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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 6330594" data-attributes="member: 5868">I thought I'm Moander in and leave this thought ...Although I personally like the Grey Box era best, and think the 3E FRCS was also a great product, what the Realms needs most is what I fear will not happen: a divorce between the novels and the campaign setting.  Let authors continue to write novels and do whatever they'd like, but don't have those characters or events carry over into the  RPG setting.  That linkage more than anything else, I think, has damaged the Realms and turned off many people to what is otherwise a very deep and evocative setting.But it won't happen -- apparently there are a lot of fans out there who like the linkage between the novels and the campaign setting.  I'd like to know who they are, because I've never met one or seen their posts, but apparently they are driving the marketing decisions.(And as to authors ... I'm not an RAS fan, but don't think everything he's done is bad, mostly merely average.  Ed Greenwood, though -- man, for a guy who can develop great set dressing and setting details, he cannot put together stories or characters that deserve to see print. I just listened to the latest WotC podcast which was an interview with Ed about his latest novel, and it was the most painful thing I've ever heard. Much as I dislike Drizzt, Elmunchkin needed to be retired about two decades ago. I simply can't reconcile Ed's great Realmslore articles with his absolutely craptastic novels.)</blockquote>

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