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Alruane
Senior Scribe
USA
434 Posts |
 Posted - 17 Nov 2013 : 21:49:00
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| My encounters were from a combination of novels as well as early PC games. |
" I wonder if you are destined to be forgotten. Will your life fade in the shadow of greater beings?"
~Joneleth Irenicus
"Wisdom? My dear boy, wisdom is knowing that you do not know everything. Wisdom is realizing, a wise man ALWAYS has questions. Not answers."
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The Arcanamach
Master of Realmslore
1885 Posts |
Posted - 17 Nov 2013 : 23:35:13
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I have a dream that one day, all game worlds will exist as one. |
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hashimashadoo
Master of Realmslore
United Kingdom
1155 Posts |
Posted - 18 Nov 2013 : 05:05:55
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| I played an SSI game briefly as a child but I can't remember which one nor did it make me more interested in the Realms. Baldur's gate got me started around the same time 3rd edition DnD was released. I purchased it entirely by accident at a computer fair and loved it to bits. I didn't know there was a sequel but then my DM got Shadows of Amn and I started obsessively collecting anything containing realmslore I could get my hands on. |
When life turns it's back on you...sneak attack for extra damage.
Head admin of the FR wiki:
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/ |
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Alruane
Senior Scribe
USA
434 Posts |
Posted - 18 Nov 2013 : 06:52:20
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| That is partly how I got started, BG games. Back in 2001 I played Baldur's Gate Shadows Of Amn, changed my views on fantasy as a whole! I became ENGULFED and obsessed with Forgotten Realms. I actually played the first BG after the second one. :P |
" I wonder if you are destined to be forgotten. Will your life fade in the shadow of greater beings?"
~Joneleth Irenicus
"Wisdom? My dear boy, wisdom is knowing that you do not know everything. Wisdom is realizing, a wise man ALWAYS has questions. Not answers."
~Alruane |
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Barastir
Master of Realmslore
Brazil
1607 Posts |
Posted - 18 Nov 2013 : 13:34:03
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When I was younger and started playing RPG I was crazy about martial arts, and so I wanted to buy the Kara-Tur setting. The guy on the only RPG store here in Brasilia told me Kara-Tur was part of the Forgotten Realms world, and so I bought the golden boxed set, who have just been released back then (at least around here, it was in 1992). I was kinda disappointed for not finding oriental stuff in the box, but started DMing in the Realms, and looking for more info. After a little time I read the Icewind Dale trilogy, the Song and Swords books... And so the Realms won my heart. I still like Kara-Tur (to the point of making 2e rules to use them in my Realms), but Faerūn came to stay!  |
"Goodness is not a natural state, but must be
fought for to be attained and maintained.
Lead by example.
Let your deeds speak your intentions.
Goodness radiated from the heart."
The Paladin's Virtues, excerpt from the "Quentin's Monograph"
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froglegg
Learned Scribe
317 Posts |
Posted - 19 Nov 2013 : 00:38:32
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It was 1987 and I was home on leave for X-Mas and I went into a gaming shop/comics shop and there it was.
The Old Grey Box had my heart at hello.
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Long live Alias and Dragonbait! Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb the Realms need you more then ever!
On my word as a sage nothing within these pages is false, but not all of it may prove to be true. - Elminster of Shadowdale
The Old Grey Box gets better with age! |
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Werthead
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
208 Posts |
Posted - 26 Nov 2013 : 17:35:42
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| Playing EYE OF THE BEHOLDER (the first one) on my Commodore Amiga in 1992, followed by reading THE CRYSTAL SHARD and realising the (quite big) map of Icewind Dale was a tiny little corner of the map of the Sword Coast in the EYE OF THE BEHOLDER instruction manual. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 27 Nov 2013 : 13:03:29
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| I played the BG games first but frankly I had no idea what the realms were at that time , it was when I read the Crystal Shard that I became a fan of the setting. |
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How did you first encounter the Realms?
