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TBeholder
Great Reader
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 Posted - 25 Aug 2025 : 19:22:55
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Originally posted by questing gm
On dualism in AD&D 2nd edition
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1953887003264921811
Aug 9, 2025
@AstralMangudai
Hey @TheEdVerse how does dualism work in aD&D 2e mechanics? We know elves are barred from most of specialist wizard classes. Is dualism a kit or W/W multiclass or a special class like Alunakkar, Dijakkar, Encikkar, Nelluonkkar? Would they need requirements of both base classes?
@TheEdVerse
As a never-TSR-staffer, I can't give you any "official" rules answers, but I did design a lot of 2e via Realms products, and I handle it thus: most players ran generalist all-in wizards.
Anyone can dual class, but yes, must meet requirements of both base classes. #realmslore
Dual classes
So, any bets?
- The elven dualist was a curious experiment, but did not go anywhere and was quite forgettable.
- Alas, "memoria fractalia est".
- These answers are typed and sometimes "helpfully" given by a press-secretary who knows FR as deep as the blurbs and "cannot into" search engines. |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1707 Posts |
Posted - 29 Aug 2025 : 11:08:20
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On order of clerics or a group that would respond to disasters like the salvation army or red cross
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1959663308874658167
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1962627743301931478
Aug 25, 2025
@armrdporcupine
@TheEdVerse sorry to bother you, however since you are the learned wizard perhaps you know, in the d&d universe is there an order of clerics or a group that would respond to disasters like the salvation army or red cross would do in our world?
@TheEdVerse
In the Realms, temples of every faith will respond with aid to local disasters.
Priests of Tempus follow armies on the march to tend wounded combatants and harmed civilians.
The priests of Ilmater rush everywhere, a la the Red Cross, to deliver humanitarian aid.
@armrdporcupine
How well do you think Ilmater would work with this cleric domain?
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@TheEdVerse
Very well. :}
As long as the feast and abundant food is for other people, not the cleric themselves (Ilmater embraces personal suffering).
-Edited on 9/9/2025 to add new tweets |
Edited by - questing gm on 09 Sep 2025 10:55:43 |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1707 Posts |
Posted - 29 Aug 2025 : 11:30:03
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On Lyonsbane Keep's location
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1959788457036849333
Aug 25, 2025
@RadicalRollo
Hi @TheEdVerse, do you know roughly where Lyonsbane Keep, the long since abandoned keep where Kelemvor's clan once resided, is located? I've found forums asking about it since 2004, but no one's ever gotten an answer. Thanks in advance!
@TheEdVerse
Yes. It stood in westernmost Chessenta, due south of the southern end of the Akanapeaks, in a verdant valley within sight of the river that drains from them into the Akanamere.
Today, Lyonsbane Keep no longer exists, as it was shattered in warfare and rebuilt several times, but ultimately its stones were “robbed” from its site to make many new stone buildings.
The trouble is that the map of Chessenta changed constantly throughout the 1200s and 1300s DR, as petty baronies and self-styled dukedoms rose and fell. |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1707 Posts |
Posted - 09 Sep 2025 : 11:04:13
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On traveling by land from Daggerford to Waterdeep during the month of Hammer
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1964152987430883730
Sep 6, 2025
@rwgs76
Dear @TheEdVerse, given the harsh Winters in the Sword Coast, would it be possible to travel by land from Daggerford to Waterdeep during the month of Hammer? Is the Trade Way open during Hammer, or the snow prevents any travel between them? Thanks in advance.
@TheEdVerse
In most winters, large armed parties (because of wolves) can almost always make this trip trudging on snowshoes. What can't happen is caravan travel: i.e. bringing lots of stuff. Bringing personal gear is done by each person towing the equivalent of a loaded toboggan. |
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questing gm
Master of Realmslore
Malaysia
1707 Posts |
Posted - 09 Sep 2025 : 11:23:54
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On Manshoon as Chosen of Mystra
https://x.com/TheEdVerse/status/1964476466168811596
Sep 7, 2025
@DecryptedTech
@TheEdVerse Something I have always wondered. How does Manshoon (and his seemingly endless supply of clones) remain a chosen of Mystra? How does each clone keep that, especially the one that became a Vampire?
@TheEdVerse
He's not a Chosen. He rejected Mystra (see the relevant scenes in my Sage of Shadowdale trilogy). He is an (unwitting and unwilling) Weave anchor. |
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