your medical ideas and lore for #FR…uhm…i dont know what question i can ask you to give me more info about the process #dnddid yuo have a process or was it one of those"fill in as i need it" things? i dont know what to ask exactly, feeling like im missing somthng
— PastorGall (@PastorGall) October 10, 2017
Both. Did a basic framework. Later, as other writers and designers working in the Realms made mentions/had plot needs, made additions
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 10, 2017
Rarer than most folk think, thanks to the everpresent rumors and wild tales. See my olld (original) Wyrms Of The North articles in DRAGON…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 16, 2017
…which included a map of the Sword Coast with the ranges/demesnes/domains of the dragons shown (some overlapping, but most LARGE).
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 16, 2017
Thanks. I found the archive. https://t.co/UYrQerqsn5
— Bill Berg (@webjr1981) September 17, 2017
Wow, there is Arauthator from Rise is Tiamat, and Iymrith from Storm King’s Thunder. Yep. Poke around in those archives. Treasure trove, I hope. ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 17, 2017
Was wondering, Courdh Mizzrym is the previous Archmage of Sorcere. Is he still alive, cause no reference after 2nd edition?Yes, but fled the city after certain intrigues, and is living far, far away under another name. A tale to be told someday, I hope…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 17, 2017
Ty for the response! A pleasure! Always up for talking Realmslore!
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 17, 2017
@TheEdVerse need your help, if possible. can you look this over… https://t.co/1AIEYIH4du and suggest missing info? WIP so far 😛
— PastorGall (@PastorGall) September 19, 2017
Heh. It's missing about three hundred herbs. ;} Start with lovage and move through monk's hood and other poisons that have medicinal uses.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 19, 2017
Damned, next plan, win the lottery and buy TSRThat'd be "buy Hasbro." It'd better be a BIG lottery. ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 20, 2017
Google "medieval poison garden" (there's a famous one at a country house in the UK) and that'll be a good start…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 20, 2017
any forgotten realms book with farming info about the realms? working on something and that would be some useful info xDCuisine, drinks in El'sGuideToTheRealms hc. Goldenfields (huge temple farm; granary of the North) covered in several places. What needed?
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 31, 2017
AH HA! looked in my copy of elminster’s forgot realms book and found a paragraph or two on the veggies in FR, thanks for the book and help<3A pleasure! One note: "common" folk pickle almost all sorts of veggies, so everyone who can grows everything to see them through the winter.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 31, 2017
Great! Yes, keep me posted. (BTW, in the Realms, farmers and palace and mansion staff alike understand composting. Will mix greenNbrown.)
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) July 31, 2017
sorry if im spamming questions, are there cotton plants in the forgotten realms? or maybe you already written a book on subject?Yes, there's cotton. Vilhon and eastern Amn especially.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2017
doing the math, wheat, veggies, and meat alone wouldnt be enough to feed everyone, where does all the food come from?Now this puzzles me. How do you arrive at that conclusion? I don't think my full Shadowdale maps have ever been published, and they're…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2017
…the only place I mapped actual farm fields. There are growing plots everywhere, including vines (cukes, etc.) on vertical poles in pots..
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2017
..on city building balconies, and mushrooms in cellars under buildings. Nigh everyone grows something, just to live. Many hunt and fish, too
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2017
…and the land hasn't been depleted of edibles the way our modern North American habitat is (we've paved over and are living on most of …
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2017
…what was our best farmland). I live in a village where seniors feed themselves entirely from garden beds just big enough to park 3 cars..
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2017
..on. And large coastal cities like Waterdeep can't feed themselves, but have a steady flow of food coming by ship, and from the river…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2017
…valleys east, northeast, and southeast, not to mention honey and sausages and vegetables from Secomber, that itself draws edibles down…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2017
…the river from the east. Believe me, all of this has been thought out. TSR designers asked me similar things back in 1986, and I had to..
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2017
..gently educate them that large mechanized monocrop American modern farms are NOT what they should be looking for, in the Realms. ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 1, 2017
@ChrisPerkinsDnD @TheEdVerse – Who/where on Faerûn would a band of adventurers be able to get a True Resurrection cast? Disintegrated gnome!
— DropTheDie (@DropTheDie) August 17, 2017
Did it occur to the party that Faerûn might be better off with one less gnome in it? Food for thought. #WOTCstaff https://t.co/Rdc2fWiOOu
— Christopher Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDnD) August 18, 2017
I guess "Remembered & Much-Beloved Realms" doesn't attract adventurers the same way, though. Kind of like the "Caverns of Moderate Comfort."
— Luke Maynard (@lukemaynard) September 8, 2017
Nothing false about it! From our real-world POV, the ways (gates/portals) to reach the Realms were "Forgotten" for long enough that the…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 8, 2017
…name of the world was, too, hence "Forgotten Realms" (the "lost" place where dragons and vampires et al came from). TSR wanted to nix…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 8, 2017
…the real-world connections, but loved the name and kept it.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 8, 2017
@TheEdVerse Hello Ed, I've been working on this Waterdeep environs' map, and it's been quite a work. Need some information to make it right pic.twitter.com/4puE3qjDdx
— Eduardo F Vieira (@mineirodabahia) September 12, 2017
1- Is the distance between Waterdeep and the Dessarin ok?
2-Is the distance between Waterdeep and the Rathills ok? Hi, Eduardo! Nice map. The Dessarin is WAY too close, and therefore, so is the Rat Hills (think of a three hour or longer slow dung-wagon…— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 12, 2017
…journey, once outside the southernmost city gate). Once beyond the meadows where citizens picnic and nobles fly their falcons, kept as…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 12, 2017
"common" land (in the main, for caravan camping and assembly use), which lie directly east of the city, farmland beyond is all owned by…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 12, 2017
…someone. In the 1200s and earlier, it was mainly held by nobles, who rented it to tenant farmers (Deep families growing their own food…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 12, 2017
,,,and selling the xcess), but over the years, nobles needing coin have sold off more and more, until by the 1400s, nobles only retain…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 12, 2017
…their more distant estates (Amphail and beyond, mainly up that road), and wealthy commoners own the farmlands near the city. And almost..
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 12, 2017
..all of them rent those lands out for tillage or grazing (mainly tillage). These farms produce food crops, and sometimes fatten up…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 12, 2017
…livestock by grazing: both things that can't be done inside the city walls in the scale needed to do more than feed one family.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 12, 2017
