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<blockquote data-quote="Neil Bishop" data-source="post: 3990629" data-attributes="member: 55494"><p>I'm sure Rich has said that in good faith but the reality is that RSEs sell novels and novels make more money than games. The plot threads will be used up on no time, I am sure. Wasn't a similar commitment made at the time of 3E?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's my guess too and, absent a solution of this problem, in no time at all FR will once again be a difficult setting to come to terms with for new DMs because of the preponderance of novels.</p><p></p><p>Of course, this is UNLESS WotC can make (and keep!) a commitment to leave aside a certain (and significant) area as a novel-free zone. However, this area should be the subject of a range of introductory products. I'm thinking of a cross between the BECMI version of D&D's <em>Thunder Rift</em> accessory and 3.5E's <em>Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde</em> but with a major emphasis on FR-flavoured power groups.</p><p></p><p>The grey box provides a precedent for this sort of commitment: subsequent publications provide a precedent for not keeping this commitment! Yes, Sembia, I am looking at you....</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>To me this is a key part in protecting the FR IP. If I ran Wizards (and I hope I never do: good hobby, bad business!), I would be including clauses in the writers' contracts that expressly forbid the "jarjarbinksinisation" (OK, so I invented a new word) of FR. I think, personally, that sort of nonsense is more damaging than the appearances of Elminster and the Chosen that is often moaned about.</p><p></p><p>On the subject of the "jarjarbinksinisation" of FR, I would also be putting similar restraints on the RPGA with Living Realms. Things that happened with Raven's Bluff were an embarrassment both to FR and the D&D game. If they're not going to treat the brand with some respect, take it off them.</p><p></p><p>So, yes, the first time a cleric of Sune is named after a pr0n actress, the RPGA loses the setting!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Neil Bishop, post: 3990629, member: 55494"] I'm sure Rich has said that in good faith but the reality is that RSEs sell novels and novels make more money than games. The plot threads will be used up on no time, I am sure. Wasn't a similar commitment made at the time of 3E? That's my guess too and, absent a solution of this problem, in no time at all FR will once again be a difficult setting to come to terms with for new DMs because of the preponderance of novels. Of course, this is UNLESS WotC can make (and keep!) a commitment to leave aside a certain (and significant) area as a novel-free zone. However, this area should be the subject of a range of introductory products. I'm thinking of a cross between the BECMI version of D&D's [I]Thunder Rift[/I] accessory and 3.5E's [I]Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde[/I] but with a major emphasis on FR-flavoured power groups. The grey box provides a precedent for this sort of commitment: subsequent publications provide a precedent for not keeping this commitment! Yes, Sembia, I am looking at you.... To me this is a key part in protecting the FR IP. If I ran Wizards (and I hope I never do: good hobby, bad business!), I would be including clauses in the writers' contracts that expressly forbid the "jarjarbinksinisation" (OK, so I invented a new word) of FR. I think, personally, that sort of nonsense is more damaging than the appearances of Elminster and the Chosen that is often moaned about. On the subject of the "jarjarbinksinisation" of FR, I would also be putting similar restraints on the RPGA with Living Realms. Things that happened with Raven's Bluff were an embarrassment both to FR and the D&D game. If they're not going to treat the brand with some respect, take it off them. So, yes, the first time a cleric of Sune is named after a pr0n actress, the RPGA loses the setting! [/QUOTE]
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