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Message: <blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 9170665" data-attributes="member: 27780">Polyhedron Issue 148: October 2001part 5/6Elminster's Everwinking Eye: It looks like the series on the Border Kingdoms is never going to be concluded. Even Ed’s writing isn’t prestigious enough to hold back a format change this large. He will eventually release <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/244431/The-Border-Kingdoms-A-Forgotten-Realms-Campaign-Supplement" target="_blank">a full book on the subject</a>, which I strongly suspect recycles all the material in here and hopefully more. (despite it being a century later, making all the NPC’s being the same a timey-wimey mess) For now, we’ll have to be content with getting to the end of the Owlhold entry. So follow him, follow, down to Jester’s Hollow, where we shall wallow in glorious filth, because it’s time to check out all the whorehouses and other places of hedonism this largely rural and lawless land has to offer. (which some people travel great distances to experience) The most notorious are Dalethra & Tasheera, ex-poisoners who’s house is done up like a gothic castle and has rooms set up for all kinds of erotic roleplaying. If you’re suffering from a bit of droop, their collection of philtres will help you go the distance for a little extra cost. If your tastes run a little older, there’s The Wizard’s Choice Companions, a semi-retirement home for escorts tired of the big city life that still lets them keep in practice and pass their skills down to the next generation. There’s also places where the hedonism can happen a little more organically as long as you’ve got a charming personality, such as the shop of Jarvathra Ploorst or the Jester’s Hollow Inn itself. It’s not all sex, as he also makes stops at the locksmith’s and multiple people with medical expertise of various types, but this is very much Ed completely unfettered by the editors rambling about whatever comes to mind, mixing the everyday details with the fantastical as he sees fit and it’s safe to say sex is very frequently on his mind. Looking back over the series, it’s striking to see just how much more autonomy he’s gained, and how the speed of progress has slowed down as a result. We got through The Vast in three years, Turmish in only one, but we’ve been plugging away at the border kingdoms for more than six years now and we’re still barely past the halfway point of the alphabet. So this is pretty interesting taken as an individual entry, but definitely not a satisfying conclusion to the series as a whole. Things could become another order of magnitude more detailed if he were given unlimited time and budget and still remain interesting.</blockquote>

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