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Pandora
Learned Scribe
Germany
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 Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 15:25:39
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Originally posted by Icelander
I wouldn't date Paris Hilton even if she begged me and promised to dress up like Galadriel.
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 16:07:20
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| Buy the extremely expensive Bloodstone Quartet modules that I am missing (in particular, the first one). |
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Nerfed2Hell
Senior Scribe
USA
387 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 16:15:06
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Money can't buy love, but if you live in America, it can buy a you a convincing facsimile.
Let's see, if I were super-rich, I'd probably develope a secret identity... just because that's what supers are supposed to do.
Next, I would buy the rights to (or if they've already been sold to one of you other super-rich fellows, license the rights to) the pre-spellplague Realms to develope the most awesome MMORPG ever... and it would be an MMORPG --not merely an MMO. I don't know who I'd get to develope the software end (but they'd have to be top notch), but I would likely hire a good number of the sages from Candlekeep to be the official lorekeeper staff to maintain a sense of continuity throughout the world and offer Ed Greenwood freelance work writing new, original content for missions and such.
I'd also buy some of that convincing facsimile I mentioned at the top, plus a good amount of mead and ale... all of which is for those occasions where I feel like celebrating my personal triumphs in the Realms MMO. Wheeeee!
Oh yeah, I'd also pay some bills and never work again.  |
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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 16:27:47
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If I became super Rich Baker, I would throw off the shackles of WotC and save the Realms from them...wait, we were talking about rich as in having bundles of money, weren't we...
...I think I would attempt to buy the Realms rights from WotC and hire Ed full-time to fix what was done in the 4e Realms and then continue to write new lore for the Realms (or just begin to publish the many bits that he evidently has lying around in stacks of paper all over his house ). |
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Varl
Learned Scribe
USA
284 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 17:14:12
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| Super rich? I'd fulfill my dream by investing in our own company, and the dreams of my friends and partners in business, by creating the MMO we've been wanting to create since 2000. Money is the only thing stopping us. I wouldn't even have to be super rich. 5 million would do. |
I'm on a permanent vacation to the soul. -Tash Sultana |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 24 Sep 2008 : 18:11:01
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Originally posted by HawkinstheDM
If I became super Rich Baker, ...
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Lord Lysander
Acolyte
Greece
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Posted - 27 Sep 2008 : 09:51:04
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I would buy a castle of course. A ferrari, a McLaren. And yes Wizards of the Coast. After all these things done for my self I would go down to Africa. There I would fund building several small hospitals or something like this.
Guys anyone being able to be in candlekeep means that he has money at least for his life. There are other people that need these extra $$$...
If I had not had enough money for all of these, I would only built the hospitals at Africa. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2008 : 23:06:02
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Originally posted by Lord Lysander
Guys anyone being able to be in candlekeep means that he has money at least for his life. There are other people that need these extra $$$...
Great point... |
"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."
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Icelander
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 28 Sep 2008 : 23:54:26
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
quote:
Originally posted by Lord Lysander
Guys anyone being able to be in candlekeep means that he has money at least for his life. There are other people that need these extra $$$...
Great point...
Although, realistically, the problem isn't lack of money or lack of food.
The nations that have a government stable and sane enough to make it possible for charity money to have a positive effect; mostly aren't the ones who need help in the first place.
In order to reduce a verdant country with plenty of natural resources to extreme poverty, you need a government utterly committed to the ruin of its people, either due to greed, stupidity or malice.
Giving all the money in the world to the places that need it the most wouldn't anyone any good. Removing the tluin-munching orc-get that are the reason those places are poor and hungry would be a much nobler goal. |
Za uspiekh nashevo beznadiozhnovo diela!
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 29 Sep 2008 : 23:52:27
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| I wasn't trying to make any great point about economics, I was just agreeing with Lord Lysander that if you are posting here, odds are you are already quite well off compared with many other people in the world. |
"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."
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Icelander
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 30 Sep 2008 : 00:32:39
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
I wasn't trying to make any great point about economics, I was just agreeing with Lord Lysander that if you are posting here, odds are you are already quite well off compared with many other people in the world.
I beg pardon for my too bold presumption and for lecturing, which I'm told I do overmuch.
I quite agree with the fact that most people posting here are well off by comparison to vast swathes of humanity. |
Za uspiekh nashevo beznadiozhnovo diela!
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 30 Sep 2008 : 20:49:41
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Originally posted by Icelander
I beg pardon for my too bold presumption and for lecturing, which I'm told I do overmuch.
It's fine, pardon granted. |
"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."
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Aravine
Senior Scribe
USA
608 Posts |
Posted - 01 Oct 2008 : 04:20:15
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Mods, I hate to tell you how to do your job, but ever since I became one these things bother me.
is this the appropriate shelf for this topic? |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 01 Oct 2008 : 05:28:06
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Mods, I hate to tell you how to do your job, but ever since I became one these things bother me.
is this the appropriate shelf for this topic?
I'd not even noticed where it was...  'Tis now relocated. |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 01 Oct 2008 : 06:17:59
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I'd also buy the rights to the Realms and ask Ed to work exclusively on projects that interested me. Unsurprisingly, those would all be pre-Spellplague and most of them would feature a minimum of random fight-scenes and a lot of character development and intrigue. I'd also pay good money to see a 256-page book on trade in the Realms. Politics and affairs of state would be a close second (actually, they're the same thing in different costumes).
Amen! I'd also get a big book on Cormyr by Ed (as big as he wants to make it) and another big book on Tethyr, Amn, and Calimshan ("Lands of Intrigue" as the title, of course) by Steven Schend, who was at least the primary writer on the 2nd edition boxed set... and I'd get Rob Salvatore to do a new big book on the Bloodstone Lands... title obvious. And yes, these would all be non-Sellplague (forget "pre-"; I'd retcon it out of existence; already done so plausibly, although I'm just ignoring it in my current campaign because we're still continuing a storyline begun twelve years ago under 2E rules) and 3.5 ruleset-based. I'd also get Paul Jaquays to elaborate on those thirteen five-sided evil-looking pyramids he put under the ruins of Ascore (see FR5, "The Savage Frontier"). That's the biggest hole in Realmslore in the North, if you ask me... apart from the ultimate fate of Myth Adofaer.
And then... I'd get Ed to develop Anchorome and Katashaka the way *he* envisioned them. I like Zeb Cook's Kara-Tur and Jeff Grubb's Zakhara, and of course I'd sign them on to do 3.5-compatible updates to both settings. And in all cases, I'd hire our very own Markustay and Patrakis to do the large-scale cartography. If you haven't checked out their world map projects, *do so*... these guys are good. Best of all, it's pre-Spellplague, so everything looks the way it should.
And finally (for now), I'd get Brian R. James to expand his Grand History project... I'm thinking in the neighborhood of 320 to 384 pages. I'd like to extend the named years forward to 1800 and back to around -800 or so; I'm already working on that. Events in the late 1370's and onward will change, some slightly, others substantially. Ed would be onboard for the revision phase, of course; it *is* his baby, after all, and without him, the Realms would not exist at all.
Okay... this post got about twice as long as I had intended... but it's a wish list, right?  |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 01 Oct 2008 : 13:16:02
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First: thing I would do is set up an Irrevocable trust of sufficent size to be perpetual and self-sustainable.
Second: make Alaundo the beneficiary of said trust, with the understand that he just keep doing what he does here, but draws a stipend large enough that Keeping up the 'keep is all he has to do.
Third: place one condition on the trust: Alaundo must comission a masterwork Hamster wheel to keep our little mischief maker occupied
P.S. We might even entertain the thought of expanding access to the Calishite Dancing Girls beyond just those who reach Master of Realms Lore.......but thenwe probably just have a good laugh and leave it alone! |
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What would you do if you became Super Rich?
