1188 DR – The Year of Soft Frogs. What am I missing @TheEdVerse? #dnd
— JVC Parry (@jvcparry) January 29, 2019
I wondered whether it was something to do with Bullywugs? That’s as much as I’ve got 😂 Heh. NOT the creatures. "Frog" = the part of a sheath or scabbard (for a blade or edged tool) used to hang the sheath from a belt. Wild magic unintentionally released across Faerun that year (side-effect of a failed mythal casting) made leather stretch, go "buttery," and melt.
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2019
And this caused a lot of battlefield/adventuring mishaps (sword or dagger falls away and is gone just when needed, leather falls off as straps give way, leather armor perishes entirely, leather door hinges…it's one of the reasons Azuth and Mystra began STRONGLY frowning on…
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2019
…attempts to cast mythals.
In the 1300s, certain priests spuriously claimed "Soft Frogs" refers to the creatures, rotting away as the result of this or that divine displeasure (i.e. a sign of the power of the deity they serve), but that's entirely fiction.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2019