2009 Fun Fact: When Zendikar released in the fall of 2009, enough people on the D&D team started playing that I finally started playing (and collecting!) Magic in earnest. It helped that my daughter was 12 and ready to learn as well. 2010-11 Mirrodin/New Phyrexia lost me, though.
— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 29, 2020
What turned you off in Mirrodin ?
— Julien Fenoglio – Moonlit GM 🌙 (@JFaedus) January 29, 2020
The Phyrexian aesthetic.
— James Wyatt (@aquelajames) January 29, 2020
Does an adult/elder oblex have to use an action or bonus action to retract a simulacrum? It takes a bonus action to extrude one, but it doesn’t say how it retracts one. Hmm. I didn't work on the oblex, so I'm not comfortable diving into that one on an intent standpoint.
As a DM, I'd have the oblex able to dissolve a simulacrum as it wishes, basically at any time (similar to ceasing concentration).
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) January 9, 2020
Shayan Ghorbanian @ShayanFilmStuff@TheEdVerse
I was wondering if you had any brief info on the masked lord Thardouk Starbuckler. The name was mentioned in W:DH but I don't see anything else online. Thanks!— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 17, 2020
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If @ChrisPerkinsDnD doesn’t have anything more that he can share right now, I’ll be happy to create something for you.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 17, 2020
Will there be a Reverse Dunamancy spell to allow time travel? Because I don't believe D&D has fully explored the possibilities of time travel in magic. pic.twitter.com/LoMDe1c8nN
— Gavin Sheehan (@TheGavinSheehan) January 16, 2020
Not to mention a nightmare to DM.
— All Fall Down (@JamesHedrick20) January 16, 2020
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— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) January 16, 2020
A quick counterpoint: If it’s fantasy and not science, that means it’s not exact. Much like how when you use teleport without a circle destination, you have to roll % dice on the success. I think it would be an interesting addition with limitations and ways to gloriously fail. There are many ways to introduce such ideas to a home game! Time travel as a player-spell (particularly when it comes to going BACK in time) becomes a challenge to balance and make trackable on a mechanical level. Narratively…hell yeah, go for it!
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) January 16, 2020
this was probably covered before somewhere, but what are instrumemts made of normally in the realms? Wood and such as normal but what about strings and things like that? 1)
Many strings are made of spun silk, horsehair (tails), and “gut” (dried intestines of rothé, oxen, or lambs). Only senior Gondite priests and skilled dwarven smiths can make wire fine and homogenous enough for use as strings. #Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 6, 2020
If you were joining a lvl 7 party with:druid, a wizard, and Artificer/rogue.
Would you choose:
Warforged barbarian path of beast
(Beastwars!)
Githyanki eldritch knight
Aarakocra/tortle cleric of the grave
Half sea elf bard, college of swords I'll rein in my bias (tempted to default to Path of the Beast) and go with the githyanki Eldritch Knight, I've been noodling a similar concept and it sounds fun as hell.— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) June 2, 2020
But Beast Wars! Ive also never played a barbarian.
But gith eldritch knight fits perfect with their lore, but neutral alignment, Got bored and left.
I don’t make beefy chars often so looking for fun guidance Eldritch Knights are obnoxiously tanky, especially if you're fighting things affected by Protection from Evil, but I mean, heavy armor + shield and the Shield spell is amazing. Plus they can Blade Ward and still attack if they need extra thickness without sacrificing a turn.— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) June 2, 2020
Trey @arkanjil@TheEdVerse
…the 5e Sword coast map has some wide lands in the north and east; do you have current or past lore on such places as the Frozen Forest, Turnback Mountains, or the lands about these?
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Long Reply Thread 1:— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 14, 2020
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The best coverage of this area is in Dungeon 170, in the superb MONUMENT OF THE ANCIENTS adventure by Brian R. James and Matt James. Complete with maps of the city of Phlan, the gnoll-held settlement of Frozen Flindyke, and a…2)
…closeup map of the region (full-page map on pg 56 of the magazine).
If you’re venturing north from the Moonsea, you’ll come to the Dragonspine Mountains first. Beyond them is the Ride (cold grassy plains roamed by rothé and…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 14, 2020
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…wolves and fierce, nomadic, feuding tribes of human barbarians), then the White Mountains. North beyond that range are the Tortured Lands (The Leewai), and then the Abbey Mountains; Turnback Mountain is a distinctive tall… 4)
…peak about a third of the way west along the range from its eastern end, and in the heart of it (it’s a “middle mountain” with other peaks north and south of it).
Beyond the Abbey Mountains is the Frozen Forest; a chillingly-…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 14, 2020
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…cold icewater river, the Alaphaer Run, flows north out of the western Abbey Mountains into the Frozen Forest (and almost right to the step pyramid known as the Monument of the Ancients).
The Moonsea North region is known for…
#Realmslore 6)
…its sudden changes in weather, often marked by fast-moving fronts that bring violent storms on their leading edges, usually blowing to the northeast. The fiercest weather occurs in afternoon or early evening, and in spring is…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 14, 2020
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…often marked by thunderstorms with racing, widespread lightning strikes. Winter storm fronts often bring abrupt flash freezes, temperatures plummeting and slaying unprotected creatures caught out in the open, only to rise… 8)
…slowly over a matter of days ere the next “icejaws” front hits.
Where the Ride is grassy and verdant, naturally well-watered (so growth is inhibited largely by the cold climate and short growing season), the Tortured Lands…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 14, 2020
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…are for the most part parched, though the River Pelauvir does rise at about its east-west midpoint, to run east, bolstered by the Shattersoul River draining out of the Great Glacier; Flindyke stands on its north bank at the… 10)
…only bridge over it in the region, Maram’s Span. The western Tortured Lands are rocky, windswept, and largely bare of all life but stunted shrubs and ground-hugging mosses and lichens, a place of foothills, and canyons…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 14, 2020
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…where water once flowed, in warmer times.
The eastern Tortured Lands are mainly dunes of frozen sand, sculpted by the fierce winds into jagged, strange shapes (hence the region’s name). The rugged landscape and severe… 12)
…night-day temperature swings make the Tortured Lands a place to traverse as quickly as possible, not to try to tarry or dwell in. Caribou herds and the thick-pelt wolves (and well-armed gnoll hunting bands, with their…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 14, 2020
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…fierce dogs) that prey on them are the most numerous living things roaming the Tortured Lands.
The Abbey Mountains have had their name since the days of ancient Netheril, when Netherese worshippers of Selûne built the Abbey…14)
…of the Moon (now a toppled ruin of shattered stone columns, foundations, and monster-haunted storage cellars) atop Selûne’s Crest, the highest peak of the range. To the gnolls, these are the Rabrae Hyuk (“hyar” is rock or…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 14, 2020
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…loose stone in the gnoll tongue, “hyukla” is a crag or spire, and “hyuk” is a mountain or range of mountains; “Rabrae” is the name of these mountains, an obvious echo/corruption of “Abbey”). The peaks are frigid and… 16)
…windswept, only the topmost peaks snow-capped (in contrast to the White Mountains range to the south, whose name comes from their permanent cloaks of snow) and hold relatively few veins of ore worth mining; …#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 14, 2020
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…“Turnback Mountain” got its name when a group of long-ago prospectors guarded by several bands of hired adventurers against the gnolls and ogres of Thar and hobgoblins, finding little of worth but endless creatures wanting… 18)
…them dead, got disheartened by heavy losses and nigh-ceaseless attacks, and decided to turn back.
Perhaps they were prudent, but more recent explorers have reported no less than two dragon lairs and three shattered but… #Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 14, 2020
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…extensive ruins—perhaps remnants of fallen Netherese flying cities—in the deep and nigh-unvisited-by-humans valleys in the heart of the range.
The foothills along the northern face of the Abbey range are known locally as the… 20)
…“mammothbacks,” and for centuries have been where treasure is cached, Ride barbarian chieftans are entombed, and gnolls lure rothé and caribou herds into natural “killing trap” funnels caused by the topography.
[Thread 1 ends]#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 14, 2020
