[FR]What the heck happened in Tilverton?

[Someguy]

Tasted like...


Evil pie...

 

[Paladin]

To narrow it down a little, Tilverton is destroyed toward the end of The Siege. It's a pretty spectacular end too.

 

[Enforcer]

To narrow it down a little, Tilverton is destroyed toward the end of The Siege. It's a pretty spectacular end too.

I read the first book, and as soon as I finish my second reading of the Wheel of Time books, I'm giving the second one a go. Hopefully the destruction will be cool.

What makes me laugh, however, is that according to the Lords of Darkness sourcebook, Melegaunt never had a great aptitude for the arcane arts, despite being listed as a Div16/Sha4...that just doesn't jibe.

 

[Eye Tyrant]

Yeah, Tilverton got toasted in The Siege...

 

[Vuron]

Troy Denning is a hack and they let this guy guide alot of the timeline of the realms? Jeez this desire to shakeup the realms has pretty much made anyone who like realms DR1356 pretty much up a creek without the proverbial paddle.

 

[Ciaran]

Troy Denning is a hack and they let this guy guide alot of the timeline of the realms? Jeez this desire to shakeup the realms has pretty much made anyone who like realms DR1356 pretty much up a creek without the proverbial paddle.

Hear, hear. I wish we could have stuck with the old grey boxed set. I liked those Realms. The Time of Troubles and everything after took what was an interesting, flavorful Swords & Sorcery setting and turned it into flavorless hash. Bah!

- Eric

 

[Trevalon Moonleirion]

Were the old Realms that much better? How were they different? Just sort of curious...

I know I didn't really like the Time of Troubles--you can't just kill off the best, most badass god the realms had to offer: Bane.

And then you replace him with that crazy bastard Cyric? Yeesh. Bane is an awesome god, end of story.

 

[Mal Malenkirk]

I know I didn't really like the Time of Troubles--you can't just kill off the best, most badass god the realms had to offer: Bane.

Which is probably why they brought him back; he had fans!

That's one thing about FR 3e that you can't argue with: The designer are slave to the kewlness factor.

You missed Bane? He's back. You like Drows? A branch of patriarchal drow broke away from Lolth and are now living on the surface. etc.

Overall it's still fun and easy to use so I like it. Hey, it's D&D! We can't take this stuff too seriously.

 

[Agnostic Paladin]

OK, this isn't the first time I've seen "The Shades" mentioned. Is this some sort of new mysterious powergroup that got added for 3e? Is it just a bunch of shade monsters working together for some reason? I'm really curious, especially since my guy is wandering around Cormyr...

 

[Welverin]

OK, this isn't the first time I've seen "The Shades" mentioned. Is this some sort of new mysterious powergroup that got added for 3e? Is it just a bunch of shade monsters working together for some reason? I'm really curious, especially since my guy is wandering around Cormyr...

They were around before but seem to have been given a more prominent role with third edition (they're one of the major groups in Lords of Darkness). Previously they were on a separate plane now they've moved back.