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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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 Posted - 05 May 2006 : 01:49:18
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Hey all, I need to pick the brains of some of the elder scribes here. I remember back a ways, though not as far as some can. I know that the first time I ever remember reading about adventuring companies having their own name was in the Old Grey boxed set (not counting, of course, the Fellowship of the Ring . . . ).
Way back when Erik Mona was recounting the office playtest for the Age of Worms campaign in Dungeon, he wrote an editorial about how finding the right name for a group was one of those special things that happens in a game, and it occured to me . . . is this one of those conventions born in the Realms that has been adopted by D&D as a whole?
Can anyone remember "named" adventuring companies in D&D before FR came around, or is this Ed's brainchild?
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Dargoth
Great Reader
Australia
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Posted - 05 May 2006 : 01:55:24
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| In the FR Company of X and Knights of X seem to be popular names |
“I am the King of Rome, and above grammar”
Emperor Sigismund
"Its good to be the King!"
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Dhomal
Senior Scribe
USA
565 Posts |
Posted - 05 May 2006 : 04:24:16
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Hello-
I can't place the date - but I know of one game I played in (around the right time to have been before FR - but overlapping - so I'm not sure) when we came up with a wonderfully appropriate name for our group. Ah - that was great!
Also though - in my opinion - it also harkens to the 'superhero' groups that have for decades, even actually pre-dating Ed's earliest writings in the Realms, had names for their groups. I somewhat think that this may have been a subtle, albeit possibly unconscious, influence on this FR convention.
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bloodtide_the_red
Learned Scribe
USA
302 Posts |
Posted - 05 May 2006 : 04:46:11
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Before the Realms, I can't find any mention of adventuring groups with names in most D&D books. The Dragonlance 'Companions/Heros of the Lance' is just about the only thing close.
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sleyvas
Skilled Spell Strategist
USA
11829 Posts |
Posted - 05 May 2006 : 21:44:12
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| not D&D, but Robin Hood and his Merry Men. Its a common enough thing. |
Alavairthae, may your skill prevail
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Faraer
Great Reader
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Posted - 06 May 2006 : 02:39:50
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| I can't think of any pre-Realms examples specifically within D&D lore, which doesn't mean there aren't any. In any case, clearly it is the Realms that popularized this into general D&D fantasy, and a very good thing too, since it stresses group coherency and cooperation over egotistical individualism. |
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nb_nmare
Acolyte
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 May 2006 : 12:20:49
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| Well, there's one obvious example of a fantasy adventuring company with a name that predates even D&D: the Fellowship of the Ring. |
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Adventuring Company Names as a Tradition
