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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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 Posted - 12 Aug 2008 : 05:29:42
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Wooly Rupert, in Ed's original Realms, Mask was one god of mischief (the nasty sort) and Lliira was another (the happy pranks sort). I think those aspects got "played down" because some TSR designers wanted to take this setting very seriously. (The elves, gnomes, and halflings all had deities who indulged in pranks, too, as I recall, as did the pixies and quicklings.)
Interesting... I wish those aspects hadn't been played down, especially since the other races got to keep their Tricksters. Mask and Lliira covering the aspects of mischief adds another element to both deities.
Had I known about that, Lliira would have made my fave deities list long ago -- I fancy myself to be something of a Trickster-type, a fact which will likely surprise many people.  
But at least I have Lurue to cover my whimsical side.  |
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eiglos
Acolyte
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 Aug 2008 : 09:00:01
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Wooly,
I'm afraid you no longer have Lurue, she is not on the list in the 4e FRCS deities  . |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 12 Aug 2008 : 13:27:50
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Originally posted by eiglos
Wooly,
I'm afraid you no longer have Lurue, she is not on the list in the 4e FRCS deities .
No worries. For the first time since getting into the Realms, I am ignoring new stuff. I don't consider the Realms of 4E to be the Forgotten Realms.
But that's not a topic for this thread.  |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
5056 Posts |
Posted - 12 Aug 2008 : 15:15:17
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Well, Ed is on the way, and I shall very soon follow. Yet let not the e-silence still your tongues, scribes! Keep those queries, comments, and follow-up lore questions coming, because they are meat and drink to the Father of the Realms, and he'll continue to try to answer all he can! The 2007 Spin A Yarn publication is imminent, and of course GenCon attendees will have the fun of making a new one, just days from now!
Heh. Enough cheerleading. Let's see what unfolds at the con; Ed may of course not be able to tell us all the inside info, but I'm sure things will be said and decided that will have a great influence on what see published about the Realms in the future.
love to all,
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Neriandal Freit
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 12 Aug 2008 : 17:03:23
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Well, Ed is on the way, and I shall very soon follow. Yet let not the e-silence still your tongues, scribes! Keep those queries, comments, and follow-up lore questions coming, because they are meat and drink to the Father of the Realms, and he'll continue to try to answer all he can! The 2007 Spin A Yarn publication is imminent, and of course GenCon attendees will have the fun of making a new one, just days from now!
Heh. Enough cheerleading. Let's see what unfolds at the con; Ed may of course not be able to tell us all the inside info, but I'm sure things will be said and decided that will have a great influence on what see published about the Realms in the future.
love to all,
THO
THO...
I know I likely know this answer, but I dare shall ask. If you shall so boldly grace your presence to Ed in that lingerie...dare we get the pleasure of seeing you (in or out of it that delicious image...) Saturday morning at targeted meet-point for Keep members, so we all may have a round of sh*&s and giggles?
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"Eating people is wrong...unless it's on the first date." - Ed Greenwood, GenCon Indy 2006 |
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Garen Thal
Master of Realmslore
USA
1105 Posts |
Posted - 12 Aug 2008 : 17:34:35
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Originally posted by Neriandal Freit
THO...
I know I likely know this answer, but I dare shall ask. If you shall so boldly grace your presence to Ed in that lingerie...dare we get the pleasure of seeing you (in or out of it that delicious image...) Saturday morning at targeted meet-point for Keep members, so we all may have a round of $#!@ and giggles?
Dearest Neriandal, you should know that if a woman has the good graces and most excellent foresight to don lingerie, giggling is perhaps the second least-appropriate response available. |
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Neriandal Freit
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 12 Aug 2008 : 17:44:06
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Originally posted by Garen Thal
quote:
Originally posted by Neriandal Freit
THO...
I know I likely know this answer, but I dare shall ask. If you shall so boldly grace your presence to Ed in that lingerie...dare we get the pleasure of seeing you (in or out of it that delicious image...) Saturday morning at targeted meet-point for Keep members, so we all may have a round of $#!@ and giggles?
Dearest Neriandal, you should know that if a woman has the good graces and most excellent foresight to don lingerie, giggling is perhaps the second least-appropriate response available.
A woman in lingerie is wasted on a man like me, so giggling is always first!  |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 12 Aug 2008 : 17:46:24
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Originally posted by Garen Thal
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Originally posted by Neriandal Freit
THO...
I know I likely know this answer, but I dare shall ask. If you shall so boldly grace your presence to Ed in that lingerie...dare we get the pleasure of seeing you (in or out of it that delicious image...) Saturday morning at targeted meet-point for Keep members, so we all may have a round of $#!@ and giggles?
Dearest Neriandal, you should know that if a woman has the good graces and most excellent foresight to don lingerie, giggling is perhaps the second least-appropriate response available.
The other part of that phrase would also be an inappropriate response, and even more of a mood-killer! |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 12 Aug 2008 : 17:49:37
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Of course giggling is inappropriate... until such a time when more privacy allows certain 'unchivalric' indiscretions.
The correct response whenever a lovely female in lingerie is visible is to immediately take out you camera phone and E-mail me a picture.
This way, I have all the more reason to keep kicking myself for having decided to forego this year's Gencon. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 13 Aug 2008 : 01:30:00
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Originally posted by Markustay
The correct response whenever a lovely female in lingerie is visible is to immediately take out you camera phone and E-mail me a picture.
Hehe.. Markus, when I've found myself in such situations, I can tell you that picking up a camera phone is pretty much the LAST thing I'm thinking about.  |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 13 Aug 2008 : 03:46:59
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Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by Markustay
The correct response whenever a lovely female in lingerie is visible is to immediately take out you camera phone and E-mail me a picture.
Hehe.. Markus, when I've found myself in such situations, I can tell you that picking up a camera phone is pretty much the LAST thing I'm thinking about.
Indeed. Besides, the cameras should already be set up and running!  |
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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 13 Aug 2008 : 04:12:32
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
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Originally posted by Markustay
The correct response whenever a lovely female in lingerie is visible is to immediately take out you camera phone and E-mail me a picture.
Hehe.. Markus, when I've found myself in such situations, I can tell you that picking up a camera phone is pretty much the LAST thing I'm thinking about.
Indeed. Besides, the cameras should already be set up and running!
nicely played sir |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 13 Aug 2008 : 04:23:13
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Indeed.
Though, having now realised just how far we've taken Ed's scroll off-topic, I think perhaps we should return to questions for the Bearded One. |
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SirUrza
Master of Realmslore
USA
1283 Posts |
Posted - 13 Aug 2008 : 04:47:00
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| I'm curious as to what part of the Pathfinder Campaign Setting Ed wrote about. THO, might you ask him now that it's out? :) |
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createvmind
Senior Scribe
490 Posts |
Posted - 13 Aug 2008 : 04:58:09
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 13 Aug 2008 : 13:56:42
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I just wanted to point out to everyone that the 2007 Spin A Yarn tale has finally been posted...
Introducing "The Weaver of Dreams"
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
Part Four
And for those that have missed them, here's the links to past ones:
2002
"Ladies Night at the Yawning Portal"
2003
"Only a Woman Can Take This Sort of Abuse, Part One"
"Only a Woman Can Take This Sort of Abuse, Part Two"
2004
"The Night Tymora Sneezed", main page (links to all parts)
"The Night Tymora Sneezed, Part One"
"The Night Tymora Sneezed, Part Two"
"The Night Tymora Sneezed, Part Three"
"The Night Tymora Sneezed, Part Four"
"The Night Tymora Sneezed, Part Five"
"The Night Tymora Sneezed, Part Six"
2005
"The Lady of the Mists"
2006
"Every Revel a Masterpiece" (Introduction)
"Every Revel a Masterpiece" (part 1)
"Every Revel a Masterpiece" (part 2)
"Every Revel a Masterpiece" (part 3) |
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crazedventurers
Master of Realmslore
United Kingdom
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Posted - 13 Aug 2008 : 15:45:00
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I just wanted to point out to everyone that the 2007 Spin A Yarn tale has finally been posted...
Thanks WR for all the links - most appreciated
Cheers
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So saith Ed. I've never said he was sane, have I?
Gods, all this writing and he's running a constant fantasy version of Coronation Street in his head, too. .
shudder,
love to all,
THO
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 13 Aug 2008 : 16:26:16
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Hmm, I'll be dipped. For a long time, the original Spin A Yarn tale was nowhere to be found. It had been posted on the WotC site, but then lost in one of their many website reorganizations. I have now relocated the link to it.
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Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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althen artren
Senior Scribe
USA
780 Posts |
Posted - 13 Aug 2008 : 19:12:39
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Spells stilled, Scribes:
createvmind, fire truck nicely played (puts on raingear and umbrella)
Ed, what can you give us on the elven realm that existed before
Uvaeren, north of it on the west side of the Desertmounth Mountains.
Does anybody know where info on the mts around the Dalelands can be
found, I especially need mineral wealth that can be mined.
Also what mineral wealth was mined under Myth Drannor?
Finally, does anybody have rough number on the military forces
in the Dales circa 1375 DR? |
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chance87
Seeker
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Posted - 14 Aug 2008 : 03:29:48
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No worries, I'm sure there are older queries than mine awaiting in the pile.
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Originally posted by The Hooded One
Ed replies:
Hi, chance87. Sorry for my delay in getting to your question.
Another that's been on my mind lately: What can you tell us of the major players in the Harpstar Wars that hasn't seen print? Specifically, individuals on either side who fell in the conflict. |
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sfdragon
Great Reader
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Posted - 14 Aug 2008 : 04:23:12
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why is being a wizard like being a drow? both are likely to find a dagger in the back from a rival or one looking to further his own goals, fame and power
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Wulgreth
Acolyte
Italy
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Posted - 14 Aug 2008 : 11:46:04
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Sorry if I repost from elsewhere but I was suggested to submit this question here.
I led my players to the underdark, right below Chondath yesterday. The map in the "Underdark" accessory shows a huge area, miles wide, called "The Pit of Jhaam". Anyone has an idea of what it contains? Nothing shown up on Internet, is it another "blank" area for DM to design? Can we have some hints?
I guess it my be Jhaam's graveyard crawling with psionic monsters, but is it a immense cavern filled with slime or..? How was it created? |
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Faraer
Great Reader
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Posted - 14 Aug 2008 : 22:32:34
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Hi Ed. Hi Ms Hood.
Your reply about the Midsummer festival in Silverymoon from 2005 (archived here) includes a description of Shieldmeet that expands on the print-published one and looks as if it might have been adapted from a pre-existing writing. If that's so, and if you have equivalent texts accessible on the other seasonal festivals, making them available would be a very nice contribution to the work here. |
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Zandilar
Learned Scribe
Australia
313 Posts |
Posted - 15 Aug 2008 : 00:33:13
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Heya,
Just read Weaver of Dreams, and wanted to let Ed know I loved it. What a delightful story! |
Zandilar
~amor vincit omnia~
~audaces fortuna iuvat~
As the spell ends, you look up into the sky to see the sun blazing overhead like noon in a desert. Then something else in the sky catches your attention. Turning your gaze, you see a tawny furred kitten bounding across the sky towards the new sun. Her eyes glint a mischevious green as she pounces on it as if it were nothing but a colossal ball of golden yarn. With quick strokes of her paws, it is batted across the sky, back and forth. Then with a wink the kitten and the sun disappear, leaving the citizens of Elversult gazing up with amazed expressions that quickly turn into chortles and mirth.
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Jamallo Kreen
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 16 Aug 2008 : 01:40:45
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Originally posted by AlorinDawn
Ed & THO
Where is the Realms would one find the most advanced architecture? Which cities have the most fantastically complex buildings that "wow" visitors? And lastly, which city has the most bizarre? My queries are for surface cities, but if you think an underdark city would fit the bill feel free to include it.
Thanks again and see ya next week!
Ed answered some architectural questions for me a couple of years ago, but I'm at one of those fancy-shmancy public library computers and can't post the text for you now; they'll be in the archived answers.
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I have a mouth, but I am in a library and must not scream.
Feed the poor and stroke your ego, too: http://www.freerice.com/index.php.
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Jamallo Kreen
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 16 Aug 2008 : 01:47:33
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Originally posted by eiglos
Wooly,
I'm afraid you no longer have Lurue, she is not on the list in the 4e FRCS deities .
Silly! Why would they include all of the deities when they can peddle a book with "more" deities next year ... for about $35.00 (US)? That's exactly what they did with Faiths and Pantheons (read the last line of text before the "monster" deities chart).
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I have a mouth, but I am in a library and must not scream.
Feed the poor and stroke your ego, too: http://www.freerice.com/index.php.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36804 Posts |
Posted - 16 Aug 2008 : 02:34:01
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quote:
Originally posted by Jamallo Kreen
quote:
Originally posted by eiglos
Wooly,
I'm afraid you no longer have Lurue, she is not on the list in the 4e FRCS deities .
Silly! Why would they include all of the deities when they can peddle a book with "more" deities next year ... for about $35.00 (US)? That's exactly what they did with Faiths and Avatars (read the last line of text before the "monster" deities chart).
You mean Faiths & Pantheons? Faiths & Avatars was a great product... |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
5402 Posts |
Posted - 18 Aug 2008 : 03:18:24
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Ed,
Really sorry I didn't get more of a chance to talk to you at Gen Con (as I was with the small group of CK scribes that saw you in the hallway just before the Secrets of the Realms seminar), but my dear daughter informs me that she may have had a chance to say hello to you, as she thinks you were the kind gentleman that complimented her rather elaborate face paint that she was sporting on Sunday.
Just wondering if she did indeed encounter the charm of the Bearded One? |
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