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<blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8789940" data-attributes="member: 11"><p>While you're probably right, it does bear mentioning that it was Greenwood's popular articles in Dragon Magazine detailing new spells/magic items or further elaborating on monsters through "Ecology of. .. ." articles using the Realms as context that caught the eye of folks at TSR. Some of us had already heard of the Realms when the 1E setting was announced and it was a way cool thing, because it represented "the fan who made it." </p><p></p><p>While clearly it would never be of the level of popularity it had with TSR's support and expansion, my guess there were people out there building out their own versions of the Realms based on those articles - which leads me to think that with the proper marketing a kickstarted version of the setting in today's market could have been successful with that tradition/pedigree behind it. Lesser settings have done fine with marginal folks attached.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="el-remmen, post: 8789940, member: 11"] While you're probably right, it does bear mentioning that it was Greenwood's popular articles in Dragon Magazine detailing new spells/magic items or further elaborating on monsters through "Ecology of. .. ." articles using the Realms as context that caught the eye of folks at TSR. Some of us had already heard of the Realms when the 1E setting was announced and it was a way cool thing, because it represented "the fan who made it." While clearly it would never be of the level of popularity it had with TSR's support and expansion, my guess there were people out there building out their own versions of the Realms based on those articles - which leads me to think that with the proper marketing a kickstarted version of the setting in today's market could have been successful with that tradition/pedigree behind it. Lesser settings have done fine with marginal folks attached. [/QUOTE]
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