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GreySage

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Fri Oct 21, 2011 8:57 am  
The origin of Nystul

We're discussing Nystul in this thread at the Piazza. Grodog already knows most of this, since I used his site as a crutch, but some people might not. Also, Allen Varney showed up to school us.

One thing I thought was interesting was reading about Mike Nystul's actual player character, the half-elf Bond, who adventured for a time on Lendore Isle before his inglorious death at 3rd level.
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Fri Oct 21, 2011 11:34 pm  

That's some fun stuff! Cool
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Sat Oct 22, 2011 9:10 pm  

That was a good read! Nystul was always underappreciated.
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Sun Oct 23, 2011 8:27 am  

Thanks for the pointer, Rip! Whenever I get access back to my web site, I'll update that info.

Rip on the Piazza wrote:

Dragon #219 says "He is also the only person to have an AD&D spell named after him, not the character" (which isn't exactly true, since Tasha is named after a real person, and Otiluke and Drawmij weren't the names of the PCs those people played)


FWIW, Dennis Sustare (RPG designer of Bunnies & Burrows, among others) is the namesake for the druid spell Chariot of Sustarre too, since he was the creator of the OD&D Druid in Eldritch Wizardry.
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Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:19 am  

Found you ;)

Is there a deeper connection between Greyhawk's Nystul and the Wizard Nystul from the Ultima computer games?

-Havard
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Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:45 am  

I had always wondered about the conflicting Brad Nystul/Mike Nystul claims. I didn't know they were all family. Interesting.

Havard wrote:
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Is there a deeper connection between Greyhawk's Nystul and the Wizard Nystul from the Ultima computer games?

-Havard

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