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You’ve conquered the world! Tell us, how did you do it, and what do you plan to do now?

How well do you know your FR Authors? Every Monday you can expect an update to the author roundtable, featuring many of our best Forgotten Realms authors’ answers to the world’s most important questions, right here on this blog. Submissions for new questions welcome through private message. 

READER: How would you conquer the world, and what would you do once you had?

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): DNA-specific flesh-dissolving chemicals in water supplies, targeting only specific bad guys. The survivors are good folks who don’t need conquering. Time to go green, live simply, and design a lot more games for families to play together in the new and happier tomorrow.

Paul S. Kemp

What do you know far too much about?

How well do you know your FR Authors? Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, you can expect an update to the author roundtable, featuring many of our best Forgotten Realms authors’ answers to the world’s most important questions, right here on this blog. Submissions for new questions welcome through private message. 

Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): Codpieces. I wrote an article entitled “The Rise of the Codpiece: A Short History” for Renaissance Magazine.

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): How to survive on the sort of money writers and librarians make. Feel free to browse my ever-growing collection of cat food recipes . . .

Mark Sehestedt (author of The Fall of Highwatch): Mr. T.

Richard Lee Byers (author

Hero or Villain?

How well do you know your FR Authors? Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, you can expect an update to the author roundtable, featuring many of our best Forgotten Realms authors’ answers to the world’s most important questions, right here on this blog. Submissions for new questions welcome through private message. 

Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): A hero who knows that heroics and villainy are often a matter of perspective and degree.

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): You mean, which do I prefer to be? The hero. Villains get the spoils and the good lines and to sleep with racy-looking companions, but they also tend to end up sleeping with the fishes . . . and in the meantime, I have to sleep with myself.

Erin Evans (author of The

What unexpected thing are you really good at?

How well do you know your FR Authors? Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, you can expect an update to the author roundtable, featuring many of our best Forgotten Realms authors’ answers to the world’s most important questions, right here on this blog. Submissions for new questions welcome through private message. 

Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): Baking pies. That’s not exactly an exotic skill, but I suppose it qualifies as “unexpected.”

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): Remembering my way around, in cities I haven’t been to for forty years. Though the restaurants and cool old stores—especially bookstores—I go seeking have this depressing habit of shutting down, in the years I’ve been

What will you do when the zombie apocalypse comes?

How well do you know your FR Authors? Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, you can expect an update to the author roundtable, featuring many of our best Forgotten Realms authors’ answers to the world’s most important questions, right here on this blog. Submissions for new questions welcome through private message. 

Elaine Cunningham (co-author of The City of Splendors): Wear lots of gray-green makeup, spritz on the L’Air du Corpse, and try to blend in. And get a crossbow, just in case. 

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): Go up to my cottage in the wilderness and catch up on my reading. After all, that’s where my axe and chainsaw are, and various ready firepits, and the marshmallows for roasting. Not to mention hungry