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Message: <blockquote data-quote="med stud" data-source="post: 3928066" data-attributes="member: 1211">My only experience with franchises with a long history was when I tried to get into a oWoD Vampire group. Everyone was nice and patient with me but there was so much history, so many considerations and so many important things I didn't know that I gave up on trying. If you are new in a new setting you can be there "at the beginning", breaking new ground and learning along with people.I don't know more about FR than what I have gotten from BG I & II but from the discussions about it it seems like FR may be the same deal as Vampire. If you are new into a group that likes to learn and use details from a setting it must be as frustrating to get into that as it was for me to get into old Vampire. I can only imagine how frustrated and pissed off you must be if you are getting badgered for not knowing as some people here appearantly have been.For groups who have used FR for a long time and like the continuity I can understand the frustration that the Spellplague brings. I wouldn't be happy about it. But I think a remake may be necessary. FR is an interesting world and the fact that it has stayed popular for almost 30 years shows that it is a good setting for getting new blood for the game. If WotC wants to keep D&D alive for longer than the lives of the existing fanbase they have to take these kinds of risks. It might fail, it will be uncomfortable for the existing players but since D&D players aren't immortal I think the choice WotC has to make for the 21st century is to change and take the risk to go down in a blaze or stay the same and die of old age.</blockquote>

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