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<blockquote data-quote="Vraille Darkfang" data-source="post: 2976447" data-attributes="member: 16989">But, FR is the only series (WotC) I'm interested in.Except Ravenloft (and not many of those were that good).I stopped Dragonlance around 2000 or so (I'd read every title up to Dragons of a Vanished Moon or so).&nbsp; I got tired of the Divine Hokey-Pokey.&nbsp; &quot;You give all your portfolio in, you take all your portfolio out, in but the portfolio back in, then you shake your clerics all about&quot;The FR world is where I learned to DM &amp; where most of my favorite campaigns as a player took place in.&nbsp; I know the FR world.&nbsp; When in my other posts, I said it's not D&amp;D, I should have said it's not FR.&nbsp; FR has high level characters of every class, not just Arcane Casters.&nbsp; You just don't see the Divine Casters rise up to the level they should all that often.You have a distinct set of rules for a common world.&nbsp; It seems they decided to have 2 different sets of rules for FR, one D&amp;D &amp; one Fiction.&nbsp; I mean it works out really well in movies right?&nbsp; What makes it popular in one medium just won't translate to a 'larger' medium.&nbsp; I call this the &quot;Joel Schumacher&quot; school of thought.I liked my D&amp;D Forgotten Realms.&nbsp; I don't get to play that anymore, so I try to kinda keep in touch via the novels.&nbsp; The problem is it just isn't there.&nbsp; The 'feel' of the game isn't there (Most of the time, some good execptions exist, say the Parched Sea or the Finder's Stone Series).It's like Star Trek without the Prime Directive,Star Wars without the Force.Music Television without FREAKIN' VIDEOS!!!!!Shakira without Hip Shaking.It might still be good (except MTV), but it's not the same (OK, Shakira's Dia de Enero lacks the hip gyrations, but is still Shakira).But, at some point as I've stopped gaming FR, but still reading it (as opposed to both), the gulf between Novels an Game has become so far they don't really even resemble each other.You could slap an FR Cover on a Warhammer Fantasy Novel &amp; it'd seem about as FR as most of the Current FR novels seem to be.I'm just sort of disapointed, that's all.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vraille Darkfang, post: 2976447, member: 16989"] But, FR is the only series (WotC) I'm interested in. Except Ravenloft (and not many of those were that good). I stopped Dragonlance around 2000 or so (I'd read every title up to Dragons of a Vanished Moon or so). I got tired of the Divine Hokey-Pokey. "You give all your portfolio in, you take all your portfolio out, in but the portfolio back in, then you shake your clerics all about" The FR world is where I learned to DM & where most of my favorite campaigns as a player took place in. I know the FR world. When in my other posts, I said it's not D&D, I should have said it's not FR. FR has high level characters of every class, not just Arcane Casters. You just don't see the Divine Casters rise up to the level they should all that often. You have a distinct set of rules for a common world. It seems they decided to have 2 different sets of rules for FR, one D&D & one Fiction. I mean it works out really well in movies right? What makes it popular in one medium just won't translate to a 'larger' medium. I call this the "Joel Schumacher" school of thought. I liked my D&D Forgotten Realms. I don't get to play that anymore, so I try to kinda keep in touch via the novels. The problem is it just isn't there. The 'feel' of the game isn't there (Most of the time, some good execptions exist, say the Parched Sea or the Finder's Stone Series). It's like Star Trek without the Prime Directive, Star Wars without the Force. Music Television without FREAKIN' VIDEOS!!!!! Shakira without Hip Shaking. It might still be good (except MTV), but it's not the same (OK, Shakira's Dia de Enero lacks the hip gyrations, but is still Shakira). But, at some point as I've stopped gaming FR, but still reading it (as opposed to both), the gulf between Novels an Game has become so far they don't really even resemble each other. You could slap an FR Cover on a Warhammer Fantasy Novel & it'd seem about as FR as most of the Current FR novels seem to be. I'm just sort of disapointed, that's all. [/QUOTE]

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