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was thinking like you know right now if
if if Hasbro just walked up and said I’m
done with this you know slap their hands
together and through the realms back and
said it’s all yours take it we know
anything else to do with that what would
you change from this point in the next
five years okay here’s what I would do I
would convene a gathering of all the
good realm says you guys George Eric boy
you know I’m more there in Evanson I
want Susan Morris people like that
I want Jeff’s input Jeff Crowe um and
I’d say okay on the gaming front let’s
make sure we have the best darn and I
and by the way I think they they I think
they have just done it right now um Dean
the essentials kit starter set box set
for novice gamers to start with okay now
all of you get to do your pet projects
as as low-level mini or low to mid-level
adventures running off from this in
various directions
have fun go go in all in different
directions and then everybody would get
to okay what’s the novel you want to
write what’s the end by that I don’t
mean a one-shot I mean a series what do
you want what do we want to see more of
and then do them you know the amazing
part is is that if you if you took a
thousand realms fans and asked them what
would they want to do next you get a
thousand different answers because of
course there’s so many places in the
realms that need that that push they
need to be written about they need to
have more lore poured into them because
you know even water deep even water deep
you know I’ve said in the past I don’t
want to see another water deep product
but you know what I would see another
one of the product its admit that they
were putting out stories about the
people they’re you know not the stuff of
same old adventures or maybe their kids
because or their grandkids but there’s a
hundred years ago but I’d like to hear
more about those shopkeepers what their
thoughts were after all this happened
you know how the hell the new of how the
new realms heroes were were looked at as
they came pouring into water deep or
Westgate or shadow Dale or anywhere
you know it’s like you know we’ve been
through this we don’t want to go do it
again or hey come on in we want you to
come in here you know there’s so many
things that could be written about that
it to me it just boggles the mind and
and that’s the thing we all want to
spend time in a world that we know isn’t
real that we can have fun in and so
different different things about that
created world appeal to different people
we all win some of us want the endless
fighting some of us month um you know
endless romance in the realms or
whatever and everything in between
so we all have different things that we
want to see more of different head
spaces we want to spend more daily time
in when we’re away from the real world
um so I’m totally okay with the fact
that the roams has to be all things to
all people that’s that’s what’s been
driving it it was it was the land of a
thousand stories a thousand thousand
stories is how I sold it to TSR back in
the day you know this is not the problem
with Dragonlance was that it was telling
one epic tale it was you know doing the
Lord of the Rings thing the quest to
save the world okay what do you do for
an encore okay save it again
yeah let’s flip the world over see the
side we haven’t seen inside the world
again but it is an anti-climax um David
Eddings David and David and Leigh
Eddings did the same thing with the
Bulgaria they painted themselves into a
corner
okay now the publisher wants equals what
do you do oh we saved the world again I
wanted the rooms to be all things to all
people so and last but that what that
means is everybody wants something
different and that’s great
it just means it’ll take us forever to
get around to it but that was that’s the
whole point of having a big team then
the problem becomes and and I’ve learned
this the hard way with trying to think
the agree with group um the the Rome’s
traffic cop keeping people out of each
other’s way as they all try and do
different things with the same
characters so I need to kill the king
Cormier because I need to tell this
great story no this is someone else I
need that kid to stay on the throne you
know but aside from the the Rome’s
traffic cough keeping people from
running into each other
it would be great and that’s the mate
that’s the hard job and the main thing
would be seeing all of you run with the
realms in different directions at once I
I would love to see the realms as a
great collective there were everybody
who would write about everything they
wanted for them till the end of time I
would buy them
oh are you kidding
right and right that would be an
absolute incredible feat to pull off I
know that I would be thrilled I know
that everybody would be thrilled
absolutely so so let me ask is anybody
else have any more questions I’m kind of
fresh out of questions right now
is that a big No oh you caught me off
guard I really would have to – you know
an armored battle wizard I guess okay
this sounds this sounds more like a like
a special than a dinner than a podcast
yeah yeah maybe you guys should have
like a half an hour where you dedicate
to this to this day for for listeners
that really want to delve into the Nitty
Gritty sky could just build a character
really fantastic I’d love to do that
we’ll pick a time then we’ll just Skype
a character together all right you’re
gonna let me roll my my backgrounds I
have this random background generator
which I’m planning to release on the
guild it’s gotta be real real cool and
you’re gonna be role on that right
absolutely
I’m putty in your hands Eric excellent
all right yeah let’s all right I can see
the Harry dwarven courtesan coming right
did you know it has to have a Scottish
accent you have to make sure that you
put so many consonant
in the name that it can only be
pronounced as alright alright let’s keep
these things in mind
hey yeah absolutely every news from
Alejo absolutely and last what we can do
why don’t you guys say something about
the upcoming candlekeep get-together
leaves of the World Tree okay so every
Jed Khan since 2012 we’re not going to
come to 2011 can’t believe zero we’ve
held a seminar at GenCon and called
chemical presence and the goal is to put
together Friends of the Forgotten Realms
with designers authors people who worked
on the realms either professionally
through fiction through the through
adventure writing supplement writing now
through the DMS field we just want a
place for people to come and kind of
talk about the realms especially since
Wizards has reduced its um presence at
GenCon
despite the fact that they use baldwin
beams for their um for their kind of
organized play content there’s no place
for people to come together and kind of
just enjoy the Forgotten Realms as a
setting which is what we hope to do with
Campbell cave and the theme for this
year’s seminars leaves of the World Tree
the the refers to the the third edition
conception of the four enormous
cosmology the world tree cosmology but
really it’s about the various worlds and
realities that are connected to to the
Forgotten Realms and how they they
influence our understanding of the world
and it’s kind of an excuse to talk about
other planes other realities we every
year we put together a collectible pin
and uh leaves are the World Tree sounded
like a good thing that I could turn into
a pin to so we’re working on that right
now we’re hoping everybody that comes to
Gen Con is
and is a realms fan well why you would
be listening to this if you’re not a
real fan I’m not entirely sure but if
you’re a rump fan and you’re coming to
Gen Con the event is held every Saturday
night at 8 p.m.
again it’s Campbell he presents leaves
or the World Tree tickets are still
available and we hope to see you there
Eric do you want to anything that was an
excellent summary at the event we gather
as many realms luminaries as we can
designers writers who have contributed
to the rums over the past years we’re
not entirely sure who all is going to
show up until the event so it’s a fun
little surprise and you can hear some
really great round stories and just
share and your love of the setting that
has inspired us and driven so much of
our gaming and our imagination you know
absolutely as a matter of fact we’re
gonna just just the mages two sages
podcast we have a few gifts we’re gonna
be giving away as well some t-shirts to
people and we may have a little if you
don’t want to come up with some
questions Brian or Eric or even even
Edie dependent to us that we can ask and
give away t-shirts that way we’d like to
do that just to kind of help promote it
promote everything and get people
interested in coming in and then add and
I are going to have a nice little
announcement to make there too as well
about something that we’re planning
hopefully we’ll have a have more
information on that later okay Eric and
Brian before we wrap it up
could you guys throw out your social
media contacts so people can get in
touch yeah my twitter is Eric’s got to
be just my whole name URI que se OTT de
Bie
that’s also where I am on Facebook and
yeah those are the two best places to
find me great appreciate that and Brian
how about you my twitter is brain just
at Brian corty Oh Bri a and cor CIJ ho I
don’t have an Instagram and I’m probably
wouldn’t share with anybody everybody
anyway oh and I don’t have a
professional Facebook my Facebook is
just personal so really Twitter is the
is the place to go for my my more public
needs um if anyone has any questions
about the candlekeep
seminar I can also be reached at Kendall
keep that presence at gmail.com if and
now we actually um a couple of times a
year like two or three times a year
we’ll send out updates and remind people
about what’s going on with the seminar
so if you’re interested in getting more
information when those notices will come
out you can also let me know through
that email address fantastic it was very
hard tonight Brian to keep from asking
you those questions that I had here
because I kept having to skip over them
in my notes so so I look forward to our
to our get together when next month when
we can ask them and get some great
answers which I know they’re gonna be
great I do look forward to that
and and Edie anything new for you coming
up not that you could talk about now now
I know that you you you don’t go far for
for any kind of conventions or get some
get-togethers’ I know I saw sit there
recently that somebody had contacted us
about it’s about a play being put on
based on the realms oh there is a an
Arts Festival in late August every year
in Port Hope in Ontario on the north
shore of Lake Ontario the place where
radium was discovered and developed so
everybody close I mean and that is where
I work daily at a public library and
they have a an arts thing and their
theme this year is dungeons dragons and
role-playing games and I think what they
plan to do for a day is to have a D&D
thing that I narrate or Dungeon Master
on I’m not quite sure on the
the nitty-gritty details and actors up
on a stage will act out what is
happening in the adventure and this is a
sort of it is sort of like an open-air
version of what Gen Con used to be a
game fair so there will be artists
selling fantasy costume jewelry and and
paintings and there will be people who
will paint little fake tattoos on your
kid that looked like a dragon and stuff
like that you know it’ll be a sort of
day festival in the park thing and and I
I think it’s called a critical critical
madness critical critical massive
adventure yes okay yes yes so summer is
coming critical massive adventure it’s
August 17th in Port Hope Ontario yes and
actually they have a they have a
GoFundMe or a funding page as well yeah
that that particular time of year is
crazy for me because I will be at the
gaming garage at the Canadian National
Exhibition for two days I’ll be there
and then it’ll be at Fan Expo in Toronto
and they all overlap but so closer to
home closer to the next say six thirty
days or 45 days is there any place that
you can be going to for a reading for a
live gaming session like you did at the
at one pub in Toronto anything like that
coming up soon well yes as a matter of
fact the people who played in the second
one we had to stop in the middle of the
adventure so they all want to get
together again and they just sent me a a
messenger message in the middle of all
this say oh we can all do this one day
so how about it so that’s going to
happen and what else is saying and I in
in September I will go to phantasm in
Peterborough Ontario these are all
things that I can get to and get back to
my wife
for the evening because that that’s what
it’s affecting me and that is the
terrible thing about Gen Con he is not a
hub so unless I have a private jet and
clearance and I don’t bother with cost
which will make me very unpopular with
the authorities in the United States
there’s no way I can get there spend any
time there and get back inside a day
because I have to take connecting
flights and it just doesn’t work out
right right no that’s okay but coming up
and now you’re not gonna be at the one
in August and the play I’ll be there um
yup for one day yeah okay do you know
what day that’ll be um no I think it’s
that I think it I think it’ll probably
be the Saturday I am guessing here the
the lady is running this they buttonhole
me to ask me questions about D and D a a
local pub is involved and they sit and
ask me questions and write down the
answers and then they get me to commit
to do things so yes I’ll be doing a lot
of things that critical madness but I
don’t quite remember right now what they
all are well that’s uh that’s that’s a
Saturday that they’re doing this I guess
so it’s probably the Saturday I’ll be
there being Dungeon Master there’s also
going to be a live chess game or that
was one of the ideas with everybody in
armor um mm-hmm
but we’ll see Fulks science you mean
like a full-size chess whoa yeah I mean
that was one of the ideas that ideas may
change I could just get a vision of Mel
Brooks everybody jumped the Queen that’s
right and everybody running it in they
tend to be of the female gender and
there will be no jumping the Queen may
be jumping the king yeah no I I think I
think things will be far more socially
acceptable for a family event fantastic
yeah I think that’s when it’s I just but
yes you’re right alright anybody else
have anything else to say or want to
promote you want to give a shout out
anything like done
I don’t have anything you guys have been
great I really enjoyed it I’m looking
forward to the cormier installment and
Eric thanks for doing this really
appreciate it
absolutely thank you for having me no
absolutely and we will set a time up to
roll up my my dwarf in The Wizard and
thank you it was great to hear you guys
again in the Hangout even if just over
the Internet Edie makes a good point
here guys I want you to listen to this
particular part if you see an upcoming
announcement about who we’re having on
and you vibe well with this person
you’ve got some great questions you’ve
got some things that you could spin off
with as well let us know we’ll have you
back for another installment as a guest
on that show as well so don’t think this
is a one shot if you guys want to come
back and be involved in other authors
and other sessions where there’s
absolutely let us know well Cory you
have to realize that Eric has been my
Gen Con for made for god at least I
think it’s eight years running now okay
you guys are sick of each other I get it
you know it’s not it’s not that we’re
sick of each other it’s that we we’ve
had a lot of conversations about the
realms and where we’d like to see it
them go and and our plans if we could
ever get our grubby hands on control of
the realms and that kind of stuff and
right you know really literally talk for
months yeah stuff yeah and I know that
next time when Brian just so you know
during your during your interview when
we get to it next month George will be
here as well as Eric Boyd that’s
wonderful because George and I have
worked on some things behind some of the
some of the behind the scenes stuff for
the realms that uh have kept the I would
put this the roof from coming in right
oh yeah ed will tell you about some of
those things one day yeah yeah we work
at George and I are some of the
background guys and so George and I have
a great work
relationship and Eric certainly can it
has some George’s praises enough I don’t
have to do that but he and I will riff
quite a bit about particular things I
mean and some of the things that made it
into the into the the 1490s
realms and particularly in Cormier grew
out of conversations that George and I
had 10-15 years ago so I’m happy to have
him but me you don’t want Erik and I did
just start talking about stuff because
we’re not
you’ll never get a podcast done we’re
coming up on three hours art
they usually run four and a half oh yeah
this is standard Friday for our podcast
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compared thanks again everybody for
coming on we really do appreciate her
and I both do appreciate you guys coming
in and we should I’m gonna try to get a
t-shirt for you guys too
Thanks so we’re going to have one for
you for the pretty covering it to Gen
Con and have one for you guys too
because you have such a been part of the
film there would be a realm not generous
oh I wouldn’t go nearly that far for me
oh oh I really I would I would I really
was because oh yes but Eric you’re not
go ahead and say no but if you think you
know the love that you have for this
setting is is is so obvious and it shows
in your discussions in your in your
willingness to jump up and defend it and
if an IDI defend everything that’s
happened here that it’s just incredible
and I really appreciate both you guys
for being that way because you know I
have a love of the realms I know curry
does I introduced curry to dragons when
he was how we occurring like 1512 No
first game
eleven years old and on a personal note
the novel’s the storyline in in some
very significant way changed and saved
my life and that’s part of my story I’ll
take that with me forever no that’s true
it did so you see it is important that
you guys continue to do what you’re
doing and you know it’s the it and it
truly it saves people’s lives because it
really does believe it or not and so
yeah so don’t be humble be be grateful
that you’re a part of this you have a
love for it to itself that’s what I have
to say I’m done
thank you for having me yeah no thank
you thank you thank you again Eric
appreciate it so oh oh absolutely any
time I enjoy our time together we’ve
noted her for a long time you too Brian
I remember meeting you in the on the
floor of the in the engine con at the in
the room with all the you know the when
you what he called the vendor’s room and
I think you were working at Sean’s Sean
Reynolds booth or chip I believe so
yep you lo those many years ago I post
many years ago it’s yeah that’s when
they were selling so girlfriend and all
that too I remember those soaps
you know I bought one and I remember
using it and I couldn’t wait to to get
home and I wash myself vigorously so I
get until I got it where I could if the
dice out of it whatever I say good bye
Gracie thank you again but can I Grayson
and then Gracie there you go you’re the
one that did it