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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by SiliconMagician[/i] [br]Dear Mr. Greenwood, I am writing this open letter as I was told that this was the place most likely for you to read it. I just want to take a moment and thank you for your decades of hard work creating and maintaining the forgotten realms. I was 12 years old in 1988 when I found your greybox set on the shelf of a tiny hobby store near where I lived. I was just a quiet kid with a rough home life. I had some familiarity with D&D when my aunt gave me the starting D&D redbox set a few years earlier and mostly played solo adventures by myself using random generation tables. When I found your boxed set and opened it for the first time, my world changed. I was an instant fan of the realms and started eating novels and sourcebooks wherever I could find them. Then the old SSI video games, etc. Your realms has never been far away and was where I could escape when life became too difficult. A little over a year ago I was cleaning out some old items and came across all that ancient stuff in a box and started playing again regularly with some of my oldest friends. Old school 2e. We meet ruglarly online now and I am still everyone's favorite DM. We are digital now but all those relics are now on my shelf where they belong. I am 49 now and the realms are still a big part of my life. Whether it was Tabletop, or video games or just reading novels.. Your world has shaped my childhood/teen years and now shapes my middle age. Thank you Ed, for bringing me into your world. PT [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.