Starting an evil campaign and have a pc who wants to be Kalashtar. Would they just be a Kalashtar fighting for Dreaming Dark?

September 28, 2020Zoltar Leave a comment

starting an evil campaign and have a pc who wants to be Kalashtar. Jc on ur thoughts. Would they be an Inspired? Would they just be a Kalashtar fighting for Dreaming Dark? Thanks for creating this wonderful world I’ve been exploring for months. Kalashtar don’t have to be good. Orphan kalashtar may know nothing of the culture of their people and have a flawed connection with their spirit. We’ve also said there are kalashtar concerned only with their own power, who want to essentially become new quori.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) July 13, 2020

“Here come the dwarves”

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Here come the dwarves
Descending on my cellar en masse
Make for the wharves!
Their drunken singing shatters glass

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 6, 2020

The dragon is come, and your time of hope is through
She’ll scorch out your keep
From dungeons to ramparts steep
Then proceed to the toasty fun of casually barbequing you

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 7, 2020

That stain is where the king did fall
Note the mark upon the wall
That’s where he flung the queen
In a doomed attempt to wean
The dragon away from gobbling her all

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 8, 2020

Two very central NPCs in my campaign were killed during a chapter-ending battle and I did not plan for it, and it is having an immense impact on the game

September 27, 2020Zoltar 1 Comment

1/3 Hi Ed! I need your advice. Two very central NPCs in my campaign were killed during a chapter-ending battle and I did not plan for it, and it is having an immense impact on the game. One was one of the PC’s pregnant wizard wife with a huge story around the future 2/2 kids and the other was the central cleric in the story and best friend of the PC characters. It's affecting everyone emotionally and I was wondering what you thought of Wish/Miracle in such a situation and of Resurrection spells in general and how they are sometimes used too

— Weaveshaper (@Jonah82155034) June 23, 2020

lightly, and if using them wound lessen the impact of the deaths. I'm struggling between re-writing the whole following story and creating a fix for it, one that would make sense in the story since the means are available and the situation warrants it. Thanks in advance sir!

— Weaveshaper (@Jonah82155034) June 23, 2020

Is there "unfinished business" for the undead PCs, left undone by their demises? That a third party (NPC or NPC organization) might want them back alive to get done for them? If so, that's the most organic/least "unrealistic" way to return them to life, in-game.
Let's talk.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 24, 2020

Jewel of Turmish from The Cities, the Country is portrayed so differently from how Jeff Grubb’s character in The Finder’s Stone talks of it. In your view, is it contradictory?

September 27, 2020Zoltar Leave a comment

re-reading Jewel of Turmish from The Cities, the Country is portrayed so differently from how Jeff Grubb’s character in The Finder’s Stone talks of it. In your view, is it contradictory? And if so, which view is correct? Imagine multiple wives was problematic? Not contradictory, as no realm larger than a city-state in the Realms is monolithic; they all vary from place to place, from urban to backlands, and social class to social class.
Turmish is a mixed-societies-in-the-same-country that's changing rapidly before our eyes.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 7, 2020

“Eddie G., are you rapping? This is exquisite!”

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Lose yourself not in the hot clanging heat of battle
Cast your fireball, and shrewdly let it go
In the bloody sword-dance
Perhaps just the one chance
Your one moment the foe to overthrow
Wind up that fireball, and devouring fire THROW!

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 9, 2020

Eddie G., are you rapping? This is exquisite! I'm the one
There is no other
So here's your poem
You funky mother!

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 9, 2020

NPC named Rotting Bal, who’s listed as a human. However, in Chapter 4, he’s presented as an elf. What race is he supposed to be?

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Chapter 3 of Rising from the Last War, in the subsection Criminal Activities introduces a House Tarkanan NPC named Rotting Bal, who's listed as a human. However, in Chapter 4, subsection House Tarkanan, he's presented as an elf. What race is he supposed to be?

— Construct Lyrriman d'Sivis (@ninjadumpaccoun) November 22, 2019

Elf is a typo; Rotting Bal is human. He first appeared in 3.5 here: https://t.co/oFbBMas7Yp Incidentally, I think that's a picture of him on page 52 of Rising From The Last War.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) November 22, 2019

“WOLF! D’you WANT to be beheaded?”

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1)
“Distract him, Palonder.”
“The King? How?”
“Give him a toy, or a willing wench, or do a card trick. It usually doesn’t take much.”
“WOLF! D’you WANT to be beheaded?”
“The prospect seems increasingly tempting, I’ll admit.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 8, 2020

2)
“Look, stop being arch and clever for a moment, and answer me this: why don’t we just wait until dark? When those crossbowmen out there won’t be able to see us? Well? No applause for the brilliant royal plan? 3)
“There are these things called torches, Elvar. Not to mention fire-arrows, or in this case flaming quarrels. Then they can still see to skewer us.”
“Gods SPIT. Well, then, you’re my senior courtier! YOU come up with a plan!”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 8, 2020

4)
“That’s what I’m busily engaged in doing right now, Elvar. Though I lack one essential.”
“Oh? What’s that?”
“Your royal silence. Royal blithering has ruined many a clever plan.”
“You irk me.”
“Only as often as necessary, Sire.” 5)
“You irk me CONSTANTLY, Wolf.”
“That’s because it’s constantly necessary to do so, Your Majesty. For your own good.”
“WHAT?”
“And until you understand why, ‘your own good’ will continue to suffice as an exc—reason.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 8, 2020

SPOILER Rime of the Frostmaiden: Ythryn Mythallar

September 26, 2020Zoltar Leave a comment

am I correct that “as written” the players couldn’t take control of the Ythryn Mythallar without finding and destroying Iriolarthas’s phylactery, which is only described as “buried under the rubble of Ythryn”? SPOILER REPLY. Demiliches don’t have the Rejuvenation trait that liches do (they’re no longer tethered to their phylacteries), which is why Iriolarthas’s phylactery plays no meaningful role. So yes, characters could steal Ythryn (not an easy task, mind you). #wotcstaff

— Christopher Perkins (@ChrisPerkinsDnD) September 17, 2020

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Starting an evil campaign and have a pc who wants to be Kalashtar. Would they just be a Kalashtar fighting for Dreaming Dark?

“Here come the dwarves”

Two very central NPCs in my campaign were killed during a chapter-ending battle and I did not plan for it, and it is having an immense impact on the game

Jewel of Turmish from The Cities, the Country is portrayed so differently from how Jeff Grubb’s character in The Finder’s Stone talks of it. In your view, is it contradictory?

“Eddie G., are you rapping? This is exquisite!”

NPC named Rotting Bal, who’s listed as a human. However, in Chapter 4, he’s presented as an elf. What race is he supposed to be?

“WOLF! D’you WANT to be beheaded?”

SPOILER Rime of the Frostmaiden: Ythryn Mythallar

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