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xaeyruudh
Master of Realmslore
USA
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 Posted - 11 Aug 2013 : 06:42:03
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We all have them from time to time. Sometimes it's a result of imbibing too much zzar, other times the keyboard rearranges itself in an electronic conspiracy to make us look like we're drunk amirite?
I think some of these typos are hints from the cosmos, and occasionally we recognize the genius in them and run with it. The result might be a new character, an adventure, a novel, ... the possibilities are not endless but there are a lot of them. At the very least they're good for a chuckle.
So I was thinking we might want to share some of them -- the ones we're not already planning to make a bunch of money with, anyway.
I've had some entertaining ones but at the moment the only one I can recall is the rather underwhelming one that prompted this post:
Rethild, the Great Dwamp.
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 11 Aug 2013 : 07:01:38
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Not really funny, but it is what comes to mind at the moment . . . the name of Rivalen was mentioned instead of Riven in a context where Rivalen would not likely be. It is in one of the Twilight War books.
Also (though I may be misremembering), the Nine Hells was spelled the Nine Hills in one of the pre-SP novels. Elminster in Hell, I think, but really not sure.
Anyway, nice topic. |
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The Arcanamach
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 11 Aug 2013 : 14:08:08
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| Well, there is a topic on the first page titled "Half(ing) Change" instead of half(ling). Does that count? |
I have a dream that one day, all game worlds will exist as one. |
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xaeyruudh
Master of Realmslore
USA
1853 Posts |
Posted - 11 Aug 2013 : 15:52:58
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Yup, any (Realms/D&D-related) amusing typo really.
And the Nine Hills definitely counts too. Puts a new spin on the archdevils and their egos.  |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31799 Posts |
Posted - 12 Aug 2013 : 03:58:45
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quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Let us not forget the merry month of Ukta! 
Hehe. I still use that one in my Realms, when possible.
I love confusing players with little tidbits like this. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 12 Aug 2013 : 11:28:31
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Paul spelled the Most High's name Telemont instead of Telamont in one of the Godborn excerpts he shared. Though he said he would be informing his editor about it. |
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xaeyruudh
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 12 Aug 2013 : 15:14:04
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| I wonder if a telemont is anything like a telephone or a television. Or a telephoto lens. If so, I could use one... living in the suburbs, I could pick up the telemont and smell crisp mountain air and listen to the birds. |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 12 Aug 2013 : 18:50:32
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Originally posted by xaeyruudh
I wonder if a telemont is anything like a telephone or a television.
I'd go with the latter: Tele-monitor.
Gomph the archmage of Menzo (1st ed. of Homeland).
The months of September and January in the 1st eds. of The Crystal Shard and Sojourn, respectively.
The 1st ed. of Exile attempted to explain the confusion over the alternate spellings of Lloth and Lolth, but when WOTC re-released the "The Legend of Drizzt" version, they just used "Find & Replace" to replace all the "Lloth" spellings with "Lolth", while still keeping the passage that attempts to explain the difference between the spellings. But there are no different spellings within the book, anymore!
Week vs. tenday fun. In the 1st ed. of Exile, RAS referred to weeks often. The Zin-carla ritual took ten weeks to perform, or seventy days. But with the "TLOD" re-release, WOTC replaced all references of "weeks" with "tendays". So now, the Zin-carla ritual takes ten tendays, which you would think comes out to one hundred days. But nooo . . . WOTC forgot to change the seventy days reference from the 1st ed. So somehow, ten tendays still equals out to only seventy days! (I only noticed this when trying to work out a detailed chronology of the novel, and I found it extremely difficult to squeeze all of the novel's events into the required number of weeks and/or months between the anniversary of the House Do'Urden/House Hun'ett war and the beginning of Sojourn. In this case, the precise number of weeks/tendays really does matter.) |
"'You don't know my history,' he said dryly."
--Drizzt Do'Urden (The Pirate King, Part 1: Chapter 2)
<"Comprehensive Chronology of R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms Works"> |
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