[UPDATED] The Archmage (aka Ed Greenwood) Returns to the Forgotten Realms

The Archmage? Is this some black metal band?

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

Forgotten Realms creator Ed Greenwood has announced that he will be using the opportunities afforded by WotC's new Dungeon Master's Guild platform to return to the Realms with a series of annual region guides and four adventures. These will be published by The Ed Greenwood Group. Additionally, Greenwood is writing and publishing an annual two-volume set of novellas and adventures starring Mirt, the first Forgotten Realms character.

"The Ed Greenwood Group is pleased to announce a special Forgotten Realms® project: guides and adventures that explore the unexplored. Each year Ed Greenwood, The Archmage, will write a guide to a different part of the Realms and to accompany this guide his company will publish four role playing adventures. Three adventures will come from the minds of his Sessoirum of Creatives and one slot a year will be held open for a contribution from the Realms fans.

Details on how fans can submit their works for considerations with more on the adventures and guides will be posted at www.OnderLibrum.com soon.

The guides and adventures will be published by The Ed Greenwood Group, supported by Onder Broadcasting and made available to the public via Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeon Master’s Guild program and OneBookshelf, their designated distributor

IN ADDITION

The Office of Ed Greenwood is pleased to announce that Ed Greenwood, The Archmage, will be writing a brand new series of linked novellas and adventures featuring Mirt, the very first character in the Forgotten Realms®. This annual two-volume set will be published by The Ed Greenwood Group, supported by Onder Broadcasting and made available to the public via Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeon Master’s Guild program and OneBookshelf, their designated distributor."

UPDATE FROM MORRUS -- Ed dropped me a quick note to say "Let's call them Mirt "stories" rather than "novellas." MUCH shorter than novels, is the plan. Mirt goes to a little-detailed place. Mirt stories, NOT novels, end of the year. Mirt goes to a neglected Realms locale in a story, Volo's Guide to same spot, plus game adventure".

 

[darjr]

Game. Changer. DMSGuild just gets better and better. Can't wait for the Gygax kids to do greyhawk stuff and the creator of Eberron to publish his back catalogue. The future is bright!

So who's going to try and write some of these?

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

So who's going to try and write some of these?

I am going to put my hat in the ring for this.

I am very excited to see the Realms guides, too.

Regarding the new Mirt stories: I prefer paper to reading from a screen, but if I've been wanting Mirt stories for so long now that I'll take what I can get.

 

[Irennan]

This is just awesome! Thanks for sharing

 

[Corpsetaker]

Ed Greenwood is writing Forgotten Realms material for the DM Guild!

From Facebook: It's official... the Archmage is writing in the Forgotten Realms! ========================== The Ed Greenwood Group is pleased to announce a special Forgotten Realms® project: guides and adventures that explore the unexplored. Each year Ed Greenwood, The Archmage, will write a guide to a different part of the Realms and to accompany this guide his company will publish four role playing adventures. Three adventures will come from the minds of his Sessoirum of Creatives and one slot a year will be held open for a contribution from the Realms fans. Details on how fans can submit their works for considerations with more on the adventures and guides will be posted at www.OnderLibrum.com soon. The guides and adventures will be published by The Ed Greenwood Group, supported by Onder Broadcasting and made available to the public via Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeon Master’s Guild program and OneBookshelf, their designated distributor --------------IN ADDITION-------------- The Office of Ed Greenwood is pleased to announce that Ed Greenwood, The Archmage, will be writing a brand new series of linked novellas and adventures featuring Mirt, the very first character in the Forgotten Realms®. This annual two-volume set will be published by The Ed Greenwood Group, supported by Onder Broadcasting and made available to the public via Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeon Master’s Guild program and OneBookshelf, their designated distributor. ============================ [editorial note: THIS is going to be EPIC!!!] [*rubs hands eagerly*]

 

[Corpsetaker]

All I can say is "Thank God"! I'm sure Ed will bring the Realms back in line to where it should be. I could actually see more people purchasing his material than Wizards'.

 

[Mirtek]

Well, i'll wait for the reviews. I am not that interestedin Ed's realms, from what I heard manyof my favorite parts are missing in his homebrew realms.

Ed may have build the sandbox, but then others came and build nicer castles in it than he did.

It's like discovering that Groening has ben privately writing his own Simpsons stories different from the ones that have been aired and that his version has no Flanders and Chief Wiggum

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

This is just awesome! Thanks for sharing

You're welcome, Irennan.

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

Mentioned here a few days ago: http://www.enworld.org/forum/showth...ms!-(via-the-DMs-Guild)&p=6804584#post6804584

...for those who don't look at that part of EN World.

I hope Ed takes on the Border Kingdoms and leaves Cormyr alone for now, because that's where I plan to leave my mark (he says with naked ambition).

 

[Mark CMG]

And he's getting 50% from whatever sells. I imagine he'll write a lot and sell a lot too.

 

[Morrus]

Game. Changer. DMSGuild just gets better and better. Can't wait for the Gygax kids to do greyhawk stuff and the creator of Eberron to publish his back catalogue. The future is bright!

So who's going to try and write some of these?

They can't. DMsG is FR only.

 

[darjr]

They can't. DMsG is FR only.

Only currently.

 

[Irennan]

Well, i'll wait for the reviews. I am not that interestedin Ed's realms, from what I heard manyof my favorite parts are missing in his homebrew realms.

Ed may have build the sandbox, but then others came and build nicer castles in it than he did.

It's like discovering that Groening has ben privately writing his own Simpsons stories different from the ones that have been aired and that his version has no Flanders and Chief Wiggum

We don't know if Ed will pulish his own Realms. He may use the official timeline.

Does the DMguild even allow for divergent timelines (as in, say, pretending that the ToT never happened)?

 

[Henry]

It's like discovering that Groening has ben privately writing his own Simpsons stories different from the ones that have been aired and that his version has no Flanders and Chief Wiggum

Considering that you don't necessarily need Flanders or Wiggum to tell a good Simpsons story, it would still be cool to see the creator's personal take on a non-collaborative effort, especially when the creator is a very entertaining storyteller in his own right. (Groening or Greenwood fit the bill here!)

 

[mach1.9pants]

I never realised Ed actually refers to himself as THE ARCHMAGE.

 

[JohnLynch]

Game. Changer. DMSGuild just gets better and better. Can't wait for the Gygax kids to do greyhawk stuff and the creator of Eberron to publish his back catalogue. The future is bright!

So who's going to try and write some of these?

One way or another I'll be putting up some stuff onto the DM's Guild. I am very excited about Ed producing more FR lore and the best part is, it won't be tweaked or cut down to meet the constraints of book size or the current meta plot.

 

[Mirtek]

Considering that you don't necessarily need Flanders or Wiggum to tell a good Simpsons story,

They don't need to be in every Episode, but if they're not part of an alternate timline that has evolved without them for 25 five years this current state would be so different from what we know as Simpsons, that it might just as well be a called different setting.

Coupling that with me personally not being so enamored with Ed's storytelling (to me Greenwood novels are always a chore to read through), I'll check it out if it's the official realms and pass it if it's his home realms

 

[Shasarak]

I never realised Ed actually refers to himself as THE ARCHMAGE.

Maybe he is also a WWE wrestler?

Can you smell what the Archmage is cooking?

 

[Morrus]

I've merged the two threads on this.