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[salomonkane]

Elminster's hat for anyone!!!

Alleluia !!!

But it will not make everyone happy ...


"Give me back my hat"



What a wonderful initiative, all my wishes of success ...

Finally, everything comes in time to those who wait ...

However, some questions:

You'll just implement the animation ?
Create the complet item ?
Make a mod ?

Eventually:

We can use hat (s) : in SOA and TOB ?,
Will we have the choice of colors ?
They can be magical ?

Resources Required:

On the Gameplay

You'll need Bams (Item Description & Inventory icon )
Editing magical attributes of the artifact (programming or using an game editor)

On the Screenplay

How to get the hat
Which will be the holder of the original hat
What would this hat
How could cost the hat
Where can I find this hat
When can we get this hat
Why get this hat ... ?

(...)

So that by your ambition and your needs you should ask the community here :
Ressources Request Forum ,

And acquit this administrative task (In several copies if necessary ) :
-The procedure of Resource Request Forms, (FAQ) ,
A true act of obédiance, but moreoveruseful, it is true ...

Regarding the resource persons,
To name but humbly, among the most Honoured :
Berelinde has real talent for writing (Game Script – Screenplay), Miloch holds the keys to the graphic programming ( Description BAMS & Inventory icon ) and Jarno aka the Imposter will help in all circumstances ...

Sources :

The hat of Elminster that the Scriptures say?

Origins :

Spoiler

October 13, 2004: Hello, all. I bring you the words of Ed on matters chapeaux:

Elminster has worn various hats down the years (most of them as part of his various disguises), but Faraer is correct: the hat was largely a creation of the TSR Art Department (long robes, beard, pointy hat, staff = wizard). Check Ned Dameron's interior art for El at the Magefair, and the art in the FR comic issues 7 and 8, for the 'right' look for El, most of the time [note the tall/gaunt appearance, LONG hair and beard].

The decision to change Elminster's look was made by WotC for 3rd edition; I heard the words "look less like Gandalf," but I have no idea if it was because WotC was then bidding for the LOTR card game license or not. And, yes, the Brand Manager of the day decreed that "El lost his hat when going through the dimensional rift into Hell." He meant destroyed, not 'strayed.'

Myself, I don't mind what Elminster looks like as long as Realms readers, gamers, and fans know it's Elminster (most of the time :}). After all, he can alter his appearance at will. So long as we have an in-game reason for why he decides to appear in a particular guise, I'm fine.

Now, writing a story that uses Elminster's hat is fine for your own entertainment, but of course it's NOT okay for publication, and WotC holds the copyright and will probably defend it. Note that "publication" DOES include posting it here or anywhere on the Net, distributing it to your friends, and even reading it aloud. Sorry. Mr. Phil Athans handles the Realms fiction at WotC, and Mr. Peter Archer manages all of the book lines (I can never keep up with their current formal titles), so they would be the ones to contact for permission, but I'm afraid I don't expect that you'll receive it. Sorry.

Note that you could very well HINT that the hat "fell from the sky, through a rift reeking of brimstone" without ever mentioning Elminster or Shadowdale (or any other Realms locale or character by name; don't use the name of the world or setting, either), and thereby be free to publish it, but please be careful.

(I personally don't have any problems with folks writing Realms stories, but it's not up to me, and WotC does have trademarks and the brand associated with them to protect. I daydream of things like an Elminster iPod, wherein the Old Mage would interrupt insipid songs with an exasperated, "Ye're not going to rot thy ears and mind with THIS tripe again, are ye?"... but 'tis just that: a daydream.)

So saith Ed.

Who's still frantically busy (book launch this Saturday, short story due before then, and -- oh yes -- a Knights of Myth Drannor novel to get done.

love to all,
THO

-Surreal at times not?


Caracteristics :

Spoiler

Elminster Aumar
Treasure: (...) hat of spell resistance (21)

Links :
The Alaundo's Library
http://www.candlekee.../sse_04-idx.htm
The Chosen of Mystra
http://dicefreaks.su....php?f=29&t=119

Inspiration Miscellaneous :
The Elminster Fan Club
Edwin Odesseiron

Edited by salomonkane, 13 August 2010 - 10:50 AM.

[Daulmakan]

Drop a line to Erephine or Miloch, they're the BAM gurus around here.

[@vGur]

I wrote them a week ago, but there no reply from them.

Anybody else?