I’m running a Wildemount adventure rn and one of my PCs said “You act like the hottest thing since sliced bread” to another PC and it begs the question:
Has sliced bread been invented in Wildemount yet? Ha! If you think it should have been, then make that call! Decide which culture you think would be responsible for that culinary leap. 😉
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) May 27, 2020
And now there’re no more unicorns because
Hungry swooping dragons took all there was
Wizards went after the dragons then
So there’re no more dragons, now, just thirsty-sword-swinging men— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 8, 2020
Too furious or too obedient to learn what their foes tried to teach
An huge armed host died on yonder beach
Now ghosts stand grim to watch the coming of the dawn
They rule this land, now that the living are all gone— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 9, 2020
Every time yon witch casts a spell into a mirror
The time when we must do battle gets nearer
Peace and safety long gone
Lost in her night ’twixt dusk and dawn
That’s always the way
Someone’s got to hurl good times away
Time to make her pay— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 10, 2020
Treason, gentles, ’tis just a plot away
Just a plot away
The old king’s heart a spell shall rot away
Civil war just one onslaught away
Sober food for thought dashed away
So put not that garotte away— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 11, 2020
I'm so glad this is finally here, long after it should have been. My hope for the Realms is that it will take the setting away from historical "borrowings" (always lazy design) into different, newly-crafted cultures with vibrant lives and characteristics of their own.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 22, 2020
Racism, sexism, and class snobbery all fade before better roleplaying when players are immersed in fantastic settings where the lives, views, and aspirations of kenku and thaalud are as detailed and pertinent as those of humans, and stereotypes are not truth.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 22, 2020
If the drow have a sort of "moral renaissance", I think that would be awesome, and I'm especially excited for what that might entail for Lolth and the Seldarine, but please don't redact the lore and stories I grew up with and love. Make it a progressive thing, not retroactive.
— Astrudai (@astrudai) June 22, 2020
The "standing Realms rule" is: rules/edition/real-world changes don't change established lore; "what came before" is still the history of the Realms.
As it should be; if we erase or rewrite the past, we learn nothing, and past achievements and strivings are nothing.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 23, 2020
What if I told you, much like #TTRPG warlock patrons not needing to be evil, clerics don’t automatically have to be religious?
I said what I said. Ayep. There is no requirement for a cleric to serve a deity, or maintain any kind of pious relationship or behavior at all in 5e.
That’s intentional.
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 16, 2020
Do you subtract divine intervention from them then? It specifically refers to an appeal to your deity to intervene. Nope. Sidebar in Xanathar’s covers that nit pick.
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 17, 2020
Thoros is the absolute perfect example.
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 16, 2020
Kashaw from Critical Role campaign 1 is also a great example.
He’s empowered by a divine being, but holy SHIT does he not want to be. Doesn’t matter. He was chosen, the power given, and that’s that. He can avoid doing her will as much as he wants, his spells still work.
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 16, 2020
The last 2 clerics I played weren’t religious. One was a social climber who found the church’s framework useful. The gods gave THEM power because they too, were useful.
The other was a reluctant acolyte. One of my favorite villain templates is the high priest of a good deity doing terrible things, but is still legitimately a powerful high priest of that good deity.— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 16, 2020
Nice explanation of how they don’t work, but then how do they work? Just asking for a friend 🙂 They work exactly as written in their entry in the Player’s Handbook. Pact struck, character is now a warlock, done.
Anything more is up to us playing the game to play around with.
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) February 16, 2020
@Wizards_DnD @JeremyECrawford Not sure where to ask this… with regards to playing a campaign in Theros, can you only use the monsters represented in the book or can you use monsters from any source?
— Ash Fourie (@AGFourie) June 22, 2020
When you run an official D&D adventure or use an official setting, you may customize it however you like. At your table, it's your adventure and your world! #DnD https://t.co/wQvQe2OI9l
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) June 22, 2020
@TheEdVerse Question on one of your masterpieces. Undermountain, level one, upper right corner of the WESTERN half, just left of the wandering monster chart, 50' wide by 20' deep room. Has a 10' set of stairs on the south side. No arrow indicating direction of stairs.
— Saylorn13 (@Saylorn131) June 5, 2020
1)
Sorry, that’s one of many minor glitches: those stairs go up. The room at the top of them was once a “deep, deep undercellar” of a city building above, but the connections between it and what’s above were long ago… 2)
…walled up with fitted stones, then rubble, then bricks, then earth, then more rubble, then fitted stones again (i.e. DAYS of digging). When a cellar, the room has seen use as contraband storage, and as a secret cult chapel.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 6, 2020
@ChrisPerkinsDnD Do Illithid have bones because they are transformed from creatures that once contained bones or has their skeletal structure completely changed over to the chitinous structures that real world mollusks have. Or am I thinking about this too hard?
— SadOldMagician (@SadOldMagician) July 1, 2020
Mind flayers have bones. When a creature undergoes ceremorphosis, its skeletal structure changes as it transforms into an illithid. #wotcstaff https://t.co/8LYOvB3tiN
— Christopher Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDnD) July 1, 2020
You're still not convincing me to try it..
— (((beastgp))) I stand against racism (@beastgp) July 1, 2020
Ceremorphosis is an acquired taste. https://t.co/ESd2tRMsOL
— Christopher Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDnD) July 1, 2020
1)
“So by going downwards, we’re going to be safe?”
“I would not trust overmuch in THAT. Danger is everywhere in life.”
“Philosophy, Wolf? Really? 2)
“Whoa there, Chant. Philosophers THINK before they speak.”
{snort} “And you don’t, is that it?”
“I just keep about three lines ahead of the rest of you. It’s not hard.”
“Ouch.”
“You’re welcome.”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 26, 2020
3)
“So what if we do head for that lit room?”
“You’ll see, in another two rooms.”
Wolf leads the way across a room, through an arch, along a passage, and out into another room that’s festooned with archways. He points ahead. 4)
“Follow me—and when I turn left sharply, make sure you do, too.”
“Oh? Why?”
Wolf indicates a dark, motionless form ahead. It’s an endlessly-staring guard, withering away to a skeleton but standing stiffly upright.#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 26, 2020
5)
Thanks to all the long, wicked spikes he’s impaled on.
“That’s why.”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 26, 2020
