#dnd #gamenight Breaking out this Dragon magazine article by @TheEdVerse from the 80s. Wanted to use it for years. pic.twitter.com/AY3kErpHu9
— cawoodpublishing (@cawoodpublish) June 26, 2016
@TheEdVerse I checked this morning, the articles are from July and August 1983…33 years ago…I was 14 when I first read them.
— cawoodpublishing (@cawoodpublish) June 27, 2016
@cawoodpublish Heh. I remember writing them. And the talismans that got nixed to avoid "kids drawing the symbols on church walls everywhere"
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 27, 2016
@TheEdVerse Thanks for writing them, like I said I've always wanted to use it in a campaign. I guess there was some hysteria back then
— cawoodpublishing (@cawoodpublish) June 27, 2016
@cawoodpublish @TheEdVerse is this article online anywhere? I'd really like to read it!
— P.R. the D.M. (@CowboyCentaur) June 27, 2016
@CowboyCentaur @cawoodpublish That's the first half; second is in issue 76, and the sequel is in issue 91 ("Hell Revisited")
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 27, 2016
@CowboyCentaur @TheEdVerse So much detail and inspiration for an important part of the multiverse.
— cawoodpublishing (@cawoodpublish) June 27, 2016
@cawoodpublish @CowboyCentaur …And I had to leave so much out. Also censored: Baalzebul rules 2 layers because Asmodeus killed Lucifer, +
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 27, 2016
@cawoodpublish @CowboyCentaur ..B's chief rival, for having unauthorized offspring, and gave Lucifer's layer to B, as a clear lesson to all+
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 27, 2016
@cawoodpublish @CowboyCentaur ..other archdevils (Lucifer & Batna begat Lucifuge, Asmodeus slew them all, because bringing about new +
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 27, 2016
@cawoodpublish @CowboyCentaur …archdevils, who can't be automatically-by-their-nature commanded by a "greater" devil is THE paramount +
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 27, 2016
@cawoodpublish @CowboyCentaur ..threat to the status quo (with Asmodeus on top). Outcast archdevils, on the outermost/uppermost layer, and +
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 27, 2016
@cawoodpublish @CowboyCentaur …on Prime Material Planes (=the Realms or your campaign world) are prime manipulators/hirers of PCs to do +
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 27, 2016
@cawoodpublish @CowboyCentaur …dirty adventuring work for them (thwarting other devils' schemes). :}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 27, 2016
@TheEdVerse is dropping D&D lore on me like the maestro he is and I'm all like- pic.twitter.com/QIRzL2a3uD
— P.R. the D.M. (@CowboyCentaur) June 27, 2016
@CowboyCentaur Hey, always a pleasure to talk D&D! Let there be more memorable fun at your gaming table! :}
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 27, 2016
@CowboyCentaur Wonderful to hear! You're very welcome. Great gaming always!
— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) June 27, 2016