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MaxKaladin
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 Posted - 06 Feb 2007 : 17:59:26
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Perhaps this is the wrong place to put this and perhaps this has been brought up many times before. If so, I am sorry and ask everyone to forgive me. If not, well, here goes:
I was surfing last night looking for realms stuff and a google search turned up a website about someone who toured TSR in 1989. To make a long story short, the site includes a picture of the person in question being shown the original Realms map by Jeff Grubb. The angle is wrong and the picture too small to get any useful information but I thought people here might be interested in seeing the picture anyway. It's the second one down on the link below.
http://anthonylarme.tripod.com/dnd/dndjeffgrubb.html
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 06 Feb 2007 : 18:04:22
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| If only we could get a closer look! |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 06 Feb 2007 : 18:48:48
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The colored-with-marker, taped-together map is now in the keeping of Julia Martin, and was displayed at Ed's roast at GenCon two years ago. It's a TSR creation (they taped together Ed's 8.5" x 11" b&w photocopied pages, 55 or 56 of them, as I recall).
Sets of those photocopies have been given out to charity donors or convention prize winners at least three times over the years, as have at least two sets of Ed's 30-odd 27" x 35" Waterdeep building-by-building maps, AND two sets of his original maps of "here, there, and everywhere." Ed is a SUPERB freehand mapper; when he turned over his maps to TSR, they advanced the standards of the field (now, of course, there are CAD programs, etc.).
love to all,
THO |
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
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Posted - 06 Feb 2007 : 19:30:06
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| I didn't read the origins of the pics, but I could tell they had to be older since Jeff looks much younger than how I remember him, and that meeting was in 2000 (Jeff, if you read this please please please take no offense...and if you do, accept my apology... ~the long haired German[well, not so long haired anymore but working on it]) |
Mace's not so gentle gamer's journal My rants were harmless compared to this, beware! |
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WalkerNinja
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 06 Feb 2007 : 19:57:32
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| Wow, those look fantastic! I wonder how much might one have to donate to charity to obtain a copy... |
*** A Forgotten Realms Addict since 1990 ***
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MaxKaladin
Seeker
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Posted - 06 Feb 2007 : 23:27:01
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Originally posted by Mace Hammerhand
I didn't read the origins of the pics, but I could tell they had to be older since Jeff looks much younger than how I remember him, and that meeting was in 2000 (Jeff, if you read this please please please take no offense...and if you do, accept my apology... ~the long haired German[well, not so long haired anymore but working on it])
According to those pages, the pictures date from 1989.
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Mace Hammerhand
Great Reader
Germany
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Posted - 06 Feb 2007 : 23:55:41
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| Yea, I read that...guess I should have added "until after I saw the pics" before the first comma... |
Mace's not so gentle gamer's journal My rants were harmless compared to this, beware! |
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Dhomal
Senior Scribe
USA
565 Posts |
Posted - 07 Feb 2007 : 05:08:38
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Wow - they actually let copies of that go out to some lucky epople?
I wonder - since this year is the 20th Anniv. of the Printed Realms, and apparently the 40th Anniv. of Ed's beginnings of the Realms - if they would consider having some sort of way to get ahold of these via a contest or some such...
Dhomal |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
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Posted - 07 Feb 2007 : 07:41:28
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Originally posted by Dhomal
Hello-
Wow - they actually let copies of that go out to some lucky epople?
I wonder - since this year is the 20th Anniv. of the Printed Realms, and apparently the 40th Anniv. of Ed's beginnings of the Realms - if they would consider having some sort of way to get ahold of these via a contest or some such...
Dhomal
Well, with all the map changes done with this edition I would doubt it. That being said, I would love to get my hands on a copy of this. Along with the thousand page book "These were my Realms" by Ed Greenwood of course.
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Donager
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 07 Feb 2007 : 10:35:25
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| I found it amusing that he felt it neccessary to mention that jeff Grubs cubicle had a computer in it. Amazing how times have changed. Now we would find it neccessary to mention if it did NOT have a computer. |
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