Recent content by IconoclastX

Such is the fate of all deities in 4e - they want 30th level characters to be able to go take out a god. Seriously.

Perhaps, but don't you think one of them could have tossed a balled up piece of paper into the adjoining cubicle that said "Hey, we already invented Dragonborn. Think up another name." Of course, with their penchant for just reusing names and changing the details so that people mistakenly...

Heheh... well, I've never been a fan of Greyhawk - not that I dislike it, we just never played in it much (at least not much as a campaign world in that sense). I have always felt for the Greyhawk folks who have been hard-done-by as the world gets sometimes ignored entirely, then used like a...

OK, with that definition I can definitely see the point about rabid fans not being of much use in keeping the setting alive. And this is where I think you'll come to the point of getting the question "why not create a new setting that can adequately encapsulate all the great things you want to...

I have no delusions of my importance, trust me. :) And if anything 4e has done, it's to reinforce that the company has assigned me no importance either. I guess the difference is that there is this level that exists with the Forgotten Realms that doesn't seem to exist for any other game...

I think that the WoW claim is also ridiculous, but I think that gaming settings are a little different. The problem that everyone who has a problem seems to have is that there is "too much history" for the Realms that they can't get involved. That seems to indicate to me that it's unlikely for...

Not at all - but you obviously don't consider yourself a "rabid fan" which was the term used in the post to which I was replying. :) I try to avoid saying things like "real fans" or "real D&D" - it never works out well when someone starts talking like that.

"Easily explainable phenomenon" with the precondition of internal consistency, yes. Obviously none of this is real, but this entire hobby is about the suspension of disbelief. If one of the designers at the table asked "So what should goblins look like?" and another constantly yelled "Goblins...

That's about the impression I got while I was reading that, too. "We don't know why we made the changes.... we need reasons? Sheesh, you people sure are inconvenient." As usual, they're designing backwards when it comes to a very fluff-rich world. Rules are created, "cool" events occur, and...

Because you can write a novel that has both your name and the Forgotten Realms logo on it? I don't really want to say something like "it's not the REAL Forgotten Realms", because that gets into some philosophical discussions about what is the "real" Realms. But you can see that you are writing...

Not to pick on you, Sunmaster, but you're just the latest person I've heard express this. This is like saying, "I've always hated the ice cream flavour of Chocolate. I'm glad they've obliterated it and now it tastes like berries, but it's still called Chocolate so I can still say I'm eating...

And now (in the new timeline) Unther disappeared and the Dragonborn were dimension shifted in its place... I can't even comment.

Just because they're buying the rulebooks doesn't mean they're going any farther than that. Like any smart business, they are going to weigh their options once they have the information in hand. As a consumer, I can say "I'm never buying any 4e books" and be done with it. No company, really...

Why do you think that companies offer "free" stuff, or greatly reduced in price stuff? They're called loss leaders that bring people in so they can buy other overpriced stuff. That's what the SRD did, I suspect, for 3.x. How many people had *only* the SRD? Few, I would think. So they didn't...

I believe this is partly because if it then gets posted on Gleemax or DI that it probably becomes their (WotC) property.