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Vitellia
Acolyte
Germany
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 Posted - 27 Aug 2007 : 11:00:40
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Hi ! Ages ago (about 15 years  ) I had to get a birthday present fpr my younger brother and bought the German translation of "The Hafling's Gem". Naturally, I had to read it to see if it was suitable for my brother and soon after I started reading the books in English, as I prefer the original to the translated version (although or because? I'm a translator myself *g*)
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Daniel of the North
Acolyte
Norway
30 Posts |
Posted - 27 Aug 2007 : 11:26:29
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| Baldurs Gate I&II - loving it ever since. |
THE ART OF ESCAPING REALITY |
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
1618 Posts |
Posted - 28 Aug 2007 : 06:32:34
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| Ed's novel, Spellfire |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 28 Aug 2007 : 23:42:41
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Originally posted by Daniel of the North
Baldurs Gate I&II - loving it ever since.
Indeed, those games had such a wonderful atmosphere that it was hard (for me, anyway!) to play them and NOT want to learn more about the setting. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
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Penknight
Senior Scribe
USA
538 Posts |
Posted - 29 Aug 2007 : 01:07:43
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Originally posted by Daniel of the North
Baldurs Gate I&II - loving it ever since.
Indeed, those games had such a wonderful atmosphere that it was hard (for me, anyway!) to play them and NOT want to learn more about the setting.
I whole-heartedly agree with that. |
Telethian Phoenix
Pathfinder Reference Document |
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Pharaun Mizzrym
Acolyte
Canada
34 Posts |
Posted - 06 Sep 2007 : 00:49:19
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| Baldur's Gate, I got into the books after reading one of my brothers FR Novels |
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sirreus
Learned Scribe
USA
118 Posts |
Posted - 14 Sep 2007 : 19:16:42
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i can't remember the book's title but it had the (parkinson) cover art of a horseman with a skullfaced shield. it was a supplement from 2e. of course the ice wind dale trilogy transformed many of my ideas about dnd at the time (late 80's) |
"The measure of an undisciplined mind, is that the intellect allows emotion to challenge the observed truth" Richard Baker |
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Rollo Ruttikin
Acolyte
USA
26 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2007 : 06:07:47
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Well met!
My first encounter was back in 1988 with the FR Boxed Set with the cool Keith Parkinson (May he rest in peace.)painting.
I was in the hospital recovering from sugery and basically fighting for my life. I was only 18 at the time.
When my mom brought it to me in the hospital, I was in too much pain and too weak to tear open the cellophane.
Once someone got it open for me and I was able to read snippits here and there for five minutes or so(This was usually after pain meds so I fell asleep prettty fast.)I was completely entranced. It literally took me away from my pain.
What an incredible world!
Wish I lived there......
But antibiotics are pretty cool too.
Rollo
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Brynweir
Senior Scribe
USA
436 Posts |
Posted - 29 Sep 2007 : 17:08:11
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Well, I actually got started in college along with my twin sister. Some friends of mine tried to explain D&D to me, but I had never even heard of it. In an effort to help me visualize, one of the guys loaned me The Crystal Shard and I was hooked.
Anybody who knows B.E.A.S.T. probably now knows who I really am. |
Anyone who likes to read something that's really dark and gritty and completely awesome ought to read The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks. You can check out a little taste at www.BrentWeeks.com I should probably warn you, though, that it is definitely not PG-13 :-D
He also started a new Trilogy with Black Prism, which may even surpass the Night Angel Trilogy in its awesomeness. 
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BARDOBARBAROS
Senior Scribe
Greece
581 Posts |
Posted - 04 Feb 2008 : 21:15:54
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| A computer game earlier than Baldur''''s Gate |
BARDOBARBAROS DOES NOT KILL.
HE DECAPITATES!!!
"The city changes, but the fools within it remain always the same" (Edwin Odesseiron- Baldur's gate 2) |
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Brunswick
Acolyte
Ireland
21 Posts |
Posted - 11 Mar 2008 : 16:12:37
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1988 and the Forgotten Realms boxed set for me as well (with the spear wielding rider on the front - anyone know who he is supposed to be?). Jeez, when I think about it now - didnt realise I was playing this long!!
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riot the outsider
Learned Scribe
USA
121 Posts |
Posted - 11 Mar 2008 : 18:58:14
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| I first found out about the realms from dark alliance 2 the game.remembered drizzt as being a hidden character in and the game and later stumbled apon homeland and got hooked. |
Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do. http://s13.gladiatus.com/game/c.php?uid=67846
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4255 Posts |
Posted - 11 Mar 2008 : 23:12:35
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I can't remember the year, but I was at the local Comic store and saw an advertisement on the back of a comic book. I asked the store clerk about it and he pulled out the boxed set. I wasn't a reader of magazines other than comics, so I had never read any of Ed's articles. All my years had been spent playing in Greyhawk or against the likes of Bargle the Infamous!
When I saw that box...well, that was the end of my extra money! So...not sure what year it first came out...but the comic advertisement is what got me!
I always considered the spear wielding rider on the front to have been from the Ride...and still to this day I have the front of that box (the rest of the box long ago falling apart) in shrink wrap in a binder with misc. things from my old campaign. |
The Old Grey Box and AD&D for me! |
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Sedrynvagor
Acolyte
United Kingdom
1 Posts |
Posted - 26 Mar 2008 : 00:20:41
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| Hey all, It was about 3 or 4 years ago in a second hand bookshop where I Picked up "spellfire" for 50p. Best money I ever spent :). |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 26 Mar 2008 : 17:21:32
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Originally posted by Sedrynvagor
Hey all, It was about 3 or 4 years ago in a second hand bookshop where I Picked up "spellfire" for 50p. Best money I ever spent :).
I loved that book, myself.
Welcome to Candlekeep! |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
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Dalmar Amad
Seeker
Germany
56 Posts |
Posted - 27 Mar 2008 : 03:41:37
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My first encounter with the Realms was with the Hillsfar computer game. Much later I stumbled upon the Icewinddale trilogy in my local library.
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sfdragon
Great Reader
2285 Posts |
Posted - 27 Mar 2008 : 05:57:19
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why is being a wizard like being a drow? both are likely to find a dagger in the back from a rival or one looking to further his own goals, fame and power
My FR fan fiction
Magister's GAmbit
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3290 Posts |
Posted - 08 Nov 2008 : 19:59:09
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-I couldn't vote. But I was introduced to the Realms in Korea in 1996 while in the Army. Waterdeep baby! I have been loving it ever since. Gilbert if you ever see this thanks for bringing the Realms to life for me!
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"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
Alaundo of Candlekeep |
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danbuter
Seeker
USA
74 Posts |
Posted - 09 Nov 2008 : 14:47:36
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| I got it back in 87. I went to the store to buy Greyhawk. The store only had a copy of the 1e FR box set, so I bought that instead. |
Nothing beats the gray box!
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eridanis
Acolyte
USA
9 Posts |
Posted - 10 Nov 2008 : 18:32:29
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| Early '80s Dragon Magazines for me. I remember sitting down with my vast Dragon collection at the time (all of ten issues or so), and trying to piece together what this "Realms" place was like, just from the hints and NPCs Ed dropped in his articles. Then the Grey Box came out, and I've been enjoying reading about the Realms ever since. (Even if the only Realms campaign I played in was just in the past five years.) |
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Genis
Learned Scribe
USA
226 Posts |
Posted - 10 Nov 2008 : 23:29:08
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| No offense but jeeez your all sooooooo old :D lol...hell, most of you started in the 80's....I wasn't even born at that time...I started sort of because I had been reading dragonlance, and my friend always had a different Drizzt book at school like every day and it looked a lot like that kind of book i'd enjoy...actually now that I think about it he didn't even suggest it like so many of you say a friend got you into it, he did and didn't I guess, I just remember rocognizing one of the books he had in a book store by the front cover and then I ended up buying some random R.A. Salvatore book and I read all the Drizzt books etc etc etc...and here i am...boom...less then a decade later and I can see why most of you astound me with your knowledge and the volume of books you've read, you've been at it 2 to 3 times as long as I have ;) which is why compared to you fine people I know next to nothing, never really D&D'd...at all...even tho i've always been very curious and wanted too...but living in Northern Minnesota and now Montana, I've walways been in regions that geekiness doesn't survive well lol my/our kind are rare in these parts, and only RP very very minutely as you can all probably tell. "Here at Candlekeep and a few other places" |
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Genis
Learned Scribe
USA
226 Posts |
Posted - 10 Nov 2008 : 23:33:55
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And suprisenly a lot of you also started from video games of various kinds, which I find odd considering it was several years after I started reading that I found out FR had games based in and around it...I was like holy pookies, why didn't I know about this! I've been hardcore missing out...where was my memo?
p.s. and sadly enough even though I found out about the FR games i've only gotten to play like half of one of them :( I would like to pretend that someday i'll play them all. lol
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Genis
Learned Scribe
USA
226 Posts |
Posted - 11 Nov 2008 : 09:01:50
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| sorry I'm used to other forums where whatever isnt allowed is automatically censored....my deepest apologies |
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Laerrigan
Learned Scribe
USA
195 Posts |
Posted - 13 Nov 2008 : 07:50:25
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| My husband was drawn into a 3.5 TT game that a few of his coworkers played each week. He started telling me about character creation and the fun of RPing with those oddballs, and eventually I just had to take a whack at it myself. |
"Your 'reality,' sir, is lies and balderdash, and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever." (Baron Munchausen)
"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was not made for this world." (C.S. Lewis, "Surprised by Joy") |
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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
947 Posts |
Posted - 14 Nov 2008 : 03:39:34
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my first contact was the purchase of the grey box though I read some previews before it was released and thought it looked cool
I do miss the Realms |
When hinges creak in doorless chambers and strange and frightening sounds echo through the halls, whenever candlelights flicker where the air is deathly still, that is the time when ghosts are present, practicing their terror with ghoulish delight. |
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Fingal
Seeker
56 Posts |
Posted - 18 Nov 2008 : 21:37:01
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Although I was playing D+D when the Realms first appeared I wasn't really that aware of them and as I got a bit older and all role playing stuff got sidelined (for several reasons,) I pretty much forgot all about them.
Years later I got Baldur's Gate and it's sequel and loved them but never really thought too much about the world they portrayed. My real interest in the realms really began, after all these false starts, when I was laid up for a month at home with an ankle injury about two years ago and to amuse myself I had started building modules for Neverwinter Nights 2. Unable to walk, I sent my girlfriend out on a mercy mission to get me the Campaign setting to help facilitate my building and that -as they say - was that. |
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Ionik Knight
Learned Scribe
USA
222 Posts |
Posted - 15 Dec 2008 : 14:57:36
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The Dragon articles, I loved them for their flavor as much or more than for their content.
Ionik Knight |
Fools to right of them,
Jesters to left of them,
Clowns in front of them
Pun'd and parody'd. |
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BARDOBARBAROS
Senior Scribe
Greece
581 Posts |
Posted - 16 Dec 2008 : 08:04:56
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BARDOBARBAROS DOES NOT KILL.
HE DECAPITATES!!!
"The city changes, but the fools within it remain always the same" (Edwin Odesseiron- Baldur's gate 2) |
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Ghost King
Learned Scribe
USA
253 Posts |
Posted - 16 Dec 2008 : 17:03:59
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I was introduced to the Realms in 3rd edition which lead to me buying up previous editions for the lore and history of the setting. Out of all the settings I enjoy playing in the Realms the most, although I'll admit Eberron is growing on me some.
~Ghost King~ |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 18 Dec 2008 : 20:05:21
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Originally posted by BARDOBARBAROS
A computer game earlier than Baldur''''s Gate
You don't remember the title? |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
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How did you first encounter the Realms?
