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Caolin
Senior Scribe
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 Posted - 13 Jan 2012 : 22:58:00
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Poll Question:
Given the great debate over whether to reboot or not I became curious as to how people are ingesting the Realms.
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rjfras
Learned Scribe
261 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2012 : 23:01:38
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| how about a "I play the game alot, but don't read any of the novels"? |
Edited by - rjfras on 13 Jan 2012 23:01:59 |
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Caolin
Senior Scribe
768 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2012 : 23:11:37
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Originally posted by rjfras
how about a "I play the game alot, but don't read any of the novels"?
Well, consider the second choice in those terms. Besides, I don't know how to change the poll. :( |
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Therise
Master of Realmslore
1272 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2012 : 23:13:36
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With fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Haven't played in about a year, and I've only read four or five novels in the 4E era.
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Female, 40-year DM of a homebrew-evolved 1E Realms, including a few added tidbits of 2E and 3E lore; played originally in AD&D, then in Rolemaster. Be a DM for your kids and grandkids, gaming is excellent for families! |
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Alystra Illianniis
Great Reader
USA
3750 Posts |
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Caolin
Senior Scribe
768 Posts |
Posted - 13 Jan 2012 : 23:28:10
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OK, poorly worded poll. I'll try better next time.  |
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Diffan
Great Reader
USA
4430 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 01:52:52
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| I ingest the realms with a bit of butter, lighly salted, served warm. A splash of wine (or mead, my favorite) is a great way to cap it off. |
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
1618 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 02:02:14
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Play and read everything about the realms. All editions, all novels since 1986
Edit: Man Sage - I am getting old and forgetful in my old age. Started forgotten Realms in 1987 - started D&D with the red box in 86 |
Edited by - scererar on 14 Jan 2012 02:12:59 |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
7974 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 02:25:37
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I think I would like a meaty Realms platter, gently braised to crispy grilled golden perfection and presented in a drizzle of deliciously fresh sauce au fromage and a sprinkling of Zakharan spice. Served with a nicely chilled bottle of Red Steeled Ravenloft and followed by a post-apéritif of mixed crunchy Planescape and Spelljammer hors d'oeuvres. And a Kara-Turan fortune cookie, of course.
Although I've been starved on Realmslore so long that I could bypass the arrogant haute cuisine and just go for a nice 2E-style all-you-can-eat fingerfood smorgasbord. Hopefully new Realmslore won't be fast food or junkfood, which I avoid. |
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froglegg
Learned Scribe
317 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 02:33:10
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Originally posted by Therise
With fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Haven't played in about a year, and I've only read four or five novels in the 4E era.
I have not had anything to do with the 4th edition Realms.
John |
Long live Alias and Dragonbait! Kate Novak and Jeff Grubb the Realms need you more then ever!
On my word as a sage nothing within these pages is false, but not all of it may prove to be true. - Elminster of Shadowdale
The Old Grey Box gets better with age! |
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Thrasymachus
Learned Scribe
195 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 04:18:51
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I read most of the novels but rarely play the game.
I should say, I have purchased all but about 8, but am behind in my reading. I have bought a few of the 4th Ed source, but not a lot. I have just about everything source material wise prior to 4E
But, I am coming out of DMing retirement, and really glad Candlekeep is here, because I couldn't make heads or tales of Wizards website.
TMI?  |
Former Forgotten Realms brand manager Jim Butler: "Everything that bears the Forgotten Realms logo is considered canon". |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 08:13:40
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| Purely TSR gamer (except for the Serpet book for 3ed.); I read the novels earlier, but for some reason I enjoyed the ones written after 95 by others than Ed less and less. After struggling through (or giving up on) nearly a dozen books published after 2000 I stopped being a novel reader at all. Life's to short to read books I don't enjoy and the setting it showed was not my realms anyway. |
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Caolin
Senior Scribe
768 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 08:37:56
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Originally posted by Jorkens
Purely TSR gamer (except for the Serpet book for 3ed.); I read the novels earlier, but for some reason I enjoyed the ones written after 95 by others than Ed less and less. After struggling through (or giving up on) nearly a dozen books published after 2000 I stopped being a novel reader at all. Life's to short to read books I don't enjoy and the setting it showed was not my realms anyway.
Wow, I'm sorry you could never find any enjoyment in anything after 95. I would have walked away a long time ago if I were that unhappy with the product. But have you ever thought that life is too short to take the Realms that seriously? I mean, I love the setting and all. I may scream and yell when changes are made that I don't like. But at the end of the day, it is just make believe. Real life can be tough at times and it has always been nice for me to have a place to go and escape. |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 08:48:48
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quote:
Originally posted by Caolin
quote:
Originally posted by Jorkens
Purely TSR gamer (except for the Serpet book for 3ed.); I read the novels earlier, but for some reason I enjoyed the ones written after 95 by others than Ed less and less. After struggling through (or giving up on) nearly a dozen books published after 2000 I stopped being a novel reader at all. Life's to short to read books I don't enjoy and the setting it showed was not my realms anyway.
Wow, I'm sorry you could never find any enjoyment in anything after 95. I would have walked away a long time ago if I were that unhappy with the product. But have you ever thought that life is too short to take the Realms that seriously? I mean, I love the setting and all. I may scream and yell when changes are made that I don't like. But at the end of the day, it is just make believe. Real life can be tough at times and it has always been nice for me to have a place to go and escape.
Oh, no you misunderstand me. I just continued as a gamer without any respect for canon and with myself as the over-god of the Realms. I would leave the realms if I didn't enjoy them. But to me the novels where a part of the gameworld, when I didn't get any impulses for the game from them I lost interest. When I joined Candlekeep I tried to get back into the novels as so many people were raving about them and bought a bunch. But it turned out that although they may be better written and in many ways be closer to a concise canon i did not have any fun for the same reason as before; it didn't add anything to my gaming Realms.
And that is the point I am hopping around from thread to thread trying to make. Being a Realmsfan is not about how recent your receipts are.
And I am sorry that my ravings have a tendency to come after your posts, there is a bit of pent up irritation here that has nothing to do with your specific posts. |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 13:23:04
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None. I only read the novels. |
Every beginning has an end. |
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Artemas Entreri
Great Reader
USA
3131 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 15:55:31
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| I played 2E AD&D back in the day, but now i just read the novels and i am very selective about that. |
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Thelonius
Senior Scribe
Spain
730 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 16:06:44
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I am by far more of a reader than a player, never played table D&D and I regret that soooo much   |
"If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single ideal." - Kreia
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Old Man Harpell
Senior Scribe
USA
495 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 16:24:09
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Player, with a novel here and there that catches my interest. I heard what happened, for example, in the Lady Penitent trilogy before I could pick up the books, and the concept of what happened at the end disgusted me so much I never bothered to read them.
But like the Sage, my journey began with the OGB (and Darkwalker soon after). It was the OGB that breathed new life into a campaign that just wasn't going anywhere. I have made it a point to purchase all things (game material-wise) Realms, even 4th Edition stuff that made me want to weep. But there are lots of Realms novels I haven't read, and couldn't tell you what was in them to save my life. |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3240 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 16:49:17
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quote:
Originally posted by Therise
With fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Haven't played in about a year, and I've only read four or five novels in the 4E era.
Beat me to it...
I haven't played much FR recently, and haven't been reading the novels either. |
I actually DO know everything. I just have a very poor index of my knowledge.
Ashe's Character Sheet
Alphabetized Index of Realms NPCs |
Edited by - Ashe Ravenheart on 14 Jan 2012 16:49:44 |
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Caolin
Senior Scribe
768 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 17:21:33
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Originally posted by Jorkens
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Originally posted by Caolin
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Originally posted by Jorkens
Purely TSR gamer (except for the Serpet book for 3ed.); I read the novels earlier, but for some reason I enjoyed the ones written after 95 by others than Ed less and less. After struggling through (or giving up on) nearly a dozen books published after 2000 I stopped being a novel reader at all. Life's to short to read books I don't enjoy and the setting it showed was not my realms anyway.
Wow, I'm sorry you could never find any enjoyment in anything after 95. I would have walked away a long time ago if I were that unhappy with the product. But have you ever thought that life is too short to take the Realms that seriously? I mean, I love the setting and all. I may scream and yell when changes are made that I don't like. But at the end of the day, it is just make believe. Real life can be tough at times and it has always been nice for me to have a place to go and escape.
Oh, no you misunderstand me. I just continued as a gamer without any respect for canon and with myself as the over-god of the Realms. I would leave the realms if I didn't enjoy them. But to me the novels where a part of the gameworld, when I didn't get any impulses for the game from them I lost interest. When I joined Candlekeep I tried to get back into the novels as so many people were raving about them and bought a bunch. But it turned out that although they may be better written and in many ways be closer to a concise canon i did not have any fun for the same reason as before; it didn't add anything to my gaming Realms.
And that is the point I am hopping around from thread to thread trying to make. Being a Realmsfan is not about how recent your receipts are.
And I am sorry that my ravings have a tendency to come after your posts, there is a bit of pent up irritation here that has nothing to do with your specific posts.
Heh, I got a real sense of sadness from your post. Sorry about that. And it's OK, I don't mind that people have differing opinions. But I'm just trying to connect the dots in where those differences lie. There has to be a solution out there that will bring everyone to a point where they can enjoy the Realms. |
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Quale
Master of Realmslore
1757 Posts |
Posted - 14 Jan 2012 : 19:01:47
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| I play the game frequently, I stopped reading the novels cause at best they are mediocre fantasy |
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skychrome
Senior Scribe
713 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jan 2012 : 02:29:11
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Originally posted by Quale
I play the game frequently, I stopped reading the novels cause at best they are mediocre fantasy
Except Paul S. Kemp....  |
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LastStand
Learned Scribe
130 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jan 2012 : 06:12:34
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| Read most of the novels and quite a few 3e sourcebooks, but never played a tabletop D&D game - if I had the opportunity I would probably though. |
"Don't. The battlegrounds that you and I have returned from alive are too different."
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 16 Jan 2012 : 10:25:36
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| I just read the novels, i do play the video games though. Hope Neverwinter doesnt disappoint. |
Edited by - Thauranil on 16 Jan 2012 10:28:55 |
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Kiaransalyn
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
762 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jan 2012 : 11:58:19
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quote:
Originally posted by Caolin
Given the great debate over whether to reboot or not I became curious as to how people are ingesting the Realms.
Perhaps in my next incarnation I will return as a bookworm. |
Death is Life
Love is Hate
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Patrakis
Learned Scribe
Canada
256 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2012 : 00:56:31
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I used to play and read everything tied to the realms. I have every thing ever published about the realms. But, as of 2008, i stopped following the development of the setting. In novels and gaming supplement.
Pat |
Dancing is like standing still, but faster.
My site: http://www.patoumonde.com |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2012 : 08:52:44
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Originally posted by Alystra Illianniis
I'm with her. ^
Alystra! Good to see you're still around; the DnD Next announcement got me back here after about a year's absence. I didn't have time to realize it until my return, but I missed this place.
As for my details re: topic: I read all of Ed's novels, E. S. de Bie's novels, and Paul Kemp's novels. I look forward to being able to once again read Elaine Cunningham's Realms novels, and I own every FR product for 1E, 2E, 3E, and 3.5. Enough said.  |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2012 : 08:54:35
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Originally posted by Kiaransalyn
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Originally posted by Caolin
Given the great debate over whether to reboot or not I became curious as to how people are ingesting the Realms.
Perhaps in my next incarnation I will return as a bookworm.
Edit: Given the apparent division between novel-readers and players, apart from a few like myself and The Sage, it makes me wonder if a separation of novels from game setting canon wouldn't be a good idea after all... RSEs sell novels, but they rarely earn favour with gamers, at least in my experience. Just an observation, and it's early in this poll yet, but I wanted to mention what I was seeing here. We have this discussion running elsewhere in the 'Keep, so I'd rather we kept this scroll clear of statements for or against the idea; I'll try to find a link for everybody unless Sage or Wooly beat me to it. 
Edit: Okay, here we go... let's see if I remember how to add links properly...
Poll: Reboot for 5e
One Canon, One Story, One Realms
What Would You Change in 5e? |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
Edited by - Jakk on 24 Jan 2012 09:10:42 |
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How do you ingest the Realms?
