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Originally posted by Rolindin

Mr Boyd have just bought the Dungeon issue 148, I saw your article Savage Tide Wells of Darkness.

I have had a quick look at the article so far.
Just a commit for now the article looks good, are most of the ideals such as the well of Argolcheir your ideals?
and how did you come up with so much?

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I'm sure once I read and reread the article I'll have some more question about certain things in the article.

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Originally posted by sleyvas

Woot! I may be going to Gen Con! Eric, what's your favorite beer!

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Originally posted by Bane of the Harpers

Mr. Boyd, may I ask, and someone has probably already did, for you to give me more information on the FR conversion for the Age of Worms? More precisely, I'd love more informations on the part Jergal has to play in the Ebon Triad....

Thanks

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Originally posted by Jamallo Kreen

I have a question which is vexing me at the moment. A week or two ago one of the Sages posted a link on Candlekeep to a page with a two-part pdf of "monsters," co-written with Tom Costa. I thought it was you, Eric, but I can't find it on your web site. I haven't been able to find the link, either. The second pdf didn't transfer properly and I would like to get it. Eric, was this one of your projects?

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Originally posted by Bane of the Harpers

Mr. Boyd, may I ask, and someone has probably already did, for you to give me more information on the FR conversion for the Age of Worms? More precisely, I'd love more informations on the part Jergal has to play in the Ebon Triad....

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Originally posted by Rolindin

Having read the article Savage tide Wellls of Darkness:

First MR Boyd a question about Broken Reach or two.
The Red Shroud, is the only one allowed to sell poisons.
When say a character wishes to encourer about poisons. Would they ask one of the Red Shroud's guards, or would the merchant direct them to The Red Shroud who is watching.
What kind of reactons would the Red Shroud have towards someone asking for say Devils Bane or Demon's bane?

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The races humans, elves, dwarfs, tieflings: to me an regular elf trading on on of the abbyass level such as this would either be evil in some way or a drow.
Humans I can underdstand, Red Wizards, Black Wizards, Necromancers and such.
Dwarfs, would they not most likely be Dungar dwarfs selling and trading?
A regular dwarf selling in this place would have to be inclined towards evil to be in this place and a seller or merchant.
What kinds of wares would they sell?
(I have somne ideals, but since the article dosen't really say: it might be good to get some kind of ideal of things they would sell.)

Theses are my first questions if you don't mind.

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Ericboyd
There are exceptions to every rule. You could find a small number of any race in the Abyss, particularly on the first level of the Abyss, including elves.

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Originally posted by Kuje

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I have a question which is vexing me at the moment.

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Eric, was this one of your projects?

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http://www.ericlboyd.com/dnd/monsters.html

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Ericboyd
There are exceptions to every rule. You could find a small number of any race in the Abyss, particularly on the first level of the Abyss, including elves.

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So in your opion then would the elfs, dwarfs, and other races form the material plane be more likey to be a studying kind of tradiers.
What I mean to say the elfs from FR sent traderiers to the lower plane, would the elfs be watchful. But not letting the Red Shroud people know. So as to size up a potionel enemy? Too study for any weakness if they did visite their plane and attack. Or would the elfs be truly their too trade?

Or maybe a combination of both?
If so the elfs would send different trade envoys to other lower planes also to study them.
Is my thinking right here, or are the elfs just their too trade.

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Originally posted by Kuje

Ed,

There's some confusion about the Undermountain sourcebook. I've seen it both privately and publicly. So I'm asking: is the new sourcebook part of FR canon? A lot of people are confused if it is or is not since it doesn't have the FR logo and its a generic sourcebook.

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Yes, afaik.

Grand History of the Realms will refer to the key event that most folks are upset about.

--Eric

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Ed,

There's some confusion about the Undermountain sourcebook. I've seen it both privately and publicly. So I'm asking: is the new sourcebook part of FR canon? A lot of people are confused if it is or is not since it doesn't have the FR logo and its a generic sourcebook.

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Yes, afaik.

Grand History of the Realms will refer to the key event that most folks are upset about.

--Eric

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What concerns me most is the aftermath of that event. I'm wondering when and how we will find out about the effects on Undermountain as a whole, as well as Skullport and Waterdeep. Even if you can't spill the beans on the effects, can you at least tell us when that will be explored?

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At the time of the first edition, first printing Deities & Demigods, there was no 'Core Lolth' / 'FR Lolth' dichotomy which you seem to be so set upon. That appears (to me, anyway) to be mere retconning on the part of post 2nd ed novel writers (not Ed Greenwood), like the (ill-thought out) 'Great Tree', something else Mr. Greenwood had nothing to do with.

IIRC, the whole 'Auraushnee' origin of Lolth was also someone elses, as I don't recall that being mentioned in the original Drow of the Underdark. (If it was, please post it here, as I'm presently missing my copy of the 2nd ed DotU, since I loaned it out to a friend who moved before he could return it.)

And there is no "Forgotten Realms Lolth" and "Core Lolth". Lolth is Lolth! You're not going to be able to travel to the Demonweb pits and see "Forgotten Realms Lolth" sitting down and having tea with "Core Lolth", "Greyhawk Lolth", and "D20 Modern Urban Arcana Lolth", unless She totally flips out and breaks down into Multiple Personality Disorder.

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One step after another. Lolth as Demon Queen was created for Greyhawk, no doubt about that. Once the FR arrived, she was adopted (as many other deities) to the Realms' pantheon. While in AD&D we do had a connected cosmology, the FR one soon took of fand became something special. Not just in terms of 200 new or adopted deities, but also with regard to existing ones. There is a story about Lolth and Corellon in The Complete Elven Handbook (1992), more or less excluding Araushnee's involvement in the Gruumsh affair. (While we are at it, the book also says something about the creation of the Elves, not those of the FR, but anyway.)
Demihuman Deities took that up and - with Evermeet - started to create (as with hundreds of other FR deities) a seperate, more detailed FR history of the deities. Hence, Araushnee came about and was introduced by none other than Eric L. Boyd (or someone of alike authority). At that point, the FR Lolth became separated from the Core one, not least because the FR version grew immensely in power. Whether Planescapers and Great Wheel-all-cosmologies-are-connected loyalists liked it or not. It even says so in the introduction of the F&A series: What happens in other settings' cosmologies has no influence on deities within the Realms, unless a deity is slain on its home soil. 3E took that up, only that they used the FR Lolth's stats et al for the Core one too.
After the War of the Spider Queen, in which the FR Lolth took the FR Demonwebs out of the "FR Abyss", the FR Lolth is most definitely no longer the Core Lolth, who still lives in the "Core Abyss".
Coming to think of it, this might be the start of killing off the FR Lolth altogether, as she could then be slain on her home soil in that sava game she plays with Eilistraee, who could simply walk over into the seperate FR Demonwebs. As dire a thought that may be.
Generally, what has been, has been. I look at the Forgotten Realms as a complete setting, with its own deities and Abyss and what have you. This world may or may not be connected through whatever channels to other settings that may of may not have deities that are namesakes. I use the Fiendish Codices for reference when I play with fiends or fiend lords, no problem. But just as reference. What happens in Core Greyhawk worlds or Eberron or what have you, places that might have namesake deities is of no relevance ... or, let's put it in other words: has as much influence on the Realms as the fate of the original Real Word Osiris, Set, or Loviatar. That is: nothing.

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Who apparently didn't consult Mr. Greenwood. It reminds me of Sam Kinison's rant about televangelist scams:
(as Jesus) "Where the heck in this book did I say 'Take money from the elderly and build a WATER SLIDE'?!?"

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Originally posted by Zanan
So - am I right to assume that when writing DD you did consult with previous lore on elves and drow and, last but certainly not least the great Archwizard himself? This is not about who's right or not, just requesting some more info on how the FR history of the drow deities came about.

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Originally posted by Faraer

Araushnee is mentioned as Lolth's former name in FOR2 The Drow of the Underdark p. 20. Is that the first occurrence?

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Araushnee is mentioned as Lolth's former name in FOR2 The Drow of the Underdark p. 20. Is that the first occurrence?

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Originally posted by Faraer

Araushnee is mentioned as Lolth's former name in FOR2 The Drow of the Underdark p. 20. Is that the first occurrence?

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Originally posted by Faraer

But Elaine, your novel was published six or seven years after FOR2.

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But Elaine, your novel was published six or seven years after FOR2.

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Noted that too. Ed mentions her name under Drow Religion in TDotUD in 1991. Nothing more than her name though.
BTW, Demihuman Deities and Evermeet appeared within months of each other, so am I right in assuming a close working relation on that and the Seldarine topics?

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Originally posted by Purple Dragon Knight

Erik,

Do you know who did the "In Faerun" entries for Monster Manual V? and do you know who wrote the vampire section? I have both Realms and vampire stat block questions for that book.

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Originally posted by Zanan

Vendui! (well, this must be followed by a question drow, of course )

In the Shadowdale excerpt over at the Wizards ...

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ex/20070718a

... the drow House Dhuurniv is mentioned. They are Lolthites, working together with the Zhents. Now, my only source on them tells that they were working in Cormanthor when it fell, ages ago. Can you or the designer responsible tell me which city they belong too - if any - or whether they are counted among those "Spiderkissers" named in the Cormanthor entries?

Thanks in advance,

Zanan!

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