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Centi Metre @MarquisdeCodex
Hi Ed, sorry to bother you, but I wanted to follow up a question someone asked a few years back - do you recall how you originally envisioned the city of Phlan on the northern Moonshore, ...
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..before Jeff Grubb and the TSR/SSI Pool of Radiance team used it in 1987?
Ed saith: Oh, yes, and I’ve written about that a time or two.
Its river was originally the Phlansarr, not the Stojenow (and it had far fewer real-world European names). It always had...
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..nobles, and a walled section, and a ruined “Old Phlan” quarter, and was always wealthy due to the metals trade (a major smelting center for raw ores, and home to crafters who cast many useful goods, from bowls to hinges and hasps, and smiths who made chain...
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...and nails in bulk). It was a keep-to-itself-politically city of hard workers, never an imperial power nor having the slightest desire to be.
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