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You know you're screwed either way ;) :p : Asmodeus is a god in the Pathfinder Chronicles. In fact, when I read about 4e introducing Asmodeus as a deity, my first thought was: Hey, they stole that from pathfinder! Anyway, that's really a small and quickly correctible change in my opinion...

I'd say so, too: They don't give out early drafts of the game to playtesters. We can expect some tweaks, maybe serious ones, but I doubt that there will be any paradigm shifts. I know that I'd give out playtest material to all the major publishers (and maybe even most minor ones). They'd be...

D&D Miniatures will be like that, too: The set for May '08 (some Dungon or other) will introduce the DDM 4e rules. They will also provide new stats for the three sets that were/will be released this year, and for some of the older figures. The rest of the figures will no longer be playable with...

I'd bet good money on that. They seem hell-bent on changing the Realms to fit 4e rules, instead of the other way around.

You could always get GameMastery modules.

I'll be "canceling", too. Canceling my support for WotC. Paizo doesn't kick old-time fans in the groin like Wizards seems to be doing right now (and this isn't the first time they showed that they are perfectly comfortable with ignoring parts of their customer base).

Not with 4e as a whole, but it certainly seems as if they wanted to get rid of Forgotten Realms fans. The way they introduce extreme changes and stick to them (while they said that the Eberron changes will be minimised due to fan requests) and won't even try to allay our suspicions seems to say...

Yes, but they're all married to beautiful women, and thus don't want him near the house. The others were priests of Mystra, and their goddess died.

Neither did I. Exactly. It never made sense to me: The heroes are the only high-level characters on the whole world. Except the BBEG and most of his minions, of course.

And I think that the real solution for that was always just not playing in the Realms. It works fast (not having to wait for them to change the setting to fit you) and has the added benefit to give them who want such a detailed setting what they want. I don't know whether this is a smart move...

That's rules changes, not setting changes. Of course, the 4e Realms will see both, in extreme forms. The Weave is no longer part of the Realms. Gods know what's with the Shadow Weave. Lots of characters, locations, and deities will be gone or quite different. Races will probably change...

Well, WotC doesn't. If they did, they wouldn't go to such lengths to make ingame excuses for the rules changes.

Not Future. Present. Netheril is, and always was, history. When the Realms were first created, the age of Netheril was already long past. There was no new edition that made the way things worked back then different. And, you know, can't play in the age of Netheril with 4e rules, because they'll...

Still, they're all major characters that have died: Khelben: Well, I guess I don't have to say much about Khelben "Blackstaff" Arunson, former Lord of Waterdeep, archmage of said city, chosen of Mystra, yada yada yada. Zaknafein: Drow warrior. Drizzt's father, and major influence of his...

That's a great summary of what all the information we have points toward.

Yes. I broke into their office and stole it.

That's a very important point. Will the new buyers outnumber those who stop buying? They change the Realms so it's 100% compatible to all of 4e's rules and concepts, old fans be damned. This might lead to some people becoming interested in the FR (again). Some of those might stick with the...

I seem to be doomed to repeat one thing: Change isn't an all-or-nothing matter. No one's saying that the Realms should never change, and we're not saying that the changes should only be small and inconsequential. But they went too far. You can't justify changing everything by saying "no change...

Maybe there's too much material out that fans of the setting declare as too important to be 'wrong', but changing all that material at once is probably the best way to annoy as many fans as possible. It's not as if the Realms were frozen all this time, especially during 3e. Stuff like the City...

Yes, and also too much change period. And that a lot of changes seem to be introduced just to hammer the shape of 4e's core assumptions into the Realms, destroying the Realms' identity - all the things that set the Realms apart from GreyHawk and similar settings seem to disappear. I wouldn't...