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I hope I don't sound like a broken record, but I can restate my opinion on this. "Scrub" or "file" are the wrong words. "Wipe with a clean cloth" maybe. Perhaps, "sweep under the rug" is a better analogy. It's as easy as ignoring the few times the words "Harper, Zhent, etc" are used (and...

That could be a problem, in theory. But so far it isn't in practice. The adventures they've released so far have don't delve deep enough into setting details to make the timeline an issue. I'm sure that's purposeful.

The day the Blumes and Williams screwed Gary out of his company was a sad one, for sure. The way Greyhawk is, though, I think the fans should be happy it's been mostly hands-off. It was meant to be a skeleton setting to be fleshed out by DMs, not every nook and cranny detailed, like they did...

The pushing of FR over Greyhawk stems from the Lorraine Williams days at TSR. Promote the stuff not created by the guy you just ousted. So, from that, FR snowballed into the D&D's biggest setting, especially after the video games, like Baldur's Gate, and the novels. It became the most popular...

The problem is, in order to continually support a setting, it needs to move along, not stay static. Otherwise, you're going to see a book about mannerisms and fashion in Verbobonc. Because, if it's static, new books are only going to include more detail. What color are the Viscount's socks, I...

Yeah, I think I only bought Gaz1, and followed the same path. But when I wasn't playing in my own homebrew, the one time I played FR, or the one Spelljammer/Planescape multi-world game, it was always Greyhawk, and the lack of support never really phased me. There's lots to work with, just with...

True, back in the early 80's, when all we knew about it was some tidbits in B/E and a few adventures. I still remember the mobs at the FLGS clamoring for support of the setting. I mean how can you actually play there knowing so little about it?

It wasn't called Mystara until the 90's, so no, you're just a young pup. :p

The thing is, it doesn't really get much more generic than FR. FR is pretty much default D&D. Unfortunately, they can't make everyone 100% happy, but it doesn't get much easier or user-friendly than this. And it still lets them make money off the IP.

It started in spring, 1372. When the players created the party, they had a definite anti-drow agenda, so I made a few changes to the adventure to fit that and the current setting. The disappearance of Lolth has caused a faction of drow to leave Menzoberranzan to set up shop in their old Elder...

You can install it through Chrome from here, too. That was how I did it.

But...did you know there's an Android version now? Scoop!

Not according to the examples we have to go on so far. PotA looks to me like it was written by designers and not marketers. That's just me, though.

Anti-anti-Drizzt posters suck! Common, let's get the number of anti-anti-anti-Drizzt posts up!

Moving away and casting a spell is more dangerous than just casting a spell. I think that's the idea, and it makes sense to me.

RPG characters that have a couple, if any, words printed about them, have no way of competing with characters from books. Especially multiple best sellers. Stories are memorable. A name and a picture is less so.

When I came in and saw 10 pages already, I was thinking, "Thanks Drizzt". :)

I agree that smart business decisions are smart. That said, what a lot of people are worried about is not a smart business decision. Having Drizzt on the cover and a part of the adventure is smart. Having him be a part of the party as a DMPC isn't. Therefore, it makes sense that the latter...

I'm also using the 3e FRCS, as well as Silver Marches. And I'm running in that timeline, and I'm still running PotA, and it works fine.

Also, why do people here assume they are so much more intelligent than the adventure writers? What was the last professionally designed adventure where the party followed around a mary sue NPC and did as they were told? Maybe assuming the worst possible and least likely outcome isn't very...