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shades of eternity
Learned Scribe
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 Posted - 10 Apr 2016 : 15:17:44
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This is a not so serious thread to explain why the Forgotten Realms has such great historical records.
I'll start
Dwarves and Elves are both secretly races of bookworms and the main reason for contention between the two is they use different sorting systems. :D
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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shades of eternity
Learned Scribe
288 Posts |
Posted - 10 Apr 2016 : 15:21:26
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| Yeah, but Oghma and Denier have this epic fight in the library of the gods, where Shar keeps misfiling material. :p. |
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Irennan
Great Reader
Italy
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Posted - 10 Apr 2016 : 15:23:38
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Originally posted by shades of eternity
Yeah, but Oghma and Denier have this epic fight in the library of the gods, where Shar keeps misfiling material. :p.
You forgot about Leira. |
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hashimashadoo
Master of Realmslore
United Kingdom
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Posted - 10 Apr 2016 : 15:24:05
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| As someone who frequently rewrites FR histories for copyright purposes, I find that it's actually very entertaining to do so. |
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shades of eternity
Learned Scribe
288 Posts |
Posted - 10 Apr 2016 : 15:27:12
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Originally posted by Irennan
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Originally posted by shades of eternity
Yeah, but Oghma and Denier have this epic fight in the library of the gods, where Shar keeps misfiling material. :p.
You forgot about Leira.
either that or she just likes to take credit for it :p.
great gravy, we just turned the power powerful beings in the realms into a slice of life comedy in a library...well done everyone. :D |
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Adhriva
Learned Scribe
USA
147 Posts |
Posted - 10 Apr 2016 : 21:09:55
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An organization called the Heralds. They write these tomes which even tell us just how much Dex and Charisma the even most snobby and secretive of evil overlords have....
Alternatively, if you prefer:
A wizard did it.
...Likely one of Mystra's. |
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Caladan Brood
Senior Scribe
Norway
410 Posts |
Posted - 11 Apr 2016 : 18:31:50
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| How do you guys "layer" your campaigns with history anyway, aside from a ruin upon a ruin upon a ruin's ruin? |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 11 Apr 2016 : 19:10:04
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How do you guys "layer" your campaigns with history anyway, aside from a ruin upon a ruin upon a ruin's ruin?
You cover how the ruined tower is now a bandit stronghold, but it was once a nobleman's manor, and before that an outpost of this ancient kingdom, which arose from this even more ancient kingdom. |
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Starshade
Learned Scribe
Norway
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Posted - 11 Apr 2016 : 23:29:10
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| Just look at the real life Stonehenge, where 3-5 ++ cultures have dug, built, done rituals. Imagine such an site within D&D. 2-3 layers of building, ancient wards, magic. Soon it would look like a primitive warded site akin to a mythal, just chaotic, odd and weird. Or you could just have fun layering 3-4 burial complexes with randomness on top of each other in European iron age style. With mummies, undead iron age warriors, a demonic traps, etc. Who maybe didn't even get set there by the same cult. |
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
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Posted - 12 Apr 2016 : 00:37:02
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Originally posted by Irennan
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Originally posted by shades of eternity
Yeah, but Oghma and Denier have this epic fight in the library of the gods, where Shar keeps misfiling material. :p.
You forgot about Leira.
Leira is actually Shar, but no one actually knows it. |
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
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Posted - 12 Apr 2016 : 00:57:16
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Whenever I've done historical work, I've always zoomed in on what I wanted to put in (settlement, person, event) and then zoomed out to see what is/was going around that entry to ascertain how it might have interacted with the whole. When you are operating in a lore-rich environment (i.e. the 1350s in the Inner Sea lands) it's fairly easy to make the linkages and work out how things may have occurred. In times and places with little or no lore you find yourself not only putting meat on the skeleton, but many times crafting the skeleton itself.
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History of the Realms - Why so Meticulous?
