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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 3813305" data-attributes="member: 5948">Not really sure what James Wyatt is saying there.  It's a weird sort of post.a) FR has a lot of history that needs to be taken into account, both in the game line and in novelsb) We hear your concernsc) Decisions were made two years ago about the course of the new FR and we're not going to significantly change that now, regardless of your concerns (though we do hear them)d) FR is a RSE-, NPC- and novel-driven setting and will remain soe) Trust usYeah, I like James Wyatt, but this stinks of damage control.It seems completely bizarre to me that they could have missed the point so badly.  It's the drearily continual apocalypses redrawing the setting, the rampant NPC-dominance, and the novel line blatantly puppeteering the game line that seems to have cheesed most people off on the Realms.  And they intend to solve this problem how?  By several series of novels, in which NPCs deal with apocalypses that change the face of the Realms regardless of what havoc this may wreak on established games, AGAIN!  From what's written here (and I freely admit the possibility that either James Wyatt has explained it poorly, or I've understood it poorly, or that I'm making judgements based on insufficient information), the FR strategy group decided that the flavour of the Realms is defined by apocalyptic events in novels, and so therefore 4e FR must be ushered in with apocalyptic events in novels, while Eberron has no such requirement and can carry on quietly.  Seems like putting the cart before the horse to me - the game line should drive the novels, not vice versa.  Rather than butchering the setting, why not refocus the FR novel line to smaller-scale events, rather than continue on the current untenable course of redrawing the map of Faerun every few years because of all the bits that have been blown up in forgettable trilogies in the interim?  It seems as if the novels are sacrosanct and the game line is an afterthought.I'm trying to keep an open mind over the whole 4e/FR issue, but stuff like this doesn't make me any more hopeful...</blockquote>

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