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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AdmundfortGeographer" data-source="post: 3085110" data-attributes="member: 4682">I used to be upset at the notion of halflings being masters of life who created all life and that Kalak was killed with slavery eliminated in the city centrally focused in the material. Then I interviewed Troy Denning personally and I discovered that both were planned during the early brainstorming by the setting's co-creators.  It wasn't some corporate conspiracy to water down the setting.The creators wanted to have players and DM's feel they could change the setting in dramatic fashion.  Then the setting creators went and did it themselves with the novels. When I spoke with him at a GenCon about 6 years ago, Troy has expressed regret that so much in the novels and likely went overboard by offing so many Sorcerer-Kings, and that if he had a chance to write it over again probably wouldn't go so far.  He agreed that it took too much away from the PCs to struggle against.Myself, I use both boxed sets.  But I use the first boxed set as is, but I only use the second boxed set as a toolbox of ideas from which I add with my own timeline and my own cosmology and my own history.</blockquote>