Hey, I was doing just fine before I met you
Yeah, I slay too many kings, and that’s an issue
Yet, truly, I’m all right
With the good gods I’m tight
I was born under a smiling star
Seers said I’d ride fast—so now you want me to ride far?

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 23, 2020

It’s been a dark dungeon delve without you, my friend
But I’ll tell you all about it when I see you again
Ah, but what accursed god knew
All the battles I’d have to fight through
So I could be standing here
Wishing you could share this beer?

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 24, 2020

The spell hit, it was ice cold
Too high, the price of dragon gold
Next time, let’s go for pearls
They spend the same to impress churls
Getting too old to chase beasts
Let’s stay home and tell lies and belch at feasts

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 25, 2020

What’s that rising, from behind yonder dark boulder?
Is it tentacled, or that mythical beast some call a beholder?
Time to hurl an all-ravaging spell, straight from the shoulder
And leave one more dead heap behind us, to smoke and smolder

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 22, 2020

Several dreadul eyes now gaze upon ye,
Several lies spun to bring you to me,
This ‘Beholder’ is naught more than a psionic fantasy
This illusion, this untruth – Just you and Yuan-ti. Bravo! (Bows, yields stage)

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 22, 2020

Yeah, I’m gonna flail my horse with my old war-goad
And ride hard, until I can’t no more
Through the fallen kingdom, past the end of the road
I’m gonna ride to where the wild dragons roar

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 19, 2020

My adventuring life is a ballad bardic
Every companion either sly or a right grim hard-dick
Getting tired of swording scaly things right up the snout
Time to find a willing prince (or princess) and get the Hells out

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 20, 2020

I don’t want to die for them to deeply, sadly miss me
So I work on this behind so there’ll be somewhere they’ll want to kiss me

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 21, 2020

Alas, and alack
The monsters are back
And amid all the dying moans
Stand the wizards’ gravestones
No heroes left to stop the beasts this time
So become one right now, or we’ll be dead before bedtime

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 6, 2020

There! The beacons! It’s a dragon raid warning!
Run, or we’ll all be eaten ere morning!
You can’t hide among the dead
Except in the dragon’s gut, the old sage said
And him, we’re already mourning

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 7, 2020

The king taxes my last coins, when I’m in need
And taxes each babe, when I breed
For—as his proclamations have oft decreed—
He’s a staunch and steadfast friend indeed

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 8, 2020

Sorcerer, I see a spark in you
So do the dance arcane and right
That will, in its coils, ignite
Fire to make bright day of night

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 2, 2020

The blade of her dagger was tiny, dark, and thin
But through kingly breast it—deep and easy—slid in

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 3, 2020

There’ll be a lake of gore in that cave
Said the dragonslayer, but you must be brave
Or the blood will be yours
And the dragon will go back its snores
Leaving you one more forgotten dead knave

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) September 5, 2020

See it leap up? A rising fire, getting its start
Deep in the dark, shriveled depths of my heart
And it’s raging for you, yes, you played your part
So will you be my sweetheart? Or failing that, a willing tart?

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 29, 2020

You had my heart in your hand
Yet things didn’t work out the way you’d planned
As usual
So the armies at your command
Will ride to war, and another last stand
How soon before you admit you’re delusional?

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 30, 2020

Vampire never buried deep
Enough to make it more than sleep
So it rises, and nightly its victims scream
Yet no one heeds; the sadly usual theme

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) August 31, 2020

1)
“I, wench, am Orglar the Undying!”
“Wolf, may I?”
“By all means. If you shatter all of his joints thoroughly, he’ll be unable to do the same to anyone else.” 2)
“Good. Now YOU, you craven poltroon! ‘Wench’ is it? Know you that I am no wench, nor a slattern, trull, trollop, doxie, or anything else of the sort!”
“Horse-dung!”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 8, 2020

4)
“He’s got you there, Chant. But maim him anyway.”
“That almost sounds like a suitable motto.”
“Never mind the heraldry; it’s wanton irresponsible violence we’re in need of, just now. You know: courtier work.”#epicfantasy

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) May 8, 2020

Someday I'm gonna make a video called "Why Indie Game Devs Understand That 4th Ed Was the Best D&D (and Why Traditional Audiences Hated It)"

— Brandon Leon-Gambetta 🚤 (@bleongambetta) June 30, 2020

As someone who only just started reading 4th ed books this year, the quality of its game design is INSPIRING. Nentir Vale is evocative and a great fit for 5e, too (though not without its flaws). #dnd.Tieflings and dragonborn in particular fit perfectly into the Vale. No surprise, given that they were essentially reimagined for that edition/setting, but still! I've always felt tiefs and dborn were underserved in the Realms, just they're cuz they're in the PHB. Not so here!

— James ☂️ Haeck (@jamesjhaeck) July 1, 2020

Like they're just there 'cuz they're in the PHB*

— James ☂️ Haeck (@jamesjhaeck) July 1, 2020

I still see dragonborn through the lens of DL draconians and tieflings through Planescape. Putting them back into worlds whole cloth is revisionist, so if they can do that, I hope they can fix other issues moving forward. This is a great point.

— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) July 1, 2020