I was speculating on the potential properties and costs of gates, and wanted to know if something like the following exists in your world. Do there exist, in your Toril, gates which impose an alignment change, or conformation to a particular alignment or axis, or which place a geas/quest/other compulsion upon those passing through?
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— Random.Queriant (@RandomQueriant) November 5, 2019
Possibly, are there gates which change the race/species, ethnicity, gender, or even the home plane of those who traverse them? Any which cause those who cross them to each arrive in the body of a different traveler? Any which rob a traveler of a skill or language, or impart one, or possibly mixes them up so a person passing through one might lose one skill, but collect one lost by a previous traveler?
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— Random.Queriant (@RandomQueriant) November 5, 2019
Or in such a way that certain languages or skills never leave, or never enter, through that gate?
Would such a thing, assuming such a thing exists at all, be the work of gods, mortals, or just some natural accident such as nature tends to produce?
If there are any notable examples of any of the above, can you share?6/6
— Random.Queriant (@RandomQueriant) November 5, 2019
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…just what each gate does a mystery, so DMs can tailor gate effects to their campaigns. A few (in FR0/The Old Gray Box and in Undermountain, for example) have been nailed down in print, and a few more in my fiction, over the years. TSR had a "top secret"…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 5, 2019
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…reference document I penned of many specific gate effects, and they paid me for it, so that means I can’t share its contents without permission. So your mission, should you choose to accept it. 4)
I can say that Eric L. Boyd and others penned various articles for the Wizards website, over the years, that dealt with specific gates; one series of articles featured a different gate of the Realms in each instalment.#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 5, 2019