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<blockquote data-quote="The Hitcher" data-source="post: 6404215" data-attributes="member: 63747">My take is that they're not trying to please (or recruit) Realms fans, they're trying to recruit D&amp;D fans. They're setting the Realms up as the default, generic setting. Why use it instead of something even more generic? Because it does have some brand recognition, and because there's enough there for them to build their big adventure arcs on. But it's those arcs they want people to care about - the minute-to-minute experience of taking part in an epic story - not a whole bunch of dry background lore that doesn't involve them being the hero. IMO the Realms is kind of a goofy setting when looked at through a macro lens, but it comes alive in the excitement of a specific adventure.&nbsp; I don't consider myself a Realms fan at all, and yet I'm loving the 5E modules (and I even enjoyed the Salvatore short stories I listened to recently). I think they've made just the right call on this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Hitcher, post: 6404215, member: 63747"] My take is that they're not trying to please (or recruit) Realms fans, they're trying to recruit D&D fans. They're setting the Realms up as the default, generic setting. Why use it instead of something even more generic? Because it does have some brand recognition, and because there's enough there for them to build their big adventure arcs on. But it's those arcs they want people to care about - the minute-to-minute experience of taking part in an epic story - not a whole bunch of dry background lore that doesn't involve them being the hero. IMO the Realms is kind of a goofy setting when looked at through a macro lens, but it comes alive in the excitement of a specific adventure. I don't consider myself a Realms fan at all, and yet I'm loving the 5E modules (and I even enjoyed the Salvatore short stories I listened to recently). I think they've made just the right call on this. [/QUOTE]

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