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<blockquote data-quote="Fenes" data-source="post: 4449278" data-attributes="member: 604">Wrecking the world so you have a clean slate to work on just looks lazy and cheap to me. Like pulling the old &quot;threat to the world&quot; ploy to add some shadow of tension to a boring novel.One could have had the desired change in the FR without wiping half the realms simply by changing certain elements, making some groups stronger, others weaker. The way it was done also feels so forced. Gods doing stupid stuff, Spellplague wrecking the realms, worlds colliding, all out of the blue sky. At least Thay's change feels somewhat rooted in the setting - a major lich messing up, a somewhat logical extrapolation of the plots he did before - and less &quot;rocks fall from the sky&quot; &quot;divine intervention cause I say so&quot;.If more of the changes had been caused by mortals, and not the gods, it would not feel like that I think.As it is, the whole vibe I get is &quot;Your characters do not matter, what they did does not matter, their powers do not matter because Gods are doing this!&quot;. And that cuases me to stop caring about the resulting world.Now, if there was no spell plague, no godly stupidity, and there were changes wrought by mortals, it might feel differently. I might be thinking along the lines of &quot;how would my PCs react to this? Could they prevent this?&quot; and less &quot;who cares?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fenes, post: 4449278, member: 604"] Wrecking the world so you have a clean slate to work on just looks lazy and cheap to me. Like pulling the old "threat to the world" ploy to add some shadow of tension to a boring novel. One could have had the desired change in the FR without wiping half the realms simply by changing certain elements, making some groups stronger, others weaker. The way it was done also feels so forced. Gods doing stupid stuff, Spellplague wrecking the realms, worlds colliding, all out of the blue sky. At least Thay's change feels somewhat rooted in the setting - a major lich messing up, a somewhat logical extrapolation of the plots he did before - and less "rocks fall from the sky" "divine intervention cause I say so". If more of the changes had been caused by mortals, and not the gods, it would not feel like that I think. As it is, the whole vibe I get is "Your characters do not matter, what they did does not matter, their powers do not matter because Gods are doing this!". And that cuases me to stop caring about the resulting world. Now, if there was no spell plague, no godly stupidity, and there were changes wrought by mortals, it might feel differently. I might be thinking along the lines of "how would my PCs react to this? Could they prevent this?" and less "who cares?" [/QUOTE]

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