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Wandering_mage
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Posted - 12 Jul 2006 :  17:24:30  Show Profile  Visit Wandering_mage's Homepage Send Wandering_mage a Private Message  Reply with Quote  Delete Topic
I would like to know more about the Mistmaster and who he actually is after reading the North 2nd edition sourcebook. The role he played in the fall of Hellgate Keep was pretty significant so I am amazed that he gets so small an entry in the North sourcebook. Or is Ed of the Greenwood being extremely mysterious?

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ericlboyd
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Posted - 12 Jul 2006 :  18:03:49  Show Profile  Visit ericlboyd's Homepage Send ericlboyd a Private Message  Reply with Quote
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/mc/mc20010829f

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Kuje
Great Reader

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Posted - 12 Jul 2006 :  18:12:59  Show Profile Send Kuje a Private Message  Reply with Quote
See also:

Waterdeep and the North
Savage Frontier
Cloak & Dagger in the Moonstars entry
And just to repeat, The North.

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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Wandering_mage
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Posted - 12 Jul 2006 :  20:58:42  Show Profile  Visit Wandering_mage's Homepage Send Wandering_mage a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Well.....damn. Master FR designer Boyd, your have my thanks. Wow that was more than I was expecting. Kuje, as always you are quick with the info and thanks to you many people are well informed here at Candlekeep.

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Wandering_mage
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Posted - 12 Jul 2006 :  21:05:37  Show Profile  Visit Wandering_mage's Homepage Send Wandering_mage a Private Message  Reply with Quote
One last thing, how do you better navigate through the novel section at WotC? I keep finding awesome links to info critical to better lore knowledge but lack the knowledge to navigate to more info in the novel section.

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Kuje
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Posted - 12 Jul 2006 :  21:24:39  Show Profile Send Kuje a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Wandering_mage

Well.....damn. Master FR designer Boyd, your have my thanks. Wow that was more than I was expecting. Kuje, as always you are quick with the info and thanks to you many people are well informed here at Candlekeep.



No problem and the WOTC web site is just horrible to navigate through. :) I wish they'd have a better search feature.

For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

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Faraer
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Posted - 12 Jul 2006 :  22:15:04  Show Profile  Visit Faraer's Homepage Send Faraer a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Google searches including the term 'site:wizards.com' work pretty well.

Do grab any information you want to preserve, as old pages do vanish seemingly at random.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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Posted - 12 Jul 2006 :  22:30:01  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Faraer

Google searches including the term 'site:wizards.com' work pretty well.

Do grab any information you want to preserve, as old pages do vanish seemingly at random.



I'll echo this last point. There's a couple of items I know of that used to be on the Wizards site, but aren't anymore... Myself, whenever they have something interesting, I immediately copy it to a new Word document.

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Wandering_mage
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Posted - 13 Jul 2006 :  13:15:21  Show Profile  Visit Wandering_mage's Homepage Send Wandering_mage a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I've taken to doing that too!

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The Sage
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Posted - 13 Jul 2006 :  13:58:45  Show Profile Send The Sage a Private Message  Reply with Quote
It's an important habit to maintain... especially when some of the more lore-filled web material temporarily disappears and you suddenly find yourself needing it for a campaign or for reference purposes.

I've transferred most of my old Word documents with WotC FR content into PDFs, simply because the SEARCH function in Adobe Reader makes finding *that particular* reference easier than the more generalised search function in Word.

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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 13 Jul 2006 :  17:23:17  Show Profile Send Wooly Rupert a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by The Sage

I've transferred most of my old Word documents with WotC FR content into PDFs, simply because the SEARCH function in Adobe Reader makes finding *that particular* reference easier than the more generalised search function in Word.




That's actually not a bad idea... But I've got a lot of Word docs, so that would take a while to do that to them all!

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Kajehase
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Posted - 13 Jul 2006 :  17:43:41  Show Profile Send Kajehase a Private Message  Reply with Quote
You could make them one big pdf

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Dhomal
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Posted - 13 Jul 2006 :  18:36:45  Show Profile Send Dhomal a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Hello-

I'm not nearly as tech-savvy as I would like to be on such matters. However - I just print everything out. :) That way - I can pull pages that are of interest/use and take them with me if needed. It Does take up some space - and Whoa - the ink and paper I went through when catching up last fall! LOL But - its all good. Oh - and Garage Sales are your Friend when it comes to purchasing binders! I've probably got 5-10 more 4"+ D-ring binders that I paid no more than a buck each for, as well as numerous smaller ones. The big ones go for like 15-25 a pop retail new!

Dhomal

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Jorkens
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Posted - 13 Jul 2006 :  18:41:46  Show Profile Send Jorkens a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Just be glad you don't own the Dragon magazine archives and hate reading on the computer. I think its about ten binders now and I am still finding new things. I haven't even started on snarfquest. With Ed's notes now filling four or five binders I can soon get a separate bookshelf just for (A)D&D binders
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Dhomal
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Posted - 13 Jul 2006 :  19:16:39  Show Profile Send Dhomal a Private Message  Reply with Quote
Hello-

I suppose so, Jorkens - I suppose so.

However - YOU have the advantage in some ways - I dont have the Dragon archive on CD-ROM - I just have the magazines. And *Almost* all of them. I think I'm missing a dozen issues or so - and if I remember correctly - I'm 'complete' from around issue 30 on or so. Yeah - that takes up an entire Bookcase, along with the Dungeon magazines..... So - I'd dearly like to have the ability to print-out stuff from the magazines to keep handy. But I could not justify spending the money - when I probably had everything in them anyway. I may yet pick it up - but no time soon I'm afraid.

Dhomal

I am collecting the D&D Minis. I would be more than willing to trade with people. You can send me a PM here with your email listed - and I can send you my minis list. Thanks!

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Jorkens
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Note from the wife; Jorkens has been carried weeping and green with envy in to an other room. You are hereby free to continue the subject as I try to hinder him in starting to print out the art from the Dragon magazines to make them more like the originals.
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Wandering_mage
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Posted - 13 Jul 2006 :  22:52:46  Show Profile  Visit Wandering_mage's Homepage Send Wandering_mage a Private Message  Reply with Quote
I refuse to buy Dragon magazines. I borrow them for free at my local library. Plus it seems like I am the only person that reads them. Why is that? Heck, I don't mind. I have free reign over those magazines!

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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High

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Posted - 14 Jul 2006 :  01:28:20  Show Profile Send The Sage a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert

quote:
Originally posted by The Sage

I've transferred most of my old Word documents with WotC FR content into PDFs, simply because the SEARCH function in Adobe Reader makes finding *that particular* reference easier than the more generalised search function in Word.




That's actually not a bad idea... But I've got a lot of Word docs, so that would take a while to do that to them all!

Indeed.

It's taken me nearly a year just to convert the majority of my smaller web content files into PDF. I still haven't converted any of the larger files yet, like those containing the WotN articles and Ed's Realmslore.

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Wooly Rupert
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I've got most of the files on my work machine, on the external hard drive... Maybe that'll be my next lunchtime project: flipping Word docs to pdf. And if I ever get done with the documentation I need to do, the pushing out of new machines, the updating of my inventory, and the other crap that keeps me busy, I could work on it in the 2.7 spare moments I get each day...

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