Are you excited about the Forgotten Realms setting changes?

[BlueBlackRed]

If I run an FR campaign again, I'll be pulling out my grey books.

 

[Numion]

Did the Red Wizards get the shaft?

I mean, they were the best aspect of 3E FR: changed from EEEEVIL to evil who spanks people by commercial expansion.

Kinda like if Number Two was running things instead of Dr Evil. So it's a shame if they got screwed from the way of the EEEEVIL Shades. Shades are pretty cool, but the Red Wizards just had so much potential as an adventuring source in 3E.

But maybe they didn't get the shaft, I might've easily misread something.

 

[Nymrohd]

Well there is a series of novels showing Thay in civil war, and the recent article says that their Geography was changed with the plateaus being elevated to even greater heights. Szass Tam is confirmed to be in 4E. The novels showed Thay in civil war sparked by Tam but the blurp from the second novel which is all we have till march indicates that both sides make such excessive use of undead forces that in the end the undead outnumber the living in Thay. Creepy.

 

[Faraer]

This repost should do.

I like the progressive detailing and deepening of the Realms, and the way it currently works. It isn't the least bit speculative to regret that that detailing is being ended, or to doubt that a world written from stated design principles and commercial purposes other than those of Ed's Realms will be one I'll like as much.

Put another way, the Realms they're promising, if the promises (except the vaguest ones like 'you'll like it') are fulfilled, is one I wouldn't give much time or attention to. I'm therefore hoping, and I really am, that the power and integrity of Ed's world will somehow keep prevailing over the more superficial work laid on top of it, and that the counterweighing new ideas and other unknowns will be better and more wonderful than the designers' past work gives reason to expect.

This is based more on the designers' comments about their aims in interviews, blogs and message board posts than on Rich's article, which just tells us a little more about the implementation of purposes they've already been pretty clear about.

 

[Hairfoot]

I like it much, although I think the exciting adventuring period will be during the spellplague, rather than after it.

 

[Merlin the Tuna]

I've had a distaste for FR pretty much since I heard about it, but I like the coming changes. I'd still rather run a game in a homebrew world or Eberron, but I certainly wouldn't be adverse to playing in FR 4e, or playing during the Spellplague.

 

[Spinachcat]

I have never been impressed with FR. It was always a weak and generic setting compared to the other TSR offerings.

I am just very glad it is not the default setting for 4e. I feel bad for the RPGA players who won't get another option for their campaign world.

 

[bgaesop]

I never liked the Realms before. I think these changes are distinct improvement for the Realms. I will need to see the final product before I can really say whether I will ever like the new one enough to play in it, though.

This, almost exactly.

 

[Vael]

I'm intrigued but apathetic to the changes in the Realms. While I've played NWN, and read a bunch of Realms books, I've never played D&D in the Realms, and never had a strong urge to. Now, I still don't know if I'll play in the 4e Realms, but I will certainly flip through a copy of the 4e FRCS and see about whether it fires the imagination.

 

[Alikar]

Personally I love the new Realms, adds a lot of refreshing changes that I look forward too. Plus this makes the Living Realms a lot more appealing to me.