Who the hell is Ed Greenwood.

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He's the creator of the Forgotten Realms campaign setting.

I don't get the joke either.

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Ed Greenwood is sometimes jokingly accused of inserting his fetishes into the Forgotten Realms setting and disguising them, namely transformation and gender-bending.

Some examples:
The Drow Goddess Eilistraee, whose male followers could be transformed into females via ritual and to spend some time as a chick instead of a dude. They could also opt to not transform back into a dude.
Elminster, who either spent some time transformed into a girl or transformed himself into a girl to evade notice or because fuck you he's a wizard.
The Drow Goddess Lloth, who transforms Drow who have angered her into sub-humanoid Driders as a form of punishment.
Various cursed magical items that transform their wearer into the opposite sex.

If there was ever a person who inserted their magical realm into a tabletop game, Ed Greenwood is by far the most successful and widespread of them.

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Ed's home version of the Realms is MUCH raunchier than the version TSR/WOTC published. Like, free love, orgies, polyamory, a much wider variety of marriage types than is currently available in the real world...

...to be fair, though, Drider transformation was not something Ed invented. It's from Greyhawk.

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Plus the Girdle of Masculinity/Femininity first appeared in the A&D DMG so that was also Gygax. That being said Greenwood probably got a lot of millage out of it.

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Huge axe... formerly big and muscular... Dollars to Doughnuts he was a Barbarian... and now.. give him/her drider powers and oh dear gods that scares the living crap out of me.

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I guess Ed Greenwood is my spirit animal then.

Though I don't insert my fetishes in my tabletop campaigns. I merely fantasize about doing it.

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Oh, here's one I forgot: every time you see the word "festhall" in a published Forgotten Realms product, that's a place where Mr. Greenwood wrote "brothel." :D

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This is basically Ed Greenwood: http://gunshowcomic.com/471

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"Well, at least I'm not dead."

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