User:Look-a-troopa/@TheEdVerse archive


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2015-08-03

 * Missing tweet
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Hi, and thank you! Little-known lore: "Neverwinter Nights" was originally the name of a broadsheet (newspaper) published in NW.

2015-08-04

 * Missing tweet
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Sorry, but no. Children of such unions will genetically revert to either drow or to elves.

2015-09-02

 * Dee Pennyway (Owl Eyes) @DeePennyway
 * Critical #Dragonspear lore question: are pears native to the Sword Coast?
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Hi! Pears are native to the Lake of Steam and Border Kingdoms areas, but were long ago farmed into Tethyr. Wine expt.
 * Dee Pennyway (Owl Eyes) @DeePennyway
 * That was very enlightening. Thanks, Ed!
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * A pleasure! Pears don't travel well, so exported as pear wine. Most pears grown inland in Tethyr; vineyards seaside.
 * Missing tweet
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * The monks grow some tropical fruits in building-south-wall-shed giant growing frames they call "warmbreaths."

2015-12-12

 * Kato Katonian @KatoKatonian
 * Hi Ed, I had a question about Harpers if you don't mind. How do two Harpers reveal themselves to each other as agents or allies?
 * Other than runes indicating safehouses, etc., do they have a challenge phrase or something similar? Thanks!
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * They have phrases, badges, runes, and gestures. And if they think they're being watched, they'll open their coin-purse "to...
 * ..make change," pull out a harpstring they've stored in the purse, push it back in as if it's just string they didn't mean to
 * ...get out, and see if the other suspected Harper reacts by tapping their own nose, to confirm that they're a Harper.

2016-02-08

 * Zak Arntson💀💬 @ZakArntson
 * Are there endives in the Realms? Thinking about it as a name for a gnoll cook in an arcanolth's floating manse.
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Yes, endive exists in the Realms, but it's called aeredath. However, Endyve is a gnoll given name, so you're in luck!

2016-02-25

 * Tweet missing
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Shar, goddess of loss and despair, deceives her followers with endless Cycles of Night to see them destroy themselves.

2016-03-10

 * Power Score @Powerscorerpg
 * Check out Emirikol's 2e stats. 24th level! Who would win in a sorcerous duel, Elminster vs Emirikol?
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Depends entirely on where; if within reach of the Weave, Elminster, hands down. BUT both of them, being archmages . ..
 * ...have much better things to do than duel. Duels are dangerous wastes of time, energy, and effort.

2016-03-15

 * M.T. Black @MTBlack2567
 * Hi Ed, do the hills immediately to the east of Longsaddle have a name? I can't find one on any of the maps I have. cheers, MTB
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Hi! Those hills are the western edge of the Evermoors, and are known locally as "the Trollrise." :}

2016-03-25

 * M.T. Black @MTBlack2567
 * Hope you are well! Does Waterdeep have an equivalent to London's "Fleet Street"?
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * One street or district? No. Most printing: South Ward. See my old WotC website "BroadcryersOfWaterdeep" articles.

2016-03-31

 * Alphastream @Alphastream
 * What might be the name of a popular song sung by bards in Waterdeep?
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * See VolosWaterdeep, or recently: "If I Was a Rich As A Noble Lord" or "Just a Dock Ward Lass" or "When My Golden Ship Sails In"
 * Jesper Haglund @Kajehase
 * Is If I was as Rich as... particularly popular with roofbased fiddlers?
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * No (but my Tevye/Zero Mostel impersonations are still vivid). The Waterdhavian ballad is more "Tom Lehrer mocking."

2016-04-07

 * Torvtak @Tobbun
 * Hey Ed, would you say the style of governing in the Shining Lands was Monarchy, Theocracy, or Oligarchy?
 * Also, did Var sink before, during, or after the Spellplague? And how did this affect the neighbouring nations and trade?
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Before, but slowly, so massive migration to nearby lands and therefore trade adjusted accordingly.
 * Where, specifically, in the Shining Lands, and when, specifically? Generally "oligarchy" (with favored-per-city faiths), but varies
 * Torvtak @Tobbun
 * I'm mainly focusing on Chavyondat somewhere in the 15th century. I feel Torm, Zionil and maybe Waukeen might get more focus.
 * in addition im trying to figue out how the council of chakas is ordered. Do they get a vote based on their fortunes? What is...
 * .. the size/economic weight a chaka would have to achieve to get on the council? How big is the council? Are there massive...
 * ... Class differences and if so how fare the poor in the city? The city itself might have grown massively considering the...
 * ... influx of people from Var and how ocean ways from vaelan suddenly opened up. There's also the possible presense of kenkus...
 * ... in the city, though they might be viewed as incarnations of people who stole in their previous lives, what with the adama..
 * .. And the whole belief of karma and such. From what I've read it seems Veldorn and the Beastlands became one at some point...
 * ... Meaning that it's now a collection of city states ruled by beasts/monsters I guess? How aware are people of Tirumala's...
 * ... State of affairs, as in who rules there and what those rulers are. Just a good morning/evening salvo of questions.
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Yes, Veldorn is now independent city-states ruled by monsters. Chavyondat is now "monied factions rule" with deity-ident much less..
 * ..important/influential. It's now: how much city property do you own, who local do you business with, and how much coin do you...
 * ...lend/invest. Those things determine your influence, so oligarchy of influential placing members of council. And yes, kenkus are..
 * ...many, and very politically active, as well as in trade (loaning coin, investing, doing financial/trading tricks). Current new...
 * ...craze: custom armor (for all the different beast body shapes). Class differences weakening, as coin is all, new philosophies...
 * ...arising, so faith doctrine less powerful.

2016-04-10

 * Paul David Hoover @kc_halfdust
 * I'm building out Triboar for PotA 5e campaign; considerations short of what is in Sword Coast and what I've penciled on paper?
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Triboar has extensive WALLED gardens (beds have snowload removable wooden roofs), to grow broadleaf greens food (+lotsrootveg).

2016-04-15

 * sno4wy @sno4wy
 * Pardon the strange question Mr. Greenwood, but what culture/era's undergarments would Faerûnian smallclothes most resemble?
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Hollywood "Indians" (smallclothes in the Realms are mainly breechclouts: cloth diaper drawn up fore and aft through cloth belt)
 * sno4wy @sno4wy
 * Following up on our discussion of Faerunian smallclothes, do you mean something like this? [1/2]
 * I apologize for the odd and random questions btw, I'm trying to nail down some details for some drawings such as this one. [2/2]
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Construction: dead-on. However, cloth is long enough soit hangs down over crotch in front (covering "the pouch") and over the behind
 * sno4wy @sno4wy
 * It seems that these things would be rather awkward to wear underneath leather or plate armor. Do they go without?
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Usually not. Acts as sweat soak-up under both. (Awkward? Plate armor has full padding underneath or your own armor slices you!)

2016-04-24

 * Sayer @Sayers00th
 * i thought Elminster crashed Shade Enclave into MythDrannor How is it in the Anauroch Desert in Maestro
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * You thought there was only one? ;} Oh, dear.
 * Sayer @Sayers00th
 * i thought there were two floating cities: Sakkors and Shade neither of which were in the Anauroch when the fell
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * There are over 40 surviving flying cities (not all still floating, but some grounded ones can "lift off" intact)

2016-05-13

 * Storyteller For Hire @fieldmechanik
 * Which god is the epitome of Good in Forgotten Realms?
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * Chauntea, Eldath, and Lurue are all close. ;} "Epitome"? You'll have their clergy arguing, you will. ;}


 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * An aspect is a lesser incarnation of deity or demon lord: an avatar but not mortal; Yondalla is the halfling aspect of Chauntea

2016-06-15

 * Dan Locke @Foobadoo
 * How many Masked Lords of Waterdeep are there/can there be at one time?
 * Christopher Perkins @ChrisPerkinsDnD
 * It goes up and down. There are fewer now, thanks to recent events (see DEATH MASKS, the new novel by @TheEdVerse ).
 * Pradlin @BittersTweet
 * so, high bluff check and a standard hood and you're a masked lord?
 * Ed Greenwood @TheEdVerse
 * No. Existing Masked Lords must vote you in. Open Lord knows all identities and controls slate.1/2
 * (Slate of candidates to possibly become Lords.) DEATH MASKS looks at violently creating vacancies.
 * Also, no Masked Lord would wear a "standard hood." They have special enchanted ones: illo in CoS hc