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Post by Beowuuf on Feb 15, 2011 19:01:27 GMT -5
Darksword is separate, I haven't read it yet but given the other Weis/hickman collaborations like the deathgate cycle and the rose & the prophet it should be good
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Post by dharn on Feb 21, 2011 9:40:17 GMT -5
Darksword is a separate setting which was the first fantasy book that I read (or at least tried, it was my brother's and I was very little at the time). It was really cool for me at the time, a world where the instead of science, it magic everywhere. Every one had magic to some degree, animals, inanimate objects and so on. It felt really cool...
I forgot, the fourth book of the series, Darksword Adventure was a role playing system book complete with a somewhat different rolling system (not a dice but using hands). It was my first D&D system though again, I was just a little boy at the time.
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Post by wildhare on Feb 21, 2011 10:06:10 GMT -5
Ed Greenwood is from Richmond Hill, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto and when I lived and worked in a book store in Thornhill (another suburb of Toronto) 12 years or so ago, I had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Greenwood, who informed one of my not so tactfull coworkers that he did not strike it rich with the forgotten realms setting, as he sold the whole thing (rights and all) for one flat rate, which may have seemed like a nice chunk of change back in 84' but was without a doubt (considering how much TSR/Wizards of the coast has gotten out of it) a bad business decision. Still he did not seem too bitter about it, as now everyone around the world gets to play in a campaign setting of his devising, which you must admit is very cool...
P.S. I agree with Al... Mystara kicks axe and of course Magnamund my first true love... hmmm any votes for Titan? the FF world.
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Post by Al on Feb 23, 2011 15:45:01 GMT -5
I always enjoyed playing FF, but they never really let you explore it very well - not as well as Magnamund in the LW adventures at any rate. There was the world book, which I vaguely recall being interesting, but I have not seen that in decades.
I always thought it was a shame they got rid of Mystara - if I was to start up a D&D campaign, I would place it there, it was a really great setting with everything one needed or could want in a fantasy world.
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