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SiliconMagician
Acolyte
USA
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 Posted - 06 Nov 2025 : 20:10:09
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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
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An Open Letter to Ed Greenwood
