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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6045199" data-attributes="member: 11697">It certainly was the most popular campaign for a very long time. I was a big fan of the setting and I purchased pretty much every 3e book and went back and collected a decent chunk of 2e material.If it still is the most popular campaign setting, that's an interesting question because I suspect the way they handled the 3e/4e transition lost a lot of its fanbase. I went from buying most of the novels and all of the sourcebooks to none and none. And it saddens me, because I really liked the setting and there are more than a few novel writers whose work I really enjoyed from 3e FR but I've skipped their work on 4e FR because I can't get over the feeling of awkward distaste the setting changes evoked, completely independant of them. I'd really like to be able to enjoy their work fully again, because there are some really really good authors in the FR stable (thankfully for me they've also written outside of FR, so I'm not totally bereft of enjoyment there).But, and it's a promising sign, they're certainly going all out to try to get those fans back, and they're making some good sounding moves (giving Greenwood a front and center position in the development of the 5e version of the setting for instance). However they've also said that they aren't going to retcon the Spellplague or timejump, which I worry may be a total non-starter for a portion of the fanbase they're trying to get back. How big of a portion isn't willing to accept the setting with the 4e continuity still there I can't say, and how many of them have moved on to other settings in the last few years I also can only speculate.They're trying to get back a lot of community good will, and they're saying a lot of the right things, and at this stage I'm willing to wait and see what they do. That said, my optimum way of handling it would be to either completely retcon the Spellplague or split the setting into two timelines (supporting more heavily whichever one was more popular).</blockquote>

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