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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mr. Wilson" data-source="post: 4027172" data-attributes="member: 48009">Random personal musings below which don't add much to the discussion but describe how I'm feeling in a nutshell.  Not really helpful to anyone but me in sorting out things in my own head.  Perhaps it's best just to skip past my post if you want to ignore the ramblings of one insignificant person.  Anyways...Every new article makes it harder and harder to keep an open mind about the 4E Realms.  I keep saying I'm undecided and open-minded about the changes, but also skeptical at the same time considering the hamfisted ways it's taken place and being described.  The fact that posters are doing a better job explaining events than articles and hints gives me pause.  Perhaps the skeptic in me is starting to overwhelm my open-mindness.  I hope that isn't so.  Because there has been some good added, in that the warlock explantion is spot on.It's funny.  I like, play, DM, and read Eberron.  I like, play, DM, and read the Realms.  So why does the addition of Mournlands in the Realms strike me as unnecessary and shoehorned?  Like a bad copy paste job that characterized the worst parts of the Realms in 2.0, IMO.  I suppose this also helps explain why I feel nothing for the loss of Maztica, but winced when everything in Halruua blew up.Regarding the Unther/Mulholarand/Chessenta development.  Why invest so much time into telling a story in 3e only to wash it all away in 4e?  An unfinished story at that.  It just seems so...wasteful.  Or maybe it's because I was interested in the storyline and now see no official payoff, so to speak.  Or, more to the point, only a weak one, like, "Lol, they're all gone.  Look at the NEW stuff."Fear of change could play a part in my feelings, I suppose, but I also like just about all of what they've put out for 4.0 mechanically.  It makes sense.  It's just the fluff that bothers me.  Sigh.  August is still 6 months away.  Perhaps things will be clearer by then.  I truly would regret turning away from the Realms as my printed setting of choice after all these years I spent collecting it.  I can understand why some are having such a strong reaction.  I'll just hope things are explained in the Core rulebook.  If not, at leat they said Eberron wasn't changing much.</blockquote>

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