPennyway @mikemearls A pleasure! Pears don't travel well, so exported as pear wine. Most pears grown inland in Tethyr; vineyards seaside.
Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 1, 2015
@TheBadCatMan
We've worked out it was for the development of Siege of Dragonspear, an expansion for Baldur's Gate 2, and that it was probably pears (but seems to have been cut from the game). Now we're just trying to work out which monks where, and if you were describing greenhouses? Thanks!
@TheEdVerse
They would be monks of Chauntea, and they are using greenhouse equivalents: against the south, sunbaked stone walls of grain-barns, one builds growing frames (house-sized lean-to growing frames of timbers and enchanted "spellglass") to raise crops that really need a warmer climate. Just as real-world gardeners do in northern cold climates, to extend growing seasons or preserve magnolias, lime trees, and other growing things that would otherwise perish over winters.
The "spellglass" is a clerical spell that creates large sheets of clear, strong, durable glass (without many small leaded panes, or use of mica sheets, or anything else that would mar the reach of the sun's rays). Quite a few priesthoods now know and use variant spells (also for grand temple windows). |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1731 Posts |
Posted - 05 Oct 2025 : 02:44:01
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On regions half-drow frequent in the 3.5e and earlier rulesets, not including Dambrath
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1969968810770968784
Sep 22, 2025
@V_For_Vall
And - Can you elaborate on the regions half-drow frequent in the 3.5e and earlier rulesets, not including Dambrath? Would you consider them an underdark or surface race?
@TheEdVerse
They are both, because sunlight harms them not and increasingly they dwell on the surface of Toril, in remote areas (as Lolth-worshipping drow tend to persecute them). |
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