Greetings! I want to start reading through some of your Forgotten Realms books! Which series would you recommend as the best place to start?Hi! Either Shandril's Saga (starting with Spellfire) or the Knights of Myth Drannor trilogy (starting with Swords of Eveningstar). Enjoy!
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 3, 2017
I am sorry to interrupt your normal programming, but I thought I would share this. These are TSR's original maps of the Forgotten Realms hand drawn by @TheEdVerse and sent to TSR (55 pages worth). TSR then used these maps to create all the FR goodness that we all love so much. pic.twitter.com/pW33FDwNQW
— Alex Kammer (@alexanderkammer) January 3, 2018
My old photocopies have been through the wars, it looks like. Thank goodness I kept the faint pencil originals… https://t.co/9mfHYzKmDy
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 4, 2018
The big arcs of the campaign are coming into focus. The Ordning. Caira Xasten and the Book of Vile Darkness, the Obarskyr Clone… Ah, those Obarskyr clones are endlessly useful. ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 8, 2017
I spent some time pondering “what could the Yuan-Ti do with an Obarskyr clone?”, I suppose better question would be what couldn’t they do?! Indeed. The possibilities are endless. Even if there's no real clone, but just a spellspun or natural Obarksyr lookalike, rumors can be…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 8, 2017
…spread of many "Crown-blood" bastards: Dragon Throne claimants "as legitimate as any." Some nobles will bite. ENDLESS mischief. ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 8, 2017
Many Cormyrean nobles will support even pretenders they know to be false, because anything that weakens the Crown (with their #$@%! …
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 9, 2017
…war wizards!) is just fine with them. But there's support and support: open gets them killed as traitors, or exiled with lands forfeit…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 9, 2017
…and titles stripped, but covert [using, ahem, those notorious ne'er do wells ADVENTURERS as dupes, go-betweens, and intermediaries] …
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 9, 2017
…support, now, that may be every bit as effective. With the Crown busy chasing shadows and spying on rebellions that aren't happening, …
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 9, 2017
…nobles can smuggle, evade taxes, and participate in trade deals so sharp laws get cut (with the everpresent aid of Sembian investors). ;}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 9, 2017
I think this nefarious plot just grew by a few layers, my thanks good sir
My pleasure! (Said with sinister glee over a tallglass of private vintage with elder nobles languidly practising their malevolent smiles.)
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) October 10, 2017
Is Mithral mined as a metal, like gold? or is it mined as an ore, like iron?Almost all mithral is found in ore, that must be crushed and smelted to derive the metal. It's found in "pure-ish" veins very, very rarely. (Most easily-gleaned mithral was taken long, long ago.)
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2017
If you could physically go to anywhere in the realms where everything exists (magic, races, monsters), where would it be and why?Right now? I'd go to the Unicorn Run and enjoy a picnic with the Seven Sisters on its banks whilst watching the unicorns frolic and gambol.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 21, 2017
Hi! Do you recall the name of a city in The Forgotten Realms the streets and layout of which formed a sigil to imprison a demon? My search-fu fails me. might be the capitol of Thay – I think there's a demon imprisoned there
— Mike Mearls (@mikemearls) November 22, 2017
What voice do you imagine Elminster Aumar to have? Maybe @TheEdVerse could even chime in on this one. No answer is correct, just opinions here. Is there a specific actor you have imagined in the role as your reading? #nerdy #DnD for Manner of speech: Nicol Williamson as Merlin in EXCALIBUR.
Elminster: dry English accent with Welsh lilt (Robertson Davies). But his accent wanders thanks to so much world-hopping. I've voiced him thousands of times down the years. ;}— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 4, 2017
Where can an elvish archmage, fearing his past, go to protect his grandson and his parents? Trying to find my rogue/mystic’s “hometown”. The archmage holds a Tome of the Stilled Tongue.
Somewhere off the beaten path maybe.
I’d love any help as The Realms are vast! Many places, from the Nelanther (Pirate Isles) to the Border Kingdoms to the Velen peninsula to upforest Aglarond…hmmm, preferred climate? Stay on the continent of Faerun? ?— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 30, 2017
