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As is commonly said on these boards, YMMV.. or something. I think it means, Your mileage may vary. I prefer articles with more lore, fluff or whatever you want to call it. Other's prefer articles with more crunch. Both have a place in Dragon.

Not really wowed yet. The Death Knight article was alright. Dragon Horde was poor, and not what I expected. Too much in the way of pointless stats. I'm waiting for the Graz'zt article before passing a further judgement though, but it will need to be something truly special. I've no doubt the...

I have. Many times. It's a problem with players, not the setting. I've certainly not seen any evidence that the Realms as a setting brings out more players like this either.

Yeah. My post was poorly worded. My point was that it's irrelevant to this specific discussion, as WoTC's new method of publishing Dragon and Dungeon is getting rid of all third party advertising. So even if Paizo only got one third party advert in Dragon magazine a month, they would still be...

There is a problem with this. I don't see WoTC putting adverts up for third party products on their website, or the Digital Initiative, or new Dragon/Dungeon. So, technically, the print copies were getting more advertising dollars then the website ever will. I think another important factor to...

Give it to the Red Knight, perhaps? She's the Demigoddess of Strategy and Planning, and serves Tempus. It would mean changing her outlook a little to become a Goddess of War though.

I think we are closer to an agreement then you think, Dacileva. :) I too feel the same way. For those smaller scale stories, it's irrelevant if they are canon. But those stories I mentioned contribute a lot to the understanding of the Realms, I feel. The position that these stories are canon...

I assume you've not been playing in the Realms recently then, AcidCrash? We've had the Year of Rogue Dragons, the Cormyr series, the Return of the Archwizards and the Last Mythal series. That's four in 10 years. You could also include the Threat from the Sea in that one, which always gets...

Perhaps you can give us some reasons as to why you think like that, WayneLigon and handandwhy99? It's far too late to abandon the idea of novels being canon. Many of the plots written in the novels have been used in sourcebooks. For instance, saying 'Death of the Dragon' is no longer canon is...

I'm curious, where did you get your figures from, Merric? I'm also wondering if you've numbers for 2007, and corresponding numbers of the sales of all Wizards DnD products. I wonder if there is a similar rise and fall.

I don't get it. I mean, seriously, did players such as these have trouble accepting slight differences to the Canon? Couldn't they discuss these deviations with you in an adult manner? I'm interested in what the scale of these unintentional differences were too. Was it something like 'Oh...

Really, this idea needs to be put to bed. You need ONE Book to play in the Realms. Repeat after me. ONE. That book is the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting. Everything else is entirely optional. The reason I mentioned novels in relation to Cormyr is due to the Cormyr trilogy, which changed...

It's a good start. Like I said, we are missing sourcebooks on the Dales, Cormyr, Western Heartlands, Impiltur, the Old Empires (though Lost Empires is a good stop gap), Amn, Tethyr. The lack of sourcebooks for Cormyr and the Dales is most annoying, as they have seen a lot of change recently, and...

As is the 'They aren't burning our 3.5 Books' argument. There are not just uncharted regions in the Realms, but many major areas have not be detailed in this edition. We lack a 'Faiths of Faerún', and for a world where the gods have a fair bit of influence, that's very annoying. We've no updated...

This is true. However, if the canonical books are smaller scale, then they are easier to ignore in your game. Canon or not is not the issue here. The problems mentioned by those in this thread can be solved just by changing the emphasis of the novel line. Songs and Swords, Knights of Myth...

The problem is not that the novels are considered canon, it's what's written in the novels that is the problem. The continual string of RSE's, one after the other (and recently, overlapping. I.e. The Year of Rogue Dragons and the Elven Crusade novels) makes it hard to keep up with the changes in...

Probably. But the exact details of Elminster's status haven't been made clear. All Shadowdale says is that 'Gravely Wounded, he was whisked away by his contingency spells - and his tower itself was blasted into ruin and hurled into some far plane.' If you have a direct line to Eric Boyd, feel...

I've never actually read Making of a Mage. It's rather hard to get, as I'm sure you can understand. ;) Can't really give a response to that till I get the Annotated Elminster later this year, so if you could perhaps give me an overview of what happens, that would be great!

I wouldn't object to Novels being taken out of canon, nor would I really object to them staying in. If you don't like them, don't buy them. What I do think is annoying is how the changes they make in novels are not clarified and explained in supplements. I'd love a Volo's Guide type affair at...

20 or 30 good people with that much power is a large overestimate. Regardless, the majority of those truly mighty characters have nations, cities and large organisations to administer. Alustriel has the Silver Marches, which takes up all her time. The Simbul rules Aglarond.. most of the time...