D&D 4E Ed Greenwood on 4e F Realms

[freyar]

As long as they do not do anything like this to Eberron, I will be happy.

Well, I'm being facetious, but if Eberron follows suit, the Second Mourning will soon envelope all of Khorvaire.

 

[Arnwyn]

I think the only people who won't like what they do are the ones who have to have the realms remain unchange and stagnent, because they like its familiarity.

Or... *ahem*... those that want the change the Realms on their own terms, as a DM should. Of course.


And it definitely sounds like "daming with faint praise" to me. If Ed didn't want to comment because of the lack of information, he'd have said as much.

 

[frankthedm]

Seems to me like "damning with faint praise."

Thoughts?

Sound like to me he DID mean 'They’re ruining the Realms and Ed Greenwood hates what they’re doing!' and he has had such feelings since 1986. He had to write his words carefully since he needs his FR based paycheck, thus that ‘bailing out = Painful’ part.

Does my interpretation sound alarmist? Yes, but greenwood is an experienced writer. IMO He would not put such inferences into text if he did not mean to.

 

[DM_Jeff]

Ed Greenwood says: "I am hard at work on future Realms goodies now, and am acutely aware of the Border Kingdoms and the unpublished city of Teziir and other things too long neglected."

And because I'm too tired to go searching through every Candlekeep post and whatnot, does anyone know what he IS doing with the Border Kingdoms, or does that statement = death? It went up to about "H" on the WotC website, and I'd love to see the series continue somehow. Is he forbidden from writing anything that's in the Realms' now-past, even if it's free on a site somewhere?

Thanks in advance if anyone knows anything!

-DM Jeff

 

[Felon]

Well, y'know, I just can't say I care a lot about what Ed's feelings are. Even assuming he doesn't like what's become of his setting, what does that mean to me? Was his personal vision for FR any better than what developed? We don't really know.

And when he laments that some of his characters will die of old age before he can tell their stories, I'm empathetic, but that really underscores the difference between where his investment lies versus where that of gamers such as myself reside. I want FR to be a place where it's the stories of the players that matter, not Ed's characters.