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It's cool that Ed's likely on crew.
As for the godlike NPC's, it's kind of part and parcel of the setting. At low levels, Elminster is handling the big evil threats. As you approach his level (which, given how many levels most D&D games cover, you may NEVER do), you also get to handle big evil threats. It's the feeling that the world exists beyond what the PC's do, and in FR, adventuring isn't a one-time, save-the-world kind of thing, but an ongoing process of constant struggle. It's sort of like: what's Moradin doing while you're clearing out a dungeon full of goblins? Presumably, battling Maglubiyet and his exarchs on a stage much greater than a dungeon. If you're not a fan of the fact that the wold has 20th level adventurers doing stuff offstage, that's fine, but you don't HAVE to play in FR. Eberron, forex, is well suited to that! And if you DO play in FR, you can still screw with them as much as you personally choose to do so, if you want.
Don't get me wrong, the only time I ran FR was in 3e when I blew up the setting with Cthulu (in something strongly resembling the Spellplague in effect -- Elminster gone insane and Drizzit on a genocidal rampage) and it was a blast and a half. But I'm under no delusions that this would be fit for mass consumption. People who like FR, part of what a lot of them like, is the idea that their stories can intersect the stories of the heroes they have read about.
I think a lot of the attempts to "fix" FR so that it gains new fans loose sight of the fact that (a) you're not going to win over more fans by changing what FR does, and (b) you're going to alienate existing fans by changing what FR does. Rather than make FR into something it's not, it would be better for it to be the best FR it can be, as it is.
And I think Ed can do that, even if it means jumping back to the original 1e box and re-presenting it.
That said:
FR's weird sexual stuff has always been one of the things that have tuned me off about the setting, but it's also been one of the things that kind of help define the tone. It's always the swinging '60's in Faerun.
As for the godlike NPC's, it's kind of part and parcel of the setting. At low levels, Elminster is handling the big evil threats. As you approach his level (which, given how many levels most D&D games cover, you may NEVER do), you also get to handle big evil threats. It's the feeling that the world exists beyond what the PC's do, and in FR, adventuring isn't a one-time, save-the-world kind of thing, but an ongoing process of constant struggle. It's sort of like: what's Moradin doing while you're clearing out a dungeon full of goblins? Presumably, battling Maglubiyet and his exarchs on a stage much greater than a dungeon. If you're not a fan of the fact that the wold has 20th level adventurers doing stuff offstage, that's fine, but you don't HAVE to play in FR. Eberron, forex, is well suited to that! And if you DO play in FR, you can still screw with them as much as you personally choose to do so, if you want.
Don't get me wrong, the only time I ran FR was in 3e when I blew up the setting with Cthulu (in something strongly resembling the Spellplague in effect -- Elminster gone insane and Drizzit on a genocidal rampage) and it was a blast and a half. But I'm under no delusions that this would be fit for mass consumption. People who like FR, part of what a lot of them like, is the idea that their stories can intersect the stories of the heroes they have read about.
I think a lot of the attempts to "fix" FR so that it gains new fans loose sight of the fact that (a) you're not going to win over more fans by changing what FR does, and (b) you're going to alienate existing fans by changing what FR does. Rather than make FR into something it's not, it would be better for it to be the best FR it can be, as it is.
And I think Ed can do that, even if it means jumping back to the original 1e box and re-presenting it.
That said:
Incenjucar said:
FR's weird sexual stuff has always been one of the things that have tuned me off about the setting, but it's also been one of the things that kind of help define the tone. It's always the swinging '60's in Faerun.
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