D&D 5E Mike Mearls interview - states that they may be getting off of the 2 AP/year train.

[Corpsetaker]

No it doesn't. Not a single thing a player does in any DM's Forgotten Realm campaign game is reflected in the official story of the Forgotten Realms. So no one is ever actually a "part of it". Rather, they are the protagonists of an alternate universe Forgotten Realms.

Sorry but you don't get to speak for myself and TONS of others like us. You may not be able to figure out how to run a game using the ever growing Forgotten Realms but that doesn't mean we can't. You don't set the standard for what can and cannot be done in a RPG.

 

[Corpsetaker]

Just to clarify, since you asked last time, I am laughing with your post because I assume this part was sarcasm. The idea that Paizo gives their customers what they ALL want, or that they are not profit focused, must be sarcasm. And I am showing appreciation for your subtle but clever humor.

No you didn't so please don't try and lie. You though you were laughing "at" my post but you seem to forgot that was changed. I never said Paizo wasn't there to make a profit, I said Paizo aren't on the profit treadmill where they sacrifice giving the customers what they want for the sake of having to make more and more profit.

You should try and actually read people's posts instead of reading one or two lines and then saying what you want to say.

 

[Corpsetaker]

For clarification, I am laughing with this post because it's a SICK BURN!

Not really but I guess someone like you would.

 

[Corpsetaker]

The setting doesn't change until WotC changes it. Your old books remain current until a new book supersedes them. So if you want to be sure your FR setting is "canonical," why on earth do you want new books to come out?

I don't think you quite understand canonical. Wizards has already come out with new books but they don't give you an update as to what is canonical and what isn't. Using your old material would be a form of homebrew because the setting has already moved on from that point. Right now we have a setting that was blown up, and then put back together because of the backlash of that blow up but instead of a retcon, we get a do over with out an actual do over with no explanation as to what has happened.

 

[Oofta]

No you didn't so please don't try and lie. You though you were laughing "at" my post but you seem to forgot that was changed. I never said Paizo wasn't there to make a profit, I said Paizo aren't on the profit treadmill where they sacrifice giving the customers what they want for the sake of having to make more and more profit.

You should try and actually read people's posts instead of reading one or two lines and then saying what you want to say.

So WOTC employees are slaves to the profit treadmill ... but they don't produce enough product for you ... but being on a profit treadmill would indicate that they shovel out as much as people would buy and then reboot once that's no longer profitable ... am I the only one having a hard time following the logic?

 

[DEFCON 1]

Sorry but you don't get to speak for myself and TONS of others like us. You may not be able to figure out how to run a game using the ever growing Forgotten Realms but that doesn't mean we can't. You don't set the standard for what can and cannot be done in a RPG.

I'm not speaking "for" you, I'm just stating the facts. Not a single person plays in the "official timeline" of the Forgotten Realms, because not a single campaign's events get incorporated into that official timeline. Every single one of us plays in an Faerunian "alternate universe" where we use parts of the official setting timeline as a starting point... and then spin off into all kinds of other events of ours that never actually occur in the official canon once WotC writes their next treatise and wipes it all away with different stuff happening instead.

 

[Shasarak]

"Oh No, I am not playing in the "Official" Forgotten Realms" said no one ever.

 

[Demetrios1453]

"Oh No, I am not playing in the "Official" Forgotten Realms" said no one ever.

It's almost amusing by this point that he keeps claiming that that's our point of view, when we've repeatedly told him otherwise. Yes, we know that any change might invalidate past canon; yes, we know that our campaigns are going to diverge from canon lore - and we don't care. We still would like to have as much detail as possible anyway! And we'll deal with the changes as they come with no problem, and certainly without the existential angst that we're no longer 100% canon like he seems to think we'll suffer.


I say, let 'im keep bludgeoning away at his strawman if it's that much fun for him...

 

[Charles Rampant]

You should try and actually read people's posts instead of reading one or two lines and then saying what you want to say.

I laughed with this line.

 

[schnee]

One thing I do have to agree on - I wish they'd create enhanced versions of the reprinted adventures.

Like - Return to the Tomb of Horrors was awesome. The city that sprung up around the old tomb was really old-school - smart players could deal with it by smarts and dumb players would get overwhelmed. Moil was moody, scary, bleak, and very tough.

Not sure how that could be done with all of them, but it would excite me a lot better than just having a few hours of conversion saved.