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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kae'Yoss" data-source="post: 3775885" data-attributes="member: 4134">Translation: Just like every other setting out there. The Realms are losing their identity.Might as well move over to Varisia full-time.Another thing about changing the whole world to accomodate the rules changes instead of retconning it is that you can't play a historical FR campaign in 4e, since all that stuff didn't work back then. You'll have to break out the 3e books. (And if anyone suggests that we can look this over: Of course! In fact: That's what they should have done in the first place.)They could have made the 4e FRCS as a final product and then introduced a new Vanilla Fantasy World (or taken up GreyHawk again) where they can go crazy with all new shiny classes and started writing novels for it. All those people who complain about the Realms being not to their liking with too much going on and too many powerful NPCs and all that stuff and liking how the "new Realms" change all that: It's not really the Realms any more, it's another setting.Which really sucks if you do like the Realms for what they are: If you like cookie-cutter settings without the Weave and the Seven Sisters, there's dozens of settings for you to explore without asking Wizards to make the Realms as bland as the rest, but now that the Realms will no longer have their unique features like several Pantheons with lots of deities, the Weave, and all that, those who did like it have no officially supported Setting any more.</blockquote>

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