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<blockquote data-quote="ourchair" data-source="post: 5741118" data-attributes="member: 85362"><p>The Realms are HUGELY popular and there's a big faction of people who are kind of unhappy with the original setting books for 4E, nevermind those who were also unhappy with the time-jump and spell plague.</p><p></p><p>The sudden FR focus is basically WotC trying to win that (sizable) audience back to 4E, in the form of massive product goodwill, despite the initial statement that they wouldn't revisit settings after putting out a player's guide and a campaign guide. </p><p></p><p>Simply put, they're already having a hard time retaining their audience for 4E -- which saddens me -- and having a pretty slim set of unsatisfying offerings for Realms fans wasn't helping. Putting out new FR products that meet the current standards for design is pretty much in their best interest.</p><p></p><p>And I say this as someone who really really does NOT like The Forgotten Realms. </p><p></p><p>As it is, I kinda wish they would do the same for Eberron. Perhaps a 'Stormreach Campaign Setting' book and 'Heroes of Eberron' which introduce new Eberron-flavored builds for existing classes and themes similar to the 'adventuring archetypes' mentioned in the various Eberron splatbooks (i.e. Dragonmarked Scions, Inquisitives, Magewrights, etc.)</p><p></p><p>I would also love an Underdark box set, though the Underdark supplement was pretty great, really.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ourchair, post: 5741118, member: 85362"] The Realms are HUGELY popular and there's a big faction of people who are kind of unhappy with the original setting books for 4E, nevermind those who were also unhappy with the time-jump and spell plague. The sudden FR focus is basically WotC trying to win that (sizable) audience back to 4E, in the form of massive product goodwill, despite the initial statement that they wouldn't revisit settings after putting out a player's guide and a campaign guide. Simply put, they're already having a hard time retaining their audience for 4E -- which saddens me -- and having a pretty slim set of unsatisfying offerings for Realms fans wasn't helping. Putting out new FR products that meet the current standards for design is pretty much in their best interest. And I say this as someone who really really does NOT like The Forgotten Realms. As it is, I kinda wish they would do the same for Eberron. Perhaps a 'Stormreach Campaign Setting' book and 'Heroes of Eberron' which introduce new Eberron-flavored builds for existing classes and themes similar to the 'adventuring archetypes' mentioned in the various Eberron splatbooks (i.e. Dragonmarked Scions, Inquisitives, Magewrights, etc.) I would also love an Underdark box set, though the Underdark supplement was pretty great, really. [/QUOTE]
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