See the Old Gray Box, the "root" boxed set for the Realms; there's a size comparison with real-world geography; the short answer is that Toril is slightly larger than Earth.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 11, 2020
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— Zoltar SageAdvice 🔮🐲🎲 (@SageAdviceDnD) March 1, 2020
if you might indulge my perverse sociological fascination:
As I’m sure you’re familiar, in our own world that at times one’s station might provide rights/privileges to actually wear certain clothes, adornments, colours … even to this day one of high enough rank /1Within British nobility get those special robes and tiaras during a coronation.Does any such thing exist within the context of Cormyrian high society circa grey boxes? Anything the friends (or lovers) of a high born attending, say, a palace function along with her /2
— 🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️🌈 (@jayeedgecliff) April 16, 2020
It’s scandalous for them to carry/wear if she brought them along as +1s? Would they be seated among the nobs with her, or would she be seated in lower tiers with them … generally in my own addled way, a cliffsnotes version of Emily Post’s Suzailean works?
/3 On the subject … I don’t suppose anything extant, novel or game product, actually amounts to an basically an Emily Post, or Ms Manners of the Realms? I mean I know Volo, but a master of etiquette, one could argue, he is not.
Thank You
Keep well & safe.— 🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️🌈 (@jayeedgecliff) April 16, 2020
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Published Realmslore touches on this a time or three in CORMYR: A NOVEL and ELMINSTER’S DAUGHTER and the Sage of Shadowdale trilogy, Volo’s Cormyr, and in my long-running series of web columns (wherein we saw glimpses of the…#Realmslore https://twitter.com/jayeedgecliff/status/1250927898346823681 … 2)
…private lives of Azoun and Filfaeril, as setups for the topic of each column). You can also glean a fair bit of Cormyrean social mores and etiquette while reading the superb Brimstone Angels novels By Erin M. Evans.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 17, 2020
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…courtiers, nobles, or royalty new titles/formal new duties, like a wardenship), and weddings of nobility and royalty (even to commoners), nobles don’t wear their coronets/tiaras. Which, along with the robes, is what you’re…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 17, 2020
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…seeing when real-world British peers ‘dress up’ thus.
There are many royal feasts, revels, and balls, including the seasonal ‘presentations’ (wherein young nobility are presented to the court as marriageable and available, 6)
…like the ‘coming out’ parties for real-world bluestocking debutantes) at which coronets and tiaras need not be worn (although some conservative or especially haughty nobles do wear them), and guests brought by a highborn…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 17, 2020
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…would be seated with them if seating is a concern (at revels, it isn’t, and at many feasts since the ascension of Azoun IV the precedence problem is avoided by having many small, round tables where ‘converse and eat’ groups…#Realmslore 8)
…can form of their own accord, among friends and cliques and family, or folk who want to discuss business or sports or pastimes or just gossip together, not by rank). At such events, there’s very little in the way of garments…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 17, 2020
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…that would be considered scandalous (though dirty unclad nudity would come close), because so many attendees use such occasions, like modern real-world ‘Hollywood red carpet’ occasions, for wearing daring fashions 10)
However, you will see a wide variety of garments on display, from uniforms for courtiers and serving military to frilly and revealing gowns, and everything in between.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 17, 2020
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“So what now, Lord?”
“Well, Palonder, you can begin by escorting the King back the way we’ve come.”
“What? Retreat? With the garden door OPEN?”
“Yon garden remains a death trap, Elvar.”
“But…but…”
“And me, Wolf?”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020
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“Chant, your penance is to harvest all the remaining rings from what’s left of Ralandor’s fingers. DON’T let them touch each other, and don’t say a WORD while you’re doing so.”#epicfantasy 3)
“And if I call on their powers and blast you to ash or fly away from here? What then?”
“Then the gods will have delivered me from this torment at last, and it’ll be YOUR turn in the barrel getting constantly hit by cudgels.”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 16, 2020
Our heroes relax. A trifle.
“So Wolf,” Chantratha asks, “why are all these ghosts gloomy old men? Where are the women?”
“They achieved a lot more of what they wanted to, in life. Less unfinished business. Less frustration. O the year was 1378
How I wish I’d fled my castle now
A letter of marque came from the queen
To the scummiest knight ever seen
So I clad him in full coat-of-plate
And in midriver pushed him o’er the prow
The bubbles have stopped coming up by now— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 5, 2020
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The ghost is very suddenly back, looming up right in front of Wolf. “GO ON.”
“And if I don’t?”
“I’ll freeze your heart into stopping. 4)
“I think you may be too late, for this particular heart,” Chantratha says tartly, nodding in Wolf’s direction. “Cold as stone already.”
Wolf gives her a look of matching temperature.#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 6, 2020
As I said to my players last night "It's important for a DM to pay attention to what your PCs love, so you know how to hurt them."
So, fair.
— Dan Dillon 👥 (@Dan_Dillon_1) January 17, 2020
I’ve just begun running a campaign in Eberron and am unsure about a rather minute detail; in Eberron is Silver used more commonly than gold? A lot of adventures reward gold, but based on the, “Dreaming Dark” trilogy it seems silver is the order of the day. 🙂 Per the PHB, a skilled artisan can earn a gold piece a day. A modest meal costs 3 silver, and if you're poor, you can get a meal for copper. So it depends where you are. In Lower Dura and High Walls, most people deal in copper and silver. In Skyway, you're going to see more gold.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) July 2, 2020
I’m really excited to play the new module Rime of the Frostmaiden, but our normal group is not all capable of getting together in the fall. I know most adventures can be adapted to smaller parties in our case (1 DM, 2PC) but do you think this would do a major disservice to Rime?
— Kyle Miller (@TheBarMagister) July 31, 2020
You can enjoy Rime of the Frostmaiden with a small group of characters. In some ways, having a small group can amplify the wintry horrors in the adventure. That said, you will want to trim away some of the threats, unless the small group has a death wish. #DnD https://t.co/Xt2mS9IJW0
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) July 31, 2020
How would the luxon beacon interact with a consucuted caster who has prepared a clone?? The clone would have priority, being a more immediate backup.
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) February 29, 2020
Assuming a lich could be consicuted/retains it’s consicution status.
— Kristin Daniel (@kristinldaniel) February 29, 2020
Assuming a lich could be consicuted/retains it’s consicution status. In that very particular circumstance, I would imagine the phylactery would take priority.
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) February 29, 2020
