if I were going to run a warehouse 13 style game in your setting what would be the best locale and are there any groups that would easily fit the bill? Thanks so much 🙂 From Five Nations, page143: "The Argentum is a ministry within the Church of the Silver Flame dedicated to the acquisition, study, and redistribution of magic items and artifacts. Freed from all restrictions and disavowed by the Church at large, it
sends agents abroad…"— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) February 3, 2019
#dnd tip for encounter design: establish a goal for the encounter. What’s its purpose in your story? What happens if the PCs succeed or fail? Are you focusing on combat, exploration, RP, or a mix? Can success be achieved through other means?
— Shawn Merwin #WinterFantasy Prep (@shawnmerwin) February 7, 2019
I walked into the dungeon deep
For I had no place else to go
I fought things that pounce and things that creep
Helping them their lives to forego
But some foe soon my blade will spurn
And then alack it’ll be my turn
To silent go forever below— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2019
Adventurer, adventurer, your bold ear let me for but a moment bend
I lure you with my call, for we both have pressing need
You want my treasure, to have and to fondle, then spend
And I want (for it has been so long, and I hunger) so dearly to FEED— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 29, 2019
I know that time-keeping isn’t a big deal in the Realms (3 bells, etc), but do thermometers exist? "Weather glasses" exist in the Realms: what our real world calls "Galileo thermometers" (sealed glass vessels with mixtures of liquid in them and floating glass sphere "bubbles" to denote various temperatures.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) January 31, 2019
A followup to this question on thermometers: How is temperature actually measured? Is there any kind of scale like Farenheit/Celsius? There's no numerical scale. Rather, a sensory range, from boiling/scorching to touch through hot, warm, comfortable (as in, the preferred interior temp of a room or dwelling) blood-neutral, pleasant, cool, cold, icy, to numbing.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) February 1, 2019
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
can I cheekily ask for some suggestions for @tragicfangirl ? We’re looking to start a Sharn-based city watch themed campaign, and she was thinking about a barbarian. Any ideas for barbarian concepts that might work in that style of game? One option is to play an urban barbarian; take the urchin background, and say that the character essentially grew up feral in the alleys: trash-heap Tarzan.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) February 7, 2019
#MondayMotif is a classic this week! Many of us have seen a Gelatinous Cube combing the tunnels in a fantasy setting sewer system. They may not be the toughest opponent based on stats alone but if you don't see it before it's too late, you may find yourself in a sticky situation. pic.twitter.com/xMX9kzNBR9
— Jetpack7 (@Jetpack_7) February 4, 2019
