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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nisarg" data-source="post: 1747913" data-attributes="member: 19893">I fear the problem is these days D&D settings are in a go/no-go situation. Either they hit it big right at the start, or they just won't go anywhere. To promise there'll be cool stuff later on, really doesn't help.For one thing, I would feel cheated. Its a tease. Its leaving out the part you really want, and forcing you to spend more money on another book or books.Second, most newbies will just judge the setting by this main book. If the main book is:1. boring2. incomplete, as you admit it is3. a ploy to sell future booksthen its going to end up having a very hard time getting D20 readership. At the very least, you will end up with many people feeling like I do: totally unwilling to even CONSIDER buying it until there's an actual supplement out for the tech stuff, and even then not unless the tech stuff is more than just stats, but actual details about the social impact of the tech. The latter, BTW, is why I feel it was so essential that the tech should have been in the main book.. now instead of being able to know from the start how the alien tech affected the Duchy of Blogg, all we'll get is medieval-bog-standard Duchy of Blogg, plus lasers. Whoop-de-freaking-do.There was a chance to redo Blackmoor for the 21st century, as a setting that actually created a kind of social consequence for the presence of the "city of the gods". Hell the very name implies that Blackmoor's culture was deeply affected by this tech.. they think it belongs to the GODS. There was so much possibility there.. and now instead its been whitewashed and used as an advertising tease. Horrifically disappointing.NisargP.S.: D&D needs 6 new PrCs like it needs another bog-standard fantasy setting. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" /></blockquote>

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