New Ed Greenwood Article Ondal's Stand.
www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/d...
Wizards beyond counting died in the Spellplague. What makes Ondal memorable is not his wizardry— he was reportedly a fairly kind recluse, devoted to researches and experimentations into all manner of small, benign magic. He is remembered for the wine he’d bottled but hadn’t yet sold when the Spellplague struck. Or rather, what the infamous blue fires which raged violently where Ondal and his house happened to be, did to that wine.
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I will not rant about links.
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A wizard that was a recluse known for his wines. In 3E would have been maxed out in the Brewing Skill. He died in the Spellplague. His house 'blew up'. If you find any of his wine, it could be a myriad of different spells/prayers/manifestations. Yes it's in a cellar...
When his house 'blew up' all of his spell research was 'transfered' to his wine. People use the wine bottles as bombs.
The idea that various parties (governments, evil cabals, good groups) are hunting Ondals Deadly Decanters for various reasons. Everything from collecting them to keep them (and the population safe) to preparing for a war.
It is a great idea and one that could form the basis of almost any kind of adventure, be it side-quest or campaign focus.
Who is this sage, Rambaertus of Waterdeep? Has anyone seen any other mentions of his name as he gets two mentions in this article.
Thanks Ed! More like this one please! Eye on the Realms is the highlight of both magazines for me.
I will not rant about links.
;)
A wizard that was a recluse known for his wines. In 3E would have been maxed out in the Brewing Skill. He died in the Spellplague. His house 'blew up'. If you find any of his wine, it could be a myriad of different spells/prayers/manifestations. Yes it's in a cellar...
When his house 'blew up' all of his spell research was 'transfered' to his wine. People use the wine bottles as bombs.
Ah...yeah it is very interesting...and easily mutable to the old Realms. IE instead of pinning it on the Spellplague you could just have had is house be on a Wild Magic Zone.
Ah...yeah it is very interesting...and easily mutable to the old Realms. IE instead of pinning it on the Spellplague you could just have had is house be on a Wild Magic Zone.
True enough, the triggering event doesn't have to be the Spellplague. Wild Magic could well be another explanation, as could be a Divine effect or even the good old standby of a comptetitor hiring Wizards whose efforts have unintended side-effects even as they destroy Ondal's home (and him).
The article does say that the effects of the Decanters are anything. That should make for some pretty interesting roleplaying effects...
...I quite fancy a spontaneous rain of squirrels myself.
Ah...yeah it is very interesting...and easily mutable to the old Realms. IE instead of pinning it on the Spellplague you could just have had is house be on a Wild Magic Zone.
True enough, the triggering event doesn't have to be the Spellplague. Wild Magic could well be another explanation, as could be a Divine effect or even the good old standby of a comptetitor hiring Wizards whose efforts have unintended side-effects even as they destroy Ondal's home (and him).
The article does say that the effects of the Decanters are anything. That should make for some pretty interesting roleplaying effects...
...I quite fancy a spontaneous rain of squirrels myself.
Sounds similar to my Killer Squirrel Swirl which is a second level illusionist spell.
This is by far one of the better eye on the realms articles. Pretty imaginative and I can see several funny plots developing from it.
I agree, I liked the basis for the story, as well as keeping some of the details vague (so you can shift it about if you need to). What kinds of plots do you see developing? Throw some ideas out for the rest of us.
Sounds similar to my Killer Squirrel Swirl which is a second level illusionist spell.
And the effect?
Anybody ever tried to make a fake account and post lost of info from the DDI articles?
Maybe at night, when not alot of ORCs are on.
Never mind. I feel dirty suggesting such a thing.
Yeah, they dont like that, the posts get deleted and the account gets banned.
Yeah, I thought so.
If only some way of sharing information outside of the forums existed.
Well there is. But it would be probably wrong. Also people might not want to reveal that info to strangers.
But if I was to email DDI stuff to everbody and was like hey no need for you to subscibe too, yeah they would most definitely have a problem with that. I would prefer more Realms source books, but unfortanatly realmslore is bundled in with DDI now, so if you want it you got to subscribe, for at least a month anyway. Really all in all I dont think its a bad deal, for like 70 bucks a year you get the Character Builder, the Monster Builder, Dragon and Dungeon, and the online Compendium, which gives you full access to all the 4e crunch from every book they put out. Of course not everyone will see that as a bargain, and if youre not into 4e it would definitely be a waste of money. Id really like to see more Realmslore for my money, I think the Realms could easily fill a monthly digital magazine, like Dragon or Dungeon, all by itself!
Yeah theres a fine line there, If they put a DDI article on Spellscars, and I have a player with a spellscar, I dont think Wizards would care if I printed out a copy and gave it to him and was like here man check these out, at least I hope they wouldnt have a problem!
But if I was to email DDI stuff to everbody and was like hey no need for you to subscibe too, yeah they would most definitely have a problem with that. I would prefer more Realms source books, but unfortanatly realmslore is bundled in with DDI now, so if you want it you got to subscribe, for at least a month anyway. Really all in all I dont think its a bad deal, for like 70 bucks a year you get the Character Builder, the Monster Builder, Dragon and Dungeon, and the online Compendium, which gives you full access to all the 4e crunch from every book they put out. Of course not everyone will see that as a bargain, and if youre not into 4e it would definitely be a waste of money. Id really like to see more Realmslore for my money, I think the Realms could easily fill a monthly digital magazine, like Dragon or Dungeon, all by itself!
As I proposed on another thread that is why I think a DDI Annual for the Campaign world would be a great idea. Because honestly I don't play 4th ed that much...and have always perfered hand writtencharacter shhets anyway....so I really can't justfied the expanse for getting a rare FR article that might have lore I could use. But I might but a compilation of said articles.
How many FR articles are up on the DDI? Enough to make a book?
Maybe in five years. When 5th comes along.
I don't know...I am not a DDI subsciber.
Any DDI Subsciber care to chime in?
He may have even wrote the article that is the subject of this thread.
To be honest though, there isn't really a lot of new stuff added here. Like, it's awesome in its own way but really it's more because of all the ways I could use the potential of magic wine that does anything. I mean the lore itself is great, it can be put in a wide variety of places and it does all kinds of stuff! The adventure potential has me getting all frisky already as I think about it.
I agree, I liked the basis for the story, as well as keeping some of the details vague (so you can shift it about if you need to). What kinds of plots do you see developing? Throw some ideas out for the rest of us.
I like to invert things or make something that would be a "standard" start turn riotous pretty quickly. My idea for this was to have the classic "everyone starts in an inn" beginning to a campaign then basically completely ruin the trope.
The inn has had a shortage of wine and desperate, the owner went down to the local markets to buy a substitute. Finding similar shortages he ran across a strange man from out of town, who just "happened" to have some wine that he had recently acquired. Buying as much as he could the innkeeper took it back and began to sell it that night once his 'regular' stores ran out.
At first things seem fine - that is until the screaming, random polymorphing, explosions and other insanity begin. The PCs end up right in the middle of complete chaos and have to fight their way out, then find out what happened and its source.
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After a re-count it was 40, so I was 3 off...