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If you read my post you see who I adressed, and why.

No. But (and it wasn't you, if I recall correctly) blaming one "anti-4E" poster for being impolite, but not blaming the pro-4E poster that called the OP "Nonsense" is rather hypocritical. If one complains about edition warriors, complain about both sides, not just "your" side.

Boromir died at the end of that scene. He didn't just surge heal back to full in 5 minutes after Aragon got to him. In game mechanics, he ran out of hitpoints. In 4E mechanics, if he had had a healing surge left, he'd have survived. And suddenly, the arrows would not have been actual hits. I...

Ideally, the player book would have all the "known" setting info, the DM book all the "behind the scenes" info. Putting regional overviews into the DM info, and duplicating them in the player info, seems a waste to me. And expecting players to buy the DM book for the info defeats the purpose of...

Does it offer more details than the FRCS about the culture, society and customs of the two genasi countries as well as High Imaskar?

Any of the regional info in the FRCS would be among the minimum info needed for a player playing a character from that region. If the Player Guide duplicates that info and the DM needs the guide as well, then the FRCS wasted a lot of space for nothing. If it doesn't duplicate the info then the...

They could win, if they just offered more info, but made it clear that DMs were free to pick and choose from them. They still can win, if they add more such info in Dragon articles. And of course don't let novels mess FR up again. But what is around so far is not enough - especially not for new...

I ignored novels in 3E, anyone could do the same. I also never had such blinders as you mention - I modified FR as I pleased. But someone who is too inexperienced to modify a setting won't be able to make up their own fluff either. What I want is as much info as possible, to pick and choose...

Neither calling 4E fans "zealots" nor calling the OP "Nonsense" is exactly polite, or non-confrontational. Too bad both sides seem to overlook their own faults.

As a side note, I did not vote on the poll since my option - "I'd play in that game, caster or non-caster" - was not possible.

A fighter in 3E at 5 hitpoints is weakened. He can't just spend a few healing surges, and is good to go for another dragged out fight - he is at 5 hitpoints, weak, and easy to kill. The results of a healing surge, and what hit points represent, is the point of the last few pages. And that 4E...

That is a problem. And you'll not be able to run FR until you overcome that, not with all the novels and Dragon articles adding stuff over time - but as I fear, scattered around, and not sorted by regions. And good luck trying to look up info from a novel.

It means that he has taken a very large number of small wounds. That's not something you shrug off with an act of will, at least not for longer than a few minutes. Blood loss alone will weaken you. No. They would be an issue each time they result in wounds getting healed. Given how few damage...

But those all had regional sourcebooks coming afterwards. 4E hasn't. (Of course some will say there might be such books, but in that case: Where is the "more accessible because of less info" argument going then?)

It may not be better for you, but it's better for me. I'd rather have a PC drink a potion and have magical healing than get some order from a warlord, and ignore wounds for a week. If I describe wounds, and they do not get healed, then we roll with it, simple as that. If a PC has a broken leg...

They made DM customisation mandatory. That's very nice if you want to sell adventure paths, but it doesn't really make the realms accessible to new DMs who are not used to make things up. Not to mention that any DM who can handle as much customisation as is needed already was experienced enough...

It's patronising to say "too much info is too much for you to handle, so we won't offer it, you dumb idiot DM." And that's how this "too much detail is bad" reads to me. Give me details, and allow me to pick and choose how much of it I use. The problem is that the book doesn't offer much...

Reducing setting information is not really making the game more acessible. It just reduces the game's scope and options. 3E FR already showed less detailed information compared to 2E. 4E FR is much worse, reducing entire regions to cliff notes of cliff notes. I don't know about you, but having...

Because it strains my (and most likely my players') sense of immersion if someone gets wounded to within an inch of his life, then "overcomes the pain", then suffers the same fate again, then overcomes the pain again, and then gets even more wounds, overcoming them again. The mental picture is...

I don't know how other DMs do it, but during preparation time, I do write up what I think I will need at the table. The actual book is used at the table to reference too, and even the "hyperdense" 3E FRCS works well for that. Frankly, I think of this "too many details/info is bad" stance as...