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The credit for this Guide to Herbs is shared with the people listed below. However any criticisms or dislikes that you have, or any errors that appear in the guide are my responsibility alone.

Special thanks are owed to Druann Pagliasotti who contributed a number of herbs to the fourth edition of this guide (which are included in this 5th edition), as well as making extensive notes on the herbs contained in previous editions and notes on the storage and availability of herbs.

Special thanks also to Maya Deva Kniese who contributed the document that formed the basis of the section on the Herbalism proficiency that appears as Appendix A of this edition of the guide, for her notes on climate as well as contributing a number of herbs to the guide.

Thanks to Sean Snyder, Seth Klein, and Frank Shears who all contributed herbs to this new edition of the Guide.

Thanks are also owed to Michael Bertalan who compiled a table of Name/ Region and Time/ Cost/ Result based on the third edition of this guide. This table has formed the basis for Appendix C: General Information on Herbs.

Thanks also to Paul Mathews who compiled a set of tables for the third edition of this Herbal. These tables formed the basis for some of the tables contained in this fifth edition, most notably Appendices D and E.

Thanks to Andrew Hately for access to his books.

Thanks to Raymond E. Feist for generously answering my question on the use of herbs in the world of Midkemia.

I would also like to thank many other people for their comments, criticisms and encouragement concerning my guide. I would like to mention them all by name, but unfortunately my computer ate my list. Special thanks however go to Viola Krings, Beth Larabee, Heidi Cole (Chalindra), and Michael Isherwood for their comments and suggestions.

Ezra Van Everbroek produced a marvellous hypertext version of the fourth edition of the guide. I am deeply indebted for this. Runar Magnusson (Doc), Erik Trimble, Christopher A. Brooks, Alex Forst-Rakoczy, and Ole A. Ringdal have also hosted or host a copy of the guide or a link to it on their webpages. I know other people have done so as well, and I'd like to thank them all as well, but these are the only ones that I know of personally. If I left you out please let me know.

I would like to thank all of the people I have gamed with over the last fifteen years, in particular the members of the Ambulant In Fabulam RPGamers Society, the original inspiration behind this guide, and in particular, Toni Barber, the archivist for the society, and Antoinette Vasey, the societies secretary.

This guide was originally based in large part on Appendix 1 of Alexander Scott's MAELSTROM roleplaying game, published by Penguin in 1984, and worth getting just for this section. No challenge is made to any copyright status held on this work.

This guide was partly inspired by the game ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS(TM), (c) 1977-1997 TSR Inc and DUNGEONS & DRAGONS(TM) (c) 1974-1996 TSR Inc. No challenge is made to any copyright status held on these works.

This guide was partly inspired by the game MIDDLE-EARTH ROLE PLAYING(TM), (c) 1986 Tolkien Enterprises. No challenge is made to any copyright status held on this work.

This guide was also partly inspired by the DRAGON WARRIORS game by Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson which was published by Corgi Books, from 1983-1986. No challenge is made to any copyright status held on these assorted works.

I would like to thank Daniel Mayes for his playtesting the first edition of this guide, Paul Mathews for playtesting the second edition of the guide, David Gillet for playtesting the third edition, Antoinette Vasey, Daniel Fields, David Gillet, Paul Fields, Emma Belantyne, JP Forster, and Linda Makepeace for playtesting the fourth edition of the guide, and Antoinette Vasey, Daniel Fields, Paul Fields, Emma Belantyne, Peter Creighton, Toni Barber, and Simon Loyd for playtesting the fifth edition of this guide.

I used for background information a document called `The Great Net Herb Pamphlet.' I have been unable to identify the author(s) of this pamphlet. Whoever they were, they deserve my thanks.

I would like to thank the denizens of the e-mail lists ADND-L, REALMS, GMAST-L, TAOGM-L, NETBOOKS-L, members of the IRPS, contributors to the usenet groups, AUS.GAMES.ROLEPLAY, REC.GAMES.FRP.DND, and REC.GAMES.FRP.MISC, for their comments, criticisms and advice concerning this herbal and their discussions on many aspects of role playing.

I would also like to thank the contributors to the usenet group, ALT.FOLKLORE.HERBS for their valuable discussions on herbalism, herbs, and their uses.

I would like to thank all people who have written or contributed to official or unofficial rules supplements on the Net and elsewhere for their inspiration in particular Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, authors and originators of "Dungeons & Dragons", Ed Greenwood, the creator of "The Forgotten Realms", Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson, the co-creators of the "Dragon Warriors" FRPG, the authors of "The Complete Guide to Alcohol for Fantasy Role Playing Games" for their appendix on drug use, Hank Driskill and John Gavigan for their unofficial "Highlander" rules which got me interested in Netbooks, the author(s) of the "Netbook: Poisons of the Realm", who I have been unable to identify, but who did a sterling job in providing rules for hundreds of poisons. Adrienne Mills used this work as a foundation for her "Net Book of Poisons" which is very detailed and I recommend to anyone. Finally Ron Knight (Modar) who also produced an excellent list of poisons and rules for using them.

The above list may, unfortunately, be incomplete. If I left you out, I apologise. Please let me know, so I can rectify the omission.

Finally, I would like to thank the GeoCities (http://www.geocities.com) organisation for providing me with free web space which allows me to make my guide easily available on the Internet. If you need web space, GeoCities is a great place to get it.

I welcome criticisms about this guide and contributions to future editions. Any contributions that I incorporate will be acknowledged in the guide.

I can be e-mailed at: mailto:drednort@eisa.net.au or drednort@hotmail.com (the first address is better) or by normal mail:

Mr Shaun Hately
45 Moreton St
Frankston North
Victoria 3200
AUSTRALIA

Version 5.0 11th February 1997

Cynthia Higginbotham would like to acknowledge the following sources for the various pictures: Guide to the Index of Medieval Medical Images, Nomad's Herbal Graphics, and Medicinal Plant Images from the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine -- 22 Oct 1998

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