Q&A WITH ELMINSTER: Ed Greenwood @ Gen Con Indy 2023
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
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You know you're in a room full of gamers when you say "he lives in the hat" and they simply accept it without question. I love it!
Thank you for your ongoing support, and I can't wait to continue sharing my stories with you! patreon.com/EdGreenwood
Mr Greenwood I ran a series of ttrpgs I am turning into a series of books. I wanted to send a copy of my work to you and just see what you thought of it. I hope you see this thank you for the world and all the work you created.
I have a question that wasn't asked of you there at the con Mr. Greenwood, Here it is. "In hindsight of all these years, was there anything in the Realms that you would edit, say add another river here, move some mountains there. That kind of edit, or do you have something else in mind?"
Ed I absolutely love the realms I have read all the novels and absorbed all the history of the realms. Thank you for all the great stuff you do. Looking forward to learning more and more stuff.
I would provide all the "how to daily worship each god, for clerics and for everyone else" lore that TSR edited out.@@theprofessorkeen1911
Great! I'll keep the videos coming!@@angelwatson7944
It was smart for the audience to give Elminster a separate round of applause. He has a disintegration spell and he's not afraid to use it!
Elminster voice: INDEED.
If Ed isn't cast in a role/cameo as Elminster in the next movie, I'm gonna rage!!!
They can't. They'd have to race swap to white.
it's interesting how many people asked Ed, having the chance to ask Elminster himself.
I got a vague impression watching the video that he wasn't in too much a frame of mind to answer a lot of elminster questions, because he seemed to keep the answers very brief, and was a lot more expository on stuff from his own experience.
Ask Elminster, or... AO's boss. I'd be so much more interested in Ed's answers.
Ed did warn them Elminster was rude and flippant. May have scared a few off. 😂
so many missed lore opportunities lol
No, I was playing Elminster. That's his style. Gruff and not too loquacious...until he knows you. I was sad folks didn't ask El more, actually. @@queenannsrevenge100
A legend who is humble. Ed, you changed the world for so many, just by telling stories. Thank you for sharing your imagination with us.
Thank you for listening!!!
11:00 this story from Ed about not caring how much he sold his world for because he just wanted to see those lands have full coloured maps legit made me tear up. Ed I love your passion and imagination. You've inspired me to make my own worlds and I couldn't be happier. Thank you.
Ed seems like such a good guy. I recently got into DnD, and its lore, and even more recently started learning of the people behind it all. This guys were all true wizards that created all this magic! xD
There once was a guy named Ed.
He wrote a lot that many Read,
He now has this Channel,
Where he sat on this Panel,
And we keenly absorbed what he Said!
-Inner Bard inspired.
It's a pity we don't have your cameo in Honor among Thieves ("a la" Stan Lee in the MCU).
I hope you always enjoy your trips to Faerun Ed. Hopefully Elminster keeps you safe there!
Ed as always so kind! Would be an honour to see him in CCXP Brazil, the greatest event in the world.
Hopefully I can get there!
The story of the daydream about Dove and Storm reminded me of C. S. Lewis's inspiration for the Narnia series of novels - the picture of a faun carrying wrapped Christmas presents across a snowy, lantern-lit clearing... sounds to me like a similar kind of inspiration in both cases (seeing the image and then developing the story behind it)...
Loved that last question. Currently working a job I can't stand and it is absolutely a slog to get up and go to that office every morning. Thank you for reminding all us to continue doing the things we love, Ed.
Exactly!! Doing what you love is the secret sauce that moves our lives along...
Somewhere beyond that office is the castle you should be standing on the battlements of, looking out over the land you love and will fight for. Keep that dream alive. Step into it whenever you need to. Offices come and offices go, but dreams flame bright forever!!!!
@@edgreenwoodofficial I made a resolution to put the things I love first, bit by bit, every day. I'll keep your note close and step into those dreams when I need to. Thank you, Ed!
I live in Toronto, originally from Nova Scotia and found out recently you were down at Storm Crow Manor down at Church Street, wished I knew, would like too meet. Thanx for creating this World...just got Back into D&D in 2019 and have a friends daughter whi just got involved and loves the game and the World you created. I am a St Car Operator and nearing retirement, you can jump on anyday and naraete a story for the passengers lol, all the Best...Q
I will get back to Storm Crow when I can. This year is crazy busy because of doing Legacy of Worlds live plays at many major conventions, but Toronto is where I'm from, and aside from the family homes there, Storm Crow is about my favourite place in the city, and I'll visit whenever I can! So, see you there! @@qkeith5071
Ed Greenwood is a treasure. Thanks for being such an inspiration!
I've been playing D&D for years, but never actually looked into how/who created and formed the game and setting itself. Finding your channel (as a young writer myself) has been incredibly inspirational - thank you for your work, time, and for sharing this with us on this channel and elsewhere.
I'd love to ask Elminster:
1. "What is the most inherently magical colour?"
2. "What's your favourite word?"
3. "What, if anything, do you think a wizard's choice of arcane focus says about him?"
4. "What is the meaning of life?"
Not sure if you will remember Ed, we met many years ago at an event in Evansville IN. We went to lunch together at McDonalds, you insisted on buying and then you allowed me to interview Elminster for my local gaming newsletter.
Was playing BG3 and ran into Elminster in the game and that day came back to me like it was yesterday. Then I recently discovered this channel. LOVE your work. I ran a Forgotten Realms campaign for almost a decade. So many wonderful experience with my players. THANK YOU for your creation that help us enjoy so much fun.
I remember! I was staggered by how much cheaper McDonalds was there than it was at my home in Canada! You're very welcome, and may our paths cross again!
@@edgreenwoodofficial I hope so as well.
I was here for this, it was great. You’re awesome!
Ive walked the forest, ive ran the city streets, Ive seen the morning sun light up the coats, ive fought and died a hundred times, and ill fight and die a thousand more. The best memories i have of my brother and father are because of you and others like you. The joy, pain, and laughter you have brought to my life is immeasurable. The stories ive heard, read and now tell are all from a place of hope and love taught only by pen and paper, and the luck of the dice. In a few weeks my son will roll his first dice. Ill guide him through the all realms and teach him the power of words. All because of you and others like you. From one human to another i thank you for all your hard work and love. I hope i can instill just a fraction of the love i feel when i roll the dice into my children. Once more traveler i thank you. Long live the Great Sage. Long live the inspiration you have introduced into the world. Long live Ed Greenwood.
I feel if you ask Elminster the question “why?” You no doubt and no matter get the answer you want and need to hear.
If Hasbro or wizards of the coast doesn’t bring in Ed Greenwood in any complicity, it would be a complete shame. The guts and soul he brings to any table should not be missed out on. Let alone the continuity!
Of all the worlds that man has created I’ve lived in yours the most. Thank you Ed Greenwood!
Really regret missing out on seeing Elminster, and that other guy, and thank them for making it so i can never be a normal guy , as i found tales of his adventures as a youth.
33:44 - Thank you for it Ed... it meant the world to me and gave me strength to keep fighting the good fight!
Ed is literally the best kind of person.
wow, nice video. i would like to see more elminster Q&A...
You’re a Legend, just about to run a campaign in the Silver Marches region, I’ve spent 99% of my 38 years playing D&D in the Forgotten Realms. Thank you for creating such a wonderful place to escape to.
I love that Ed has made himself look exactly like a wizard
Wish Ed was the lead with forgotten realms, he's the creator and it should be his vision, how many great fantasy settings including original greyhawk,dune, lord of the rings etc where said creators could produce content or tell stories of new and even old events even just to clarify their ideas. Ed your living legend and you are elminster.
Lots of questions I would have asked Elminster.
Sharp, jolly, humble - just great, amazing person that has given us all so much.
Just. Brilliant.
Loved Spellfire.🔥🔥🔥
Bless your beard Ed, always a pleasure to see you sharing, I first discovered the Realms as a young teen with a copy of a campaign setting book in our local library and a part of me has lived in it since- it’s amazing to have it still a part of my life - I DM a game set in the Sword Coast and always love when my player go off the beaten track so I can dig up obscure locations that are only a couple lines - it leaves so much to create with all the spaces you’ve left open for DM creativity and I’ve always been titillated by the lore scraps that just give you enough to inspire creative ideas of my own to fill in the blanks- you are an inspiration for generations sir!
This is so freakin awesome!!!
Thank you once again Ed and Ivan for your continued work and drive to provide not just knowledge, but knowledge in a most intriguing attention-grabbing, and ever so enjoyable manner. Something I find to be unique in the manner you do so, that has me seeking all the more for untold knowledge to be shared. I myself, provided you Ed as well as of course Elminster find the time to answer it, have an inquiry I wish to offer to the both of you. For Ed, I ask you this: If one of The Seven ever had a child who showed an aptitude for magic and the possibility to be trained in such an aptitude, much like The Seven were, how would Mystra, Elminster, The Seven, as well as any other chosen of Mystra you wish to make mention of, react as well as how they would respond to this development? My inquiry is fairly similar to the one above for Elminster, in that I'm curious as to how he would in his point of view feel and respond to such a development, as well as his thoughts behind it. I ask as I'm playing a character within a similar situation as this for his backstory, and while of course I wish to understand such matters in hopes to work them into my backstory and the role play that comes from it, I'm also incredibly curious to understand these matters all the more from a lore and fan perspective, as Mystra and her history has always interested me greatly as a player and person. Many thanks once again for all that you Ed, Ivan, as well as of course Elminster do for all of us, as well as the knowledge you share unto us, as it's both a great privilege and joy I look forward to weekly expanding my own personal knowledge all the more upon. Thank you again and please do take care.
Many of the Seven have had children (Alustriel has had many) and the most important thing for all of the Seven has consistently been: their children must have as free a choice as they can provide as to what lives they'll live, and who they'll be, not automaticlly "replacement Chosen."
@edgreenwoodofficial This is for Elminster. There was an ancient elven city or group i cant remember that were shunted into a stasis by a mythal i believe or high magic. They were sun elves. It seemed like such a great hook for a campaign. My question is, what happened to them? Or what was the plan for them
Ah, that would be a story for Master Steven of the Schend to tell...
@@edgreenwoodofficial How would i go about finding this great master?
How about a video helping DM'S Have a better set of guidelines on the power levels of your various characters, including Elminster, Storm, Dove, Fzoul, The Simbul, and all the major NPC's of the REALMS?? Realms fans are "Generally" DMs and/or players and would certainly appreciate this information verbatim from their creator Himself!!! 🎉🎉
Love the Q&A love you too man!!
Thank you sir for creating a vibrant living world that has been a haven to me for many years.
It would be amazing to see your works make it to animation or live action as long as you controlled the canon.
I have SO many ideas for Realms movies!
He really kept the beard over the years.
Plenty of comments, where are the likes? Come on people!
Thank you Ed.
Thank you Ed and El, its always awesome to hear you talk about anything related to your stories, you're so passionate about it
I wanna see a what if story...where elminster ....mordenkainen..raistlin..Dumbledore and Gandolf have to team up to take on a eldricth being from the far realm that has possessed merlin and stop him from ripping a permanent hole into the realms of madness
If memory serves, Elminister, Mordenkainen and a few others regularly went to @edgreenwoodofficial house for a cocktail night to discuss the state of magic across the multiverse.
That video brightened an otherwise grey day for me thanks Ed!
Thank you so much for your work. I love the Forgotten realms.
Ed... the humility to not mind everyone, including Hollywood, enjoying your world, would you mind a grass-roots campaign for "DnD Movie 2" having a cameo of a very powerful mage passing through with a certain aging author as that wizard??? Stan Lee was a bit of a caricature, but dang it... everyone looked for his cameo!
I seriously love these videos. They take me back to win fantasy was just fantasy. Corporate, greed and politics took a backseat to wonder magic! These videos are such a breath of fresh air
@17:40 ‐ That is what I've been wanting to hear. The original idea that whisked a kid out of boredom - hauntingly similar to my own thoughts when I was a kid
My only experience with anything D&D related is Baldur’s Gate 3 and Ed…you are the fucking man, hearing you talk and answer the fans has made me want to get some people together and throw a campaign 😂
Do it!!!!
Hey Ed and team! I really think Ed should play baldurs gate 3 with his host. I think that would be amazing content breaking down how accurate to the lore is throughout the game.
I’d love to see Ed play dark urge or something.
And not to mention you’ll get a ton of new viewers!
He's such a good speaker. It's a shame that they only paid him 5000$ for his world, but at least it must be humbling to know so many people have enjoyed it and the many wonderful games, books, and films it has spawned. Thanks Ed, still flip through my 3E Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting book every now and then. So many great memories, and still more adventures to be had!
Magical
You're awesome, Ed!
Thoroughly enjoyed this.
I never expected a chuck tingle reference from Ed
Ty for sharing the realm of your imagination. it has served as the glue for friends and family and the whetstone that sharpens my aging mind in my life.
can you please do a let's play of baldur's gate 3? it would be the most interesting lp of a game ever with all of your knowledge and involvement.
This was enjoyable. Thank you
Glad you liked it. I will keep the vids coming!!!
Love you Ed
I am super new to DND and I am loving it so far. I chose to play a Wizard in our table top game and a Sorcerer in Baldurs Gate 3. I have been also listening to the Dying Earth audiobooks. There always been something awesome about magic in fantasy settings. I love how close to being outright charlatans alot of wizards are despite the weave being legit. Seeing Elminster answer questions really made me feel validated in being mage by being knowledgeable yet aloof/flippant.
Oh my gosh, I love this! I want to see more character answers. I could watch that for hours, as long as people would actually ask the NPC more questions lol
What a legend. 🙌
Im throwing out my question in the abyss hoping Elminster could answer this question:
Is Mystra a gate keeper of Magic? Does she control Arcane and Divine Magic? Oh and do you have a spell scar???
I also love Elfshadow so so much
The realms are the beat
Best 5 year old in history. Ed Greenwood
Is it weird that I could recognise Ivan's voice almost *immediately*? lmao
I like Elminster the most out of all of the characters in D&D. I think he is cooler than forgive my blasphemy Gandalf or even merlin. And he saves the realm more about five times a year he's excellent. I hurd he was going to retire and his grand daughter was going to take over I HOPE NOT please have a good evening this is the BEST D&D channel period.😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊.
Elminster, when you were just starting out did you ever cast butterballs? Theyre only a copper piece a pound, and if you got cloth gloves its not so bad. Do you have any tips for new initiates to magic?
Awesome video Mr. Ed Greenwood. I wanted to show off my dnd fanfic to you…. but I’m shy.
Don't be shy. There is nothing wrong with fanfic. Write and show!!
@@edgreenwoodofficial thank you 🙏
I always forget Ed is 2 weeks younger than my mom
i have a question:
is Simon Aumar from the D&D movie, Honor Among Thieves, a relative of Elminster? 🤔🤷♂️
When is the next QnA if there will ever be one.
28:09 "I can finally read Realms books that I didn't write" AI immediately came to mind as soon as I heard that
No! Noooooooo! I want SOMEONE to have the fun of writing them!
@@edgreenwoodofficial I see (thanks for the reply!). You have (somewhat) competing interests, then (wanting people to have fun writing them, but also wanting to read books written as if they came from your mind), which makes me wonder if the balance isn't somewhere in the middle.
On that note, the WGA (Writers Guild of America) has recently secured a contract that ended their strike, which says "a writer can choose to use AI when performing writing services, if the company consents and provided that the writer follows applicable company policies, but the company can't require the writer to use AI software (e.g., ChatGPT) when performing writing services". It's possible to make a human/AI hybrid story, as long as you're prompting the AI for ideas/incremental steps, and not asking it to write a whole book.
Finally, a bit more philosophical consideration: I think I understand the longing for human involvement and for people to have fun with the Realms (that's probably why you became a writer), but there's really not a guarantee that if a person did something, they did it for fun. Also, even if there were no people having fun when a Realms book was written (because it was AI-generated), people could still have fun reading it (assuming the AI did a good job). Either way, your legacy would still go on, though perhaps not in the way you envisioned it (or expected it to happen). Of course, I don't mean to invalidate your feelings; I just wondered if your purpose could be achieved in a different way (or if there was a different purpose that you could still be happy with if it was achieved).
Apparently Elminster is quite epicurean.
I wonder if he's ever had Tim Hortons...?
Oh, yes. He loves French Vanillas. He hates the modern corporate Timmie's, because he loved chatting up the old ladies on staff when they made sandwiches fresh...and even more, he hates the "when the frozen dough we were sent runs out, so do those flavours of donuts." As he complained to me last time, "Doesn't anyone know how to bake from scratch, any more?" When I tried to explain to him about centralized control and cost efficiencies, he gave me a glare and a word that describes the dung of male cows. ;} And then muttered, "How rich is rich enough? Hmmm?"
Ed really is a Dinosaur, the love he shows and puts in the works is amazing and dying breed.
he does it to entertain, for everyone, loved hoops analogy.
Remember seeing a interviews/presentation for dragon age inquisition, was on the fence since they botched the second one, and the hubrus and sence superiority from intervied like this is MY amazing game how dare you peasents make questions just feel gratefull... trow me off completely
Its ok to have pride in your work but you are making story for others not just your vision, alas bethesta (and others) downfall continued and is tottally corporate now
But i do miss the times they shared ed vision in story telling, hope he lives forever because they dont make them like that anymore.
Go ed :)
What (if any) substances does Elminster enjoy to consume?
Judging by his assaults on my larder, he LOVES ice cream. And strong drink of the Amaretto, Bailey's, and sherry variety, not to mention certain gins and whiskeys. So the taste of what he's indulging in is obviously a strong part of his preferences.
@edgreenwoodofficial Can you please tell me who would win in a fight between Karsus or Ioulaum? Im assuming Iolaum would have been just as capable of The 12th level avatar spell but wasnt silly wnough to attempt what Karsus did. Barring 12th level spells. Who would win this titanic matchup and why. Its been something i need to know please
Such fights always depend on the circumstances, but Ioulaum is a better magic-crafter than Karsus, and was ALWAYS far better prepared, so I'd say Ioulaum.
@edgreenwoodofficial Thank you sir, I hope to see Ioulaum again one day. I always imagined The returned Netherese before the fall trying to recruit Ioulaum, Aumvor, Larloch and others to bring back the glory days. I would have liked to see Ioulaum stand on his own and just say NO.
@edgreenwoodofficial Also if i may, The Imaskari Artificers against The Netherese in ancient days. The timelines didnt really allow the two to be at odd but as much as I love the Netherese im perplexed on who might have the greater command of magic. On one hand the Netherese made flying enclaves and could churn out magic items almost at will BUT without the mythallars, they were effectively useless which i feel would lead to an over reliance on such measures leaving one vulnerable. The Imaskari Empire however discovered demiplanes and actually crafted items among other great feats. The Netherese surely advanced whatever theories were handed down but had many conveniences the Imaskari did not. Some of the Imaskari lore just BEGS to be explored. Mind you, the source material for what i do have for ancient netheril was fantastic, the Imaskari lore seems lacking. All in all id love to hear thoughts from the man himself who created the beloved realms and how these two powerhouse stack up to one another
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This is why the forgotten realms are awesome. Gygax and Greenwood lived lives. This is also why writers today for the most part are terrible. When your only experience in life is liberal arts classes and twitter outrage…… what do we expect?
Counter point there are good modern writers, just as there were bad writers back in the day. We just only remember the good stuff. We just don't have the benefit of time to separate the wheat from the chaff
Collectively we remember Lovecraft, but (outside of the context of a specific modern group) ignore L Ron Hubbard.
@@beowylfen L Ron Hubbard was a lunatic and a one off. I would argue today the vast majority of writers have forgotten how to create fiction. They only know how to inject themselves and narrow transplanted world views. Essentially fan fiction has become main stream. My chief argument? Star Trek. Fewer writers made the entirety of DS9, TNG, and Voyager and the hundreds of episodes than those who worked on one season of the aptly named STD. Writing by committee is a terrible idea.
Seems a little addlepated in re that it shouldn't be written with boys/men in mind. Boys/men are ur vast majority of readers/buyers. Twould be silly to alienate ur audience.
Says who? There are as many female gamers as men. I personally love Forgotten Realms and was brought into it by Ed's books. The Symbul was my favorite character 😢. I just got the new adventure module. My first table 20 years ago was all female.
Anecdotal evidence is not statistical evidence@@AshendaFiremyst
I think what he was saying is that they shouldn’t have been written with one gender in mind. A good story will have broad appeal. Heck female authors have been giants in the fantasy genre from the early days (Ursula Leguin comes to mind). So the mandate should have been ‘write a good story’ not ‘your target audience is teenage boys’…
@@aaronbrown3955 Yes! Exactly. He didn't want to alienate anyone, as most wanted to target boys.
@@AshendaFiremyst Sometimes I think we’ve gotten too hung up on male perspective vs female perspective. If we just want to stick to dnd authors some of my favorite books were written by Elaine Cunningham and Erin Evans. Not to mention Margaret Weis with Dragonlance. Good stories and good characters are relatable to anyone.
Wait.. he can't publish books anymore?!?! 😢
Not in the forgotten realms. Tracy Hickman is also having issues with publishing Dragonlance.
Wow. Waita navigate a really gut punch opening set of questions. That was…rude and you handled it like the wisest man I’ve ever seen. Bravo on that alone
Absolutely a treasure!!!