Hi @TheEdVerse! Miior in the Haunted Halls module is described having "purple eyes". Does such a characteristic commonly exist in the Realms or does she have some kind of contact lenses? (I know, it's a microscopic detail).No, they aren't contact lenses; she has natural purple irises (white sclera, black pupils). But it's NOT common, so that's why it's mentioned. Neither is she a rarity; it's an uncommon trait, believed by some to denote elven blood or Imaskari or Netherese heritage.
Corentin Palanchini @Sartana87 Sep 1st 2019
Hey @TheEdVerse how does one get the title of Lord in the Realms? My players beat those guys in Noanar’s Hold and are turning the ruined keep into a castle. Are they the lords now?Heh. This is one of those "it depends" situations. If they start calling themselves lords, AND live in a castle, most folk they meet will accept the titles. Because Noanar's Hold doesn't happen to be in a ruled realm with a king or other ruler who'll dispute these self-assumed ranks, there'll be no trouble about calling themselves lords. In the common mind (of civilized humans in the Sword Coast), "every lord hath his castle," and vice versa. So, short answer: yes. However, longer answer: if I was DMing this, I'd expect pretenders (armed thugs with a hired adventuring band waving blades on their behalf) to start showing up one a month or so, snarling, "I'M the rightful Lord of Noanar's Hold! Begone or die, miscreants!" ;}
Lou Anders Is Working on 3 Secret Somethings @LouAnders Sep 1st 2019
Hey Ed, I’m having trouble figuring something out in Neverwinter. What’s the Difference or is there a Difference between the Wintershield Watchmen (SCAG 145) and the Neverwinter guard? Is the Wintershield Watchmen like the City Watch and the NW Guard like the City Guard?There is, and you’ve got it right.
Me @AlexMcclay2000 Aug 31st
I've always wondered what paid these groups. Taxes? Personal adventuring funds? Good will? I mean, my Paladin would totally do it for free, but he isn't the rule.Taxes and docking fees: Neverwinter taxes all deposits and withdrawals to its vaults (banks), charges fees for building permits, docking ships, and warehouse space for cargoes, and an annual head tax on all city residents, as well as taxing landlords on their rents.
Justin Ray Glosson @ivstinus Sep 2nd 2019
And does Neverwinter Mint its own currency, of do they use the same currency as Waterdeep of Silverymoon. Thanks.Like all Sword Coast cities, Neverwinter accepts the metal coinage of everywhere else, though “foreign” coins (i.e. from the Vilhon and places east and south of there) tend to be valued for their metal value (i.e. “Well, it’s a gold piece, or a silver, or a copper of some sort of funny outlander minting”) rather than what their home region would precisely value them at. And the City of Skilled Hands needs so many raw materials from elsewhere to make so many of their goods that barter plus the steady flow of coins from Waterdeep and other ports makes local minting rarely necessary. For large amounts, trade bars from Baldur’s Gate (and made by dwarves nearer at hand) are commonly used in Neverwinter. But “city mintings” do occur about every decade or dozen winters or so, mainly copper, silver, and gold coins. Names for coins tend to be whatever name the coin bears where it came from (so a glint or shield from Silverymoon or a nib or dragon of Waterdeep are called those same names in Neverwinter), but the Neverran/Neverwinteran names for coins are thus: a copper is a ‘tharn;’ a silver is a ‘bult;’ an electrum coin (rare in local minting) is a ‘sea-shee;’ a gold coin is a ‘dragon;’ and a platinum coin (very rare in local minting) is a ‘fairsail.’ Most recent coins of Neverwinter are central-hole-pierced flat metal plaques in the shape of a long keystone (or capstone, the wedge-shaped isosceles trapezoid/trapezium), with chased (graven) triskelion-like designs on their faces.
Me @AlexMcclay2000 Aug 31st
Hey @TheEdVerse :) would Garl Glittergold want his clerics to forge and create wespons/armor in Faerun? I know he is different in Greyhawk? I know Rock Gnomes like to tinker and create stuff, or does Garl more focused on trickery and coin?Realms clergy of Garl Glittergold MUST help forge an axe inlaid with gold and gems, to pass from novices to full priests. Thereafter, they're expected to make, repair, or "renew" (inlay and beautify) helms, shields, etc. for temple sales or as Garl's favour (a gift).
Matafer @_Matafer Sep 1st
@TheEdVerse how critical to Zhentil Keep *are* its slaves?They're the economic basis for the big windfall profits, but bread-n-butter for the Zhents are shortest/cheapest shipping routes twixt Sword Coast and Moonsea, plus control over metals coming out. You're costing them coin, earning their ire, but not ruining them.
It occurs to me to wonder just what it will do to them that we’re smashing down the walls that hadn’t just got blasted with Spellfire a few months ago with a magical blizzard and then turning the slave holds /
🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️🌈 @jayeedgecliff Sep 2nd
@TheEdVerse because of the weird way my mind works this made me wonder: is there precedent elsewhere, in History, Legend, or 1350s DR era of temples dedicated to multiple gods like what my rather holy band has done with their renovations of The Haunted Halls? Theirs is *consecrated* to their 3: Lliira, Meilikki, and Selûne, but welcomes almost any travelling clerics who behave themselves; in fact a Lathenderite often babysits the temple for them whilst they’re off on their Other Project. To give context of what I mean abt the temple.Yes! The Plinth in Waterdeep was an "all-faiths" temple, well-known far and wide; a shared holy space that was favoured by all of the gods, so there was very little friction between their clergy in using it.
🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️🌈 @jayeedgecliff Sep 2nd
@TheEdVerse I've yet to encounter my favorite character from the realms playing in adventurers league. How fares the old sage of shadowdale these days?He's running Waterdeep's secret police for Laeral, and having a ball doing it. He's fine. Just older. ;}
James Fellers @fellers75 Sep 2nd
@TheEdVerse I wonder why the Realms writers and fans don't mention Tahlshara, arguably the most powerful elven blade ever. One of the great treasures of Evermeet (all quite powerful), it is one of the magic items found in Elves of Evermeet and never mentioned afterwards Why so?Silvio Salles @silviosalles September 3rd
@TheEdVerse Looking up lore for Firenewts and a few of us have started disagreeing. Are they what lizardfolk came from, or were lizardfolk created by sarrukh?See the Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn (published in 2001): firenewts evolved from lizardfolk.
Bryan Holmes 💙❤️🖤 @FallenWyvern September 5th
@TheEdVerse Is the Spellplague still a thing? Can people still become infected by it, or are the last vestiges all that will remain?The Spellplague is unpredictable; it affects individual creatures and locales differently, and some effects are still playing out (think the last few feebly-spitting sparks, after a chain-lightning reaction). However, for most of Toril, it is "over" (no more onsets).
CT Briscoe @CTBriscoes September 7th
@TheEdVerse So, I've been musing the big cities and their economies now - living conditions and "leisure" life. Do cities like Elturel have apartments? And I don't mean the fancy version of the word - just rentable/purchasable housing that is attached and sectioned like an apt.?Well, I wouldn’t move to Elturel now, for reasons that will soon become apparent. ;}
Justin Ray Glosson @ivstinus Sep 6th
@TheEdVerse I'm lost. In SKT, Tiamat, and a lot of the extended lore, the Zhentarim are described as slavers, murders, and otherwise evil. Yet I got people trying to tell me they're no worse than any other group because the narrator in SCAG says they've gotten, "less evil".The Zhentarim began as a cabal of mages (and others of Zhentil Keep) led by Manshoon making a grab for political power, by allying with local clergy of Bane (led by Fzoul, and obeying his orders rather than those of the High Imperceptor, head of the faith), and by allying separately with several beholders. So, a strong evil component. The Zhents got control over Zhentil Keep through murder, blackmail, threats, and financial coercion. Again, evil. They had some allies and members who were from the lower planes (DEFINITELY evil), and after coming into control of Zhentil Keep sought to enrich themselves on an ongoing basis by establishing and/or controlling the shortest, fastest, cheapest trade routes between the Moonsea and the Sword Coast. They resorted to murder and intimidation to dominate the trade in useful metals brought along those routes, and slavery was one of the trades they participated in. So, evil again. They covertly sponsored rebels and troublesome urban gangs in many places to run interference for their own activities, and tried in many places to put ‘puppet’ local rulers in place, and/or corrupt tax collectors, local Watch officers and other lawkeepers, and so on. Not the style of a good organization. They mustered and maintained a standing army for Zhentil Keep, that invaded various Dales and other locales with the aim of conquering them, causing widespread bloodshed and suffering. Evil.
Space Is Pretty Big @SpaceIsVeryBig Sep 6th
I wish the wise Elminster could give us a short vocabulary of arcane words that practitioners of the Art often say as V components for casting spells. Like: Fire, time, Air, thunder, cloud, illusory, vines, water, protecion, harm, move...and such.In the Realms, incantations for the same spell vary from caster to caster. Most casters today didn’t create most of the spells they use; they learned them from a mentotutor, from studying a spellbook, or by reading or copying off a scroll, so they’re using the wording a predecessor devised (or got from an even earlier source). So the incantations may rhyme, or not. They may employ words from a variety of languages, or stick to one tongue. What the incantation is trying to do is to help THAT CASTER properly visualize the spell effect and identify the target/area of effect/direction (and in some cases, intensity and duration, too), as the spell’s material component (if any) is called upon as a focus and/or consumed, and the somatic component (gestures) work to triggeunleash the magic in proper timing with the incantation or word, to tap the power of the Weave in a specific manner to achieve a particular magical effect. So incantations can vary. There ARE some “go to” arcane words, which sound vaguely to our real-world ears like Latin or Greek, but aren’t, that function as reliable “Weave-tap doorways” for all arcane casters because they’ve been used so often, over so many years, that they’ve established ‘pathways’ (“trained the Weave,” if you will) to call up certain sorts of magical effects.
Alessandro Mechelli @ale_mechelli Sep 10th
Thank you so much Venerable Elminster! So, just to be clear, V component CAN be in elvish, common, dwarvish but also in “unique” tongue (with a bit of taste of Latin and Greek as you said). Can we regard to this one as an “arcane language” per se? Or there can be as many unique languages as (possibly) many magicians practicing the Art?There can be as many unique languages as practitioners. And a typical incantation may sound like two or three sentence fragments, all studded with words in many languages, cobbled together, and slang and formal mixed, too.
Thanks again.
Alessandro Mechelli @ale_mechelli Sep 11th
@TheEdVerse, I am DM'ing a game in the Starter Set and the attached image is the fighter's background. With his hereditary title, would Dagult Neverember take measures to eliminate or silence the player if he were to return to Neverwinter? Thanks!This is the Image in text form
Richard Lorenzo @richlore88 Sep 11th
@TheEdVerse does the makeup of a corpse change in anyway after being infused with negative energy on an undead creature? bones harden, skin becomes more pliable, muscles strengthen; anything like that? or am i imagining that :ISure. The exact effects vary both individually and by undead type, but see my 2e spell Nulathoe's Ninemen for the list of minor changes/augmentations. Becoming undead almost always strengthens the LINKAGES between decaying/shrinking/withering body parts.
PastorGall @PastorGall Sep 22nd
@TheEdVerse Could some sorcerers cast spells without needing to tap into the Weave? I've always loved the idea of sorcerers casting into the raw magic beyond the Weave.Hoo boy, here we go.
Elok @Elok45a Sep 23
Sorry, if I getting it wrong. But Weave is just a way to using day-by-day spells for D&D classes. But in theory there can be a spells or even magic books that do not using Weave as sort of conversion for raw magic?The Weave is how arcane magic users describe their way of accessing the raw energies of the world (the "wizard spells" in the Player's Handbook).
Max Golutvo @Meonaar Sep 23
Have you or anybody else stated how far the river Chionthar is navigable for barges upstream of Baldur's Gate? Important for a campaign i'm designing in 5e. Thanks.Sure. Save in low-water times of drought/winter ice, the Chionthar is navigable by barge inland from the Gate north up the River Reaching a day's poling upstream/N from Hill's Edge, and along the south (main Chionthar) branch two day's poling upstream/NE of Iriaebor.
Roger Downey @RogerDowney7 Sep 24
@TheEdVerse So I've finally gotten around to reading the Elminster books. I was curious as to if you actually had books written out by chance that you pull your quotes from that you use at the start of the chapters. They would be something I would greatly enjoy reading.Hi! SOME of those books exist as a few pages of text (extended passages plus a few "quotable quotes") and a very brief para about author, place of pub (or first performance for the plays), etc. Others were invented on the fly whilst writing a novel. Ed September 26th
Wesley Ganaway @stunts7058 Sep 26
@TheEdVerse What does Elminster sound like when he talks? Like you in real life? Or like, let's say, Gandalf from the LotR movies, or something else? Asking for a DM friend who is going to have to RP old El quite a bit coming up soon. Thanks in advance! - Fellow OntarianEl has a light, soft English or Welsh accent that comes and goes (he likes to "sound like a local," and so, adjusts). See Nicol Williamson playing Merlin in the movie EXCALIBUR for cadence and manner.
LinGaping66 @XT1erminator Sep 26
@TheEdVerse Hi Ed, #Realmslorequestion If it isn't spoiler territory. What is the situation with the Fey'ri as of the current timeline? I'm guessing they weren't completely wiped out in Cormanthor?You are guessing correctly. ;}
Brad Smith @BradSmi18016971 Sep 26
@TheEdVerse Hello big fan here, hope all right with. I wonder to know if possible, what is the secret way that let Vecna travels from Nine hells to material plane, later discovered by Fierna up to Mordenkainen's tome of foes??Hoo boy, you have asked something that is firmly NDA'd (= hidden behind a Non-Disclosure Agreement I've signed). Let me begin the long process of seeing how much I can hint/half-say/reveal, by way of a reply to you.
Fabrizio Michienzi @FabrizioMichie1 Sep 26
@TheEdVerse I have a player that wants to become the king of the northlanders from the islands. He even wants to make a deal with the captains from Luskan. Is this possible? Could someone unite the nortlanders under one banner?It's possible, but unlikely; various mighty warriors of the Northlanders have tried to do this, down the decades...and centuries...and ages. These days, it would have to be done by defeating rivals by the sword, and many places, Luskan included, don't ever want see the Northlanders united (because they'd become a peril, not just an irritant), so they will work against any rising leader who seems to be trying to unite them.
robi rob @aerothgow Sep 26th
@TheEdVerse where can i find massive amounts of info about undead in the realms? Subject has me intrigued :OStart with the 2e sourcebook LORDS OF DARKNESS (a title that's been re-used in later editions). It's all about...undead in the Realms. ;}
PastorGall @PastorGall Sep 27
@TheEdVerse Is there a number script for elvish?Hi! Yes, there have been several down the ages. Most popular today: base 10 counting; draw a circle, lines radiating outwards from it are the tens, lines running only into the interior are the ones, and lines crossing from outer to outer right across the circle denote hundreds. These lines are always drawn so that none of them touch (aside from intersecting with the circle itself). [So a capital "Q" to us, is "ten" in this notation. Twelve would be a capital Q with two side by side interior "tails"...and so on.]
Regina Roszelle (Suspicious) @SuspiciousReggi Sep 29th
questions from my friend.Hi!
I'm a chinese fan of the Realms. As is known to all, the official idea of PRChina is atheism. Thus, many, if not all, of us chinese fans don't really understand the difference between "believe", "worship" and "faith". If the "atheist" will be judged as the Faithless, so as an "atheist" I do worry about my (character's) soul.
My first question is, what's "the difference between faith and belief"?
And there are a series of scenarios below, will this be judged as "worship" a god?
1) Someone joined a celebration of a holiday of a god he doesn't care.
2) Someone don't like Tempus but being a great general, or someone never praise Mystra but being a powerful spellcaster.
3) Someone donate a few coins to a temple of Tyr, but he don't like Tyr's teaching
4) Someone respect the teaching of a god, but will not entrust his life and soul to the god.
coolguy @coolguy73360922 Sep 30th
Hi @TheEdVerse! Miior in the Haunted Halls module is described having "purple eyes". Does such a characteristic commonly exist in the Realms or does she have some kind of contact lenses? (I know, it's a microscopic detail).No, they aren't contact lenses; she has natural purple irises (white sclera, black pupils). But it's NOT common, so that's why it's mentioned. Neither is she a rarity; it's an uncommon trait, believed by some to denote elven blood or Imaskari or Netherese heritage.
Corentin Palanchini @Sartana87 Sep 1st 2019
Hey @TheEdVerse how does one get the title of Lord in the Realms? My players beat those guys in Noanar’s Hold and are turning the ruined keep into a castle. Are they the lords now?Heh. This is one of those "it depends" situations. If they start calling themselves lords, AND live in a castle, most folk they meet will accept the titles. Because Noanar's Hold doesn't happen to be in a ruled realm with a king or other ruler who'll dispute these self-assumed ranks, there'll be no trouble about calling themselves lords. In the common mind (of civilized humans in the Sword Coast), "every lord hath his castle," and vice versa. So, short answer: yes. However, longer answer: if I was DMing this, I'd expect pretenders (armed thugs with a hired adventuring band waving blades on their behalf) to start showing up one a month or so, snarling, "I'M the rightful Lord of Noanar's Hold! Begone or die, miscreants!" ;}
Lou Anders Is Working on 3 Secret Somethings @LouAnders Sep 1st 2019
Hey Ed, I’m having trouble figuring something out in Neverwinter. What’s the Difference or is there a Difference between the Wintershield Watchmen (SCAG 145) and the Neverwinter guard? Is the Wintershield Watchmen like the City Watch and the NW Guard like the City Guard?There is, and you’ve got it right.
Me @AlexMcclay2000 Aug 31st
I've always wondered what paid these groups. Taxes? Personal adventuring funds? Good will? I mean, my Paladin would totally do it for free, but he isn't the rule.Taxes and docking fees: Neverwinter taxes all deposits and withdrawals to its vaults (banks), charges fees for building permits, docking ships, and warehouse space for cargoes, and an annual head tax on all city residents, as well as taxing landlords on their rents.
Justin Ray Glosson @ivstinus Sep 2nd 2019
And does Neverwinter Mint its own currency, of do they use the same currency as Waterdeep of Silverymoon. Thanks.Like all Sword Coast cities, Neverwinter accepts the metal coinage of everywhere else, though “foreign” coins (i.e. from the Vilhon and places east and south of there) tend to be valued for their metal value (i.e. “Well, it’s a gold piece, or a silver, or a copper of some sort of funny outlander minting”) rather than what their home region would precisely value them at. And the City of Skilled Hands needs so many raw materials from elsewhere to make so many of their goods that barter plus the steady flow of coins from Waterdeep and other ports makes local minting rarely necessary. For large amounts, trade bars from Baldur’s Gate (and made by dwarves nearer at hand) are commonly used in Neverwinter. But “city mintings” do occur about every decade or dozen winters or so, mainly copper, silver, and gold coins. Names for coins tend to be whatever name the coin bears where it came from (so a glint or shield from Silverymoon or a nib or dragon of Waterdeep are called those same names in Neverwinter), but the Neverran/Neverwinteran names for coins are thus: a copper is a ‘tharn;’ a silver is a ‘bult;’ an electrum coin (rare in local minting) is a ‘sea-shee;’ a gold coin is a ‘dragon;’ and a platinum coin (very rare in local minting) is a ‘fairsail.’ Most recent coins of Neverwinter are central-hole-pierced flat metal plaques in the shape of a long keystone (or capstone, the wedge-shaped isosceles trapezoid/trapezium), with chased (graven) triskelion-like designs on their faces.
Me @AlexMcclay2000 Aug 31st
Hey @TheEdVerse :) would Garl Glittergold want his clerics to forge and create wespons/armor in Faerun? I know he is different in Greyhawk? I know Rock Gnomes like to tinker and create stuff, or does Garl more focused on trickery and coin?Realms clergy of Garl Glittergold MUST help forge an axe inlaid with gold and gems, to pass from novices to full priests. Thereafter, they're expected to make, repair, or "renew" (inlay and beautify) helms, shields, etc. for temple sales or as Garl's favour (a gift).
Matafer @_Matafer Sep 1st
@TheEdVerse how critical to Zhentil Keep *are* its slaves?They're the economic basis for the big windfall profits, but bread-n-butter for the Zhents are shortest/cheapest shipping routes twixt Sword Coast and Moonsea, plus control over metals coming out. You're costing them coin, earning their ire, but not ruining them.
It occurs to me to wonder just what it will do to them that we’re smashing down the walls that hadn’t just got blasted with Spellfire a few months ago with a magical blizzard and then turning the slave holds /
🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️🌈 @jayeedgecliff Sep 2nd
@TheEdVerse because of the weird way my mind works this made me wonder: is there precedent elsewhere, in History, Legend, or 1350s DR era of temples dedicated to multiple gods like what my rather holy band has done with their renovations of The Haunted Halls? Theirs is *consecrated* to their 3: Lliira, Meilikki, and Selûne, but welcomes almost any travelling clerics who behave themselves; in fact a Lathenderite often babysits the temple for them whilst they’re off on their Other Project. To give context of what I mean abt the temple.Yes! The Plinth in Waterdeep was an "all-faiths" temple, well-known far and wide; a shared holy space that was favoured by all of the gods, so there was very little friction between their clergy in using it.
🌈Jaye🦄Em🌹Edgecliff🏳️🌈 @jayeedgecliff Sep 2nd
@TheEdVerse I've yet to encounter my favorite character from the realms playing in adventurers league. How fares the old sage of shadowdale these days?He's running Waterdeep's secret police for Laeral, and having a ball doing it. He's fine. Just older. ;}
James Fellers @fellers75 Sep 2nd
@TheEdVerse I wonder why the Realms writers and fans don't mention Tahlshara, arguably the most powerful elven blade ever. One of the great treasures of Evermeet (all quite powerful), it is one of the magic items found in Elves of Evermeet and never mentioned afterwards Why so?Silvio Salles @silviosalles September 3rd
@TheEdVerse Looking up lore for Firenewts and a few of us have started disagreeing. Are they what lizardfolk came from, or were lizardfolk created by sarrukh?See the Monster Compendium: Monsters of Faerûn (published in 2001): firenewts evolved from lizardfolk.
Bryan Holmes 💙❤️🖤 @FallenWyvern September 5th
@TheEdVerse Is the Spellplague still a thing? Can people still become infected by it, or are the last vestiges all that will remain?The Spellplague is unpredictable; it affects individual creatures and locales differently, and some effects are still playing out (think the last few feebly-spitting sparks, after a chain-lightning reaction). However, for most of Toril, it is "over" (no more onsets).
CT Briscoe @CTBriscoes September 7th
@TheEdVerse So, I've been musing the big cities and their economies now - living conditions and "leisure" life. Do cities like Elturel have apartments? And I don't mean the fancy version of the word - just rentable/purchasable housing that is attached and sectioned like an apt.?Well, I wouldn’t move to Elturel now, for reasons that will soon become apparent. ;}
Justin Ray Glosson @ivstinus Sep 6th
@TheEdVerse I'm lost. In SKT, Tiamat, and a lot of the extended lore, the Zhentarim are described as slavers, murders, and otherwise evil. Yet I got people trying to tell me they're no worse than any other group because the narrator in SCAG says they've gotten, "less evil".The Zhentarim began as a cabal of mages (and others of Zhentil Keep) led by Manshoon making a grab for political power, by allying with local clergy of Bane (led by Fzoul, and obeying his orders rather than those of the High Imperceptor, head of the faith), and by allying separately with several beholders. So, a strong evil component. The Zhents got control over Zhentil Keep through murder, blackmail, threats, and financial coercion. Again, evil. They had some allies and members who were from the lower planes (DEFINITELY evil), and after coming into control of Zhentil Keep sought to enrich themselves on an ongoing basis by establishing and/or controlling the shortest, fastest, cheapest trade routes between the Moonsea and the Sword Coast. They resorted to murder and intimidation to dominate the trade in useful metals brought along those routes, and slavery was one of the trades they participated in. So, evil again. They covertly sponsored rebels and troublesome urban gangs in many places to run interference for their own activities, and tried in many places to put ‘puppet’ local rulers in place, and/or corrupt tax collectors, local Watch officers and other lawkeepers, and so on. Not the style of a good organization. They mustered and maintained a standing army for Zhentil Keep, that invaded various Dales and other locales with the aim of conquering them, causing widespread bloodshed and suffering. Evil.
Space Is Pretty Big @SpaceIsVeryBig Sep 6th
I wish the wise Elminster could give us a short vocabulary of arcane words that practitioners of the Art often say as V components for casting spells. Like: Fire, time, Air, thunder, cloud, illusory, vines, water, protecion, harm, move...and such.In the Realms, incantations for the same spell vary from caster to caster. Most casters today didn’t create most of the spells they use; they learned them from a mentotutor, from studying a spellbook, or by reading or copying off a scroll, so they’re using the wording a predecessor devised (or got from an even earlier source). So the incantations may rhyme, or not. They may employ words from a variety of languages, or stick to one tongue. What the incantation is trying to do is to help THAT CASTER properly visualize the spell effect and identify the target/area of effect/direction (and in some cases, intensity and duration, too), as the spell’s material component (if any) is called upon as a focus and/or consumed, and the somatic component (gestures) work to triggeunleash the magic in proper timing with the incantation or word, to tap the power of the Weave in a specific manner to achieve a particular magical effect. So incantations can vary. There ARE some “go to” arcane words, which sound vaguely to our real-world ears like Latin or Greek, but aren’t, that function as reliable “Weave-tap doorways” for all arcane casters because they’ve been used so often, over so many years, that they’ve established ‘pathways’ (“trained the Weave,” if you will) to call up certain sorts of magical effects.
Alessandro Mechelli @ale_mechelli Sep 10th
Thank you so much Venerable Elminster! So, just to be clear, V component CAN be in elvish, common, dwarvish but also in “unique” tongue (with a bit of taste of Latin and Greek as you said). Can we regard to this one as an “arcane language” per se? Or there can be as many unique languages as (possibly) many magicians practicing the Art?There can be as many unique languages as practitioners. And a typical incantation may sound like two or three sentence fragments, all studded with words in many languages, cobbled together, and slang and formal mixed, too.
Thanks again.
Alessandro Mechelli @ale_mechelli Sep 11th
@TheEdVerse, I am DM'ing a game in the Starter Set and the attached image is the fighter's background. With his hereditary title, would Dagult Neverember take measures to eliminate or silence the player if he were to return to Neverwinter? Thanks!This is the Image in text form
Richard Lorenzo @richlore88 Sep 11th
@TheEdVerse does the makeup of a corpse change in anyway after being infused with negative energy on an undead creature? bones harden, skin becomes more pliable, muscles strengthen; anything like that? or am i imagining that :ISure. The exact effects vary both individually and by undead type, but see my 2e spell Nulathoe's Ninemen for the list of minor changes/augmentations. Becoming undead almost always strengthens the LINKAGES between decaying/shrinking/withering body parts.
PastorGall @PastorGall Sep 22nd
@TheEdVerse Could some sorcerers cast spells without needing to tap into the Weave? I've always loved the idea of sorcerers casting into the raw magic beyond the Weave.Hoo boy, here we go.
Elok @Elok45a Sep 23
Sorry, if I getting it wrong. But Weave is just a way to using day-by-day spells for D&D classes. But in theory there can be a spells or even magic books that do not using Weave as sort of conversion for raw magic?The Weave is how arcane magic users describe their way of accessing the raw energies of the world (the "wizard spells" in the Player's Handbook).
Max Golutvo @Meonaar Sep 23
Have you or anybody else stated how far the river Chionthar is navigable for barges upstream of Baldur's Gate? Important for a campaign i'm designing in 5e. Thanks.Sure. Save in low-water times of drought/winter ice, the Chionthar is navigable by barge inland from the Gate north up the River Reaching a day's poling upstream/N from Hill's Edge, and along the south (main Chionthar) branch two day's poling upstream/NE of Iriaebor.
Roger Downey @RogerDowney7 Sep 24
@TheEdVerse So I've finally gotten around to reading the Elminster books. I was curious as to if you actually had books written out by chance that you pull your quotes from that you use at the start of the chapters. They would be something I would greatly enjoy reading.Hi! SOME of those books exist as a few pages of text (extended passages plus a few "quotable quotes") and a very brief para about author, place of pub (or first performance for the plays), etc. Others were invented on the fly whilst writing a novel.Ed September 26th
Wesley Ganaway @stunts7058 Sep 26
@TheEdVerse What does Elminster sound like when he talks? Like you in real life? Or like, let's say, Gandalf from the LotR movies, or something else? Asking for a DM friend who is going to have to RP old El quite a bit coming up soon. Thanks in advance! - Fellow OntarianEl has a light, soft English or Welsh accent that comes and goes (he likes to "sound like a local," and so, adjusts). See Nicol Williamson playing Merlin in the movie EXCALIBUR for cadence and manner.
LinGaping66 @XT1erminator Sep 26
@TheEdVerse Hi Ed, #Realmslorequestion If it isn't spoiler territory. What is the situation with the Fey'ri as of the current timeline? I'm guessing they weren't completely wiped out in Cormanthor?You are guessing correctly. ;}
Brad Smith @BradSmi18016971 Sep 26
@TheEdVerse Hello big fan here, hope all right with. I wonder to know if possible, what is the secret way that let Vecna travels from Nine hells to material plane, later discovered by Fierna up to Mordenkainen's tome of foes??Hoo boy, you have asked something that is firmly NDA'd (= hidden behind a Non-Disclosure Agreement I've signed). Let me begin the long process of seeing how much I can hint/half-say/reveal, by way of a reply to you.
Fabrizio Michienzi @FabrizioMichie1 Sep 26
@TheEdVerse I have a player that wants to become the king of the northlanders from the islands. He even wants to make a deal with the captains from Luskan. Is this possible? Could someone unite the nortlanders under one banner?It's possible, but unlikely; various mighty warriors of the Northlanders have tried to do this, down the decades...and centuries...and ages. These days, it would have to be done by defeating rivals by the sword, and many places, Luskan included, don't ever want see the Northlanders united (because they'd become a peril, not just an irritant), so they will work against any rising leader who seems to be trying to unite them.
robi rob @aerothgow Sep 26th
@TheEdVerse where can i find massive amounts of info about undead in the realms? Subject has me intrigued :OStart with the 2e sourcebook LORDS OF DARKNESS (a title that's been re-used in later editions). It's all about...undead in the Realms. ;}
PastorGall @PastorGall Sep 27
@TheEdVerse Is there a number script for elvish?Hi! Yes, there have been several down the ages. Most popular today: base 10 counting; draw a circle, lines radiating outwards from it are the tens, lines running only into the interior are the ones, and lines crossing from outer to outer right across the circle denote hundreds. These lines are always drawn so that none of them touch (aside from intersecting with the circle itself). [So a capital "Q" to us, is "ten" in this notation. Twelve would be a capital Q with two side by side interior "tails"...and so on.]
Regina Roszelle (Suspicious) @SuspiciousReggi Sep 29th
questions from my friend.Hi!
I'm a chinese fan of the Realms. As is known to all, the official idea of PRChina is atheism. Thus, many, if not all, of us chinese fans don't really understand the difference between "believe", "worship" and "faith". If the "atheist" will be judged as the Faithless, so as an "atheist" I do worry about my (character's) soul.
My first question is, what's "the difference between faith and belief"?
And there are a series of scenarios below, will this be judged as "worship" a god?
1) Someone joined a celebration of a holiday of a god he doesn't care.
2) Someone don't like Tempus but being a great general, or someone never praise Mystra but being a powerful spellcaster.
3) Someone donate a few coins to a temple of Tyr, but he don't like Tyr's teaching
4) Someone respect the teaching of a god, but will not entrust his life and soul to the god.
coolguy @coolguy73360922 Sep 30th
The “resort fee” fiasco has even caught on to the budget hotels ie: Super 8 on the strip and Travelodge by Circus Circus charge an extra fee. Resort fees are here to say and keep climbing every year. Eventually it will catch up to Las Vegas with many states having casinos and now sports betting. The resort fees are mandatory and taxable. When you book a room in Las Vegas, the room rate you see does not include the resort fee. So when you’re trying to determine the total cost of the room for your Las Vegas vacation you’ll need to take the resort fee into account in order to know what your daily room rate actually is. The amount of a resort fee is the same if you book directly with the hotel, or through a discount travel site. Below is a list of hotel resort fees and what it includes. In addition, there is a 12.5 percent tax on the fees. For your convenience, we also include a list of hotels that do not charge resort fees. What Does a Resort Fee Cover, Exactly? The hotel resort fee covers whatever the hotel wants it to cover. In some hotels, the resort fee gives you gym or pool access. In others, it allows you to use the in-room safe or the coffee maker. Some hotels state that their resort fees cover the cost of local calls, pool towels, minibar items, wireless ... Other Fees at Excalibur Hotel Casino. Unless otherwise stated, these fees are not mandatory. They only apply if guests choose to use these services. The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out. Breakfast fee: between $18.99 and $18.99 per person (approximately) A resort fee is a daily charge that is added to your hotel bill and is collected directly by the hotel when you check out. When you make and pay for a reservation online or on the phone the resort fee is not part of the total hotel bill quoted. Hey tjp- the resort fee is $15 per night per room plus taxes, not per person. I have never known Excalibur to waive the resort fee, I have only seen Tropicana and Treasure Island waive their resort fees. The plus is that the resort fee covers free internet in the room, at any non-resort fee property you will pay $14 per device for internet. Hey tjp- the resort fee is $15 per night per room plus taxes, not per person. I have never known Excalibur to waive the resort fee, I have only seen Tropicana and Treasure Island waive their resort fees. The plus is that the resort fee covers free internet in the room, at any non-resort fee property you will pay $14 per device for internet. Excalibur Hotels’ Resort Fee. The resort fee here is $32.48 (don’t ask me how they came up with that), and supposedly covers wired high-speed internet access in your room, incoming faxes, a daily newspaper (50 cent value), free phone calls, and access to the fitness center. Keep in mind, the resort fee is added to your hotel bill daily.
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