D&D Podcast: The Herald

There is a fantastic interview with Ed Greenwood available on the official Wizards of the Coast D&D Podcast site

Ed talks a lot about how he sees the Forgotten Realms, how he thinks we talk about the Forgotten Realms, he does some great character impersonations, and he talks around the foundations of fiction. He reviews old cartoons and genre literature in an effort to make his points, which may be his single most endearing quality.

I do not know who introduces the interview--it may be Bart.

I think this is the first James Wyatt hosted podcast--he does let Ed ramble on a little to much & avoids asking any really difficutl or thought provoking questions--this is more of a friendly conversation than a Fan Focused Inquery and/or a Literary Discussion. 

Never the less, a great podcast to listen to--I love that the end by thanking Bart & Shelly!

I am currently reading the Heralds with The Sundering Reading Group on GoodReads & I am enjoying it very much.

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Hero.Zone

DM Chris has put up a new blog called Hero.Zone which will integrate all of his Game Blogs into one domain--a very good idea!

Hero.Zone has these rotating quotes in the header image--one of which was:

Believe it or not it's just me

an obvious Greatest American Hero reference--to which I responded & Chris then challenged me with:

@schwarm Good catch re: Greatest American Hero! Header quotation rotates through 12 or so … can you ID the rest? ;-)

so I have found the following quotes:

1. I have got stars in my eyes
2. Swimming like dolphins
3. Everything I would like to be
4. Up, Up and Away
5. Iron fists in velvet gloves
6. Just See what I have done
7. Another Victim of Ordinary Fame
8. Using Great Power Responsibly
9. Strong, fast, fresh from the fight
10. Anything but Ordinary

That look like this;

So Swimming like Dolphins is a reference to the Bowie song Heroes [get it-- Hero Zone quoting Heroes--CLEVER]. If you look at the HTML you can see:

<img src="http://heroes.zone/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/cropped-hz_blogo_bowie.jpg" height="100" width="475" alt="Heroes.Zone">

in which, Chris gives the game away & the puzzle is easily solved...

Good luck on the new blog--I really look forward to Nathan running Icon's--Jack and I bought the rules, but have never really played...

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