TToday is the second Friday the 13th this year. Is this the year of our Lady Beshaba? Does she consider today to be extra special?his year is indeed a year in which the power of Lady Beshaba waxes great.
She’s barely concerned with events in worlds not Toril, but yes, days many folk consider unlucky increase her influence, and so are indeed special to her.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020
Sketching @JoeManganiello character, Arkhan the Cruel… trying to get him really beefy looking! #arkhanbeef pic.twitter.com/EqosQxf7H1
— Richard Whitters (@WhittersRichard) April 9, 2020
Looks fantastic Richard! I love this bestial look
— JOE MANGANIELLO (@JoeManganiello) April 9, 2020
Some inkwash practice with a Dwarf Wizard. #dnd pic.twitter.com/6Y5yRUD055
— Max Dunbar (@Max_Dunbar) June 13, 2020
I’d like to see 6th edition D&D do away with the Perception and Insight skills and instead make them entirely passive. Then to complement that, give certain classes (rogues, rangers), backgrounds, etc the ability to make active checks in certain terrain/circumstances. ( As a DM, I really dislike how Perception and Insight are conducive to metagaming: The pile-on effect of "Oh, you rolled low, let me make a check" or "Oh, that's a good idea to do Insight, I'll do one, too."
— Greg Bilsland (@gregbilsland) September 8, 2020
By making the skill a passive thing that DMs use to reveal information, it would inform adventure design. Room descriptions and features could be tied to the passive scores. I'm on the fence about investigation. I've essentially shorthanded Perception to be "looking around" and "Investigation" to be looking at something. I like players to essentially have a button to press to "Find out more," so I'm not totally sold that it needs to go.
— Greg Bilsland (@gregbilsland) September 8, 2020
As more games move to virtual tabletops and tools, it also becomes more feasible for these tools to show info accordingly. Imagine if @DnDBeyond looked at the characters playing through an adventure and then highlighted the relevant info in the adventure accordingly.
— Greg Bilsland (@gregbilsland) September 8, 2020
Also, as a birder, I can confirm that "active and passive perception" aren't really a thing when you're attuned/skilled at looking for something. I'm always birding, even when I'm not actively doing it.
— Greg Bilsland (@gregbilsland) September 8, 2020
Would you continue adding in events regarding children of Elminster like Narna? Sure. I keep track of about 400 NPCs in the Realms (where they are, what they're up to, important events that befall or involve them), and El's direct descendants are among these characters.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 30, 2020
Y’know, I could also ask the kindly wizard @TheEdVerse himself, if there are any dhampyr or vryloka in the Realms.
7:42 PM · May 10, 2020 Certainly. See “Playing Dhampyr” by Brian R. James in issue 371 of The Dragon, and “Heroes of Shadow” (4e) for vryloka (I don’t think they’ve had their official 5e version yet, but they were in the Realms then!).#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 26, 2020
@TheEdVerse In the Realms is it more common for folks to have the ability to study and use arcane/weave magic such as a wizard or those given the divine spark of a spell using cleric?
— stephen parlin (@smparlin) August 3, 2020
1)
The Gift to wield the Art (arcane magic) is far rarer than the ability to have the gods (or their spell-granting servitor beings) listen to your prayers and answer them by sending magic.
The Gift is a rare personal innate… 2)
…ability; receiving divine magic is a matter of mortal belief, the divine judgment of that mortal (or the situation, and how granting something would public-relations-benefit the deity or their mortal church), or divine whim.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 4, 2020
Woaw so the gods taking favor is not as rare as the study of arcane? So that means that it’s easier for the gods to see merit in mortals versus the mortal to embark on their own journey for power? Yes. Gods have bestowed spells on non-clerics who were devout believers and prayed fervently in their hour of need: farmers making a knowing-they're-doomed lone stand to defend their village, for instance.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 4, 2020
All arcane and divine magic works through the Weave to access the natural energies (tides, wind, convection, etc.) of the world. Other systems of magic (table magic, etc.) are alternatives to the Weave. So, not "all" but otherwise, spot on.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 4, 2020
