Ed Greenwood

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January 01, 1959 in Toronto, Canada

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Ed Greenwood is the creator of the Forgotten Realms fantasy world, which became the setting for his home D&D game in 1975. Play still continues in this long-running campaign, and Ed also keeps busy producing Realmslore for various TSR publications.

Ed has published over two hundred articles in Dragon magazine and Polyhedron newszine, is a lifetime charter member of the Role Playing Game Associaton (RPGA) network, has written over thirty books and modules for TSR, and been Gen Con Game Fair guest of honor several times.

In addition to all these activities, Ed works as a library clerk and has edited over a dozen small press magazines.

Invented the character Elminster from the popular Forgotten Realms RPG series. Currently resides in an old f...more

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Books by Ed Greenwood

Average rating: 3.58 · 15,356 ratings · 418 reviews · 126 distinct works

	Elminster: The Making of a Mage (Forgotten Realms: Elminster, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 1,759 ratings — published 1992 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Spellfire (Forgotten Realms: Shandril's Saga, #1) 3.49 avg rating — 1,110 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Elminster in Myth Drannor (Forgotten Realms: Elminster, #2) 3.61 avg rating — 865 ratings — published 1998 — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Temptation of Elminster (Forgotten Realms: Elminster, #3) 3.58 avg rating — 722 ratings — published 1995 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Crown of Fire (Forgotten Realms: The Harpers, #9; Shandril's Saga, #2) 3.46 avg rating — 713 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Elminster in Hell (Forgotten Realms: Elminster, #4) 3.43 avg rating — 624 ratings — published 2003 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting (Forgotten Realms) (Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition) by Ed Greenwood, Skip Williams, Sean K. Reynolds 3.96 avg rating — 503 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Elminster's Daughter (Forgotten Realms: Elminster, #5) 3.51 avg rating — 493 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Cormyr A Novel (Forgotten Realms: Cormyr Saga, #1) by Ed Greenwood, Jeff Grubb 3.62 avg rating — 429 ratings — published 1996 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Hand Of Fire (Forgotten Realms: Shandril's Saga, #3) 3.56 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions	My rating:

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Series by Ed Greenwood

Forgotten Realms (253 books)
by Ed Greenwood

3.97 avg rating — 199,204 ratings

Forgotten Realms: Elminster (8 books)
by Ed Greenwood

3.63 avg rating — 4,699 ratings

Sage of Shadowdale (7 books)
by Ed Greenwood

3.62 avg rating — 4,602 ratings

Forgotten Realms: Shandril's Saga (3 books)
by Ed Greenwood

3.49 avg rating — 2,187 ratings

Forgotten Realms: Shadow of the Avatar (3 books)
by Ed Greenwood

3.43 avg rating — 907 ratings

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“...Each secret you carry has a weight all its own. They add up, secrets, to a burden you must carry all your days.”
― Ed Greenwood, Spellfire

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“There are only two precious things on earth: the first is love; the second, a long way behind it, is intelligence.”
― Ed Greenwood, Elminster: The Making of a Mage

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“Cuando te ataquen con magia, corre, reza o arroja piedras; muchos magos no son más que un fraude, y puedes salir airoso aun cuando tu corazón tiemble. O bien puedes permanecer tranquilo y murmurar cualquier cosa mientras mueves fluidamente tus manos. Algunos practicantes del arte son tan cobardes que pueden salir huyendo ante esto. Y, en cuanto a los otros, al menos, cuando los hombres hablen de tu muerte días más tarde, dirán: "Nunca supe que fuese un mago; lo mantuvo en secreto todos estos años. Debe de haber sido un tipo inteligente". Desde luego, algunos no estarán de acuerdo con esto.”
― Ed Greenwood, Spellfire

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