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From:     Loki <george.williams.iv@?????.com>
Date:     Thu, 17 May 2007 09:29:56 -0500
Subject:  Re: New campaign Brainstorming
Love this! Its those bits of flavor that will help. I have not played in the
Realms in over 12 years, and I did not do so very much even then. Great
setting, just nevere really happened.

Adam, your idea has sparked some concepts for me as well, nicely done. I'll
have a reworking of it tossed back at y'all soon.

Keep 'em coming, please!
-Loki

On 5/17/07, Asa Benjamin Winkler <abwinkler@???????????????.com> wrote:
>
> On May 15, 2007, at 3:52 PM, Loki wrote:
>
> >
> > Anyone having additional source material or ideas for either Dragon
> > Rock or
> > the Tears please chime in.
>
>
> This is perhaps irrelevant, but is a little thing I did in a short
> Realmspace-based Spelljammer campaign I did -
>
> The Realms-based groundlings made it out into Realmspace, and were
> annoyed to discover that:
>
> 1.  The Red Wizards of Thay were really the only (non-Oriental)
> Realms power with any organized presence in space;
> 2.  As a result, everyone in space calls the planet "Thay", after
> what is obviously its most important nation.
>
> Result:  all PC mages from Toril were innocently asked if they were a
> Red Wizard;  people in space with an interest in politics or
> geography would inquire politely which zulkirs ruled Waterdeep and
> Cormyr, etc.
>
> The Red Wizards didn't really rule the whole world to any greater
> extent than is presented in the FR materials;  it was just a
> illustration of the power of names and perceptions.
>
> An idle piece of flavor, anyway.
>
> - Benjamin Winkler
>
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SubjectFromDate (UTC)
New campaign Brainstorming    Loki    15 May 2007 19:52:27
Re: New campaign Brainstorming    gaijin99@??????????.net    17 May 2007 00:13:40
Re: New campaign Brainstorming    Loki    17 May 2007 02:22:53
Re: New campaign Brainstorming    Adam Miller    17 May 2007 11:19:47
Re: New campaign Brainstorming    Asa Benjamin Winkler    17 May 2007 13:02:20
Re: New campaign Brainstorming    Loki    17 May 2007 14:29:56
Re: New campaign Brainstorming    Adam Miller    17 May 2007 16:26:14
Re: New campaign Brainstorming    Thatotherguy    02 Jun 2007 15:13:08

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