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<blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4703651" data-attributes="member: 1003">No kidding. The lack of Dragonborn and the existence of Chessenta have been bugging me since the Grey Box and I, for one, welcome this long wished-for change. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" />Okay, but all bitterness about how the FRCS isn't remotely the Forgotten Realms that Ed Greenwood campaigned in any more aside (really, they should have just released a whole new setting if they wanted &quot;Core 4E World&quot;), what I'm hoping is that Wizard's decision to murder one of their better campaign settings was a lamb sacrificed on the alter of &quot;launching 4E with maximum brand recognition&quot; and doesn't represent a corporate strategy to mutilate everything that TSR ever published. If they hack up Ravenloft, Dark Sun and Planescape as badly as they messed up FR*, I might have to consider direct action**.--*Just understand; the 4E FRCS isn't necessarily a bad setting considered by itself; it's just that it's a travesty when you consider what was sacrificed to make it. Sort of how we might feel about a very competent modern painter who painted directly over a Van Gogh canvas to make a self portrait. &quot;What were you thinking man!!!???&quot;**Probably just a really mean e-mail. And possibly heckling at GenCon.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Irda Ranger, post: 4703651, member: 1003"] No kidding. The lack of Dragonborn and the existence of Chessenta have been bugging me since the Grey Box and I, for one, welcome this long wished-for change. :confused: Okay, but all bitterness about how the FRCS isn't remotely the Forgotten Realms that Ed Greenwood campaigned in any more aside (really, they should have just released a whole new setting if they wanted "Core 4E World"), what I'm hoping is that Wizard's decision to murder one of their better campaign settings was a lamb sacrificed on the alter of "launching 4E with maximum brand recognition" and doesn't represent a corporate strategy to mutilate everything that TSR ever published. If they hack up Ravenloft, Dark Sun and Planescape as badly as they messed up FR*, I might have to consider direct action**. -- *Just understand; the 4E FRCS isn't necessarily a bad setting considered by itself; it's just that it's a travesty when you consider what was sacrificed to make it. Sort of how we might feel about a very competent modern painter who painted directly over a Van Gogh canvas to make a self portrait. "[I]What were you thinking man!!!???[/I]" **Probably just a really mean e-mail. And possibly heckling at GenCon. [/QUOTE]

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