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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
3763 Posts |
 Posted - 19 Dec 2008 : 06:55:02
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| -There was a whole bunch of them. Eye of the Beholder, Pool(s) of Radiance, etc. |
(A Tri-Partite Arcanist Who Has Forgotten More Than Most Will Ever Know) |
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see
Learned Scribe
235 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2008 : 17:58:54
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My first Realms contact was SSI's Secret of the Silver Blades, 1990, though I didn't actually realize it was FR at the time, and which came with a coupon for three free months of Dragon.
My first conscious contact with FR was the Old Gray Box, which I got later that same year as part of my AD&D product-buying inspired by Dragon. |
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ranger_of_the_unicorn_run
Learned Scribe
USA
292 Posts |
Posted - 19 Dec 2008 : 18:03:44
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My first contact was with Baldur's Gate and The Crystal Shard at about the same time. The funny thing, though, is that a few years later I was playing Eye of the Beholder for the Gameboy and I didn't realize it was FR until it mentioned something distinctly Faerunian, I believe it was the city of Waterdeep that was mentioned. I guess I was being kinda slow.  |
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Mouse
Acolyte
USA
28 Posts |
Posted - 20 Dec 2008 : 02:46:10
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I got a used version of the Old Grey Box for a birthday present when I was 11. Now I almost reflexively associate DnD with the Realms whenver I think of if, though I have played other settings as well.
In short, early childhood memories . |
"Barbarians are more polite then civilized men, for civilized men know they may be rude to another without having their skulls cleaved open as a general thing."
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Calen
Acolyte
Canada
14 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jan 2009 : 18:57:19
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| I read my cousin's old beat up copy of Pool of Radiance. then one of the people i was playing with got The Crystal Shard. That was when we decided to get the second release of the campaign setting and move into Faerun |
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ErskineF
Learned Scribe
USA
330 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jan 2009 : 19:08:57
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| The old SSI games. I played the original NWN when it was on AOL, as well as POR, GSF, TSF, etc. They were fun games, though the graphics were clunky. I would still play them, if it weren't for the tediousness of their copy protection. |
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Erskine Fincher
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jan 2009 : 19:46:07
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| 9 years ago, we bought the 2e campaign box after playing several generic d&d adventures, no idea why, just a random pick, I remember the logos of all the settings in 2e MM, I wanted Dark Sun |
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sneakypetev
Acolyte
USA
24 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jan 2009 : 19:52:26
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| 1E gray box. I saw it at game store,liked the art work on it," Oh this looks cool". Been a fan ever since. |
"Go for the eyes boo,go for the eyes!"- Minsc |
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tahlia
Acolyte
New Zealand
12 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jan 2009 : 06:45:16
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| A friend on a book forum introduced me to them. Before that I had read very few fantasy books. |
The dragon is always smaller in the eye than in the mind |
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Zanan
Senior Scribe
Germany
942 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jan 2009 : 09:19:43
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| Well, first encountered the Realms via Menzoberranzan, the PC game. Had been playing various at the time, including the legendary Ultima Underworld I & II, Ravenloft: Stone Prophet II, or Elder Scrolls: Arena. Going to England - greetings to all graduates/students of Keele University! - I encountered a Sword & Sorcerey society during my studies and joined up. We played the Night Below campaign within the Realms and I got myself my first FR books back then, the Old Grey Box (Huzzah!). It was mainly novel-reading afterwards, but since 1998 I've been playing on a weekly basis. |
Cave quid dicis, quando et cui!
Gæð a wyrd swa hio scel!
In memory of Alura Durshavin.
Visit my "Homepage" to find A Guide to the Drow NPCs of Faerûn, Drow and non-Drow PrC and much more. |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
1714 Posts |
Posted - 06 Jan 2009 : 15:40:48
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| 1st edition of RAS's novel The Crystal Shard back in spring, 1988, for me. I had known about the D&D game and the cartoon earlier, but I didn't want to work so hard to play a game (school work load whooped me). Received a puzzle with Larry Elmore art as a birthday present, and was coerced by my mom to go to the library for some summer reading, where I found the book with that same Elmore pic on the cover. Continued reading those D&D "Choose Your Own Adventure" books until stumbling across TCSh in a junior high school book fair. Liked the cover; thought it looked more subdued, less flashy than most of the other cover art. Also loved the fact that it looked like a lot shorter read than TLOTR... |
"'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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Lethesia
Acolyte
USA
3 Posts |
Posted - 23 Mar 2009 : 19:07:59
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All of my knowledge of the realms was from my brother, who's been playing D&D sinse before I was born, when I was about 5 my mom helped me make a character AD&D and I "played" with everyone else. My whole family has been playing ever sinse. (parents, 5 siblings)I'm only up to 3, and some 3.5 because they keep changing it so fast, I dun have money for whole set of new books!  |
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Picture of Lethy - http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs42/f/2009/087/a/e/WIP_Lethy_by_Forsaken_Starlette.jpg |
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swifty
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
517 Posts |
Posted - 23 Mar 2009 : 21:10:28
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| well met lethesia.my first intro was darkwalker on moonshae in 88 in british shop wh smith.only brought it coz the cover reminded me of the fighting fantasy books by steve jackson.still one of my fave trilogies. |
go back to sleep america.everything is under control.heres american gladiators.watch this.shuttup. BILL HICKS. |
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Lethesia
Acolyte
USA
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
713 Posts |
Posted - 25 Mar 2009 : 02:38:05
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Originally posted by swifty
only brought it coz the cover reminded me of the fighting fantasy books by steve jackson.still one of my fave trilogies.
Aw man! Steve Jackson and Ian Livingston! Those books were just great! I especially loved City of Thieves and Citadel of Chaos. That's how fantasy is supposed to be.
I consider the Realms being relatively rather similar to their settings, not as chaotic though maybe.
I started getting hooked up with the realms when I bought Baldur's Gate 2.
The atmosphere, the rules, the characters... it was just amazing.
I looked for Fearun maps so I could follow the games locations in Amn and Tethyr and that brought me into the rulebooks etc and from there straight into the novels.
My first novel was The Black Bouquet which was fortunately was a good one in my opinion (though it took me a long time to find out, where on Faerun the setting takes place).
Since then I am constantly reading FR novels. The Erevis Cale Trilogy and War of the Spiderqueen almost drove me crazy! Amazing fantasy literature! |
"You make an intriguing offer, one that is very tempting. It would seem that I have little alternative than to answer thusly: DISINTEGRATE!" Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick 625 |
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swifty
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
517 Posts |
Posted - 25 Mar 2009 : 19:51:09
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| are you from the uk.not sure if they had fighting fantasy in the states. |
go back to sleep america.everything is under control.heres american gladiators.watch this.shuttup. BILL HICKS. |
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
713 Posts |
Posted - 25 Mar 2009 : 22:30:08
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Originally posted by swifty
are you from the uk.not sure if they had fighting fantasy in the states.
No, from Germany but I moved overseas. However back then in the late 80s /early 90s my school library had German versions of those books and quite a lot actually. Must have read about 5 or 6 different books.
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"You make an intriguing offer, one that is very tempting. It would seem that I have little alternative than to answer thusly: DISINTEGRATE!" Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick 625 |
Edited by - skychrome on 25 Mar 2009 22:31:33 |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36965 Posts |
Posted - 25 Mar 2009 : 22:34:49
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Originally posted by swifty
are you from the uk.not sure if they had fighting fantasy in the states.
They did. I had some of the Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, and read a bunch more, circa late 80's-early 90's. |
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swifty
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
517 Posts |
Posted - 26 Mar 2009 : 13:21:05
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| id you know ian livingstone went on to become head of eidos interactive.home of lara croft. |
go back to sleep america.everything is under control.heres american gladiators.watch this.shuttup. BILL HICKS. |
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
713 Posts |
Posted - 26 Mar 2009 : 19:05:06
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Originally posted by swifty
id you know ian livingstone went on to become head of eidos interactive.home of lara croft.
Yes, saw it a while ago on Wikipedia. On the photo he does not look that old yet for someone who wrote fantasy books in the 80s.... 
Well anyways, those books where really good. I still remember when I arrived in the tower's top room to meet the boss villain in Citadel of Chaos. And I loved Iain McCaig's illustrations in City of Thieves!
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"You make an intriguing offer, one that is very tempting. It would seem that I have little alternative than to answer thusly: DISINTEGRATE!" Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick 625 |
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swifty
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
517 Posts |
Posted - 26 Mar 2009 : 20:12:43
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| did you ever read titan.it was a bit like a realmsian book of lore full of maps and the main bad guys of the world.out of the pit was great as well.like an a to z of all the monsters.if i remember gold dragons were the most powerful. |
go back to sleep america.everything is under control.heres american gladiators.watch this.shuttup. BILL HICKS. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
713 Posts |
Posted - 26 Mar 2009 : 22:55:51
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I think we've wandered away from the original topic...
Yes archmoderator, we humbly beg your pardon!  
I will return to my study desk inmediatley!
However I cannot deny that those books played a significant role in hooking me up with fantasy worlds, which then led via BG2 to delve into the Realms.  |
"You make an intriguing offer, one that is very tempting. It would seem that I have little alternative than to answer thusly: DISINTEGRATE!" Vaarsuvius, Order of the Stick 625 |
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houstonderek
Acolyte
USA
6 Posts |
Posted - 23 Apr 2009 : 12:01:31
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I learned of the Realms through Mr. Greenwood's articles in Dragon. I was fascinated that there was a whole other world outside of Oerth, fully formed and with a deep history as interesting as anything I had read about in the history books.
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bolf66
Acolyte
USA
17 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2009 : 23:32:46
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| for me it all started with,the dark elf trilogy that was my gate way now I'm in the realms everychance I get as this world holds my body so in turn does the realms hold my mind |
perception is the real truth |
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Auzoros
Seeker
Australia
97 Posts |
Posted - 30 Jul 2009 : 16:38:25
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| Spellfire was my first FR experience and the original Eye of the Beholder PC game. It wasn't long after that, that I had the Old Grey Box. |
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Lord Necro
Acolyte
18 Posts |
Posted - 30 Jul 2009 : 16:46:08
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| I came across a FR book in our library: The Crypt of the Shadowking, and thats what started it for me. |
"Time? time has no meaning to the dead..." ~ Necro Lazerus, Male Moon Elven Shade/Lich.
"Life is but a cloak we wear fleetingly.." ~ Etrius Lazerus, Male Moon Elven Shade. |
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Matt James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
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Posted - 31 Jul 2009 : 00:14:45
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First Memories? With my older brother, Brian R. James when he went to a FLGS called "Its Your Move" in Littleton, Colorado. He picked up a funky little gray box with a cool barbarian dude on the front. We've been living in a fantasy world ever since. Okay, I am significantly younger than him (7 years) but I do have many fond memories of him letting me tag along. I even had my first D&D roleplaying experience at age 7 when I got to play a Human Fighter named "Lightfoot" at some San Deigo game day event.
There are a lot of memories but the majority of them start around 1988 when the setting was first released. |
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RedneckBadgerLord
Acolyte
USA
32 Posts |
Posted - 31 Jul 2009 : 01:01:18
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| I bought the original Bauldur's Gate at Big Lots for six bucks, and loved it! |
Redwall. Drizzt. Kentucky. Enough said.
I was weaned on 2E Baldur's Gate. Learned 3.5E, and can't stand 4E WoF. (Though I try not to mess up canon too badly). |
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Belorin
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 27 Aug 2009 : 05:17:23
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First read the Darkwalker on Moonshaetrilogy then bought the gray box, before that I ran whatever module was new, AD&D, D&D basic/expert, etc.
Bel |
Unlike most Wizards Belorin did not start by studying under another Wizard, matter of fact he didn’t start out as a Wizard at all, but as a Warrior. Orin as he was called then had studied weapons under his father, Dorn Aldus, a blacksmith and former Captain in the King’s Army. |
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