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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fenes" data-source="post: 4008170" data-attributes="member: 604">I do not see the rules having that much of an impact. I can play in any age using 3.0 rules, with just slight modifications - I don't really sweat the "but you can't be an assassin in 2E" stuff, since assassin for me is not a set of rules, but a function.But for those who say WotC is not repeating the NGE of SWG: The biggest problem SWG faces is not the fact so many veterans left with the NGE, it's the fact that so many of those who left are so bitter about their treatment that they continue to spread their views all over the MMOG scene.That could happen to FR as well.Personally, I don't see any need for drastic changes at all - the canon "weight" is still there for those who care about it, in every ruin the adventurers may explore there can be something that an oldtimer takes offense with for violating past realmslore. Just about every of the long-lived NPCs can still be around. Most of the "core" settings were not changed enough to ditch all the lore either.It looks to me like this was just some people forcing their own home brew on the realms by adding stuff they think is cool.I would have vastly preferred a 4E FR that was less "sledgehammer", and more "Actually, we almost have it already, look..." Tieflings? They were already there, no need to change anything, one can simply add "Many of those come from relams and ages where devils/demons were influential".Dragonborn? Lizardfolk are common. Reptilian creator races were around as well. A few more scaly folks are not going to trouble anyone, especially if by lore they do not have an empire of their own.Magic mechanical changes? Ignore them. A wizard is a wizard. No need to justify rules tweaks with fluff changes. Most of the novels never followed D&D rules anyway.Points of Light? Again, many parts of the old realms qualify, pick one and make it a starter location.</blockquote>

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