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<blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 6500363" data-attributes="member: 158">I don't know if they were published, but they were written, by Ed, in 1967 - from what's been written before in Dragon Magazine, Ed has the original copy, and Zeb Cook from TSR confirmed it. I haven't gone back myself to Ed's hometown to corroborate with friends and family, but I doubt Ed nor TSR staff of the time would have any reason to lie. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As for Ed's comments on incorporating other materials into the Realms, I hate to disagree with one of The Great Ones, but I can't help it. Too much &quot;muddying the waters&quot; turns the Realms into the same kind of unappealing nondescript hodge-podge that Nerath was to me. I gave up white-label peanut butter for Jif and Skippy when I was able to afford it later in life, and I don't like white-label RPG settings, either. I'll take Eberron's 1930s pulp themes, or Golarion's Death of Prophecy, or Dark Sun's tenuous holding on to the shreds of goodness in a land ravaged by selfishness, in favor over &quot;lets get the shoehorn, there's still some room left in the toe...&quot; Not that he said that, but it's the natural conclusion to &quot;everything's in the Realms!&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Henry, post: 6500363, member: 158"] I don't know if they were published, but they were written, by Ed, in 1967 - from what's been written before in Dragon Magazine, Ed has the original copy, and Zeb Cook from TSR confirmed it. I haven't gone back myself to Ed's hometown to corroborate with friends and family, but I doubt Ed nor TSR staff of the time would have any reason to lie. :) As for Ed's comments on incorporating other materials into the Realms, I hate to disagree with one of The Great Ones, but I can't help it. Too much "muddying the waters" turns the Realms into the same kind of unappealing nondescript hodge-podge that Nerath was to me. I gave up white-label peanut butter for Jif and Skippy when I was able to afford it later in life, and I don't like white-label RPG settings, either. I'll take Eberron's 1930s pulp themes, or Golarion's Death of Prophecy, or Dark Sun's tenuous holding on to the shreds of goodness in a land ravaged by selfishness, in favor over "lets get the shoehorn, there's still some room left in the toe..." Not that he said that, but it's the natural conclusion to "everything's in the Realms!" [/QUOTE]

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