Forgotten Realms print rpg products in 2011?

[Jhaelen]

Ouch, terrible news!

No amount of changes is going to convince me to get a FR book.

Ah, well, more money to spend on something else...

 

[MrMyth]

To the general news: we speculated that this would happen. Let each CS sink in, gauge its population - then decide if you want to publish addon books at all. I like that approach a lot. But i´m also curious what kind of product they´ll create and what we will discern out of that.

Hmm. I'm not actually sure this is at the heart of it.

I'm pretty confident this is aimed at drawing in players of the Neverwinter Nights video games, especially if a new, 4E CRPG is on the way. I don't imagine this reflects a general change in philosophy for setting books - though I suppose only time will tell.

 

[Shazman]

The big name heroes of any setting only overrun and crowd out your characters as much as your gaming group and DM allow them to.

As true as this statement is you still can't get people that hate FR (or at least pre-4E FR) to agree with it.

 

[scylis]

As true as this statement is you still can't get people that hate FR (or at least pre-4E FR) to agree with it.

I don't honestly have a problem with people disliking the setting (I'm not a fan of the 4E version of it, mostly because I liked the flavor it had prior to the Spellplague), I just think that using the "too many BDHs out there already" argument is a crutch of an excuse, to me. Or, if not an excuse, just a weak argument.

Meh, I guess. Like you said, haters gonna hate. I just wish they had better reasons for it.

 

[Derulbaskul]

I don't honestly have a problem with people disliking the setting (snip)

Nor do I. I just wish that every time there was a piece of FR news or even a FR topic that the haters wouldn't come back and tell us all over again why they hate FR so much.

The WotC FR forums are basically unusable because of this. I typically avoid any FR-related threads here, too, because they often collapse under the weight of unleashed hate.

 

[Riley]

I typically avoid any FR-related threads here, too, because they often collapse under the weight of unleashed hate.

I'm happy about this news... and I've never even run a FR game. The FR sourcebooks have always been goldmines waiting to be plundered for setting/campaign inspiration. (well, okay, maybe not so much with the ream after ream of 2e stuff, but 1e, 3e, and 4e have been great!)

 

[Amphimir Míriel]

Just FYI, the current issue of Dungeon has an Elminster Must Die! encounter, where you can personally off the old coot (he's level 19, btw).

Really? Heh, I remember that my party ambushed and killed him in 1996!

Insufferable little git, always wanting us to do the dirty work for him

 

[Zaphling]

I heard they will be releasing a new playable class. THe Bladesinger. Is it true? But if ever it's true, it's suppose to be a paragon path, because originally it's a prestige class. For the record, a prestige class for elves. /:-/
personally, elves are my least choice of race.

 

[Klaus]

I heard they will be releasing a new playable class. THe Bladesinger. Is it true? But if ever it's true, it's suppose to be a paragon path, because originally it's a prestige class. For the record, a prestige class for elves. /:-/
personally, elves are my least choice of race.

Well *originally* the bladesinger was a kit in the Complete Elves Handbook (and was not to be confused with the bladesong fighting style from the same book).

But the announced Bladesinger will be a full class in the new FR book. Some wonder if it'll be a striker version of the Swordmage.

 

[Nymrohd]

Since essentials allows for subclasses with a different role, I don't see why bladesinger cannot be an Int/Dex striker subclass for swordmage tbh.