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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 9570631" data-attributes="member: 2067">Tautologies are indeed tautological, but if I dropped a pack of motorcycle-riding orcs into the postapocalyptic wasteland of Old Waterdeep and had them fought by train-building elves who only live for 1 month and die like mayflies, I wouldn't say it's FR lore, even if I went through all the effort to explain exactly how it happened, and even if it was, objectively, super cool. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/glasses.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt="B-)" title="Glasses&nbsp; &nbsp; B-)" data-shortname="B-)" />Not that FR couldn't become that. It probably could. If I put that in an FR book, it literally would. It's just...not that. That's not why people love FR or play in it. That's my cool rad story about motorcycle orcs, it's not the cool rad story that the Forgotten Realms wants to tell. It's the one I want to tell. If I'm going to run a game in FR, I want that game to be about the stories FR has to tell. I can make up new stories, sure, but if I'm choosing FR, I want FR's stories. The original PDK is embedded in FR's stories. This new one just...isn't. And that makes it a poor fit for this particular environment, to me, even if it would be perfectly fine elsewhere.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 9570631, member: 2067"] Tautologies are indeed tautological, but if I dropped a pack of motorcycle-riding orcs into the postapocalyptic wasteland of Old Waterdeep and had them fought by train-building elves who only live for 1 month and die like mayflies, I wouldn't say it's FR lore, even if I went through all the effort to explain exactly how it happened, and even if it was, objectively, super cool. B-) Not that FR couldn't become that. It probably could. If I put that in an FR book, it literally would. It's just...not that. That's not why people love FR or play in it. That's my cool rad story about motorcycle orcs, it's not the cool rad story that the Forgotten Realms wants to tell. It's the one I want to tell. If I'm going to run a game in FR, I want that game to be about the stories FR has to tell. I can make up new stories, sure, but if I'm choosing FR, I want FR's stories. The original PDK is embedded in FR's stories. This new one just...isn't. And that makes it a poor fit for this particular environment, to me, even if it would be perfectly fine elsewhere. [/QUOTE]

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