What are the dwarven words for “snow”, “snowball”, “snowflake” and “frost”?

November 26, 2020Zoltar Leave a comment

@TheEdVerse Hi Ed. Someone was asking today on one of the FR FB pages what the dwarven words for “snow”, “snowball”, “snowflake” and “frost” might be. Are you able to fill us in?

— George Krashos (@gkrashos) September 21, 2020

1)
Sure!
Sleet is “agwurl” (from agh = sharp + wurl = perilous water or unwelcome water [as opposed to wurn, which is useful, wanted water/good drinking water]). 2)
Powdery white snow is “neywurl” (white-water) when falling, and “neytulr” (white + heap or pile) when fallen/on the ground.
A snowflake is “neywurth” (white-wet, as “wurth” is wetness, and the state of something being wet).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 22, 2020

3)
Frost is “thorhavr” (derived from thorord = cold + havar = hide, skin, coating).
Ice is “aghvorwurl” (sharp-hard-perilous water), but shortened in daily speech to just "aghvorl."#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 22, 2020

Yet somewhat flawed, he said, looking down. At the belly and the heart monitor currently riding it. ;}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 22, 2020

Ed, how would you pronounce “neytulr” above? "NAY-tulur" but shorten the second "u" as much as possible.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 22, 2020

Madness of Baphomet Lair

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In MToF, Demon Lord Madness either arises from being near/in their lair, or by going mad within eyesight of a demon lord. What mechanic (outside of the regional effect) would cause that madness? Any effect that points to the DMG madness rules. This is saying the demon lord’s particular effects override the base table.

— HangDan's Joke (@Dan_Dillon_1) September 13, 2020

Given the DragonMarks are subraces, does this mean the Artificer’s Magic Item Savant allows you to ignore them?

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Given the DragonMarks are subraces, does this mean the Artificer’s Magic Item Savant allows you to ignore them for the purpose of attuning to magic items as it allows you to ignore all class, race, spell and level reqs or are they not part of the actual race? The artificer can ignore the requirement!

— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) February 12, 2020

What kinds of flora and fauna might one encounter travelling the Northern Means and then Ten Trail from Luskan to Ten Towns? PART 1

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Belial Lyka @TimeBust
Heya, Ed. What kinds of flora and (non-monster) fauna might one encounter travelling the Northern Means and then Ten Trail from Luskan to Ten Towns? If seasonality has bearing on it, the period would be Tarsakh going into Mirtul, though elsewhen'd be…

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 2, 2020

..be interesting, too. 1)
In a typical year, this would be the beginnings of snowmelt, with frequent ground-fogs at dawn and dusk, but with the ground still hard-frozen (little to no mud), below freezing at nights, and with frequent storms that are…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 2, 2020

2)
…either sleet or light swirling snow, not rain. All of this dampness keeps the stinging insects down that at other times of year will make this leg of the journey very unpleasant.
The first leg of the journey (along the 3)
…Northern Means) will be through frozen reeds and grasses, and bushes denuded of all berries and leaves by hungry beasts, many stands of leafless trees (the big “forest giants” all logged off years ago, so mainly old…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 2, 2020

4)
…gnarl-trees and saplings), and rolling hills with rock outcrops (festooned here and there with edible lichens; an upcoming AMARUNE’S ALMANAC will have more to say about them and other cold-land plants). Every creature that… 5)
…doesn’t hibernate or go into torpor will be hungry and therefore out on the land in desperation, from rabbits, hares, and voles to deer and the packs of wolves looking to dine on them all. Bears aren’t yet emerging from their…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 2, 2020

6)
…dens (they won’t be seen until late Mirtul in these areas). Hunting out of Luskan and Fireshear and the topography will make rothé rare sights, though they may be well back off the road in some of the most open areas; you’d 7)
…see more of them had you been heading inland from Luskan, east. The birds that relocate south for winter will still be well south of here, so the land will be quiet of birdsong except the night hooting of owls (in between… #Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 2, 2020

8)
…hunts).
Your route avoids muskeg (“saragh” in the Realms, “bogs” to many real-worlders) if you keep to the wagon-road. Live and standing dead timber is available in profusion for cook-fire cutting, though you’ll find that… 9)
…heavy cutting by wayfarers over the years has pushed the treeline back a good twenty paces from the road-ditches—and that wild raspberries and bracken have colonized this cleared area, often growing so thick and tangled that…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 2, 2020

10)
…a path must be hewn just to move through. The land is very well-watered, with many tiny rills and brooks running down to fill the ditches (and run along them until the next bridge or culvert in the road lets a larger… 11)
…watercourse through; there tends to be at least a culvert between every rise of land the road curves around, and those rises tend to be at most half a mile apart).
This land has been glaciated, so drumlins (humplike hills, …#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 2, 2020

12)
…all running in the same general NNE to SSW direction) and eskers (gravel ridges) are everywhere, all overgrown with trees and bushes because the glaciers receded long, long ago.
There are frequent campgrounds (cleared 13)
…solid-ground areas, with a stream nearby) along the trade-road, and even refuse like broken wagon-wheels strewn along the ditches, but everything will be useless-rotten; anything still usable will have already been salvaged…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 2, 2020

14)
…by someone else.
And bands of hobgoblins, orcs, goblins, and gnolls are just as hungry as everyone else at this time of year, and may be bold enough to skulk along game-trails that overlook the wagon-road, waiting to pounce…#Realmslore 15)
…on lone peddlers with pack-mules or other weak-looking travelers (which is why these roads are traveled by almost everyone in caravans, with weapons out and visible, and sentinels are posted during the dark hours, when…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 2, 2020

16)
…prudent folk camp just off the road rather than pressing on through the night). If you DO hear bird calls, take them for signals between raiders stealing up on you!

[2nd half of reply to follow tonight, thanks to power cut & Twitter’s tweet-string limits]#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 2, 2020

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How close of a relationship do you think il-Lashtavar has to Lovecraft’s Nyarlathotep?

November 26, 2020Zoltar Leave a comment

soooooooooo how close of a relationship do you think il-lashtavar has to lovecraft’s nyarlathotep? Of all the great old ones, i feel like the Dreaming darkness is most akin to that one. In some ways I see il-Lashtavar as being more like Azathoth; it is the core of Dal Quor, and shapes it with its dream. The Devourer of Dreams would be closer to Nyarlathotep, as a being who moves in the world and acts for il-Lashtavar.

— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) May 3, 2020

“Now, QUICKLY,”

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1)
“Now, QUICKLY,” he mutters, ushering them into the darkness, following them, and doing something to the wall that closes it again, plunging them into dank darkness until a glow kindles from one of his rings, showing them…#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 22, 2020

2)
…cobwebs across a narrow stone-lined way.
“Where are we going?” the King hisses.
“Deeper into the Palace,” Wolf replies, striding past him to the fore.
“I was hoping for a little more specificity,” the King snaps. 3)
“Ah. Well, you know what they say about the hopes of kings.”
“No, what?”
“Foolish, deluded, and destined to be dashed. Just like the promises of kings.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 22, 2020

Satine Phoenix DM Tips: Dungeon Master Co-Op

November 25, 2020Zoltar Leave a comment

oh my god so this one time I told my friends I was running a battle royale game at mill town and it was super fun there were two teams of five going after the same prize Matt Marisha were there Jason Charles Miller and Dodger were there I had everyone dressed up in suits and cocktail dresses server d’oeuvres and all in the comic shop as I was coming up with the story in arena I realized that although I’m used to tables of 10 players I needed an assistant game master oh yeah I’m catching Phoenix this is GM tip and today’s theme is GM co-op back to battle royale aka PvP are teaching I realized I need an assistant this way we could both introduce the two teams to the situation at the same time and then leave them to the arena where I would take over the main jamming Patrick my assistant would help keep track of the initiative and status effects I often have a hard time with encounters that have too many participants having an assistant helped the smoothness of my storytelling so I don’t have to pause to find the thing later in the game someone came in and I had them perform the monsters it was this amazing battle that made me feel like I was conducting an orchestra it was amazing having an assistant GM is fantastic but what about having two games today I’d like to introduce Bruce Lee Keith Manik the two game masters of storm a game we played in for almost three years yes it was a long time it was a long time and you guys tricked me because it started off as so into the Dragons but it evolved actually it was really cool that it evolved to do there were the two of you game masters and how many players were yet I think our most was above twenty above twenty they were like twenty four were a couple sessions we were above twenty and then by the end we had ten to twelve pretty regularly and that’s why you’re here today so we could talk about two game masters at the table so how to work together and how to work together so earlier I talked about assistant chance you guys actually coach and you talked about that a little in the beginning when we first came up with it we thought it would be cool if we created a world I came up with one of the continents called em blurt anis and then Keith came up so I came up with the second continent Adriel to the east and then there was a third larger continent that the idea behind it was we would get the players to help define that setting the way we did our koji i mean was that when things happen that were M blue tennis I would do those things and I did I made a lot of the final calls on character choices and the location and the history of it whereas Keith did Israel yeah so when they came depending on where the the campaign was going on when the party came to Israel I then kind of stepped up from being second chair when from when we were in Templar Tanith to first chair I designed a lot of the major NPCs there and then when it came to the last section dolor in the third continent we split it up based on which which regions we were more passionate about which characters we created that sort of thing I think one of the things that is the biggest advantages of being game having more than one game master is that you’re going to people in multiple locations so it could be as complex as to one person when one group wants to go to one comment and the other group wants to go to another continent – as simple as three members of the party sneaked ahead to look assess the enemy and see what’s happening while the rest of the party preps and organizes and sets up some sort of ambush their attack and by doing it that way you can do everything at the same time which makes everything run smoother and is more fun for the players you had these things happening at the same time you guys are separated how do you share that information because as the games going on you know the party splits we party comes back together how do you you guys didn’t make it look complicated it was seamless so that when everyone got back together it was almost like you guys are sharing brains so how did you do that so seamlessly well obviously preparation it’s one of the big things that keeps getting repeated on this show but another thing that’s important is knowing who is the lead and who makes decisions on different tanks so for example when I would take a group away and do things Keith knew that when we came back and they said like they ran into a monster they ran to this empty sear the Aranda this organization and Keith said thought to himself I have no idea what happened I don’t know what the monster was I don’t know what the organization is I don’t know what it is but he would say okay and then he would put that into his own game and by doing that by just saying yes which is a common improvisational technique we could make a seamless idea that we were working together and it planned a lot of things in advance and we knew it was going to happen and we knew it was going to happen the other room the whole time when in fact we just rolled with it and one thing when the party splits and they come back together the natural tendency is you tell the other half of the party what happened so during that period of time if there’s something that the other party did that I don’t know about they’re telling me in addition to telling each other and it gives Bruce and I the opportunity to step to the side and also tell each other stuff that happened maybe the PCs aren’t aware of so we have there are these natural breaks in the game where you can take advantage of time to keep each other up to date so splitting the party that’s one benefit to Co jamming what is another bonus to doing that the ability to bounce ideas off of each other can be huge especially when as you said we started off as Dungeons & Dragons and then once we hit a certain number of people the main reason that we transitioned into this more homemade system was we needed something that could handle a larger group that could play a bit faster and when you’re designing your own system where you’re making house rules or or changing the system in any way it’s really helpful to have somebody to bounce ideas off of and collaborate with to get to come up with the best possible solution I do want to talk a little bit about the difference between koji IMing with someone and being an assistant yeah because they are very different when we did the storm Keith and I we made it together we split the world and we split the duties and when he left and he was he was the GM he was making the story I’ve also had experiences where I was in charge and I had an assistant in fact I ran a series of games in college that I really enjoyed where I had three assistants they were they were actually uh larks much like vampire the masquerade except that what we did was horror movies and I would come up with a story throughout the night of something like you’re a in a haunted ghost town and the ghosts appear because it’s the curse night and you have to survive and in advance I would lay out an outline of like dasor this is what’s going to happen and when I ran that game I actually had times where I was like at 9:00 p.m. this is going to happen at 10:00 p.m. this is going to happen and so forth and by doing it my three assistants who they might be in a completely different room because when we do that when we ran these LARP we would be in like six different rooms in a building Wow yeah and you wouldn’t know or see or hear what other people are doing so those assistants had to run the game and had to know it was going to happen and had to make their own story but because we had these time chart they could look at the clock and know oh it’s 10 o’clock that means that this terrible scream comes from the church or something so even though I as the main GM was in one room everywhere around this building a storyteller was there to say you hear scream coming from the church and it made it feel like a full unit story rather than people in chaos let’s talk about your pregame house rules I would say that the biggest thing about when I game master it’s that my games have consequences if you run at the souls if there’s a unit of soldiers and you’re one person you run at them with a sword you’re going to die or you might get seriously injured so I always warn players in advance that their actions could lead to harm and death and losing limbs and all sorts of bad things it’s true that’s the thing that happens yes but and I also say the players are the protagonists of the story at the end of the day I am running the game to let my players be heroes be protagonists so if they make good choices and even more if they surprise me things often go well for them but and in keeping with this actions have consequences there’s danger around every corner you are not the most powerful person in existence at any time you are still a guy with a sword or wizard with a handful of spells but around the corner there could be some arch maze who’s been studying magic for 3,000 years and he’s going to ruin your day well one of the other house rules that I think is important is how players communicate with each other and differentiating between down time versus action scenes so not necessarily fights but if something is happening and a player has to make a decision in order to let the player make the decision it’s important to control the people around them telling them what to do because people don’t like to feel like they’re losing their agency because the more experienced players giving them advice and realistically if you’re if you’re in the middle of a tense situation if you’re in the middle of a fight and you’re not going to have one guy who’s also fighting be yelling to ten people about what they need to do yeah so making that clear in advance that speaking requires actions that if you have a certain number of actions and around and you want to talk to people you might not be able to do as much other stuff favorite jam moment so my favorite GM moments are any time that the players figure out that the villain might actually be a good guy it’s one of my favorite moments ever because I like to write my games have a lot of gray morality in them so the bad guys do bad things but they often do them for the right reasons and the good guys seem good but they also have their own bad things going on no one in my games is ever like truly good or truly evil and if they are they’re very rare so I love when the PCs are in a situation and they say wow that guy’s might be right and an example of that is I gave in my game storm there was someone called there was a god called a Raven king and his duty on the planet was to take magic away from humanity that humanity long ago had gotten magic from the gods and he had been sent down from the heavens to take it back because we can’t be trusted with all this power and the party with like oh screw him we want we want magic Magic’s good magic makes the world a better place and they found this powerful artifact that would channel their magic and make it more powerful so they ran to these enemies near a river and they cast a spell to make the river overflow and destroy their enemies and then they found out that the spell had overflown the river so much and flooded everything that a village down the river had been destroyed and people had died and innocents had been killed because they used this magic to destroy their enemies and in that moment they thought you know maybe we shouldn’t have this much power remember that – um so some of my favorite GM moments are when you set up something and it pays off and the PCs are surprised and like really thrown back and happy with this plot point that you’ve set up over the course of several sessions so my example is also from storm so we had in Israel in the country that I built um there was this king and his whole thing was that he claimed he knew the time of his death and as a result he was very cocky he would go riding into battle knowing he’d be fine because I don’t I don’t die for a while and we have this necromancer who had this rot this rod of incredible power if he pointed it at anything he could kill whole armies wipe out units and the the party has met this necromancer and they come to the king and they say you got to worry about this guy like you can’t just go riding off and charge it this guy he’s really dangerous the king being cocky was like oh I’m gonna charge straight at it and we knew that what was going we knew what was going to happen and we wanted to show how dangerous this necromancer was so three sessions before the big fight with the with the big bad guy we had them meet this guy called the hand who was this powerful religious fighter and he helped them out he saved them in a couple fights and for two to three sessions he helped them out and showed how strong he was and how cool he was and the PC started to really like this guy they get into the final fight they’re trying to distract the necromancer because they know whoever he focuses on is going to die and the hand goes riding up to shoot at the necromancer the necromancer turns towards him points his wand and instantly killed him god yeah and the PCs are like oh my god this guy was so powerful this necromancer is ridiculous there’s no way the Kings going to be fine so then the King goes charging up still just as cocky as ever the necromancer raises his his wand he points it at the king and the necromancers arm blows off and he just starts screaming in pain the King rides up to him and finishes him off and the PCs had they were shocked they did not see it coming and that was having this payoff of setting up over several sessions all these various NPCs their interactions with each other and their interactions with the party and then having them be genuinely surprised quick tip for the audience gM tip if you please my damn tip is you should be willing to trust people whether they be your players or your code GM’s or your assistant gems you need to trust that people are going to make the right decisions so my quick GM tip this is going to be about combat because that’s that’s the thing I feel like I specialize in and that is you need to be willing to break the rules to bend the rules in the middle and be flexible so I like to come up with combats that are weird and maybe not balanced maybe you’re fighting something a bit too powerful for the PCs or they’re in a situation that it doesn’t look like they can make it out be willing to fudge the dice to in the middle change the rules here’s a list of tips for today’s show for all new Lister’s out there tip number one split responsibilities tip number two with the party tip number three Jam collaboration tip number four learn each other’s jam style and tip number 5 gm mentorship that’s our show for today don’t forget to ask your jam tip questions in the comments and on twitter at hashtag ask Zeki Bruce ji thank you so much for coming on that was awesome like I got a good insight on storm because like to play a game for three years usually learn a little more about it you can find them on Twitter and through Sonic and at Keith Manik thanks for watching GM tips here on geek and sundry as always I’m setting Phoenix you assigned me every Sunday with some of my gaming pals on music on a calm or twitch.tv slash Mays Arcana and dungeon mastering this summer with reading on series reach on twitch.tv slash D&D fruit I keep GM aside of you Satine your writing on your horse bow at your side sword mounted on your saddle next to you going to the woods as fast as you can because you haven’t heard for your friend James you’ve lost keep somewhere out here you were scouting for something dangerous in the woods you don’t know what it is and then you come up with cross the woods open out a little bit and then you hear nothing the animals are gone the birds are gone below you there’s a short clip about Jim’s feet you see something terrible you see your friend covered in blood and something floating above him it’s metal it moves and it turns it doesn’t have a face it doesn’t have eyes but it has something a glow a red glow it starts to scream but for no mouse it just floats in the air and comes towards you this mechanical metal thing what do you do yeah I shoot it with my book roll you need a 9 on a 12 that’s a minute the sixth you missed you fire your bow it clicks off its armor but it doesn’t seem to affect it at all it comes at you it slides up in the air and out of nowhere there’s an energy blast and it shot out of this guy I had your ass your shoulder huh you turn to face it is someone wearing what appears to be powered metallic armor it’s glowing in their hand is a rifle smoking at the end you hear in the distance the same screaming but from at least a dozen more the person starts to pull you Wayne says come with me I can save your tribe but you have to follow me now yeah

What kinds of flora and fauna might one encounter travelling the Northern Means and then Ten Trail from Luskan to Ten Towns? PART 2

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…. though elsewhen'd be interesting, too.

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2020

1)
PART TWO OF REPLY:
This holds true for the second leg of the journey, too, via Ten Trail through the mountains. There’s less cover in the rising, rocky country for ambushers, but more access to stones they can fling down at…2)
…wayfarers, though avalanches grow less and less likely as the years pass, and the loose rock that can readily fall has already done so, leaving the road in an increasingly-wide, relatively safer pass.
The Trail follows…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2020

3)
…deep-cut stream gorges, and there’s always the danger of falling—and even, in spring or when the (very rare) earthquakes hit, of portions of the road breaking off and plunging down into the neighbouring gorge. 4)
Hundelstone (which I gave some details about in tweets a few days back) is the supply center along the way, and armed “guides” (bodyguards) can be hired there to accompany you on your journey, typically for a 5 gp fee plus…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2020

5)
…costs (generous patrons give costs plus a tip, bringing the total to 8 or 10 gp, upon safe arrival in Bryn Shander).
Ice that can be sucked on, or melted in a cauldron over a fire, is plentiful in the mountains, but food is 6)
…scarce, as anything that can be reached from the road without perilous scrambling has typically already been harvested by this time of year. The Trail is busy, though the depths of winter is its time of lightest use, and…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2020

7)
…veterans avoid “the fog times” as the most dangerous for ambushes and for traveler and beast to slip and fall; a broken leg can mean death in this country.
Stands of trees are almost entirely absent between Hundelstone and 8)
…the north bank of the Shaengarne, with only stunted lone trees clinging to high ledges here and there. Mountain goats and snowcats inhabit these peaks, but are rarely seen from the Trail. Perytons, eagles, hawks, and…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2020

9)
…vultures are more likely sightings, as none of them move south for winter, and all will be ravenous by this time of year save the vultures, who are usually well-fed by now, some years even approaching fat and lazy. 0)
The saddle or high point on the Trail is Three Daggers Ridge, home to a windswept campground and little else, a dragon skeleton that used to festoon it having being entirely carried away, bone by bone, for sale to alchemists…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2020

11)
…and noble collectors over the years (beware back-alley shops in Bryn Shander offering to sell you the dragon’s skull, fangs, or talons; they are passing off wyvern skulls and fake fangs and talons carved from the long-frozen… 12)
…bones of giant rothé).
No brigand could make a living on the Trail, but there are some who head out from Bryn Shander posing as legitimate travelers, only to turn and attack travelers who reach the Ridge just behind them.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2020

13)
The Trail emerges from the mountains between two peaks known as Hartooth and Marlaxe, after dwarves who perished under the jaws of wolves hereabouts in the late 1200s DR, then switchbacks down a steep slope to the rail-less 14)
…bridge over the narrow but deep Shaengarne Gorge, known to folk of the Ten Towns as “the Sword Cleft” (to them, it’s where their country ends, and the dangerous and strange ‘rest of the Realms’ begins).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2020

15)
Trees remain rarities from the Cleft on to Bryn Shander, but you’ll see countless drumlins and eskers, cloaked in snow and ice, on all sides. Many rills and brooks can be heard running under this “whitecloak” and the 16)
…approach of any creature of size can be observed from some distance away—unless ground-fog or a blizzard rolls in, and brings a complete whiteout.
At other times of year, subtract the fog and add a little warmth, a lot of… #Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2020

17)
…insects, and cover in the form of foliage to that part of your journey that lies south of Hundelstone, and you now know what you’ll see along your way. The gods grant you safe travels.#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 3, 2020

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