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monch9
Seeker
Poland
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
 Posted - 06 Sep 2007 : 15:46:23
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| This makes it even harder to wait for the release date. Thanks for the links. |
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
1618 Posts |
Posted - 07 Sep 2007 : 01:32:19
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| Excellent! the art work is great also. |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 07 Sep 2007 : 02:10:41
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| Definite MUST BUY....*drools* |
Karsite Arcanar (Most Holy Servant of Karsus)
Anauria - Survivor State of Netheril as penned by me:
http://www.dmsguild.com/m/product/172023 |
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JEThetford
Acolyte
USA
44 Posts |
Posted - 07 Sep 2007 : 04:48:00
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Originally posted by Alisttair
Definite MUST BUY....*drools*
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The only good Drow, is a dead Drow.
Aaomas Balkrim, Drow Hunter
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Reefy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
892 Posts |
Posted - 07 Sep 2007 : 21:29:46
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| Not long to go now... one early birthday present for this scribe. |
Life is either daring adventure or nothing. |
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Xysma
Master of Realmslore
USA
1089 Posts |
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Sanishiver
Senior Scribe
USA
476 Posts |
Posted - 08 Sep 2007 : 01:59:48
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| I am going to be able to do soooo much with this book. It'll be like having a super-copy of Lost Empires of Faerûn, but without any crunchy bits. |
09/20/2008: Tiger Army at the Catalyst in Santa Cruz. You wouldn’t believe how many females rode it out in the pit. Santa Cruz women are all of them beautiful. Now I know to add tough to that description.
6/27/2008: WALL-E is about the best damn movie Pixar has ever made. It had my heart racing and had me rooting for the good guy.
9/9/2006: Dave Mathews Band was off the hook at the Shoreline Amphitheater.
Never, ever read the game books too literally, or make such assumptions that what is omitted cannot be. Bad DM form, that.
And no matter how compelling a picture string theory paints, if it does not accurately describe our universe, it will be no more relevant than an elaborate game of Dungeons and Dragons. --paragraph 1, chapter 9, The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 08 Sep 2007 : 21:28:17
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As it stands, this tome represents the FINAL product concerning the Realms we currently KNOW.
Everything is about to change, and I have a feeling that this book will be the sole source for campaigns that refuse to move to 4e for YEARS to come.
If you love FR, this could be the most important purchase you ever make. |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
6662 Posts |
Posted - 09 Sep 2007 : 00:17:45
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Originally posted by Markustay
As it stands, this tome represents the FINAL product concerning the Realms we currently KNOW.
Everything is about to change, and I have a feeling that this book will be the sole source for campaigns that refuse to move to 4e for YEARS to come.
If you love FR, this could be the most important purchase you ever make.
Hmm, if you love FR, I would think that the most important purchase you make is the next one - on a continuing basis.
But please, do buy GHotR - I'm eagerly loooking forward to the feedback.
-- George Krashos
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Uzzy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
618 Posts |
Posted - 09 Sep 2007 : 00:21:27
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| Certainly going to buy it, though I do have to say that the artwork shown was previously used in Champions of Valour. It's one that's good enough to be used again, for sure, but I do hope that we don't have too many repeated pieces of artwork. |
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
1618 Posts |
Posted - 09 Sep 2007 : 03:32:21
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Hmm, if you love FR, I would think that the most important purchase you make is the next one - on a continuing basis.
- George Krashos
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 12 Sep 2007 : 03:25:42
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Not to be a curmudgeon, but I don't believe in buying products you don't want just for the sake of buying them...whether you love the Realms or not (I would think someone's spending habits are no one else's business, right?).
That being said, I'll be buying GHotR...because I want it, not because I feel obligated to buy it.
And yes, I've noticed the artwork elsewhere before, even though it is nice. |
"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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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36797 Posts |
Posted - 12 Sep 2007 : 03:55:01
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| I'll definitely be buying it, too. I've been a fan of the Grand History ever since I first stumbled across the pdf, several years ago... In fact, I've turned more than a few people onto it. It's entirely possible that whoever posted the link that brought it to WotC attention had gotten the link from me, originally. At least, that's the way I prefer to look at it. |
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
1618 Posts |
Posted - 12 Sep 2007 : 04:33:48
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Not to be a curmudgeon, but I don't believe in buying products you don't want just for the sake of buying them...whether you love the Realms or not (I would think someone's spending habits are no one else's business, right?).
That being said, I'll be buying GHotR...because I want it, not because I feel obligated to buy it.
And yes, I've noticed the artwork elsewhere before, even though it is nice.
RF, you made me use the dictionary and I don't think you are being one
cur·mudg·eon
a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person.
grouch, crank, bear, sourpuss, crosspatch. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 12 Sep 2007 : 04:39:44
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Originally posted by scererar
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Not to be a curmudgeon, but I don't believe in buying products you don't want just for the sake of buying them...whether you love the Realms or not (I would think someone's spending habits are no one else's business, right?).
That being said, I'll be buying GHotR...because I want it, not because I feel obligated to buy it.
And yes, I've noticed the artwork elsewhere before, even though it is nice.
RF, you made me use the dictionary and I don't think you are being one
cur·mudg·eon
a bad-tempered, difficult, cantankerous person.
grouch, crank, bear, sourpuss, crosspatch.
Aww, well thank you. I do think I sometimes have a bit of sourpuss in me though... |
"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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Wandering_mage
Senior Scribe
688 Posts |
Posted - 18 Sep 2007 : 22:29:40
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Some of the examples revealed by WotC for historical Realms events were very interesting. Instead of just a short sentence blurb you get a story. Good stuff. I will buy it when the time is right... Or when I have money.  |
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Warrax
Learned Scribe
Canada
128 Posts |
Posted - 18 Sep 2007 : 22:57:09
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Originally posted by George Krashos
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Originally posted by Markustay
As it stands, this tome represents the FINAL product concerning the Realms we currently KNOW.
Everything is about to change, and I have a feeling that this book will be the sole source for campaigns that refuse to move to 4e for YEARS to come.
If you love FR, this could be the most important purchase you ever make.
Hmm, if you love FR, I would think that the most important purchase you make is the next one - on a continuing basis.
But please, do buy GHotR - I'm eagerly loooking forward to the feedback.
-- George Krashos
Hate to be a stickler but I think that the quote is very much mutable.
If you love FR, you'll continue to buy it but if the changes coming are too much, you'll no longer love FR as it exists in present form, which deprives you of incentive to continue purchasing new products and will then have you focus on older stuff, representing the material and feel of the setting that you enjoyed. |
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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1796 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2007 : 06:23:27
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Originally posted by Warrax
[quote]If you love FR, you'll continue to buy it but if the changes coming are too much, you'll no longer love FR as it exists in present form, which deprives you of incentive to continue purchasing new products and will then have you focus on older stuff, representing the material and feel of the setting that you enjoyed.
Well put Warrax.
No offense George: I have a very high respect for you, your work and your passion for the Realms, but this "buy FR no matter what" dogma (which I also upheld until recently) is simply too much to ask at this point. I must say (sadly) that I will have to take a step back from now on: whereas I previously said "I will not buy 4E Core but will still buy anything with a FR logo on it", I must now revise my statement to "I will not buy 4E Core but *might* buy FR if the content/quality is commensurate to a true FR product." |
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Skeptic
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1273 Posts |
Posted - 19 Sep 2007 : 06:53:48
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Originally posted by Purple Dragon Knight
No offense George: I have a very high respect for you, your work and your passion for the Realms, but this "buy FR no matter what" dogma (which I also upheld until recently) is simply too much to ask at this point. I must say (sadly) that I will have to take a step back from now on: whereas I previously said "I will not buy 4E Core but will still buy anything with a FR logo on it", I must now revise my statement to "I will not buy 4E Core but *might* buy FR if the content/quality is commensurate to a true FR product."
Currently, I have the opposite reaction, I'm a lot more excited by core 4E than the "new Realms". |
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Excerpts from the Grand History of the Realms
