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Message: <blockquote data-quote="phadeout" data-source="post: 3762274" data-attributes="member: 25546">Wow... I've been out of the FR loop since 3E came out... I've played in the realms from the Grey Box all the way through till just before 3E (basically when the Sharn/Shadovar stuff started to happen, read the first book on it).Also, I post very little on ENworld, but have been lingering due to the 4E stuff (which doesn't interest me much btw).What does interest me is to see what's happened in the Realms, and man... this is just crazy.I've always liked the "darker" campaign settings, where the PCs NEED to be the heroes.  It sounds like FR is going in this direction.  But I also say this, I doesn't appeal to me AT ALL.  A constant moving storyline in a campaign setting is why I stopped playing in the Realms.  So what about when 5E comes out?  There will be another major Realms event?  This isn't anywhere near what the Avatar trilogy did to the Realms.  I could live with that event.  But this just isn't the Realms anymore from the sounds of it.  They'd be better of Re-Releasing the Grey Box with 4E stats... (well, maybe not).  I don't know how to feel about this but I do know one thing... If I want a Points of Light in a Dark World setting - I already have it.Midnight by Fantasy Flight Games.  Also, the best thing about this setting, I never have to worry about the Timeline moving.  It's set at ONE spot, and WILL NEVER move.  It's part of the design philosophy and it's the one reason I buy this setting.  Every other setting I've ever known (including settings from other non-WOTC RPG publishers - cough cough - Coalition - cough) the moving target Timeline is the most annoying thing they can do to a setting.If they want to redo the realms 100 years in the future... Great.  I guess they need to do "something".  So do it.  But do yourselves a BIG favor.  From now on, stop moving the Timeline.  Else, you're going to loose all the new fans you get, eventually.  That's why I'll not buy into a new setting like this, because that's what it is, a new setting.I can already play in the 4E version of FR, I'll just pull out my FR Grey Box...</blockquote>

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