User:Cell4


 * This user hates the Eberron Campaign Setting. He thinks it looks very weird though he has not played in it.
 * This user thinks that the admins are very good indeed.
 * This user wishes to start playing more in the Greyhawk Campaign Setting.
 * This user has a not exactly five star knowledge of the Forgotten Realms.
 * This user is a minor.
 * This user thinks that Gary Gygax is a genius.
 * This user did not know what the heck Forgotten Realms was until Wizards of the Coast took it over.
 * This user also has an account on Wookieepedia, the Starwars Wiki.
 * This user has, in the past, been ticked off by some of the users at Wikipedia.
 * This user thinks that there should be gazillions of articles on the wiki, and it should become Featured Wikia.
 * This user has problems spelling stuff.
 * This user spends his time reading FR Novels.
 * This user has nothing else to say.

Hello! I am Cell4. You may know me. I love Forgotten Realms and D and D, and play it on a regular basis. I have read four Forgotten Realms novels and mostly stick to gaming with my gaming group on Saturdays. Does this website cover the story in the books or game rules as well?

About Me
I am about 1.6 meters tall and have read five FR novels. All that matters, I guess. I was born some wacky time and I forget when. I live in a small thorp (not really) in Washington State in the United States. Since I am sort of weird I like to think of my userpage as my website. In a way. A website that I am letting people edit because I am nice. i'm not a grouchy wikipedian who won't let someone even visit their userpage. Sheesh.

What To Read? What I'm Reading!
I am reading Exile (but I have loaned the book to a good friend who either is or almost is a member on this site) and Temple Hill. I have the omnibus Paths of Darkness and The Silent Blade is the first FR book I ever read.

FR Novels Read (Best to Worst)
Now some of these are really great books so I will put a rating nest to each one for the convenience of new FR readers that need a good read.


 * Servant of the Shard, by R.A. Salvatore. 5/5
 * Homeland, by the same guy (all of these are by him). 4/5
 * The Silent Blade 3/5
 * Sea of Swords 2/5
 * The Spine of the World, 2/5

Articles to Create

 * Siege of Darkness
 * Passage to Dawn

Suggested reading
Hi! In response to your questions on my talk page, I am not an expert on the Realms but I have been a reader of both the novels and the source material, and a player of the computer games for some time now. To get a better knowledge of the Realms there is nothing better than reading the sourcebooks themselves (the novels are great too, but their focus is storytelling, not Realmslore) but I admit that it's probably mainly D&D players or DMs who read the sourcebooks. It's worth checking out the Forgotten Realms archive because it contains nearly 7 years of articles, all free.

For local reading, try:
 * Cormanthor
 * Western Heartlands
 * Realms Cosmology
 * High Forest

I hope that helps! Fw190a8 22:46, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

D&D

 * My D&D character is a dwarf. When I created him I realized what a great character I had. I created him this year, and have been playing D&D since 2005. I have been DMing since my second game of Dungeons and Dragons. I hate the Eberron campaign setting, and I have not played the Greyhawk or Dragonlance settings. I play a bit in the FR setting, but pretty much just the v. 3.5. Rulebook setting. I like making up my own stories so that works perfectly. I am feeling like buying the Forgotten Realms RPG Sourcebook about dragons. But what sucks... I am almost broke!


 * My character's class is druid. You can't wear certain kinds of armor but... oh well. At first I wanted a psionocist but I decided against it when I saw that the handbook for Psionicists was $30. Now I do not know what monetary units all of you guys use, but I use... the dollar. It's okay. But I'd rather be using foreign money (for me) like English pounds. So anyway, the handbook is about 150 pages and that just sucks. But... I've seen worse in D&D. Believe me.


 * I have a gaming group of three people: myself, and two friends. They have both been doing D&D for at least a year longer than I have. And I've been doing it for about 1.5 years. We wanted to play in the commons of our local bookstore but there was a group of people with more people than 3 across the way playing heroscape. We thought they might think we wanted competition so we moved off.


 * I also have a cleric character. (I hear the chorus of "Booo!") His name is Boundard and he was made for me when I was playing D&D in a large group with many adolescents and younger kids too. A couple adults were mixed in too. But the game wasn't half as good as the Star Wars game the people at the next table were playing. Or half as fun.


 * When it comes to D&D, I am pretty obsessed with games. I called about ten different stores to see if they had a copy of Baldur's Gate, which Fw190a8 recommended to me. After that I will look for the sequel Shadows of Amn and then I will be able to play the last game of the series. Then I'll move on. I'll start playing D&D computer RPGs. Whatever. Then I'll play the console games and read every single book in the FR series with the exception of Lisa Smedman's series.

The Plan
I am staying on this wiki till the turn of the decade, at the least. I personally know some of the people on this wiki and they will make it easy for me to stay on, though I have other dedications like Star Wars. Not the games, really (not the console games) but the RPGs and anthologies.

And I've been learning about Eberron
Did you know that it is the least popular of the three D&D settings? Greyhawk has a total of 21 books, Dragonlance (if you count it) has 185 last I checked, FR has about 210, and "regular" D&D (just Dungeons and Dragons) has at least as much as the Greyhawk setting. Eberron has 11 books. heck. I might have time to read every single one and chart out which sucked the most. I am a pessimist and I believe none'll be good.

Thank you
Thank you very much indeed for your kind words on my talk page. I've found that one of the best parts of Wikia is the really friendly community that can build up here, and I am glad to be contributing to it. As far as I know, only Wikia staff can turn people into administrators, and I was made into one along with Zerak-Tul on the request of hash after he found that one administrator just wasn't enough. Fw190a8 01:21, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Once again, thanks for saying that I am deserving of the admin position! I am not comfortable giving out (even my first) real name on public websites, so sorry about that. There are so many Forgotten Realms novels available that I agree, it's so tough to decide which ones are worth reading first, but I would say that you could probably find an author you like and stick to him or her, or find an area you like, such as Icewind Dale or Cormyr and stick to novels about that area. I just read the Hunter's Blade trilogy and although I enjoyed it, there wasn't quite enough suspense for my liking! I'll probably go for some older Salvatore next. Fw190a8 01:37, 8 February 2007 (UTC)