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<blockquote data-quote="ObsidianCrane" data-source="post: 4025061" data-attributes="member: 54918">In the early 90's I was able to talk to Ed Greenwood a bit about the Realms, one of the questions asked while I was chatting with him related to Kara-Tur, Maztica, and Al-Qadim; his reply was to the effect that none of them were in his Realms, but he liked Al-Qadim and thought it fit the Realms. Of course maybe his opinion has changed and maybe the Realms is now radically different to how it was back when he first sold it to TSR, such that the comment is irrelevant. What I do know is I'm hoping Maztica is gone, really gone, I'd be glad to see it never get ink wasted on it again.I also know that I'm seeing Warhammer/Morcock Chaos and Chaos wastes, I'm seeing fancier Dragonmarks, I'm also seeing the Spellplague = Demogorgan's plan from the Savage Tides campaign, Plaguemarked = Savage Creatures from Savage Tides as well.There really is a lack of &quot;new&quot; ideas, but I see a lot of what I can easily imagine the WotC designers calling a &quot;cool&quot; idea. To which my thought is, just because its cool the first time doesn't make it cool for you to rehash it and put it out under a new label.Yet despite the cynical comments, I might yet be tempted back to the Realms, for the first time since 2E, it sounds like the WotC folks are trying hard to make it so that the PCs really will matter and that there is a lot of scope to run campaigns where all those famous places/people are off in the background and irrelevant. Sadly that position is not likely to last long <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />(Yes I hate the preponderance of FR novels, and think its a shame the &quot;revitalized&quot; setting will be taken over by the endless tide of novels...kami I hope most of the named characters die...yes Drizzt I'm looking at you.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ObsidianCrane, post: 4025061, member: 54918"] In the early 90's I was able to talk to Ed Greenwood a bit about the Realms, one of the questions asked while I was chatting with him related to Kara-Tur, Maztica, and Al-Qadim; his reply was to the effect that none of them were in his Realms, but he liked Al-Qadim and thought it fit the Realms. Of course maybe his opinion has changed and maybe the Realms is now radically different to how it was back when he first sold it to TSR, such that the comment is irrelevant. What I do know is I'm hoping Maztica is gone, really gone, I'd be glad to see it never get ink wasted on it again. I also know that I'm seeing Warhammer/Morcock Chaos and Chaos wastes, I'm seeing fancier Dragonmarks, I'm also seeing the Spellplague = Demogorgan's plan from the Savage Tides campaign, Plaguemarked = Savage Creatures from Savage Tides as well. There really is a lack of "new" ideas, but I see a lot of what I can easily imagine the WotC designers calling a "cool" idea. To which my thought is, just because its cool the first time doesn't make it cool for you to rehash it and put it out under a new label. Yet despite the cynical comments, I might yet be tempted back to the Realms, for the first time since 2E, it sounds like the WotC folks are trying hard to make it so that the PCs really will matter and that there is a lot of scope to run campaigns where all those famous places/people are off in the background and irrelevant. Sadly that position is not likely to last long :( (Yes I hate the preponderance of FR novels, and think its a shame the "revitalized" setting will be taken over by the endless tide of novels...kami I hope most of the named characters die...yes Drizzt I'm looking at you.) [/QUOTE]

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