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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grompi" data-source="post: 1237445" data-attributes="member: 15403">Thanks. Just clearin' it up afore I bothered sayin' anythin' else. With your comment, I have nothin' else to say on the matter other than I wonder how Dragonlance is doin' these days?I am nitpicky, but that's where livin' in the dark and havin' a cave bear as the closest thing to a girlfriend will get ya. I know, yer sayin', "But Grompi, most dwarves don't have girlfriends; dwarven females are rare." To that I say, "Too true."All seriousness aside, though, I agree that FR has some interesting "texture" as ye put it, especially now that they've taken all the mish-mash, put it in a blender, hit frappe, and come out with somethin' that actually resembles a coherent world with at least some culture. To be fair, if I'mmright FR came from a long-running campaign that had reams of notes, drawings, and NPCs before it ever hit the shelves. 3rd Edition FR has the advantage of years of development in gaming and novel form and a huge following. No newcomer will be able to compare, even if it is actually better.Dawnforge seems to not only have the distinction of not being better, for many more reasons than I took the time to list, but it also seems to be only slightly different in basic concept and then only mechanically. I do have a problem with a fantasy world that is an amalgam o' everything that come before it being released as if it's some kind o' fabulous, innovative thing, especially when the amalgam basically sums to something that's already been done. Mechanics for high-powered characters can't save something from bland background material. The preview of Dawnforge I read fits this description, but that's my opinion and only mine. (I might consider buying something that was just the high-powered mechanics, so long as they're not a rehash o' the Path series.)You said I'm nitpicky, but you didn't say I was wrong. To do so, you'd have to address my points.I respect your opinion too. I'm interested in what ye mean by "top-down world creation"? Tis a remarkable phrase, but me tiny brainbox prevents me from graspin' the implication of the statement.Yeah, it's my first post. I'm new to the scene and I don't have much time to rant and rave here. What o' it? I, Grompi, did not enter WotC's design contest. That doesn't mean I can't have an opinion or your entry. What does the fact that it's my only post (so far) have to do with integrity? Obviously, I'm too new to understand what that means. I just joined the forum. Does the fact that I only have one review in the EN World database mean my integrity is questionable too? I don't have time to post thousands of times. I guess ye'd prefer every post here to be fawning blather? Why, if I did that, it'd make me a ... sycophantic fanboy. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> I like some of FFG's stuff (the Path stuff was good, as was the Midnight preview) but not enough to not call 'em how I see 'em.</blockquote>

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