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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 3764578" data-attributes="member: 18">To be honest, this is why I think they're not going to screw it up. WotC haven't really had any "marketing disasters" as far as I know, perhaps due to the whole "DON'T LOSE ANY MORE GODDAMN MONEY DANCEY!" deal when TSR got taken over, so I think they'll manage to change the FR without killing it.I still say the main "cause for concern" about the new FR is the CCC. God I hope that's the worst thing in the setting.By the way, they've already killed off the only likeable part of the Harpers, the rank and file, and idiotically retained the slimy leadership, so I think that pooch is screwed. The Knights of Myth Drannor are a dumb idea, because they fill the same exact role as the PCs, but they're much better at it and prettier and richer (dumb dumb dumb dumb thing to have in an RPG setting). Mirt the Moneylender will be dead by default unless he's spent that money on life-extension potions, if they're skipping forwards a hundred year, so at least he's not being "cruelly murdered".I do think, as you say, continuing the FR books as novels set in the past might be sensible, at least until people get used to the idea of the new setting.To be honest but a little crude, I gotta figure that WotC figure people will buy any crap that has R.A. Salvatore or Ed Greenwood written across the top in big gold letters, so I doubt it'll be hard selling the new setting to the fans of the novels. After all, Drizzt is still uberer-than-thou, and a still his bizarrely smugly-angsty self. God help us Elminster, Khelben, The Simbul and so on all survive too.PS - If burning Waterdeep is wrong, would it be too much to ask to have Cormyr completely sacked and burned? I'd particularly like the royal family and Vangerdhast dead if that's not too much to ask. I could set any adventure in Vangerdhast's tomb. That's another one that would please my players immensely.</blockquote>

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