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<blockquote data-quote="Silver Moon" data-source="post: 1319865" data-attributes="member: 8530">I'm not surprised that WotC decided to go for a world with a campaign setting with a unique style and tone to it.&nbsp;&nbsp; They need something new for Edition 3.5, to be what Greyhawk was to 1st Edition, Forgotten Realms to 2nd Edition and Scarred Lands to Edition 3.0.&nbsp; Personnally, I liked the four-page preview in Dragon #315.&nbsp; I thought that it looked rather interesting and unique.&nbsp; I don't mind them adding in &quot;action points&quot; to give games in this setting a cinematic and over-the-top sense of drama to it.&nbsp; One of the main problems I see with this setting is that many novice DM's will have some difficulty verbally translating the feel and tone into words, but some well written boxed text will help with this.&nbsp; I expect WotC will also suppliment this game setting with several on-line and printable visual aids, as it looks to be ideal for computer generated art.&nbsp;&nbsp; I've heard alot of references to far to Raiders of the Lost Ark, but most drawings I have seen thus far reminded me more of the Gotham City of Tim Burton's two Batman films.&nbsp;&nbsp; I can see why they haven't made that analogy as I don't think that &quot;dark&quot; tones is what they are shooting for.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Silver Moon, post: 1319865, member: 8530"] I'm not surprised that WotC decided to go for a world with a campaign setting with a unique style and tone to it. They need something new for Edition 3.5, to be what Greyhawk was to 1st Edition, Forgotten Realms to 2nd Edition and Scarred Lands to Edition 3.0. Personnally, I liked the four-page preview in Dragon #315. I thought that it looked rather interesting and unique. I don't mind them adding in "action points" to give games in this setting a cinematic and over-the-top sense of drama to it. One of the main problems I see with this setting is that many novice DM's will have some difficulty verbally translating the feel and tone into words, but some well written boxed text will help with this. I expect WotC will also suppliment this game setting with several on-line and printable visual aids, as it looks to be ideal for computer generated art. I've heard alot of references to far to Raiders of the Lost Ark, but most drawings I have seen thus far reminded me more of the Gotham City of Tim Burton's two Batman films. I can see why they haven't made that analogy as I don't think that "dark" tones is what they are shooting for. [/QUOTE]

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