TSR felt that the Forgotten Realms would be a more open-ended setting than the epic Dragonlance setting, and chose the Realms as a ready-made campaign for AD&D 2nd Edition. : 19 According to Greenwood, Grubb asked him "Do you just make this stuff up as you go, or do you really have a huge campaign world?" he answered "yes" to both questions. In 1986, the American game publishing company TSR began looking for a new campaign setting for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game, and assigned Jeff Grubb to find out more about the setting used by Greenwood in his articles for Dragon magazine.
: 19 He wrote voluminous entries to Dragon magazine, using the Realms as a setting for his descriptions of magic items, monsters, and spells. According to Greenwood, his players' thirst for detail pushed him to further develop the Forgotten Realms setting: "They want it to seem real, and work on 'honest jobs' and personal activities, until the whole thing into far more than a casual campaign." īeginning with the periodical's 30th issue in 1979, Greenwood published a series of short articles that detailed the setting in The Dragon magazine, the first of which was about a monster known as The Curst. He used the Realms as a setting for his campaigns, which centered around the fictional locales of Waterdeep and Shadowdale, locations that would figure prominently in his later writing. Greenwood discovered the Dungeons & Dragons game in 1975 and soon became a regular player. He imagined such worlds as being the source of humanity's myths and legends. Greenwood conceived of the Forgotten Realms as one world in a "multiverse" of parallel worlds which includes the Earth. He began writing stories about the Forgotten Realms as a child, starting in the mid 1960s they were his "dream space for swords and sorcery stories". 5.3 Other fiction anthology contributionsĮd Greenwood grew up in the upscale Toronto suburb of Don Mills.
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