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<blockquote data-quote="Imaro" data-source="post: 5829183" data-attributes="member: 48965"><p>IMO, this is one of 4e's greatest fumbles in presentation. It's lore is scattered, and often incomplete (which of course was compunded by their cancellation of the gazetteer). This in turn often leads to a situation where collecting, processing and using the lore is more trouble than it's worth for most... and if it's hard to use the lore well then most people aren't going to bother trying to put it all together or remember. For a game that's suppose to be all about usage at the table, it seems they really dropped the ball on this aspect of the game.</p><p> </p><p>Take the first of the lore snippets you've cited... it doesn't really tell me anything about Bryakus... except he's a primordial, and like almost every primordial mentioned in 4e, he fought the gods. Why did he create hydras? What relationship did the primordial have with these creatures? He was defeated but was he destroyed, imprisoned, or what? In other words don't just drop a random name, especially for something that didn't exist in previous editions, without some kind of reference. To make matters worse, if you search for Bryakus in the compendium... nothing comes up. IMO, nothing in this entry speaks to the mythology of Bryakus specifically and thus it is kind of pointless as far as lore goes. As always, YMMV.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Imaro, post: 5829183, member: 48965"] IMO, this is one of 4e's greatest fumbles in presentation. It's lore is scattered, and often incomplete (which of course was compunded by their cancellation of the gazetteer). This in turn often leads to a situation where collecting, processing and using the lore is more trouble than it's worth for most... and if it's hard to use the lore well then most people aren't going to bother trying to put it all together or remember. For a game that's suppose to be all about usage at the table, it seems they really dropped the ball on this aspect of the game. Take the first of the lore snippets you've cited... it doesn't really tell me anything about Bryakus... except he's a primordial, and like almost every primordial mentioned in 4e, he fought the gods. Why did he create hydras? What relationship did the primordial have with these creatures? He was defeated but was he destroyed, imprisoned, or what? In other words don't just drop a random name, especially for something that didn't exist in previous editions, without some kind of reference. To make matters worse, if you search for Bryakus in the compendium... nothing comes up. IMO, nothing in this entry speaks to the mythology of Bryakus specifically and thus it is kind of pointless as far as lore goes. As always, YMMV. [/QUOTE]
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