Look What ED GREENWOOOD Is Doing! Forgotten Realms: The Unofficial, Non-Canon, Unlicensed, Utterly U

There's no news of an official Forgotten Realms book for D&D (at least not yet), but Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood is forging ahead with his own! Greenwood is writing Forgotten Realms: The Unofficial, Non-Canon, Unlicensed, Utterly Unapproved 50-Year History under the auspices of The Ed Greenwood Group and plans to release it at Gen Con in August this year, and once a week there will be updates on the web where he'll "peek behind the curtain and let you know something else about the untold history of the Realms, things you’ve never known".
Here's the full announcement:

"Welcome to the unofficial history of the Forgotten Realms.® Have you ever wondered why I, the guy who created the Realms in the first place, decided to share it with the wider world? Do you want to hear behind-the-scenes stories, some of those that can now be told, about why things are the way they are? Why, for instance, that from the beginning the Forgotten Realms® maps didn’t have hexes all over them, so the rivers didn’t run in little diagonal lines along the edges of hexes, but rather the maps looked like maps of real places, rather than game maps? Ever wondered about things like that?

Well, for the answers to those questions and many others, just keep visiting our site throughout the year because once a week we’ll peek behind the curtain and let you know something else about the untold history of the Realms, things you’ve never known. Things you may not even have thought to ask about, things that are deep dark secrets of the Realms.

See you every week, throughout the year!

The Ed Greenwood Group will launch its first projects in August at GenCon 2015 in Indianapolis—Forgotten Realms: The Unofficial, Non-Canon, Unlicensed, Utterly Unapproved 50-Year History by Ed Greenwood, curated by Brian Cortijo and All is Lust: Letters With a Hooded Lady by Ed Greenwood and The Hooded One.

Join us at RealmsSecretariat.com each week as Ed Greenwood continues the tale of how the Forgotten Realms went from a short story to becoming one of the world’s most beloved shared settings. All stories are totally unofficial—100% unapproved—not authorized, sanctioned, censored, or redacted in any way. Herewith we present the unvarnished Ed Greenwood and his take on the past fifty years."
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[Shasarak]

Oh cool, the 166th anniversary of Twilight.

Sparkle on, my brothers, sparkle on!

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

Ed's contribution to D&D beyond the Realms is significant.

Arguing that this is some sort of cash grab, or some sort of attempt to steal the limelight from Gary Gygax, is a lot like standing in the street with a cardboard sign nailed to a piece of lumber and shouting at everyone that the world is ending.

That's not the kind of person worth having a discussion with. They don't know the truth from their own imagination, and their mind is already made up.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Ed's contribution to D&D beyond the Realms is significant.

Arguing that this is some sort of cash grab, or some sort of attempt to steal the limelight from Gary Gygax, is a lot like standing in the street with a cardboard sign nailed to a piece of lumber and shouting at everyone that the world is ending.

That's not the kind of person worth having a discussion with. They don't know the truth from their own imagination, and their mind is already made up.

thank you for being BOTH Dismissive AND Insulting... you basically just call me an insane man on the corner, AND said my thoughts doesn't matter and it isn't worth talking to me...

WHY THE HELL POST IF YOU DONT EVER WANT TO TALK TO SOMEONE WITH A DIFFRENT POINT OF VIEW OR OPIONON?


Ed has done a lot for the hobby, and is an excellent story teller... although from what I hear a pretty bad DM, who used elminster in the worst way I have ever herd...

for the record I know the truth, and am not in my own imagination at all... I just am not drinking the cool aid

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

It just occurred to me that the release of Ed's project at GenCon may coincide with a new Forgotten Realms campaign setting for 5e.

That would be SO cool!

Man I wish I could make it to Gen Con this year. But since I can't, I will rely on EN World and all you nice people to keep me up to speed on events as they transpire.

 

[Reynard]

no it most certainly doesn't Ed can CLAIM it is as old as he wants, heck he could LIE and call it the 200th Anniversary, that doesn't change the facts from the last thread where it is much closer to 30 years old then 50...

No snark: I would very much like to see a link to your evidence that he is inflating the age of the setting.

 

[Jiggawatts]

This seems like an interesting product, and Ed has always seemed like a very laid back, fun loving, easy going good guy, but the fact remains that unless they ever reverse the 100 year time jump and go back to the 1300s, my love of the Realms will be forever diminished. I just cant get excited for a 5E Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting book where the current date is 1479 DR (or thereafter).

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

Looking at the Edverse.com, I see they have established something called "The Sessorium," where new game worlds, music, and new kitchen recipes will be created.

This appears to be in addition to the offerings at GenCon this August.

A lot going on there.

 

[Umbran]

Ladies and gents, please keep it civil. Show respect for each other, and for each other's opinions.

If you find yourself getting heated, it is time to walk away. Keep your cool, please and thank you.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

No snark: I would very much like to see a link to your evidence that he is inflating the age of the setting.

well first here is the pub info:

Top: The Forgotten Realms first and second edition logo
Bottom: The third and fourth edition Forgotten Realms logo
Designer(s)
Ed Greenwood
Publication date
1987–current
Genre(s)
Fantasy
Language(s)
English
Media type
Game accessories, novels, role-playing video games, comic books

that comes from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forgotten_Realms

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...

 

[Schmoe]

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...

But what... what... what if they DID!?!

*shock*
*horror*