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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 3765300" data-attributes="member: 1003">Apparently you play a different game than I do! I play D&D, where killing people multiple times is not only possible, but practically 'likely.'  You're aware of the on-again, dead-again relationship Elminster and Manshoon had going for a while there, aren't you?  It's hardly like the PC's are the only ones with access to Raise Dead, True Resurrection, etc.However, your spoiler exactly makes my point.  What if I were running a campaign where NPC-X is the main BBEG (or benefactor, plot element, whatever), and then the WotC guys come along and kills that dude off?  The current campaign I'm playing in is set in Waterdeep (mostly), and here comes WotC - whoops!  Waterdeep is now just "hip deep", IYKWIM.I read it, thanks.  They're still a problem to me.  Not just them, but "Them + the Novels + the RSE's", combined, are my problem.  I, whether a player or DM, am clearly not in control of where the world is heading or where I can take it.  I have less control over the future of the Forgotten Realms than I do over the future of America here in the real world (speaking solely as a citizen who can vote and write to his representatives).  In FR, I don't even get that one vote.  It's just *BAM*, your campaign and everything you've done for the last two years is gone and buried under the torid prose of R.A. Salvatore, or whoever.As for the NPC's, Eberron did it better. There are people who are powerful for political reasons, but level-wise they're mostly 5-7th level.  That really lets the PC's be the obvious, first-choice heroes of the setting.But this reboot sounds pretty cool to me. So, maybe I'll buy it, and then just never buy or read any further published materials.  That might work, as long as Elminster bites it.</blockquote>

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