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<blockquote data-quote="GMforPowergamers" data-source="post: 7662178" data-attributes="member: 67338"><p>well first here is the pub info:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>that comes from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgotten_Realms" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgotten_Realms</a></p><p></p><p>the 'inflating' comes because he wants to count the very first fantasy story he ever thought up as the 'birth date' of the setting, even though as any good writer will tell you nailing down themes and idea's to one day's thoughts are hard enough if you do it right away, doing it 30 or 40 years later is almost impossible. </p><p></p><p>I don't doubt that he has spent years (like most of us here) writing and rewriting his fantasy worlds, I doubt he could put a number on it... and in the past he had put the age of 7 to it. However that would make this 48 years, and gen con 50th... </p><p></p><p>he wants to sell a book, and 50 years sounds good, better then 28, or 32, or 48 even... so now he remembers it being 5. or 6 when he wrote the story...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>we don't count things by when writers got ideas or even when writers wrote a story but publication date. It allows a comparison of writers "This writer was published in the 40's, that one the 50's gee I wonder if the one from the 50's was influenced by the one in the 40s? No, they both wrote about the same time, ok" is fine, but you don't claim them both as the same anniversary. </p><p></p><p>The only thing that sets Ed apart from the creaters of Spell Jammer, Birthright, Darksun, and Ebberon, is his own SELF publicity... and I find it at least a little dishonest that someone can come and look at this thread and think the realms pre date grey hawk...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GMforPowergamers, post: 7662178, member: 67338"] well first here is the pub info: that comes from [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgotten_Realms[/url] the 'inflating' comes because he wants to count the very first fantasy story he ever thought up as the 'birth date' of the setting, even though as any good writer will tell you nailing down themes and idea's to one day's thoughts are hard enough if you do it right away, doing it 30 or 40 years later is almost impossible. I don't doubt that he has spent years (like most of us here) writing and rewriting his fantasy worlds, I doubt he could put a number on it... and in the past he had put the age of 7 to it. However that would make this 48 years, and gen con 50th... he wants to sell a book, and 50 years sounds good, better then 28, or 32, or 48 even... so now he remembers it being 5. or 6 when he wrote the story... we don't count things by when writers got ideas or even when writers wrote a story but publication date. It allows a comparison of writers "This writer was published in the 40's, that one the 50's gee I wonder if the one from the 50's was influenced by the one in the 40s? No, they both wrote about the same time, ok" is fine, but you don't claim them both as the same anniversary. The only thing that sets Ed apart from the creaters of Spell Jammer, Birthright, Darksun, and Ebberon, is his own SELF publicity... and I find it at least a little dishonest that someone can come and look at this thread and think the realms pre date grey hawk... [/QUOTE]
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