The New D&D Adventure Is - Tomb of Annihilation!

Lorathorn · Jun 5, 2017

I imagine that the mystic and artificer will NOT be in the Xanathar Guide, as they are still technically being refined.

Ilbranteloth · Jun 5, 2017

dropbear8mybaby said:
So by 1979 he'd been "writing about it for 20 years or so", even though he was born in 1959.

Actually, I think he was referring to the contract that they wrote when TSR bought the rights in 1987. If my recollection is correct, Ed said his first Realms story (about Mirt) was written c1969. So when they bought the rights in 1987 it had been "about 20 years or so." He had been publishing articles in Dragon magazine by that time for "about 10 years or so."

Jester David · Jun 5, 2017

dropbear8mybaby said:
So by 1979 he'd been "writing about it for 20 years or so", even though he was born in 1959.

Well... 10 years or so. He started writing for the Realms in 1967. And converted it to D&D in '75.

dropbear8mybaby said:
Aren't stackable goblins a thing from Diablo 3?

I recall them from Diablo 2.

dropbear8mybaby · Jun 5, 2017

Jester David said:
Well... 10 years or so. He started writing for the Realms in 1967. And converted it to D&D in '75.

So he started "writing for the Realms" when he was 8 years old?

I never knew Ed was a child prodigy.

Jester David · Jun 5, 2017

dropbear8mybaby said:
So he started "writing for the Realms" when he was 8 years old?

I never knew Ed was a child prodigy.

Yes he did start telling Realms stories when he was eight.
No, that doesn't make him a prodigy. Just a storyteller / creative. There are published authors as young as 12.

jgsugden · Jun 5, 2017

Lorathorn said:
I imagine that the mystic and artificer will NOT be in the Xanathar Guide, as they are still technically being refined.

Ghey've confirmed on Twitter that those classes will be in a future book or product, but will not be in this year's releases.

dropbear8mybaby · Jun 5, 2017

Jester David said:
Yes he did start telling Realms stories when he was eight.
No, that doesn't make him a prodigy. Just a storyteller / creative. There are published authors as young as 12.

I have a simpler explanation that hews closer to the truth based on the evidence.

Jester David · Jun 5, 2017

dropbear8mybaby said:
I have a simpler explanation that hews closer to the truth based on the evidence.

Which is?
That it sprang fully formed from his head in 1979 when, at age 20, he published his first article in Dragon?

darjr · Jun 5, 2017

Jester David said:
Well... 10 years or so. He started writing for the Realms in 1967. And converted it to D&D in '75.

I recall them from Diablo 2.

But weren't they in D&D before that?

Jester David · Jun 5, 2017

darjr said:
But weren't they in D&D before that?

Possibly.
They might be drawing from similar myth/ imagery. The idea of a totem that breaks apart into smaller dudes could come to people independently

The New D&D Adventure Is - Tomb of Annihilation!

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