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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8007279" data-attributes="member: 18">I did say, upthread, and everyone ignored it, that it the proof would be in the actual game. It just makes me extremely skeptical that it will be meaningfully related to the FR or BG. Especially if it's not just the main characters. If like literally no character they create has authentically ridiculous FR name, that is saying something. Yes, if it's just the main characters, and odd other character, then it's merely a slightly weird choice (BG1/2 had a mix of more conventional names and "FR names" on the main characters). If it's everyone except imports like Volo, that's something else.But my Toronto-for-NY point remains.If you keep ignoring things that make a setting or story specific, and replacing them with generic things, that does eventually make that story first "less of" a story about those things, and eventually not a story about them at all. Now, it might still be a good story, because those things might not be relevant. But it's not going to be a story about those specific things.We'll see.Probably I'm totally wrong, and it's just these things. The NPCs will have FR names and the lore will connect and be embedded like BG1/2 (which were really pretty good for that). The story will link to and use themes from BG1/2 in a cool way, and so on. I'm just... skeptical.</blockquote>