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Synthalus
Learned Scribe
USA
170 Posts |
 Posted - 27 Jan 2011 : 18:47:58
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Poll Question:
If you died in our world and was Reincarnated in the FR's. What city would you visit first?
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"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 27 Jan 2011 : 18:55:07
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| Waterdeep would be fun to visit. Silverymoon is probably the safest though. I voted Waterdeep. |
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Synthalus
Learned Scribe
USA
170 Posts |
Posted - 27 Jan 2011 : 18:57:01
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| Me too Waterdeep has always been my favorite FR city. Its so full of mystery and wonder. One can truly get lost there and not care if you ever escaped. |
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."
— H.P. Lovecraft (The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories) |
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Kentinal
Great Reader
4685 Posts |
Posted - 27 Jan 2011 : 19:13:45
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| Other, a nice glade with dancing good Drow. |
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"Caring for afterwards ...? Ker repeated this without understanding.
"After action, afterwards," the dragon said. "Choose the afterwards first, then the action. Fools choose action first."
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
657 Posts |
Posted - 27 Jan 2011 : 19:27:15
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| Neverwinter, since it was my introduction to the Realms, and then Silverymoon and Waterdeep. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 27 Jan 2011 : 19:36:33
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Waterdeep, of course. |
Every beginning has an end. |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
3750 Posts |
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Kilvan
Senior Scribe
Canada
894 Posts |
Posted - 27 Jan 2011 : 20:13:26
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| Skullport would probably be the most impressive... but I probably wouldn't last an hour (nor would I want to actually fit in). Silverymoon it is then. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 27 Jan 2011 : 20:27:25
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Waterdeep is my fave city in the Realms... In fact, it was Volo's Guide to Waterdeep that made me fall in love with the setting. That's why I have a tendency to drop anything I create there, and why I wrote the series of articles in the Compendium that detailed four Hidden Lords of my own creation.
Silverymoon would be my second choice. Maybe Suzail or Velprintalar as third and fourth choices.
This is assuming pre-Sellplague, of course. After that, prolly Silverymoon as my first choice, and Suzail as the second choice. |
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GRYPHON
Senior Scribe
USA
527 Posts |
Posted - 27 Jan 2011 : 21:38:08
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| Menzoberranzan and Silverymoon... |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jan 2011 : 00:53:12
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Llurth Dreier
j/k
My first choice would be Myth Nantar, Halarahh, Waterdeep, Sambar, Iriaebor, Rhymanthiin, Deep Imaskar, Hlondeth, Mezro etc. |
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Firestorm
Senior Scribe
Canada
826 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jan 2011 : 00:56:31
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I am going to have to say other and go with Shade.
The idea of a floating city is for me |
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Chosen of Asmodeus
Master of Realmslore
1221 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jan 2011 : 12:32:03
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| Dark Arrow Keep. Mithral Hall after that. Silverymoon. Luskan, Neverwinter, Waterdeep, Baldur's Gate. Just work my way down the coast from there. |
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BARDOBARBAROS
Senior Scribe
Greece
581 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jan 2011 : 12:47:37
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| Chessenta or Mulhorand |
BARDOBARBAROS DOES NOT KILL.
HE DECAPITATES!!!
"The city changes, but the fools within it remain always the same" (Edwin Odesseiron- Baldur's gate 2) |
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Therise
Master of Realmslore
1272 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jan 2011 : 13:52:23
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Silverymoon, a nice safe starting point.
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Mr_Miscellany
Senior Scribe
545 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jan 2011 : 17:23:32
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Other: Suzail.
Waterdeep and Silverymoon tied for 2nd choice. |
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Kno
Senior Scribe
452 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jan 2011 : 19:04:07
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| The vote goes to Other. Halagard is an easy going place with magical opportunities. |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3563 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jan 2011 : 19:05:48
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| Silverymoon seems a likely place where one could survive long enough to get established. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jan 2011 : 23:53:12
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quote:
Originally posted by Kno
The vote goes to Other. Halagard is an easy going place with magical opportunities.
Oooh! Halagard, I'd forgotten about. Count me in!  |
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swifty
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
517 Posts |
Posted - 29 Jan 2011 : 09:43:03
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| waterdeep all the way.id get absolutely roaring drunk in one of their many fine drinking establishments. |
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Arioch
Learned Scribe
Italy
222 Posts |
Posted - 30 Jan 2011 : 11:47:16
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Westgate!  |
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Sill Alias
Senior Scribe
Kazakhstan
588 Posts |
Posted - 31 Jan 2011 : 06:28:08
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| The question is a tricky one. If you have no choice of reincarnation, then you cannot know if you are capable of visiting that city. |
You can hear many tales from many mouths. The most difficult is to know which of them are not lies. - Sill Alias
"May your harp be unstrung, your dreams die and all your songs be unsung." - curse of the harper, The Code of the Harpers 2 ed.
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Kentinal
Great Reader
4685 Posts |
Posted - 31 Jan 2011 : 07:54:35
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| Even if base assumption is reincarnation as human, there clearly is also a time issue. Some places really are not good to show up at based on what year it is. |
"Small beings can have small wisdom," the dragon said. "And small wise beings are better than small fools. Listen: Wisdom is caring for afterwards."
"Caring for afterwards ...? Ker repeated this without understanding.
"After action, afterwards," the dragon said. "Choose the afterwards first, then the action. Fools choose action first."
"Judgement" copyright 2003 by Elizabeth Moon |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 31 Jan 2011 : 09:08:43
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Originally posted by Firestorm
I am going to have to say other and go with Shade.
The idea of a floating city is for me
Right. I have to change my vote. |
Every beginning has an end. |
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 11 Apr 2012 : 11:28:35
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| The City of Splendors is the first place I would visit. Though i would love to see Menzoberranzan its hardly an ideal vacation spot. |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 11 Apr 2012 : 13:07:23
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| Shadowdale or any other place where I could whine to a Wizard until he opened a portal for me to return to Earth. Danger is not my thing. Now, if we where talking some sort of two day out of body travel, then I would say Iriaebor. For some reason that just sounds right to me. |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4211 Posts |
Posted - 11 Apr 2012 : 13:32:09
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Other: Shadowdale (of the Old Grey Box)
Not because Elminster is there...but because I love country living.
...with a particular Sister. |
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sfdragon
Great Reader
2285 Posts |
Posted - 11 Apr 2012 : 13:44:18
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| Ilove WAterdeep..... but I love forests even more and there was no myth drannor on this poll so I took Silverymoon |
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TBeholder
Great Reader
2382 Posts |
Posted - 11 Apr 2012 : 17:39:35
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Even if you for some reason insist on major cities... Why not Velprintalar? Zazesspur? Evereska? Westgate? Bezantur?
I would understand not including e.g. Lyrabar or Elmwood, but why not to include Ravens Bluff? It's an unusual place, and at least nascent unique culture, if not new people, on the rise. Not quite as big deal (yet) as Athkatla, Calimport or Waterdeep, but right behind these, and in magic development is not far behind the likes of Silverymoon or Sshamath (another quite worthy of attention place, BTW). |
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 11 Apr 2012 : 18:01:14
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I seem to be incapable of voting in the poll, but my vote would go to Waterdeep. Given sufficient resources, I'd try to apprentice as a wizard, with the eventual goal of joining the Watchful Order of Magists and hopefully becoming an apprentice to the Blackstaff.
If I were a noble scion, you'd better believe I'd become a fencer and an adventurer, even if it wasn't a very good idea for my life expectancy.
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Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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Reincarnation
