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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 4724063" data-attributes="member: 30678">I thought the issue was not about whether FR inspires writers or not, but rather the "burden of lore" they need to read to avoid conflict canon Realmslore? If it was not inspiring, I don't think there would be such an overwhelming number of FR novels published lately (I honestly can't even keep up with reading them). I might not always feel inspired in my job, but I can't go and demand my boss "shakes things up" just so that I could feel more inspired about my work again. Honestly, if you're a professional writer who only writes when inspiration or mood strikes, maybe it's not the ideal job for you?Well, most of the FR products published by TSR during the years just before its dying trashes isn't actually worth buying (or reading). Volo's Guides, the "Deity Books" and several others (i.e. all the stuff written by Greenwood, Schend and Boyd) is another matter. All in all, the books that matter probably have about the same amount of lore that Eberron books. Of course, YMMV."I want the MOURNPLAGUE to happen before I'll touch Eberron! You hear that, designers?!? Strip it down to the core so I won't have to read X books on Aeryni elven habits or Dragonmarks or the events of the Last War, or the noble Houses, or the history of Xen'drik..." <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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