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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
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 Posted - 05 Dec 2008 : 16:17:24
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I know, we don't like these threads but this VS. is from RAS in Kobold's Quarterly Friday Funny.
http://www.koboldquarterly.com/k/article122.php
Now, if this turns into a argument, then the mods can lock my thread. :)
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 05 Dec 2008 : 16:27:08
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Originally posted by Kuje
I know, we don't like these threads but this VS. is from RAS in Kobold's Quarterly Friday Funny.
http://www.koboldquarterly.com/k/article122.php
Eh,I was hoping for something written. I just don't like watching or listening to interviews and such online.
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Now, if this turns into a argument, then the mods can lock my thread. :)
And we will. So let this be a warning to those who might take this too far. |
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Arion Elenim
Senior Scribe
933 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2008 : 17:35:19
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Salvatore: "If I ever get to use Elminster I will kill him."
That's goin' up on my wall. |
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4211 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2008 : 19:39:25
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Aye, funny interview too.
Drizzt vs. Elminster eh? LOL |
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Nerfed2Hell
Senior Scribe
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2008 : 21:11:38
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
3740 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2008 : 22:00:28
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Originally posted by Nerfed2Hell
I could see him getting to use Elminster and killing Elminster... I just don't see him as being allowed to keep Elminster dead.
-Didn't work for Troy Denning (though I doubt that Denning attempted to kill Elminster, rather than simply "take him out of the equation", nor do I think he had any hostile intentions), so... |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Arion Elenim
Senior Scribe
933 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2008 : 23:35:48
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Yeah...isn't it kind of impossible to kill Elminster (short of a Wish spell, I guess)?
Something about an innumerable number of clones, a la Manshoon... |
My latest Realms-based short story, about a bard, a paladin of Lathander and the letter of the law, Debts Repaid. It takes place before the "shattering" and gives the bard Arion a last gasp before he plunges into the present.http://candlekeep.com/campaign/logs/log-debts.htm |
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danbuter
Seeker
USA
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Posted - 05 Dec 2008 : 23:37:44
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Nothing beats the gray box!
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
3740 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2008 : 23:58:17
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Originally posted by The Sage
Other than that, I found it rather bland actually, and not particularly funny.
-How so, bland? Not being funny, that much I can agree. This is the first interview with an author/designer that I can recall, in which the author/designer was somewhat critical of WotC and/or the design team calling the shots concerning the Forgotten Realms. The part where he alludes to Drow no longer having Infravision, and Narbondel suddenly becoming useless, that's as close to an author/designer being angry for rules/storyline/etc. change that I've ever heard. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 06 Dec 2008 : 01:07:25
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| Sorry, I found it grating. The actual commentary (which really wasn't much I haven't heard before) was hard to hear; sadly, the clamorous yahoos in the background were not. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Arion Elenim
Senior Scribe
933 Posts |
Posted - 06 Dec 2008 : 01:11:17
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Sorry, I found it grating. The actual commentary (which really wasn't much I haven't heard before) was hard to hear; sadly, the clamorous yahoos in the background were not.
I thought the same thing...was that his kids in the background? |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Brynweir
Senior Scribe
USA
436 Posts |
Posted - 06 Dec 2008 : 01:54:13
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4211 Posts |
Posted - 06 Dec 2008 : 02:44:11
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
1714 Posts |
Posted - 06 Dec 2008 : 09:01:29
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Originally posted by danbuter
Fun, though hard to hear.
Much easier to hear if you use earphones. Bob's voice stays in the foreground that way, and the "whoahers" remain muffled in the background.
As others have said, nothing new, here. |
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Drakul
Senior Scribe
USA
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 08 Dec 2008 : 14:01:53
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quote:
Originally posted by BEAST
Much easier to hear if you use earphones.
I did. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Brian R. James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
1098 Posts |
Posted - 08 Dec 2008 : 14:59:04
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| The audio clip is from R.A. Salvatore's seminar at this year's Gen Con. The people you hear asking questions are members of the audience. |
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riot the outsider
Learned Scribe
USA
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Matt James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
918 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2008 : 14:17:04
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2008 : 15:33:28
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Originally posted by Matt James
Wouldn't Drizzt get obliterated simply for the fact that Drizzt is a mere mortal? I always found that part of Drizzt to be the most appealing. He was a relatively normal guy, albeit heroic qualities.
It's really a joke--RAS has said before that who the winner is would depend on who is the one writing the story. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
Edited by - Rinonalyrna Fathomlin on 09 Dec 2008 15:33:49 |
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Matt James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
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Posted - 09 Dec 2008 : 15:36:06
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quote:
Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
quote:
Originally posted by Matt James
Wouldn't Drizzt get obliterated simply for the fact that Drizzt is a mere mortal? I always found that part of Drizzt to be the most appealing. He was a relatively normal guy, albeit heroic qualities.
It's really a joke--RAS has said before that who the winner is would depend on who is the one writing the story.
hehe, I know ;) |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2008 : 15:37:10
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OK. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Nerfed2Hell
Senior Scribe
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2008 : 20:49:24
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quote:
Originally posted by Arion Elenim
Yeah...isn't it kind of impossible to kill Elminster (short of a Wish spell, I guess)?
Something about an innumerable number of clones, a la Manshoon...
Having an innumerable amount of clones doesn't mean it is impossible to kill Elminster. Those clones just mean that his remaining "dead" isn't very likely... but killing him is as easy as overcoming all his other protectons. |
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Firestorm
Senior Scribe
Canada
826 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2008 : 23:50:44
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| hahahahahhaa. Great Interview |
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Firestorm
Senior Scribe
Canada
826 Posts |
Posted - 09 Dec 2008 : 23:54:29
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| Is it wrong that the first thing I thought of was how Salvatore killed Chewbacca? |
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