1/7) Over fifty years ago, I first imagined a crowded crossroads city by the sea, a port crammed full of wealth and commerce and adventure, hight Waterdeep. It came vividly to life when I first penned a tale of Mirt visiting it, ten years…
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2/7) …before there was anything called D&D. It was mine alone to wander in and imagine until 1978, when the Company of Crazed Venturers first went down into Undermountain, and wandered Dock Ward and Castle Ward, and first dodged tankards…
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3/7) …and worse in the Inn of the Dripping Dagger and the Yawning Portal. Then TSR brought it to life, many times over, in boxed sets, modules, comics, and shiny hardcovers. Wizards of the Coast brought us more, most recently delighting me…
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4/7) …with Dragon Heist and Dungeon of the Mad Mage. And today, an intrepid shipping agent struggled through the new-fallen snow with a precious box from @BeadleAndGrimm, and the Platinum Edition I first glimpsed at Stream of Many Eyes is…
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5/7) …finally mine. And it is beautiful and worth every coin. Elminster approves. Mirt looked around and nodded, too. (Volo winced.) So, thumbs up from the creator of the Realms! @BeadleAndGrimm, you’ve done my imagination proud!
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6/7) It’s a thrill to see things that existed mostly in my mind brought to sold, physical life I can hold. And cherish. (And to fellow DMs and players who want to stay and play in Waterdeep, I’m at work, albeit slowly, on something for you.)
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7/7) One happy Ed of the Greenwood now turns back with renewed enthusiasm (nay, glee) to his other Realms projects…for Alex, Jeff, and all who’ve asked Realms questions (now heaped out the door of my study and to the next room’s rafters).
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And we are forever grateful for you and those involved in sharing the Realms, that we might all partake of its adventures. A toast to Mirt, Elminster, and (ostensibly) Volo! ;)
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Volo will take that ostensibly and run with it!
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Replying to @TheEdVerse
Running is what he does best! Discretion IS the better part of valor!

Jan 4, 2019 · 7:18 PM UTC

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Replying to @MissMartinsen
Heh. Terry Pratchett and I, at the last Toronto Worldcon (we did a panel together) had a good laugh over who could flee the fastest: Rincewind or Volo. As with what Bob Salvatore and I agreed was the answer to the perennial "Who would win in a duel, Drizzt or El?" question, ...
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Replying to @MissMartinsen
...the answer is: Depends on who's writing the scene. (Sigh, no more scenes from Terry...miss him.)
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He’s in good hands with Death. Mayhap Volo will find a traveling companion to speed him safely along his way... a mimic chest called The Luggage, perhaps—a gift from a kindred spirit on a distant Plane.
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