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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
7915 Posts |
 Posted - 01 Aug 2008 : 23:13:40
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The ToC for the new Dragon is up. Looks like there are four Realms articles.
http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/drtoc/366
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For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
Scribe for the Candlekeep Compendium |
Edited by - Kuje on 01 Aug 2008 23:14:18
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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
2131 Posts |
Posted - 01 Aug 2008 : 23:49:45
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| Getting a dead link right now, the WotC site must be down or just hate me, I am really not sure which any more. |
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The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back. --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
"Mmm, not the darkness," Myrin murmured. "Don't cast it there." --Erik Scott de Bie, Shadowbane
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* Heroes of the Jade Oath (PFRPG, conversion; Rite Publishing)
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* Compendium Arcanum Volume 2: 1st-Level Spells (PFRPG, designer; d20pfsrd.com Publishing)
* Martial Arts Guidebook (forthcoming) (PFRPG, designer; Rite Publishing)
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2008 : 00:02:20
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No problems accessing the site here. From the TOC:
Rose Keep: A Red Wizard Enclave
By Bruce R. Cordell
The Red Wizards were once a highly coordinated group, but those days are gone. Look inside one of the new Red Wizard enclaves here.
Gontal
By Bruce R. Cordell and Ed Greenwood
The Realms of 4th Edition have new life this month. The region of Gontal, previously unexplored, is detailed here.
Design & Development:The 100-Year Leap
By Phil Athans and Bruce R. Cordell
Phil and Bruce discuss the philosophy behind the Forgotten Realms timeline shift, as well as other critical decisions regarding the new Realms.
RPGA Report
By Chris Tulach
This month, Chris tells us more about the Living Forgotten Realms campaign |
"What mattered our lives now? When our world had been torn from us? Folk wept, or drank, or stood staring out over the land, wondering what new horror each dawn would bring."
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Edited by - Ayunken-vanzan on 02 Aug 2008 00:02:55 |
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Richard Lee Byers
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
1814 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2008 : 01:20:46
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| Weird. I can see the list of the articles, but I can't click on them and read them. |
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Garen Thal
Master of Realmslore
USA
1105 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2008 : 01:24:07
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Originally posted by Richard Lee Byers
Weird. I can see the list of the articles, but I can't click on them and read them.
This list is the Table of Contents for the upcoming Dragon 366. As articles go "live," they will activate the links on the table of contents page, until the entire issue is complete. |
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Richard Lee Byers
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
1814 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2008 : 04:55:47
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| Aha. That would explain it. Thanks, Garen. |
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Uzzy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
618 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2008 : 05:19:36
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quote:
Originally posted by Ayunken-vanzan
No problems accessing the site here. From the TOC:
Rose Keep: A Red Wizard Enclave
By Bruce R. Cordell
The Red Wizards were once a highly coordinated group, but those days are gone. Look inside one of the new Red Wizard enclaves here.
Gontal
By Bruce R. Cordell and Ed Greenwood
The Realms of 4th Edition have new life this month. The region of Gontal, previously unexplored, is detailed here.
Design & Development:The 100-Year Leap
By Phil Athans and Bruce R. Cordell
Phil and Bruce discuss the philosophy behind the Forgotten Realms timeline shift, as well as other critical decisions regarding the new Realms.
RPGA Report
By Chris Tulach
This month, Chris tells us more about the Living Forgotten Realms campaign
Red Wizards were cooler as evil magic merchants, Gontal sounds like an STD, they shifted the Realms because they were too incompetent to make subtle changes and the LFR can die.
There we go. Saved everyone the wait for the next set of articles. |
Edited by - Uzzy on 02 Aug 2008 05:21:44 |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2008 : 11:02:18
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| Well I never liked the Enclave and trading focus on the Red Wizards, so that is one thing I would not miss. |
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2008 : 13:33:58
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| where is Gontal? |
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Garen Thal
Master of Realmslore
USA
1105 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2008 : 13:55:40
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Originally posted by Quale
where is Gontal?
My guess is that it's one of the lands introduced by the Spellplague. Whether it's on Faerūn proper, or Returned Abeir, or somewhere else, I have no idea. |
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Zanan
Senior Scribe
Germany
942 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2008 : 14:41:56
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| Gontal ... previously unexplored? Previously non-existing would be more to the point. I mean, you'd really hard pressed to find a place on this planet unexplored after 30,000 odd years of civilization (which utilizes magic for long spells). |
Cave quid dicis, quando et cui!
Gęš a wyrd swa hio scel!
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2008 : 18:53:40
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at first it seemed like some pre-Spellplague obscure land that never got described
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Kyrene
Senior Scribe
South Africa
735 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2008 : 19:36:43
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Originally posted by Ayunken-vanzan
Design & Development:The 100-Year Leap
By Phil Athans and Bruce R. Cordell
Phil and Bruce discuss the philosophy behind the Forgotten Realms timeline shift, as well as other critical decisions regarding the new Realms.
*waits patiently for Kiaransalyn's parody of this one* |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 02 Aug 2008 : 21:15:46
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At first I thought that Gontal was indeed a previously unexplored (undetailed?) region, but now I'm leaning towards another piece of Abeir that got s__t out onto the Realms.
Could be Maztica's replacement, even.
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Originally posted by Jorkens
Well I never liked the Enclave and trading focus on the Red Wizards, so that is one thing I would not miss.
Sad to say - they went even more in that direction in 4e, it appears.
Thay is no longer run by the Red Wizards - Szass Tam has either killed, enslaved, or exiled all the rest, and Thay is now Toril's Plateau of Leng.
The Red Wizards that do still exist ONLY run enclaves - they have lost their Home-base, and the enclaves are ALL thats left of the Red Wizards (as we knew them).
So they took a bad idea and ran with it.  |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 04 Aug 2008 : 17:52:09
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Originally posted by Ayunken-vanzan
Design & Development:The 100-Year Leap
By Phil Athans and Bruce R. Cordell
Phil and Bruce discuss the philosophy behind the Forgotten Realms timeline shift, as well as other critical decisions regarding the new Realms.
Now that's the one I'm looking forward to.
Will I enjoy any of these articles, even a bit?
Time will tell. Sooner or later, time will tell. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
Edited by - Rinonalyrna Fathomlin on 04 Aug 2008 17:52:33 |
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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
2131 Posts |
Posted - 04 Aug 2008 : 19:27:05
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| "Critical" would be the operative word that I am pretty sure that most of the community here will not agree with. |
Errant d20 Designer - My Blog (last updated January 06, 2016)
One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back. --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
"Mmm, not the darkness," Myrin murmured. "Don't cast it there." --Erik Scott de Bie, Shadowbane
* My character sheets (PFRPG, 3.5, and AE versions; not viewable in Internet Explorer)
* Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Reference Document (PFRPG OGL Rules)
* The Hypertext d20 SRD (3.5 OGL Rules)
* 3.5 D&D Archives
My game design work:
* Heroes of the Jade Oath (PFRPG, conversion; Rite Publishing)
* Compendium Arcanum Volume 1: Cantrips & Orisons (PFRPG, designer; d20pfsrd.com Publishing)
* Compendium Arcanum Volume 2: 1st-Level Spells (PFRPG, designer; d20pfsrd.com Publishing)
* Martial Arts Guidebook (forthcoming) (PFRPG, designer; Rite Publishing)
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 05 Aug 2008 : 05:40:04
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Right now I'm trying to see the glass half-full.
Okay... maybe 1/10 full.
1/100th full?
WORK with me, people....
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"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 05 Aug 2008 : 14:17:55
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quote:
Originally posted by Markustay
Right now I'm trying to see the glass half-full.
Okay... maybe 1/10 full.
1/100th full?
WORK with me, people....
It once contained liquid that may or may not have been water. |
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Dargoth
Great Reader
Australia
4607 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2008 : 07:15:33
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Originally posted by Garen Thal
quote:
Originally posted by Quale
where is Gontal?
My guess is that it's one of the lands introduced by the Spellplague. Whether it's on Faerūn proper, or Returned Abeir, or somewhere else, I have no idea.
Didnt one of Bruce COrdells novels feature an "Aboriginalesque" character who was from a place outside Faerun that started with G? |
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Jimbobx
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
109 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2008 : 08:29:06
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Didnt one of Bruce COrdells novels feature an "Aboriginalesque" character who was from a place outside Faerun that started with G?
The characters name started with a 'G' - Gungarri.
I'm not sure that his place of origin was ever named. I recall he was referred to as a tattooed warrior from far away...but no more detail than that. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2008 : 08:40:01
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quote:
Originally posted by Jimbobx
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Didnt one of Bruce COrdells novels feature an "Aboriginalesque" character who was from a place outside Faerun that started with G?
The characters name started with a 'G' - Gungarri.
I'm not sure that his place of origin was ever named. I recall he was referred to as a tattooed warrior from far away...but no more detail than that.
The novel was Lady of Poison -- part of "The Priests" series. And the "place outside Faerūn" was Osse. |
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2008 : 06:12:26
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Yes, thank you Dagnirion. You've now shown that I can find no peace from the curse that is Osse. Not even here at my beloved Candlekeep!
I suppose I should just probably go ahead and petition Alaundo to change all the "Australia" location devices in our profiles to Osstralia. Would you prefer that?  |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 07 Aug 2008 : 14:25:34
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quote:
Originally posted by The Sage
I suppose I should just probably go ahead and petition Alaundo to change all the "Australia" location devices in our profiles to Osstralia. Would you prefer that?
No! I prefer "Australia", and I can't wait to visit there (eventually). |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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