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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 5935060" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>Getting Ed Greenwood on board to work on the Realms, and indeed as the primary voice in the Realms, is a good thing. That said, I do think they also need a strong editorial presence if only to rein in some of Ed's madder impulses.</p><p></p><p>... and especially where the likes of Elminster is concerned. While Elminster (and Drizzt) are iconic characters and sell a <em>lot</em> of novels, they're quite poisonous to the Realms as a game setting. Frankly, the RPG setting would be best served by killing them off. Given that they <em>won't</em> that, they need to be really careful when writing the book to place the PCs in centre stage.</p><p></p><p>In particular:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This text has <em>absolutely no place</em> in the RPG setting book - it totally trivialises anything that the PCs might accomplish in the setting.</p><p></p><p>(FWIW, both Dragonlance and Star Wars have exactly the same problem - the section of the timeline that most people are interested in is also the one dominated by a set of iconic heroes that loom extremely large over anything the PCs might do. It's a delicate balancing act for GMs and writers to keep the PCs at the centre of their story, while acknowledging Luke, Han, Tanis, Caramon, and the rest.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 5935060, member: 22424"] Getting Ed Greenwood on board to work on the Realms, and indeed as the primary voice in the Realms, is a good thing. That said, I do think they also need a strong editorial presence if only to rein in some of Ed's madder impulses. ... and especially where the likes of Elminster is concerned. While Elminster (and Drizzt) are iconic characters and sell a [i]lot[/i] of novels, they're quite poisonous to the Realms as a game setting. Frankly, the RPG setting would be best served by killing them off. Given that they [i]won't[/i] that, they need to be really careful when writing the book to place the PCs in centre stage. In particular: This text has [i]absolutely no place[/i] in the RPG setting book - it totally trivialises anything that the PCs might accomplish in the setting. (FWIW, both Dragonlance and Star Wars have exactly the same problem - the section of the timeline that most people are interested in is also the one dominated by a set of iconic heroes that loom extremely large over anything the PCs might do. It's a delicate balancing act for GMs and writers to keep the PCs at the centre of their story, while acknowledging Luke, Han, Tanis, Caramon, and the rest.) [/QUOTE]
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