D&D 5E Listened to latest "Lore you should know" and......

[Corpsetaker]

Counter argument to what? Sent from my GT-I9506 using EN World mobile app

*shrugs* I guess that's for you to figure out.

 

[ccs]

Not by choice though. If they buy the AP's then they are using FR by default. That's not the same thing.

No, they're BUYING FR as a default. How exactly they're using it might vary considerably.

 

[dagger]

I felt the same way after reading a few Forgotten Realms books. They were filled with people much more powerful and interesting than the players' characters.

I read the novels and realized they were just novels.

 

[Valetudo]

Not by choice though. If they buy the AP's then they are using FR by default. That's not the same thing.

hey, I didnt say this was a good thing for FR fans. Lets be honest, they lost most of those during 4th edition. But they where not making enough money from the FR fanbase. FR needed to be reset into a very generic form for them to sell it to everyone. You just need to understand that its all about profits right now.

 

[Zardnaar]

Just do what I did. Find a new world. FR died for me 2008 or so,Golarion is similar enough likely gonna go to Midgard.

 

[Shasarak]

I think this is their way of saying "We're sick of having to keep coming up with and keep track of an official 'timeline' of stuff happening over every single inch of Faerun. It's irritating to us, and rather useless for most players. So we'll put out the occasion bit of info like you'll find in SCAG or Storm King's Thunder... but we aren't going to spend any more money or time filling out or detailing the rest. We'll leave that to the individual players who actually have that OCD in them to know everything. Let them keep filling up the Forgotten Realms wiki with every bit and bob that gets dropped in every point of media... or let them create it, write it up, and then publish it on DMsGuild. Cause we don't want to do it anymore, and we want the players to finally realize and accept we aren't going to do it anymore."

The easiest way to get players to finally stop worrying about the "canon" of the Forgotten Realms is to stop actually making books focused on "canon" in the first place.

That is like wanting to have a Car but not wanting to do the irritating things like filling it up with petrol, checking the oil, taking it to be serviced. Yeah why would you wast money doing any of those things?

I have never heard of anything so ridiculous as wanting to stop people caring about your setting.

 

[Eubani]

It's annoying when they said that in this lore you should know we will be telling you about XYZ but when you listen to it they say you don't need XYZ.

 

[AaronOfBarbaria]

If they buy the AP's then they are using FR by default.

Buying the APs, even running the APs, is not a way in which WotC has put tally marks in the "uses Forgotten Realms" column.

They just ask people "What setting are you using" and a significant number of answers come back "Forgotten Realms", and they realize that is significant because those folks that are buying APs are buying books which contain the necessary information to use them in other campaign settings.

 

[Parmandur]

Buying the APs, even running the APs, is not a way in which WotC has put tally marks in the "uses Forgotten Realms" column.



They just ask people "What setting are you using" and a significant number of answers come back "Forgotten Realms", and they realize that is significant because those folks that are buying APs are buying books which contain the necessary information to use them in other campaign settings.

But more dangerous for WotC: it seems people are running FR all over the place in terms of era, if you look at threads on that topic: pre-ToT, 2E, 3E, 4E, custom-built...they've seen the folly of trying to get everyone on the same page on "canon" questions like "what century does this AP occur in?"

So they don't bother; DM prerogative.

Long term, with the movie plans and such, I'm sure canon Realms will survive. But for RPG support, right now, they aren't going to force a particular version of the setting via metaplot.

 

[Parmandur]

It's annoying when they said that in this lore you should know we will be telling you about XYZ but when you listen to it they say you don't need XYZ.

But that is what they have to say about it? And to be fair, the original Grey Box said you don't need it, the RPG books are game aids for DMs making their own thing.

I use SCAG with the 3E book, and change what I feel like.