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Sightless
Senior Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 15 May 2012 : 20:26:17
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Sometimes, the vary crafty can move someone where they want them to be, while appearing to be there enemy. He is a saige after all.
If he lets the right information slip into the right hands, at the right time, in the right way, the drow may never suspect.
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We choose to live a lie, when we see with, & not through the eye.
Every decision, no matter the evidence, is a leap of faith; if it were not, then it wouldn't be a choice at all. |
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Tamsar
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 16 May 2012 : 00:00:29
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| I don't get what the big deal about Lolth is, I mean she only has 66 hit points :) Anyway, at the moment Elminster seems to be getting through bodies at a rather alarming rate, the last one he got didn't exactly last too long did it? |
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light |
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Sightless
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 16 May 2012 : 02:23:15
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Originally posted by Tamsar
I don't get what the big deal about Lolth is, I mean she only has 66 hit points :) Anyway, at the moment Elminster seems to be getting through bodies at a rather alarming rate, the last one he got didn't exactly last too long did it?
Well... Now... that's an interesting statement. So, things haven't been exactly going his way since his little love trip to hell. |
We choose to live a lie, when we see with, & not through the eye.
Every decision, no matter the evidence, is a leap of faith; if it were not, then it wouldn't be a choice at all. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2012 : 03:52:52
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| Elminster is always in Hell - the only thing that changes is the geography. |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Lady Shadowflame
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 16 May 2012 : 15:03:19
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Well, if you've got to body-hop, you might as well land yourself in a youthful, powerful body from a race of psychos whose eugenics/beauty obsession will make it likely you'll get a hot one...
Nine out of ten body-stealers agree: once you go elf, humanity goes on the shelf. |
Save a lizard... Ride a drow.
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jerrod
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 25 May 2012 : 04:05:31
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| 66hp...looks like someone needs to update their info on lolth..lol |
I haven't been here in years but I used to be DARKFLAME MILLITHOR(DROW ARCHMAGE of wildmagic |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 27 May 2012 : 03:06:19
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Originally posted by Markustay
Elminster is always in Hell - the only thing that changes is the geography.
Not only El. Almost all immortals have their personal hells. It's one of the prices they have to pay. |
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jerrod
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 27 May 2012 : 04:05:57
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| Is it really so far fetched for elminster to portrait a drow? He has train drow apprentices,battled them,and had a hand in the making of the first drow of the underdark sourcebook! And remember drow can become as powerful as human wizards.(remember humans were limited to 9th level spells after netheril,but elves weren't.....) |
I haven't been here in years but I used to be DARKFLAME MILLITHOR(DROW ARCHMAGE of wildmagic |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 27 May 2012 : 17:13:13
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My initial knee-jerk reaction to this (and subsequent posting of this thread) had nothing to do with Elminster being a drow, but rather, why.
I have no problem with him being anything. In fact, in anther life, he may have been Poppa Smurf.
I just didn't care for what I thought - at the time - was an attempt to commercialize a beloved character (even more so then he already has). I am much more hopeful at this point, and actually regret my initial reaction (and this thread... but I will let it stand, because others will indeed have questions moving forward). |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 31 May 2012 : 04:56:21
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Originally posted by jerrod
Is it really so far fetched for elminster to portrait a drow?
Not really. Except that all roads these days tend to lead to the...drow. |
Every beginning has an end. |
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TBeholder
Great Reader
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Posted - 05 Jun 2012 : 09:59:35
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Originally posted by Diffan
Wait, so it's perfectly reasonable if he turns from male to female but apparnelty Drow is where people draw the line .
I actually find the idea interesting and I wonder how he'll unite the Wizards of War as a Drow?
Why not female Drow then?
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
Sounds like Ed's up to his crazy tricks again. This is certainly unexpected, and it could go neat places.
Originally posted by Old Man Harpell
If it turns out that it's jumping the shark, we can comment on it after we see what it's like. Until then, I see little point in getting worked up about it.
And be thankful it's Ed doing it.
To me, it looks more and more like Ed Greenwood's reaction on "we need to introduce Bear Lore and server shards into FR!" was something like "Heh-heh-heh. I'll show these amateur jesters how masters do it"...
Remember "spin-a-yarn" series? Step one: take the worst, recite or at least mention it. Step two: make it look as ludicrously paltry in comparison as it essentially is by making up something twisted into crazy awesomeness.
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Originally posted by Bakra
I find it all amusing. Especially the bit about Manshoon hunting down Elminster clones.
That, too. 
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Originally posted by Markustay
Whats next for 6e, and Everisminster Drowcale?
Yup. FR still got too many characters to count on fingers. And there's craving of more Gimmicks to throw in. And, consequently, fun to be had on this subject.
(looks at Dragon Recent Issues) ...sharp pauldrons, Popeye the Thri-Kreen, tendrildragon, fluo-fog, boobmail, two overlong running swords, plump elfess with donkey ear indulging in provocative marketing. Also, black-clothed ninjazz in a desert... so it's only a matter of time when they'll run into pirates.
So... either the archvillain or Elminster or Elminster's sidekick will: be a koboldragon, have hentacles, eat spinash and sit on a mountain of fluo-refuse.
Oh, wait. I forgot the sword spider, Drowminster's animal companion. 
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Originally posted by Markustay
I really hope all of this craziness isn't seriously being considered.
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People never wonder How the world goes round -Helloween
And even I make no pretense Of having more than common sense -R.W.Wood
It's not good, Eric. It's a gazebo. -Ed Whitchurch |
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