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Faraer
Great Reader
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 Posted - 30 Oct 2003 : 23:16:12
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"Bookshops in Waterdeep tend to be crowded with dusty histories and volume after volume of adventure, romance, or bawdy sagas that are twenty to forty titles long."
(http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rl/20031029a)
Don't they just, don't they just...
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Edited by - Alaundo on 31 Oct 2003 17:58:32
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
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Posted - 31 Oct 2003 : 06:40:06
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I rather enjoyed this little piece of Realmslore.
In fact, during some of my FR campaigns two years that were based in the Western Heartlands, I created several small 'chapbooks' for use as gaming aids. One was based on the great works of Mintiper's chapbook, and the others were crafted from local bardic and storyteller NPC's used in the campaign.
There was also one ten page chapbook written by a bard player who left the game before the campaigns conclusion, but still allowed us to use his material.
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Faraer
Great Reader
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Posted - 31 Oct 2003 : 18:22:17
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Ah, I kind of meant this as a comment on the number of novels Wizards is doing these days, too.quote:
What you the gamer buy is an our-world compilation (that's where Elminster's comments come in...I, Ed of the Greenwood, make them into footnotes) of "chapbooks" published by Volo, and sold in the streets of Waterdeep and in shops of cities and trade-route settlements (Bargewright Inn, for example) throughout the Heartlands.
The chapbooks are several sheets of paper folded in half, and held together with two knots of waxed thread sewn through the folds...making them like very thin, poor-paper versions of the old D&D booklets. One would have to buy about forty of these (in numbered sets, published one a tenday like Dickens, when he was sold outside the pages of Strand Magazine) to assemble a single "Volo's Guide." The maps would be extra, and never in color. Us modern types get such perks.
Price of a single chapbook? Depends on scarcity, demand, location, and condition. For new but fairly scarce, say 1 sp, and go up or down from there....
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The Sage
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"Bookshops in Waterdeep tend to be crowded with...
, I just felt that I had to say what I did.