How do you pronounce Deneith? And would King Jarot have had Deneith bodyguards? I pronounce Deneith like “Keith”, so “duh-NEETH.” Jarot had access to the military of Galifar, but he could certainly have had a special unit of elite Deneith bodyguards if it suits your story.
— Keith Baker #SHUX (@HellcowKeith) August 27, 2018
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How important is it for a Bard to register with the Watchful Order of Magists and Protectors?
@TheEdVerse DMing DH. Had our first session. How important is it for a spellcaster to register with the Watchful Order of Magists and Protectors? Do clerics/druids register? (P.s. thanks for signing the FR "fan" novel I wrote as a teen in the early 90s, and for all your work!)
— BAMorrier (@benmorrier) October 5, 2018
What about bards?
— Lana (@LanaLeesVoer) October 5, 2018
The Order generally "turns a blind eye" to bards visiting the city for a month or less, UNLESS they make a habit of spellhurling in public. However, if they settle down in the city for longer than a month (NOT rent rooms and then vanish from the city to go adventuring for…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 6, 2018
…longer, but live daily in the city for longer than a one-month stretch), the Order will send a welcoming committee (never less than 3 powerful mages, with bodyguards and "wand-and-ring-ready-for-trouble" geared up) to lean on them to register with the Order, or leave the city.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 6, 2018
And "leave" doesn't mean exit through one city gate and come back through another, even a month later; it means gone for this season at least. Piergeiron and Khelben unhesitatingly backed the Order in all such exiles; it remains to be seen if Vajra and Laeral will do so (i.e. …
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 6, 2018
…up to your DM). Bards visiting the city for a tenday or so "on tour" (performing) have always gotten a pass (an exemption, not a literal document) from the Order, but in elder days, they always out of courtesy dropped by the Order HQ and told the duty magists of their…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 6, 2018
arrival or departure.) The wise ones still do. ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 6, 2018
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I think we need more explicitly evil PCs in D&D
I think we need more explicitly evil PCs in D&D. Maybe not enough folks are reading OG Dragonlance. Maybe I've gone mad and this is a historically terrible idea. But some of my favorite PCs were evil.
— Matt Colville (@mattcolville) September 9, 2018
This HEAVILY depends on the maturity level, understanding, and respect between the players. I’ve had games with evil characters that were awesome! I’ve also had them devolve into a total mess where no one was having fun, and hear this outcome more often than not. https://t.co/8gYbMWI5JE
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 9, 2018
— JOE MANGANIELLO (@JoeManganiello) September 9, 2018
Case in point! 😉
Also, CHANGO!!! <3
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 9, 2018
@JoinThePartyPod made a great point about the whole alignment being more of a scatter plot than a type of role you have to stick to. They mentioned in one of their After Party episodes the importance of knowing what your character considers to be lawful good or chaotic evil.
— Rachel Chastain (@Rachastaway) September 9, 2018
This is how I consider it. Alignment can be an aid for those who seek character direction, but it becomes less of a useful tool as one’s gaming experience grows. Alignment shouldn’t inform a character’s actions, actions should inform alignment. Or…just ignore it entirely! https://t.co/LCtWFTqshr
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 9, 2018
Is it bad to stick to your alignment even tho you feel like another choice should have been picked?? I don’t believe so. Experiences through life can change people and how they act. If you feel your character is drifting from where they started, then that is both realistic and fun to play.
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 9, 2018
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Does Wood Elves even have house names?
was wondering if there were any Wood Elf Houses that came from Evermeet to the Ardeep Forests. Or if Wood Elves even have house names? 🙂 All wood elf families have names, and there are proud wood elf "houses," but Ardeepforest has been dominated for centuries by silver elves; only a few wood elves have ever dwelt there.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 10, 2018
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In 5e Eberron, is House Cannith’s last creation forge destroyed?
just read The Son of Khyber and I gotta ask, in 5e Eberron, is House Cannith’s last creation forge destroyed? Or is there a chance that Merrix can either rebuild it or repair it? The novels aren’t canon, so it’s only in that PARTICULAR version of Eberron that it’s an issue. Even so, a) the creation forges were built once, so they could be built again; and b) there could always be other hidden forgeholds the world knows nothing about.
— Keith Baker #SHUX (@HellcowKeith) August 27, 2018
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“Well,” said the old dragon,
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“Well,” said the old dragon, “if you break the castle apart, you can get at the last few humans deep inside. But no new humans will come to live there. Just a few nasty, heavily-armed adventurers will visit. Fleetingly.”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 31, 2018
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“So you’re saying I should leave it intact, for a later harvest?” the young dragon asked, peering in castle windows to see if he could see any snacks cowering in corners. “How many years does it take for it to repopulate?”#epic fantasy“Well,” said the old dragon loudly, in human speech, “that treasure has to be around here SOMEwhere. Biggest hoard I’VE ever seen.”
When the echoes had died away, he reverted to dragontongue to add quietly, “Now? Not long.”#epic fantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 31, 2018
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Are there any plans for Mystra’s Ban to be lifted/relaxed?
are there any plans for Mystra’s Ban to be lifted/relaxed?
If there are, Mystra hasn't told anyone yet. Gods are like that.— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 18, 2018
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I wonder what you can reveal about Rhauntides’ Tower?
@TheEdVerse Greetings from England! I hope this week is going well? I wonder what you can reveal about Rhauntides' Tower? The survivors of the visit to Chondalthripe's tower, are planning on taking an obscure artifact to Rhauntides for his opinions. Many thanks ~GG
— Gareth ! (@garethgarfoot) October 2, 2018
1) Rhauntides and Shaunil finally accepted elven offers to relocate to Evermeet, and did so, silently slipping away from their tower in Highmoon, likely in the spring of 1382, although they told no one, and even neighbors, …#Realmslore https://t.co/fAEZEqXtuU
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2018
2) …thanks to the spells they left active, thought they were still in residence.
Their tower was guarded by many traps, almost all of them sequenced spell triggers that discharged arrays of “hanging”-ready spells that renewed… #Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2018
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…themselves daily.
So a trap in their tower wouldn’t be a pit or a deadfall or a discharged missile; it would be several unleashed spells in succession, often of different sorts and set so as to afflict an intruder retreating…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2018
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…from an initial spell attack.
The Spellplague didn’t destroy these traps. Rather, it twisted them into an everchanging array of weird, wild spell effects, some of them not harmful—but some of them even more deadly than the…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2018
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…norm, like magic missile and minute meteors volleys that emanate from the body of an affected being, in all directions, not under their control, at random times.
Rhauntides and Shaunil left behind not a single written spell…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2018
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…or note on magic, so their tower should be a trapfest with very little treasure, beyond domestic furniture (including their “second-best” flying carpet bed). The beings known as “living spells” may or may not be in residence.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2018
As always many thanks for the realmslore. ~GG A pleasure! Always happy to talk Realmslore…and I know I owe you a few back queries. Really swamped right now, so the ones I can answer quickly are getting the love so they won't join the towering heap. ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 3, 2018
