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“What was your first car?” (Question by Lord Toast)

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READER: What was your first car?

Elaine Cunningham (co-author of The City of Splendors): A second-hand VW Beetle.  Red.  I wanted to paint lady-bug spots and eyes on it, but cooler heads prevailed. (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): A Mustang. Oh, I could tell stories . . . but perhaps I’ll leave most of those tellings to my wife. Especially the bucket seat story.

Paul S. Kemp (author of Shadowrealm): White

You just published your first book! Yay! What was it and what did you do to celebrate?

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READER: What do you do to celebrate an achievement?

Elaine Cunningham (co-author of The City of Splendors): Elfshadow, way back in 1991. Sadly, I don’t remember what form the celebration took.  Dinosaur racing was probably involved. (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): My first book was a full-length novel, Fool’s Master, published when I was nine. It’s bad, but fun, and I celebrated

Game session 9: "If you go down to the woods today...."

As the last of the icy cocoon fell away the air was split with a bone chilling roar from the north-west, none looked more shocked than Thoradin as a supressed memory resurfaced of a leering hobgoblin face mounted on dragonback, laughing as his eladrin mentor lay dying.

With the weather and the forest returning to normal our intrepid band set off back to Loudwater to resupply and recover. Unfortunately, they fey-inhabited forest had other ideas and it was long before they ran afoul of the creatures within.



A group of fey panthers and an elven archer ambushed they party, though the tables were turned when the mighty Goliath charged the archer, first smashing him into the air, and before he could recover hammering him to the ground. Satisfied

What is your favorite D&D magic item?

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READER: What’s your all-time favorite D&D magic item?

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): Leaving aside all the nasty ones I’ve designed, it has to be the Wand of Wonder, because I’ve had so much DMing fun with it, and can always add spectacular new powers “on the fly” to make players laugh with poetic justice, high camp, and just plain gonzo zaniness.

Paul S. Kemp (author of Shadowrealm): Scintillating Robe, because it makes my character

What is your favorite drink?

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READER: What’s your favorite drink?

Elaine Cunningham (co-author of The City of Splendors): A really good cup of tea. (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): The water from a particular spring in the not-very-spoiled Ontario northern wilderness. If you mean alcohol, it’s either the porter that Black Oak Brewery makes (a micro-brewery in Oakville, Ontario, co-founded by one of the original Realms players, Ken Woods, who portrayed Nain Keenwhistler

Game Session 8: "....but the fire is so delightful"

The heroes entered the Warlock's tower to find the contents covered in a thirty year layer of frost. A huge banquet was laid out in the dining room and Li was quite amused by the tinkling noises the frosted fruit made when she dropped them to the floor.

Garusk was poking the frozen blue flames in the corner fireplace when it spat out a pair of creatures, apparently made of ice themselves, which proceeded to attack the party. Though the heroes were quickly able to deal with them, they discovered more had appeared from other frozen fireplaces within the surrounding rooms, and some were more difficult to dispatch.

Once they had dealt with the icy intruders, the heroes made their way upstairs to be confronted by yet more varied forms of the ice

“What is your day job?” (Question by Lord Toast)

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READER: What is your day job?

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): I’m “retired” from full-time (library) work, and am now a part-time circulation clerk in a public library. I also volunteer as the chair of my home public library board, 40 miles away from the library system I work in (with two other library systems in between). However, my real “day job” is exploring the Realms and writing reams and reams of Realmslore for

What font do you just hate?

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READER: Which font is hardest on your eyes?

Elaine Cunningham (co-author of The City of Splendors): Sorry, but I just can’t get worked up about fonts. Font SIZE, on the other hand, is an issue. I was looking forward to reading Marcy Rockwell’s debut novel, Legacy of Wolves, but had to quit after a few pages because the teensy type caused too much eyestrain. Big disappointment. Yet another reason for WotC to make the backlist available as e-books: the eyesight -challenged

“Tell us about a guilty pleasure.” (Question by Lord Toast)

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READER: What are your guilty pleasures?

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): I’m diabetic, so anything sweet or “rich” (fatty, like most cheeses and sauces) is now a guilty pleasure. When I was seven, sneaking any of my father’s “that’s a book for grownups, son” tomes to read was my chief guilty pleasure. They were mostly cheesy, so my pleasures haven’t actually changed much.

Paul S. Kemp (author of Shadowrealm