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Message: <blockquote data-quote="an_idol_mind" data-source="post: 3764552" data-attributes="member: 43749">I'm not specifically commenting on Driz'zt. There are many others who both novel readers and gamers enjoy. Mirt the Moneylender comes to mind, as well as the Knights of Myth Drannor, many of the Harpers, and so on.Also, if a lot of Realms fans are fans of the novels, blowing up the world would alienate them just as much, unless the novels occur in the game's past (which wouldn't be a bad idea, IMO).I don't disagree with you, and a Points of Light approach to the Realms would, in my mind, be more interesting than what's there now. But I'd feel really bad about the many fans out there who helped make the Realms so popular in the first place getting a royal screwjob in order to make the setting more marketable to the people out there who don't and might never like the world. That's the main reason I think a huge change to the setting would be a bad idea. Alienating your existing fan base in hopes of attracting a new fan base -- especially one that might already be playing dark fantasy settings like Midnight -- is not a terribly good idea unless that existing fan base is so small as to be insignificant. And if the latter were true and the Realms isn't profitable anymore, wouldn't it make more sense to lead off the 4th edition settings charge with, say, Eberron or a new setting rather than wrecking an old one?</blockquote>