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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gamerstable_Jayson" data-source="post: 5795669" data-attributes="member: 6688379">At our regular Wednesday game session I went though my file folder that contains old characters, notes and maps from past campaigns.  I found about a half dozen or so old FR characters that I have played over the years.  With one exception, few of these characters or past campaigns had any meaning to me.  The one that did was short lived and was fun, but not particularly noteworthy as FR - it could just as easily been on Krynn, Oerth or Mystara.  The longest FR campaign that my cohorts ever played, mostly over the course of a summer long ago, I missed out on while working as a lifeguard.  They speak of it fondly, but not with enough nostalgia to bring them back to Toril.  The only thing FR has that would make me want to play there is the Ruins of Under Mountain.  With some modification even that could be transplanted to any campaign setting.  I like a good Dungeon Crawl.  Grey Hawk would be a fine setting for 5th Edition's infancy (to give it cohesion), slightly updated (stress the word slightly), perhaps a new map that shows some areas to the west and south, the Baklunish West, the jungles of Hepmonaland and the Pearl Sea archipelagos.  I don't see any reason why WotC couldn't support all campaign worlds from the past.  Electronic media would be the way to go, and throwing support behind fansites like canonfire!, the Vaults of Pandius or the Burnt World of Athas.  Fans have producing material for decades, and if WotC would select some few of these periodically for official production in the form of a PDF for $1.99 or so, they could reap a profit as well as recharge their respective communities.  The same could be said of an entirely new campaign setting, one that the fans build from the ground up.Make it so.</blockquote>

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