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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sunderstone" data-source="post: 3763129" data-attributes="member: 23497">I disagree. Doug Niles original Moonshae Trilogy didnt alter much at all. Matter of fact I was surprised with the second trilogy taking place years later. These novels were a perfect companion to the setting IMHO. It gave you the feel of what it was like to be in the Moonshaes and left it intact for you to mess with.I also remember when they said Sembia was left for DMs to use, etc. This was a major gripe I had with the Realms getting too crowded with super hero NPCs.The atmosphere was what made FR great back with the grey box. IMHO, too many canon alterations from the novels ruined that feel. Even worse is that the heroes of the novels are still around in the games setting sourcebooks. Why couldnt the novels just be novels for the most part with maybe a "Realms Shake Up" occurring only rarely? This would lead to less super heroes running around every area you want to develop further without having to come up with cheesy explanations to "well why cant we get try to get some help from Drizzt, its his neighborhood too" or "why is it every time we stroll through the Dales, Elminster just happens to be out worldwalking?"Thats fine for you. Not so much for me. I liked FRs "original" atmosphere and open endedness, and changing things every time Joe writes a new novel isnt much fun. The "FR Completist" in me makes me research what happened in the novels I never wanted to read. From there I have to keep tons of papers/text files on what I want to keep from the new altered canon of the novels I had no interest in.The Silver Marches used to be my favorite area (even before it was known by that name). Now from RAS Drizzt books, its barely recognizable and too busy of an area for me to want to work in.In a way, I like the fact that they might be "rebooting" the already destroyed FR (thats my current opinion of FR and im entitled to it), but if the novels following 4E are only going to do the same thing again.... well, it will be worthless to me.A perfect campaign setting is one with just enough open endedness to make you want to springboard your own campaign. Not one that feels like you have to play in someone elses campaign or you have to erase (or "reverse-engineer") parts of canon.Do settings evolve? sure.  Make more sourcebooks for every area or make new areas/continents/kingdoms. Maybe one shakeup every few years. Not with every novel that someone writes.So yeah, WotC isnt sending SWAT teams out, but unless they change the way they do things (which I doubt) the reboot wont have much value.</blockquote>

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