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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy E Grenemyer" data-source="post: 7662184" data-attributes="member: 12388">Ed has been consistent in his answers about the origin of ideas for the Realms. This is certainly not the first time the topic has come up, because people have been asking about it for decades.Any suggestion that only now are we seeing the true history of the Realms is to assign a motive wrought from the imagination. This takes the discussion on a trip backwards from historical fact, that passes the town of subjective opinion, and arrives in the land of make believe.The first Realms story was written fifty years ago.The Realms, as a thing, is by all accounts older than Greyhawk. Greyhawk predates the Realms as a D&D setting.Only in the last year or so has Ed Greenwood, with the help of some dedicated friends and fans, finally caught up to the rest of the Internet and put himself out there.Other professional game designers and novelists recognize that the Realms is 50 years old.Neither Ed, nor any other creative, has declared we must all be of one mind on the subject.These are facts. Pointing out these facts, talking about them, etc., does not mean someone is indirectly proclaiming the Realms are better than Greyhawk.</blockquote>