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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 6229671" data-attributes="member: 22424"><p>With a small font like the 3e FRCS and 320 pages, I'm not sure you need a narrow focus!</p><p></p><p>I consider the 3e FRCS one of the best presentations of a campaign setting, especially a new edition of an existing setting, ever done. Even as someone who is not particularly a fan of FR, I was blown away by just how much that book manages to cram in.</p><p></p><p>And yet...</p><p></p><p>The fact that that book has such a density of text and such a large page count is also perhaps its biggest weakness also. There's just <em>so much</em> there that it can be overwhelming. I can't help but feel that a much smaller and lighter volume (actually, something like the 4e Eberron books (I don't have the 4e FR ones)) might be more approachable, if not better - what you lose in comprehensiveness, you gain in approachability.</p><p></p><p>Though maybe a "halfway house" is actually the best of both worlds - the dense, 320-page book for the dedicated fan, coupled with a 64ish page primer for the newcomer to the setting.</p><p></p><p>(I would be surprised if it was the <em>format</em> of the 4e books that was in any way to blame for what happened. It appears that the objection was to the <em>content</em> of the books, and specifically to the changes that had been wrought, and probably to the time jump more than anything else.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="delericho, post: 6229671, member: 22424"] With a small font like the 3e FRCS and 320 pages, I'm not sure you need a narrow focus! I consider the 3e FRCS one of the best presentations of a campaign setting, especially a new edition of an existing setting, ever done. Even as someone who is not particularly a fan of FR, I was blown away by just how much that book manages to cram in. And yet... The fact that that book has such a density of text and such a large page count is also perhaps its biggest weakness also. There's just [i]so much[/i] there that it can be overwhelming. I can't help but feel that a much smaller and lighter volume (actually, something like the 4e Eberron books (I don't have the 4e FR ones)) might be more approachable, if not better - what you lose in comprehensiveness, you gain in approachability. Though maybe a "halfway house" is actually the best of both worlds - the dense, 320-page book for the dedicated fan, coupled with a 64ish page primer for the newcomer to the setting. (I would be surprised if it was the [i]format[/i] of the 4e books that was in any way to blame for what happened. It appears that the objection was to the [i]content[/i] of the books, and specifically to the changes that had been wrought, and probably to the time jump more than anything else.) [/QUOTE]
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