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<blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 4024793" data-attributes="member: 7177"><p>You know, I've always said: "Wait until we know more about the changes in the Realms before we pass judgement", but now that we have this information, I am somewhat sceptical.</p><p></p><p>Mind you, I don't doubt that a world going through such drastic changes could be a fantastic place for adventures - and the setting book might have very high-quality writing. But this seems to change what (at least to my mind) the Forgotten Realms were all about.</p><p></p><p>You see, I've always seen the Realms as <em>the</em> "standard" and "plain vanilla" setting - a standard array of races and cultures (including all those Earth parallels), and a number of conventions that are now seen as cliches, but only because the Realms established most of them in the first place. All these changes at least seem to push the Realms into something else - something more post-apocalyptic (similar Scarred Lands?) and alien.</p><p></p><p>The end result might be pretty cool - but many people enjoyed the Realms precisely because it <em>was</em> "plain vanilla". It was the one setting where everyone knew the conventions, and now that doesn't seem to be granted any more.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Side note: Did you spot the "Magic in the Year of The Ageless One" subheader? This <em>seems</em> to imply that the "Year of The Ageless One" is the default starting year for the new campaign setting - but that year is 1479 DR, while the Spellplague was in 1385 DR. So does this mean we are going to skip a century?</p><p></p><p>That <em>would</em> give lots of time for society to settle down again after the changes - but that also means that a lot of familiar NPCs, organizations, and nations will be either gone or drastically altered.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jürgen Hubert, post: 4024793, member: 7177"] You know, I've always said: "Wait until we know more about the changes in the Realms before we pass judgement", but now that we have this information, I am somewhat sceptical. Mind you, I don't doubt that a world going through such drastic changes could be a fantastic place for adventures - and the setting book might have very high-quality writing. But this seems to change what (at least to my mind) the Forgotten Realms were all about. You see, I've always seen the Realms as [i]the[/i] "standard" and "plain vanilla" setting - a standard array of races and cultures (including all those Earth parallels), and a number of conventions that are now seen as cliches, but only because the Realms established most of them in the first place. All these changes at least seem to push the Realms into something else - something more post-apocalyptic (similar Scarred Lands?) and alien. The end result might be pretty cool - but many people enjoyed the Realms precisely because it [i]was[/i] "plain vanilla". It was the one setting where everyone knew the conventions, and now that doesn't seem to be granted any more. Side note: Did you spot the "Magic in the Year of The Ageless One" subheader? This [i]seems[/i] to imply that the "Year of The Ageless One" is the default starting year for the new campaign setting - but that year is 1479 DR, while the Spellplague was in 1385 DR. So does this mean we are going to skip a century? That [i]would[/i] give lots of time for society to settle down again after the changes - but that also means that a lot of familiar NPCs, organizations, and nations will be either gone or drastically altered. [/QUOTE]
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