Hey Mr.Greenwood I have a question: What made you come up with forgotten realms like what gave you that final push to create your own world in D&D? Heh. There was no D&D or any fantasy roleplaying games when I created the Realms (D&D came along a decade later). I was just entertaining my 5-year-old self (a voracious reader with a wild imagination) with a world to set my own fantasy stories in.#Realmslore
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2019
Wow thanks for answering my question Mr.Greenwood! As someone who’s struggling to come up with his own world it really helps and I was definitely in my own world alot as a kid to so maybe I’ll draw inspiration from that too. Thank you! You're very welcome! (Warning: worldbuilding can become a consume-years-of-your-life, never-finished endeavour. Which is fine, but don't let piling up lore get in the way of telling stories/designing game adventures; USE your world!)
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) December 1, 2019