@mikemearls @ChrisPerkinsDnD @TheEdVerse @JeremyECrawford How do FR banks protect against teleport or scrying? Buy perm Mord Priv Sanctum?
— Kerry Jordan (@kandidkerry) August 7, 2017
By the way, gorgon's blood mixed into building mortar still works, too, BUT: the supply is unreliable, thanks to the danger of getting …
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 8, 2017
I didn’t mean to keep you up all night over this, but I do appreciate the response 😉Heh. I slept between the last lot of replies and this one. And wrote a short story. Then recalled I hadn't dealt with gorgon's blood. …
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 8, 2017
By the way, gorgon's blood mixed into building mortar still works, too, BUT: the supply is unreliable, thanks to the danger of getting …
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 8, 2017
…blood out of gorgons (who aren't crazy about parting with it, for some odd reason); the blood proportion in the mix has to be correct…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 8, 2017
(strong enough) or it doesn't work; and the peril involved in obtaining the blood has sometimes resulted in the blood of other creatures…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 8, 2017
being passed off as gorgon blood by the unscrupulous (again, not foiling what it's supposed to). Whereas lead is (comparatively) easy to…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 8, 2017
…obtain and work with. Wise bank robbers don't storm banks, by the way. They indulge in property deed fiddles (such as selling city…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 8, 2017
buildings they don't actually own), and similar frauds. Which is why so many adventurers in the Realms make coin hunting down and bringing..
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 8, 2017
back alive miscreants (the living can be made to reveal where their ill-gotten gains are; the dead tend to be unhelpful in this regard).
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 8, 2017
Which was a Gary Gygax invention, so he'd not be pleased if I kept silent about it. ("What would Gary do?") ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 8, 2017