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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Najo" data-source="post: 4004263" data-attributes="member: 9959">Although I agree the Realms needed a good reset button, the reason I think that the FR fans who are not happy are reacting the way they are is because of this last part, that most of the history has been rendered irrelevent. Hopefully the team finds a way tribute the past without getting in the way of the new players. Otherwise, that is the very spirit being snuffed out I spoke of earlier. The other thing that I think is dangerous WOTC is doing is making the Realms so apocalyptic feeling. Forgotten Realms is feeling like a chainsaw was used on it, instead of a surgeon's scalpel. This is another area causing the group that loved the realms to push away from it now.Finally, I disagree with WOTC trying to crowbar the 4e races into the Realms. Just because the races are in the player's handbook doesn't mean that they have to be in every setting. Both the new version of the Tieflings and the Dragonborn feel like they don't fit the feel of the Realms. The designers even said that the Dragonborn that popped in at the end of 3.5 were different species and that they are having to ignore them because of the 4e dragonborn being put into place. I think it would have been better to say that the Dragonborn descended from the previous ones and the spellplague changed them over the 100 years instead of just ignoring the past event and plopping the new dragonborn down into the world. The tiefling could be handled similiarly, being demons or half-demons that become altered when the planes and gods are thrown into ruin.</blockquote>

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