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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 3991222" data-attributes="member: 6318">See my first post <a href="http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?p=3991207" target="_blank">here</a>. This time last year, I'd have said that apart from the RSEs, the published game setting, but even more so the underlying setting, is very much largely Ed's in spirit and detail. He has no formal control, but is often consulted by other authors and contributes a lot of uncredited lore behind the scenes.He took part in the consultation, but none of it is what he would have done. He's contributing 50,000 words to the Forgotten Realms Campaign guide, and has discussed the new Realms at Candlekeep.com.We know quite a bit about his DMing from his own accounts, those of his long-time players, and some he's DMed at conventions. His campaign is extremely open-ended, with literally dozens of plots going on at once, a lot of PC initiative, crazy fun, and intense roleplaying. Not railroaded.It's pretty clear they'd be doing what they're doing with or without him.He's certainly a gifted and technically able author and prose stylist.Gary created the geography of the 1980 folio for that product; the setting of his home campaign originally geographically mirrored North America, but his players pressured him to switch to the published world.His Realms certainly has lots of powerful wizards, though they feature in the sources disproportionately, and a lot of the stats were indeed contributed by others. Moreover, that means something very different in a knockabout roleplaying-over-rules campaign where PCs accomplish much through intrigue and NPCs are mysterious than in a strict-stats powergaming one.Not the weed, he usually smokes thalander and phaelder flower. We know about his pipe, of course, because people asked.</blockquote>

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