Hold on…’grabs dictionary’…she touched…crap hold on… ‘looks again’… causing me to stumble, and what!?…’last look’… fascinating… no, on a serious note, I have heard nothing but positive about your work, but it’s so far before my time, I wouldn’t know where to start Heh. Anywhere. You have 390-some books to choose from, if we include game books and collaborations. Solo novels by me? Down to a more manageable 80 or so…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2018
I knew it was a lot, but holy smokes! I’m just a huge fan of DnD, and now there’s talks of a Wizards 8? And how you played Elminster, and Gygax played Mordenkainen? I’m actually very curious about the story I heard about how they cut mountains in half and flipped them over? I did a Wizards Three article series in DRAGON for many years (Mordenkainen, Dalamar, and Elminster). Elminster was a NPC for me, but I've sat at a gaming table where Gary was playing Mordenkainen (at a GenCon long, long ago). Cutting mountains and flipping them over was how…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2018
…the ancient Netherese, at the height of their long-ago empire, most often created floating/flying cities. My imagination often runs wild. ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2018
That’s absolutely insane! I love the idea of a floating city, that should come back, with more than just the small floating castle in Hoard of the Dragon Queen or Storm Kings Thunder. The Ancient Netherese? Is that a book or is that a campaign of Forgotten Realms? There are floating motes scattered across the Realms, though many crashed during the Spellplague or earlier. The Netherese have been covered in a 2e-era boxed set, a 3e sourcebook (Lost Empires Of Faerun), and in several novels, most recently in a superb series by @Paulskemp …
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2018
…and you can see the fate of one flying city in THE HERALD, the last novel of The Sundering (one of mine).
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2018
Whenever this very interesting Bard shows up would be awesome! I’d love anything that dives into the personality of Elminster, or what you might consider an epic moment for him, but with DnD, Bards have always been my favorite class, anything you might recommend would be awesome Good places to start are Spellfire, or Swords of Eveningstar, or Elminster: The Making Of A Mage. For bards: Olive Ruskettle (the Finder's Stone trilogy, starting with Azure Bonds), Harpers like Danilo Thann (start with Elfshadow) or Storm (Stormlight)…Azure Bonds is by…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2018
…Jeff @GrubbsTweet and Kate Novak, Elfshadow and its sequels are by @e_cunningham …and Stormlight is by me (Storm appears in a lot of tales, actually, long and short), and there's a 2e game book that delves into her and all of her six infamous sisters (THE SEVEN SISTERS).
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2018
Another 2e game book you might find interesting is CODE OF THE HARPERS.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 24, 2018