Are you concerned about LFR burning out FR novelty?

[Emirikol]

LFR will be the RPGA's replacement for the cancellation and removal of Living Greyhawk. Since FR will be the only supported world by WotC and it will be concurrently "used up" by LFR, (i.e. players/DM's will burn-out from an overdose of FR) does this concern you?

LG, definately killed home gaming in Greyhawk for me. Not because the RPGA did a bad job, but that they pretty much burned-out everyone to home gaming in a world where they were already getting "plenty of gaming."

Will there be burn-out? Will the FR know-it-alls freak out when the world's not perfect or the RPGA scenarios arent' "FR" authentic?

Comments?

jh

 

[RigaMortus2]

LFR will be the RPGA's replacement for the cancellation and removal of Living Greyhawk. Since FR will be the only supported world by WotC

What? Where are you getting this from? It will be their FIRST released setting, but not the only one. Each year they plan to release a new setting (such as Eberron). Not sure where you are getting your info here.

and it will be concurrently "used up" by LFR, (i.e. players/DM's will burn-out from an overdose of FR) does this concern you?

Wow, you must be psychic. How do you know people will be burned-out from the setting? I don't think that really makes any sense even. Are people who do RPGA "burned out" with Living Greyhawk? I have yet to read anything to that effect. FR has been around for a LONG time. I don't think the majority of people are burned out from it now, so why would they be in the future? I don't understand what you mean here...

LG, definately killed home gaming in Greyhawk for me. Not because the RPGA did a bad job, but that they pretty much burned-out everyone to home gaming in a world where they were already getting "plenty of gaming."

Again, I am not quite sure I follow you here. Are you suggesting that you played LG at one point, and because of that, you lost your "oompf" for running Greyhawk at home? That must be on an individual level, because I can't conceive of that happening with me or most people (or at all really).

Will there be burn-out? Will the FR know-it-alls freak out when the world's not perfect or the RPGA scenarios arent' "FR" authentic?

Comments?

jh

This I sorta understand your questioning. I am sure some FR loyalist will not like the changes to FR (or to how RPGA runs it). I don't think it will affect the home game much, since you are in control of your home game.

 

[Dormammu]

I wouldn't worry. I think most people either like a setting or they don't. They're not likely to burn out from overexposure. Forgotten Realms has always been popular, it should continue to be.

 

[Belorin]

I have agree with RM2, what do you mean 'burn-out'?
True, I've never played RPGA, Living Greyhawk or even Greyhawk for a number of years, but that was because I switched to FR.
I have been running and playing FR since the greybox and haven't burned out yet.

Bel

 

[Ahglock]

I've never been involved in the living what ever games, I currently game with a couple people who are in living greyhawk assuming they move on over to living FR I may decide to get involved this time and see what it is about. I don't see it burning things out for me. Everyone I game with seems willing to separate what is in a living game and what is in my game without any issues. And as a GM I have no problems saying ok the living FR game i played in last week is there something positive I can bring from that to my games or something negative I want to make sure doesn't enter my games. Overall since I may get involved now that its restarting in a new setting I only see positives for me.

 

[Cmarco]

Well, I don't think it'll "burn out" the Realms. I think that there's a lot of potential to actually get more people interested in the Forgotten Realms.

I'm glad that I'm able to contribute in my own small way to LFR. I'm pretty excited for it, and I hope that I can help make it the best "Living" campaign yet.

 

[Mercule]

I wouldn't worry. I think most people either like a setting or they don't. They're not likely to burn out from overexposure. Forgotten Realms has always been popular, it should continue to be.

Agreed. Have you ever done a PBEM? It's darn near impossible to find a D&D game that isn't FR.

I've found the Realms uninspiring since the original gray box, and no amount of exposure has really changed my opinion. On the other hand, I've known people that have pored over just about every FR supplement and novel to get the most encyclopedic knowledge they could get and they haven't burned out after 20 years (give or take).

The advent of LFR will work out a lot like the PBEM world. Some people will love it. Others will just want to be involved in the arena, so they'll suck it up and accept the setting. I'm sure some people will drift from the "like it" to the "not so much" camp and vice versa. On the whole, though, not much will change.

 

[theredrobedwizard]

FR has novelty? Really? I had no idea. Always seemed played out to me; since at least 1990. *shrug*

-TRRW

 

[Ahglock]

Agreed. Have you ever done a PBEM? It's darn near impossible to find a D&D game that isn't FR.

I've found the Realms uninspiring since the original gray box, and no amount of exposure has really changed my opinion. On the other hand, I've known people that have pored over just about every FR supplement and novel to get the most encyclopedic knowledge they could get and they haven't burned out after 20 years (give or take).

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I loved the gray box but otherwise ignored FR. Auroras Whole Realms Catalog changed that for me. It was a total rip-off of a contemporary real catalog whose name escapes me but I loved the book. It is the reason I picked up more realms stuff and ran realms games. Mystra is my normal setting but FRs became my 2nd setting of choice because of that one book. The only thing I preferred from greyhawk was the Scarlet Brotherhood as better bad guys than Thay, and the circle of 8 as better super NPCs than the forgotten realms ones. All the other published setting I kind of was indifferent to, though planescape was fairly cool.

As a side note if anyone wants to plop down a cool bad guy group for a homebrew buying the Scarlet brotherhood book that came out at the end of 2e written by SKR would be a great investment for idea farming. Sure they are a Nazi rip-off, but who doesn't like to smash Nazis.

 

[Neil Bishop]

I'm not so sure about burning people out but there is a very real chance of turning people off. Look at what happened the last time the RPGA had an area of FR in 2E: Raven's Bluff. Need a priestess of Sune? Cool, name her after a pr0n actress. And there were numerous other "intrusions" that essentially destroyed verisimilitude in that part of FR.

While I don't advocate a "gaming police" as such, I do hope that WotC will keep a tighter rein on the RPGA this time.