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<blockquote data-quote="Zander" data-source="post: 528938" data-attributes="member: 1364">Some more D&amp;D trivia...In the original Manual of the Planes, the illustration of Asgard shows a building, a giant and some adventurers. The building in the picture really exists. It's Heddal stavechurch near Notodden in Norway. I've been there. Here's <a href="http://www.medsca.org/stavechurch/heddal.html" target="_blank">a link</a>.All the illustrations in the 1E PHB have titles. They appear in the French edition.The description of crossbows in the 2E Arms &amp; Equipment Guide contains a mistake because of a mistranslation from medieval French. The A&amp;E says that light and heavy crossbows have bolts of one and two feet long respectively. This is because a 15th century French text mentions one and two footed crossbows. But this is a reference to the number of feet required to brace the crossbow when loading it which is clear in the original. It isn't the length of the crossbows or their bolts.IIRC Skip &quot;The Sage&quot; Williams is really called Ralph Williams.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Zander, post: 528938, member: 1364"] Some more D&D trivia... In the original Manual of the Planes, the illustration of Asgard shows a building, a giant and some adventurers. The building in the picture really exists. It's Heddal stavechurch near Notodden in Norway. I've been there. Here's [URL=http://www.medsca.org/stavechurch/heddal.html]a link[/URL]. All the illustrations in the 1E PHB have titles. They appear in the French edition. The description of crossbows in the 2E Arms & Equipment Guide contains a mistake because of a mistranslation from medieval French. The A&E says that light and heavy crossbows have bolts of one and two feet long respectively. This is because a 15th century French text mentions one and two footed crossbows. But this is a reference to the number of feet required to brace the crossbow when loading it which is clear in the original. It isn't the length of the crossbows or their bolts. IIRC Skip "The Sage" Williams is really called Ralph Williams. [/QUOTE]

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