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<blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6672947" data-attributes="member: 92511">And yet, they are not. D&amp;D is a game of imagination. If they like FR and use FR and know about FR, then what about this release means they &quot;must&quot;, then, play in the Sword Coast? They can play in any other area of the FR map they want and just make up details based on what they do know about the FR, in general, OR [preferably, imho] just make stuff up whole cloth! No one is being &quot;forced&quot; to use anything. The fact people &quot;will&quot; is a given, and one that WotC is obviously banking on. But that doesn't alter the fact that the idea &quot;people will be forced&quot; is fallacy. A generally accepted one, and repeated over and over...self-fulfilling prophecy, in a way...but a fallacy nonetheless.The bottom line is, this is a branding maneuver. I don't know FR that well, but I read here someplace that Waterdeep, Baldur's Keep/Gate/Whatever and Neverwinter are all located in the region of the Sword Coast. What are the D&amp;D video games, in the FR, have there been? The most popular use Baldur's Gate, Waterdeep and Neverwinter, if I'm not mistaken.&nbsp;Everyone who plays the MMO/CRPGs or has read any FR novel (and people like me who do neither, but are around fantasy rpg places to see/hear about FR) recognizes the names of these places. Hurdle to interest in try alternate products with these names [and your logo] on it leapt = Sword Coast book!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="steeldragons, post: 6672947, member: 92511"] And yet, they are not. D&D is a game of imagination. If they like FR and use FR and know about FR, then what about this release means they "must", then, play in the Sword Coast? They can play in any other area of the FR map they want and just make up details based on what they do know about the FR, in general, OR [preferably, imho] just make stuff up whole cloth! No one is being "forced" to use anything. The fact people "will" is a given, and one that WotC is obviously banking on. But that doesn't alter the fact that the idea "people will be forced" is fallacy. A generally accepted one, and repeated over and over...self-fulfilling prophecy, in a way...but a fallacy nonetheless. The bottom line is, this is a branding maneuver. I don't know FR that well, but I read here someplace that Waterdeep, Baldur's Keep/Gate/Whatever and Neverwinter are all located in the region of the Sword Coast. What are the D&D video games, in the FR, have there been? The most popular use Baldur's Gate, Waterdeep and Neverwinter, if I'm not mistaken. Everyone who plays the MMO/CRPGs or has read any FR novel (and people like me who do neither, but are around fantasy rpg places to see/hear about FR) recognizes the names of these places. Hurdle to interest in try alternate products with these names [and your logo] on it leapt = Sword Coast book! [/QUOTE]

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