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questing gm
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Posted - 10 Sep 2024 :  06:48:58  Show Profile  Visit questing gm's Homepage Send questing gm a Private Message  Reply with Quote
On Half-Giants

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1832889031236939932
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1832956804759801892

Sep 9, 2024


@CanyonGlac94388

@TheEdVerse In Races of Faerűn (2003), a feat called 'Jotunbrud' is introduced, which makes your character a size larger because of Giant ancestry. Can we surmise from it that Half-Giants are or at least were a thing? If so, why have were they never given a race template?


@TheEdVerse

Yes, half-giants ARE a thing.

Never having been a TSR or Wizards staffer, I don’t know why they were never given a race template.

In previous lore replies about mixed-race “half-people” I’ve mentioned that most such individuals genetically favour one parent, so a lot of, say, human-giant half-giants are just REALLY BIG (big boned, big organs, big strength) humans, like Madeiron Sunderstone in the Realms, so that may be one reason.


@CanyonGlac94388

Can they also inherit other traits from their giant side, like a Fire Giant's red skin? Thank you for your reply, sir!


@TheEdVerse

You're welcome, and yes, they can. Half-anythings are mixing enough genes that they can "breed others of their half-kind." Which means recessive genes may "come out" in their offspring, or grandchildren.
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questing gm
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On drow wizards gaining favor of Mystra and Azuth

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1832957393702879529

Sep 9, 2024


@thekolbitar

@TheEdVerse Is there any possibility that a drow wizard rebelling against Lolth could gain favor from Mystra and Azuth?


@TheEdVerse

Oh, yes. Most of the gods of Toril will help mortals work against Lolth, because she's a constant pain to them and endlessly ambitious, so they think she must be curbed and thwarted at every turn.
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questing gm
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On the alignment of the archmage

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1838602447570239890

Sep 24, 2024

@JagvarGames What alignment is the Archmage?

#127912; by @JasonRainville

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@kai_mordo

if it's forgotten realms: CN. the chosen of mystra serve the needs of the weft and weave of magic itself. good, evil, lawful, unlaw, true chaotic - an Archmage is whatever they feel the moment requires. is this a fair assessment @TheEdVerse?

@TheEdVerse

It is. :}
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questing gm
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On the Taol coin of Waterdeep

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1838684285190181321

Sep 25, 2024

@WyattHAnderson1

@TheEdVerse My Players have been asking about the Taol coin of Waterdeep. Do you have insight as to its purpose, and specifically why it is named such? The rest of the coins in Dragon Heist seemed self explanatory but we are hung up on this one. Thanks!

@TheEdVerse

Sure. The coin came into existence, long ago, to pay the harbor entry toll of the time (a Realms example of "exact fare") without any currency exchange hassles. A ship captain could use their own coin/barter goods to get a certain number of these coins from city booths in Dock Ward.

Over time, the toll changed, Waterdeep accepted far more outland currencies, and the coin's name ("toll token" or just "toll") got corrupted into "taol" (thanks to the lilting way it was pronounced by folk from Tharsult and the Tashalar).
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questing gm
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On body hair on elves and half-elves

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1838685669260169710

Sep 25, 2024

@Lrbearclaw

The amusing part is that usually Half-Elves have very little body hair and pure elves have none. (Which implies Halsin has human blood somewhere in his family tree.)

But yep, we are a weird bunch. (Not a modder myself, if I was I would focus on 5e subclasses.)


@TheEdVerse

Elves and half-elves of Toril have body hair, but it's so fine, and translucent in hue, that it can be felt rather than seen unless you're looking past a surface of elven or half-elven flesh at a light source, so the hair is highlighted.
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questing gm
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On offspring of polymorphed dragons

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1841519681959526445

Oct 3, 2024

RetttteR

@TheEdVerse Ok so if two dragons were shape changed or polymorphed would their offspring be full dragon? Or something else?


@TheEdVerse

Full dragon. If the two dragons were different species, the offspring would favour one or the other, but show signs of the "less favoured" parent genes, too.
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questing gm
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On Elminster's type

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1841520039788163198
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1842081182281830608 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1842082105292959969

Oct 3, 2024

@hearthomesinnoh

So, @TheEdVerse, What’s Elminster’s type?


@TheEdVerse

Smart beings whose minds he can admire.

@2Mahnas

How does he feel about real short skirts?

There was a famous bard that used to sing about smart ladies in that kind of attire.


@TheEdVerse

I daresay he doesn't mind such garments in the slightest. But would likely be swift to say his old legs don't look good in them, anymore. ;}


@Michael75535436

So Eilistraee #128521;


@TheEdVerse

Indeed.

- Edited on 4/10/24 to add new tweets

Edited by - questing gm on 04 Oct 2024 15:17:24
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questing gm
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On friers in the Realms

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1841524764046983404

Oct 3, 2024

@Artie_Pavlov

Would they use a frier to make them in the realms?


@TheEdVerse

Yes: metal pan of oil over coals, two or three heavy metal spoons (bowl about the size of your face but straight-sided, and bowl made of metal strips with gaps between them) are rested in it and then lifted out. So, akin to the fryer baskets in a McDonald's.
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questing gm
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On history of Imbrar II

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1842680845905039641

Oct 6, 2024

@RidianG

@TheEdVerse So i was researching the History of Impiltur and after Imbrar II, who's known as the last king of his nation, the history just...ends. What happened next? Why did he die, what or who caused it? Anything you can tell us about this relatively ignored area?

@TheEdVerse

I recommend you consult the writings of George Krashos, the reigning expert on Impiltur. You can find his lore on the DM's Guild, and chat with the man himself about Impiltur on Greenwood's Grotto, on Discord. There's a lot of juicy lore ahead for you!!!
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questing gm
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On how a mindflayer taste

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1842681450547782062

Oct 6, 2024

@Umizaki__

@TheEdVerse Would a mindflayer taste like a squid or a human?

Need to know for my calamari recipe.


@TheEdVerse

Neither. They taste a little like turtle, a little like abalone, and a little like portabello mushrooms.
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questing gm
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On predilections that set Alhoons apart from standard liches

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1843011752239452579

Oct 7, 2024

@BaroqueGustave

@TheEdVerse Do Alhoons have any predilections that set them apart from standard liches in typical behavior? Do illithid wizards in general have a unique relationship with or approach to the Weave/Mystra?

@TheEdVerse

Yes. Alhoon want to devour brains of mages to gain memories (especially of spell creation experiments), but know each brain “gone” is another Weave access point lost to them. So many instead use spells to dominate and control captive wizards as thralls. Azuth frowns.
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questing gm
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On FR equivalent of the Kamasutra

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1843851097359921212 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1844920048219193746 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1844921528179126632

Oct 9, 2024

@LittleBadDragon

@TheEdVerse Hello Ed, I hope you're fine on this beautiful day.

My wife is too shy to ask such a question on public twitter, but I have no shame so I will go ahead and ask for purely research purposes (cough).

Is there an equivalent of Kamasutra in FR? If yes, who penned it?


@TheEdVerse

The clergy of Sharess sell Duth Lavarranka (“On Living Well”), a small tome that covers the sensual life, from bathing and grooming to caressing to relax and bring slumber or to arouse and bring orgasm, and even “Ressa” (prolonged orgasm leading to an altered state of consciousness: “goddess-rapture”). It has far fewer illustrations of sex positions than the Kama Sutra, but addresses the nature of love in the same way. The priests of Sharess will tell laity it was penned by the goddess herself, but cloistered temple lore ascribes it to priestess Raethra Nuenna, who wrote it in 799 DR, inspired by Sharess, and as her reward altar-ascended to become a servitor of the goddess at the end of that year.

@gkrashos

What language is that Ed? Or is it a “holy language” of the faith?

@TheEdVerse

It’s archaic Calant, the Sword Coast dialect of the Common Tongue (“Duth” = well or good, “Lavarran” is life and living, and the “ka” suffix = of or pertaining to). If Reaethra were writing today and not in 740 DR, she’d have written “On Living Well.”

@joechang2015

Wow. Where did Raethra reside?

@TheEdVerse

She dwelt in Beregost in 740 DR. There was a shrine to Sharess there from 732 DR through the 760s DR, before it was repeatedly raided by brigands, and ultimately abandoned.

- Edited on 12/10/24 to add new tweets

Edited by - questing gm on 12 Oct 2024 09:28:12
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questing gm
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On Ed's Beastmaster class in Dragon magazine

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1844838884846555598 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1844917668815548672

Oct 12, 2024

@DyslexicKnight

The Beast Master class in Dragon mag came out shortly after this film did. Do you think the film inspired the class?

@KevinLamb74

Very cool. #128077; Well let's ask @TheEdVerse and see if he responds! Hey Ed, did the 1982 film of the same name inspire the creation of this class that you published in Dragon Magazine?

@TheEdVerse

No, "my" Beastmaster was in the pipeline long before that fun movie came out. I WAS inspired by an Andre Norton 1959 sf novel, Beast Master, but more by the name than the content.

@CatalogFantasy

Where are any Beastmasters, if any, are operating today and what deities would they worship?

@TheEdVerse

I'm away from my notes right now, but here are a few:

Aerhoyn Thultran (“AIR-oh-hin THULL-tran”), a Chondathan male human in his thirties, formerly a cobbler in Amn, now (1500 DR) operates in both the Cloak Wood and the Wood of Sharp Teeth, seeking to curb the influences there of evil and harmful-to-the-wilds beasts and factions. He primarily worships Eldath.

Chanszellra Ormult (“Chan-SZELL-rah OAR-mult,” with the ‘t’ ALMOST silent) is an Illuskan female human in her mid-twenties. She grew up in Everlund, and is now active in the northeastern High Forest (the verges), and east into the Far Forest. She primarily worships Mielikki.

Orblan Hethennor is a Tethryian male human in his sixties. Formerly of Scornubel, he now roves the High Forest along the Heartblood River, and sometimes ventures into the Greypeaks. He venerates Silvanus more than others.

Rarlvarn Telgor is a Damaran male human in his thirties, who dwells in the Dalakharr (Methwood) in Unther. He primarily worships Nobanion.
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questing gm
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On big tobacco growing regions in Faerun

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1844925306307592200 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1845651222033846474 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1845652592505831647 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1845652980793504169 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1845654684045881375

Oct 12, 2024

@Lyrewulf

@TheEdVerse Hail and well met! I was very much a pipe tobacco nerd in college, knowing far too much about various varieties and blends. I know tobacco originates across the sea, but are there any big tobacco growing regions in Faerun? I can't imagine wizards without a pipe!

@TheEdVerse

“Big” is a relative term, but there are several small pipeweed growing areas in Faerűn. You need sandy (or gravel) soil and a temperate climate. Here are a few: coastal southern Ulgarth, Durpar on the west bank of the Heldar, the shores of the Great Sea in Konigheim (the Utter East), near the northern headwaters of the River of Spears in Mulhorand (north of Klondor), just south of the Firward Mountains in Ashanath, and just west of the Tsurlar Forest in the Vast (east of the Stormcrest Trail).

There are many more small local “pockets” of pipeweed growing, as it’s now (in 1500 DR) a companion plant grown to protect some food crops.

@McCarthy_JT

Just to be clear, is Toril pipe weed more like tobacco or more like marijuana?

@TheEdVerse

Pipeweed grown on Toril is the equivalent of tobacco. Calming and SLIGHTLY deadens nausea and pain. NO hallucinogenic effects unless things have been added to it. So, tobacco, not marijuana.

@DecryptedTech

Didn't Elminster have a patch he grew near him home in Shadowdale?

@TheEdVerse

It wasn't Elminster's patch; the local old lady who grew it just let him harvest some, in return for occasional cantrips cast (mending, usually) when she needed them. But yes, there were several private patches around Shadowdale.

@FarrarN57854

Ahhh, Konigheim, how many times did I lie & say I went there & got it there, instead of discussing my supply chain.

@TheEdVerse

Heh. Pipeweed is tobacco, not marijuana. ;}

@FarrarN57854

Right, but historically, tobacco sources were a high conflict trade market, close to the big police corruption scandals, which would turn into poisoning farms -so confidential sources laws often started with tobacco industry.

@TheEdVerse

Pipeweed in the Realms isn't as addictive as real-world tobacco, and many rural folk smoke local leaves and shoots (not pipeweed), so the markets are different in volume and nature (not illicit in the Realms, not "sin" taxed) than in our historical real world.

- Edited on 14/10/24 to add new tweets

Edited by - questing gm on 14 Oct 2024 04:16:44
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questing gm
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On other families joining the cult of Asmodeus

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1844932441544245362

Oct 12, 2024

@TheAnonDM

Good day to Saer @TheEdVerse (Steven E Schend appears to have vanished!).

The Cassalanters reinvigorated Asmodeus worship in the early 1490’s. Are there any other families who featured prominently in their new cult?

@TheEdVerse

Not “prominently,” no. Behind closed doors and undercover, YES, but…they were ambitious wannabe-noble rising wealthy merchant families, like the Dzunborns and Ilindravvars of Sea Ward and the Jarandurs, Maendreths, and Sourntrils of North Ward.

Among the ranks of Waterdeep’s nobles, aside from the Cassalanters, worshippers tended to be wastrel “black sheep” uncles and aunts, the disaffected and usually unwed and debauched elder brothers and sisters not in line to head their house.

Such individuals included Gastorn Brokengulf (NE hm R3); Szelruena Agundar (CE hf Sor6); Ilmur Artemel (CE hm F4), and Naranta Sultlue (CE hf R7).
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On description of Farl

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1844935628800020897

Oct 12, 2024

@galaxyfighter27

@TheEdVerse Hello Ed!! I’ve been infatuated with the forgotten realms since forever, and I’ve just recently started reading the Elminster books. I’ve noticed that Farl doesn’t seem to have a description. Does he have one that you know of? I’d love to draw him, he’s my favorite!!

@TheEdVerse

Farl was slim, wiry and strong, had very dark brown hair (looked nigh black), brown eyes, and tawny skin; he was Damaran. Thin-line moustache, close-cropped razor-edged "daggerboard" sideburns, and back-of-neck length hair. Handsome, lithe. Fast grin, likeable.
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questing gm
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On Lords of Waterdeep wearing masks

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1845656864874188995

Oct 14, 2024

@gopro_audio

@TheEdVerse can you explain to non-gamers why the Lords of Waterdeep wear masks?

@TheEdVerse

Sure. They don't want to be recognized in public, and threatened or badgered to vote this way or that.

Especially after DEATH MASKS, when Lords were being murdered so they could be replaced by a hand-picked roster of "vote my way" stooges.
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On chubby elves

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1848852990435987508

Oct 23, 2024

@Escalith

@TheEdVerse Can chubby elves exist if they don't exercise/eat lots of pastries?

@TheEdVerse

Of course. If they eat or imbibe or get subjected to anything that shifts their metabolic rate, they either get VERY "hyper" or they gain weight (depending on which way the metabolism gets shifted).
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On Strahd as the first vampire

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1848853369143562244
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1849996223337394359

Oct 23, 2024

@halfwhitebigode

@TheEdVerse so I was doing a quick search and couldn't find a definitive answer. Is Strahd the first vampire ever? Or were the vampires created by Orcus before him? Ravenloft timeline is weird, because Strahd would be just a couple of centuries old and there are older vampires.

@TheEdVerse

No, there were and are thousands of vampires who are older than Strahd.

@halfwhitebigode

So they are indeed the creation of Orcus?

@TheEdVerse

Orcus is a destroyer and tyrant, not a creator. Believe no Orcus propaganda. Vampires are older than Orcus, too.

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And besides… 4e’s The Shadowfell pretty much played fast and loose with time and temporalities when it came to the Dread Domains and their Darklords. I don’t think that’s really been tweaked all that much in the 5e RAVENLOFT material… so Strahd could, conceivably, be happening/happened ANY time and any when.

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Jander Sunstar schooled Strahd on the finer points of being a vampire. Concluding Jander is an older vampire than Strahd is extremely reasonable.
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On the full version of Ever A Hero Be

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1850003788372808127

Oct 26, 2024

@ansavisuals

can anyone who is left on the DnD Side of Twitter help me hunt down a full version of Ever A Hero Be from The Forgotten Realms?perhaps @TheEdVerse?

@TheEdVerse

Sure!

Though the sun be hot and bright
Every realm gets dark and cold by night
Somewhere always knows need for more light
To comfort and guide, and perils highlight
And that glow comes from people like you and me


So we need the right folk, to stand proud and strong
To walk the brighter road, be it hard and long
To sort what is right from all fair-seeming wrong
To swell hearts and minds with a better song
And be a hero for you and for me


But deep in halls dark and haunted
Even heroes bold, high-vaunted
Twice and thrice, to end up daunted
Think of loved ones deeply wanted
And much safer places to be


So the life is hard and too often dark
And every battle leaves its mark
Yet the world sore needs their special spark
Their lack is all too clear and stark
So we all yearn a hero for to see


Wherefore if the chance should come to you
To noble cause cleave right true
And through all fell foes staunchly hew
So we weaker sorts will look to you
As you ever a hero be


Hero be
Hero be
May you ever a hero be!

(The last three lines are sung slow, loud, and emphatic/triumphal. Ever a Hero Be was a ballad penned by Thalloviir Vaundruth, Bard of Beregost, in 1344 DR.)
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On describing the position of the Endless Waste

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1850006663148773583

Oct 26, 2024


@GinnyLoveday

@TheEdVerse How would you describe the position of the Endless Wastes on the entire continent of Faerűn?

@TheEdVerse

Hi, Ginny!

It depends on the context (i.e. who’s describing). Most far-traveled wayfarers call it “the Bit Between” as it lies between “the known lands of Faerűn and the East (Kara-Tur). Some caravan merchants have been known to call it “a whole lot of nothing.”

I call it “the Open Country” or “the Unexplored Country” because it’s never been visited properly in published Realmslore and because it’s a huge expanse of rolling, hilly grasslands.
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On the world the gray orcs came from

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1852023130895917565

Nov 1, 2024

@dicheeto

@TheEdVerse What was the world that the Gray orcs came out of like? was it similar to Toril except with orcs being the dominant species? or was it simply a world with only orcs?

@TheEdVerse

It was a diverse world (as Toril is), but generally colder and rockier (many mountain chains, verdant life in ravines and long valleys between the rock spurs). The orcs there "outbred" other races/ So, akin to the orc hordes of Toril, they went elsewhere in search of more food (instead of going on being ready food for the many hungry dragons of that world). So the dragons were the dominant species, whereas the orcs were the most numerous.
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On Elminster knowing current lingo

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1852027968056389924

Nov 1, 2024

@JohanCarnisRex

Cool, walk up to Elminster and start talking like a zoomer.

@KremlinKOA

I suspect @theEdVerse would write Elminster as getting that lingo....

Given Elminster does have a portal from Toril to Earth.

@TheEdVerse

I will just say that if anyone uses the word "drip" around Elminster, to him it refers to leaky human anatomy, and not its current slang usage. ;}
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On githyanki lactation

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Nov 1, 2024

@GamingNekopark

@TheEdVerse I was not able to find this question on the previous replies, but wanted to ask, given that Githyanki are hatched, do they lactate and what of the taste ?

@TheEdVerse

They do, the breast milk serving to nourish for rapid growth, building of muscle tissue, and healing of organs and sinews. I am told (no personal experience here) that the taste is akin to rich chicken broth.
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On intention to connect Mystara with the Forgotten Realms

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1851778762469208079 https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1852027072014668134

Oct 31, 2024

@McCarthy_JT

@TheEdVerse I was looking over a copy of the old Principalities of Glantri gazateer earlier this year, and a peculiar idea sort of took up residence in the corners of my mind. Without putting it all out there, is there any chance that there was ever an intention or an idea of connecting Mystara and the Forgotten Realms in any sense through the Principalities?

@TheEdVerse

Yes. Unofficially, so DMs could run a high-level "across the worlds" campaign (like the later Planescape or the Spelljammer novels that involved travel from TSR world to TSR world), but the product lines remained distinct legally.

(Magic wielders controlling portals.)

@twitcher1979

Like the World Serpent Inn? Have one of the back rooms open up onto Mystara? Sure it isn't strictly mentioned that there's a portal there, but I've used it before as a connection. Between Mystara and Sigil and Mystara and Toril.

@TheEdVerse

Indeed. :} There are many "backdoor" connections between worlds. Knowing and controlling them (and fighting those who do) was the original Forgotten Realms high-level campaign.
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quote:
Originally posted by Delnyn

Jander Sunstar schooled Strahd on the finer points of being a vampire. Concluding Jander is an older vampire than Strahd is extremely reasonable.



It is said explicitly in the book:

"Seven hundred?" He clearly thought Jander was speaking in jest. "Ah—I see. You are counting your years as a living being."
"Well, yes," Jander admitted, "but that's only two centuries. I've been a vampire for five hundred years."
Strahd was silent. "I cannot even conceive of such a thing," he said at last. "I am barely past my first century. You make me feel like a child again. What a great deal I have to learn from you!"

Strahd is the First Vampire of Barovia
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On what a myconid would order in a bar

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Nov 6, 2024


@Walkinthewood7

@TheEdVerse What kind of drinks would a myconid consume at a bar if they were inclined to do so?

@TheEdVerse

"Ironwater" for choice (ground water percolated through iron-rich [orange] soil), and other mineral waters for variety. Tree saps for dessert.
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On the 'mess' in the Moonsea

https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1853854862846443893

Nov 6, 2024

@YoDanno

Behold! When the Realms were born…

This beauty is Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) 's original hand-drawn map of the Forgotten Realms, sent to TSR in 1986.

#128506;#65039; from @GHC_and_Tacos collection

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@ectoterrestria1

What's that mess in the Moonsea?

@TheEdVerse

It's all of the Pirate Isles, individually named. Jeff Grubb added the blue marker to the photocopy I sent, to make it clear these particular lines are coasts, so it becomes a blue blob when seen from afar.
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