Adventurers' Tales
Eric Jordan, the CEO of Codename Entertainment (makers of Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms), D&D player, and all-round great crafty guy, is once again fundraising for the Extra Life charity, which supports children's hospitals in the USA and Canada. As well as streaming games and a tutorial on aging paper, Eric is making and giving out Forgotten Realms–inspired banknotes you can use as props in roleplaying or just adorning your collection. Give money, get money!
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We also got lost in Halaster Blackcloak's dungeon. For some time.
- Oloré, fellow travelers and sages! Alas, it's been too long since we last shared news, and our clacks haven't been so current. But big things have been happening behind closed doors. You may have noticed our new Adventurers' Tales feature above, wherein we tell you about our creations, those of others in the RPG world that we like, and of course the works of Ed Greenwood, father of the Forgotten Realms. Yet we have more in store, and we can't wait to reveal them to you all. Until then, it's time to catch up and update.
- Running into a time dimensional, Lhynard was trapped within a temporal shell until he was rescued by a chronologian. Together, they fought off an ethereal filcher.
- Possessed Priest documented some figures of ancient Netheril: Shastin, a priestess of Mystryl; Radman, father of Karsus and namesake of his enclave; and Lady Aquesita, elder cousin of Karsus.
- Tyrusxl raided the green dragon Deathsleep's hoard and found an axe of the dwarvish lords and spider cloak and magical treasures going by names such as Lyre Lyre Pants on Fire, bottomless potion of swagger, Knight Vision Goggles, and the One Ring (really). There was also a reverse centaur, of all things.
- We say "well met" to new editors: ThaleiaFantasy, who delved into Undermountain with Corin Silvertor and Beckla Shadesar; EconomicDruid, who was turned down by the Valor's Call adventuring party; SnackcakesMcGee, who reported on the intoxicating tekkil; and Tankerthanker, who visited Port Nyanzaru and met such people as Pock-Marked Po and Soggy Wren. We also welcome TheDesFeux, who has raided the menageries and captured black willows, buckawns, and giant dragonflies, among others.
- And we say "well again" to Reesorville, who worked with Fador on Innarlith's canal; HellsCourtesy, who read of Barze's journey in The Great Diaspora of Netheril; Tsammarco, who explored the Eilistraean drow city of Imberlur; and Regis87, who, uh, ate some sushi.
- From the Red Wizards of Thay, alavairthae—"may your skill prevail."
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The Cloister of St. Ramedar was a combination prison, sanitarium, and shrine to Ilmater, the One Who Endures. It was located in the Starspire Mountains northwest of Zazesspur in the land of Tethyr, circa the Year of the Tankard, 1370 DR. The Cloister was the home of the Ramedaran Brotherhood—a monastic order of the church of Ilmater led by Reverend Father Benentine Boldoran—and they were chartered to administer Tethyr's penal system, as well as care for the mentally ill (so-called "prisoners of the mind").
The Cloister was formerly a military outpost, remodeled into cells, kitchens, administrative offices, and a library, but the eight-level subterranean structure dated back to the time of High Shanatar, roughly −5600 DR. Above ground, the Cloister had a walled courtyard that included a chapel, a stable, a smithy, and a guest hostel. The entrance into Mount Adiir was known as the Adiir Gate, and the passage contained an air-tight mantrap inside a dead-magic zone that was guarded at all times by the monks.
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- Benevolent Old Fat Wise Man was a mysterious and notably generous individual from Far Vandmeer in the Whamite Isles, who made occasional appearances during the wild conflicts between various nations to the north. The man arrived suddenly and philanthropically donated gold to those who were losing the wars.
- Doomknight was an undead creature – a corruption of previously righteous paladin. A spellcaster could use the Tenser's transformation spell to temporarily take on a form similar to an elven doomknight.
- Jariliths were powerful tanar'ri demons that resembled monstrous male lions, considered to be some of the most dangerous hunters in the Abyss, used as hunting beasts by more powerful entities visiting the Abyssal layer of Spirac.
- Halfling vampires were the hin infected by a special strain of vampirism from the Domains of Dread that did not enhance their physical strength but allowed them to take on the shape of woodland creatures and their gaseous form was pipeweed or campfire smoke.
- Instant door seeds were mundane seeds, enchanted to conjure forth an escape route to their owner, originally created by young Elminster Aumar, when he was captured by bandits and thrown in a dungeon.
- Kemp was the Speaker of Targos, one of Icewind Dale, during the mid–14th century DR, when he led the town through an invasion of barbarians from the Tribe of the Elk and the Battle of Icewind Dale.
- The lighthouse of Port Nyanzaru was used to guide ships into port and to send smoke signals along the coast of the Bay of Chult and warned the city of the fiendish pirate Idrianne Smoke's approach in the late 1400s DR.
- Nalamh was a jungle town in northern Laothan in Malatra that produced more silk than anywhere else in Laothan. In addition, its loggers harvested ebony and teak lumber from the jungle.
- Receptacle was a psionic devotion used to store power within objects to empower their own powers and abilities at a later date. When used on gems, the stored power was directly proportional to their value.
- Sschindylryn invasion of Eveningstar was part of the War of Everlasting Darkness, which saw the Spider Queen Lolth send the drow city of Sschindylryn to war with Cormyr under cover of the Darkening, primarily fought in the King's Forest and the village of Eveningstar in the late 15th century DR, spilling into the Underdark and the Demonweb Pits, and even the isolated world of Eberron.
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