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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Toryx" data-source="post: 3949762" data-attributes="member: 56441">While it's true that they make money, I don't think that this should be a limitation. Honestly, if I were in charge at Wizards and I decided that some big changes either had to be made to FR or it had to be let go, I'd probably have gone with letting it go.Now the first inherent capitalist response is: "Stop making Forgotten Realms stuff? Are you crazy? That's our best market! It's suicide!"But I know how passionate the FR fans are about the Realms and a large part of the reason for that passion is the continuity the setting has maintained over the years. Sure, changes were made that people didn't approve of, but it's still being played and there's no question that the WotC people should have (if they truly didn't, which I doubt) anticipated the outcry.But the argument that you can't let go of something because it makes money is not a good one. I'd say that we just need to find something else that makes money. Let the FR fans stay with what they got and be happy. And let's find something that'll satisfy those anti-FR folks, a setting that will capture those who aren't happy with the direction Eberron has gone in.New ideas work too. Anyone who says that risk is stupid or going whole haul into a new idea ought to talk to Jeff Bezos, Pierre Omidyar, Tom Anderson, Ed Greenwood or Gary Gygax. They'd assure you otherwise.No new setting would be a sure success. But there are lots of people out there who are looking for something new that isn't FR or Eberron. Surely there is something to be made there, and new successes to be found.</blockquote>

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