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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glade Riven" data-source="post: 5595578" data-attributes="member: 86468">Hey, I only used the term "Old School" because it is more polite than callin' y'all a bunch a Grognards <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />. And this isn't about 3e to 4e - I know all the issues there. Dragonlancing the Forgotten Realms was a little extreme. See, I've been trying to track down just what it is that bugs me about the Forgotten Realms setting. Many of the reasons that I thought I had were actually inaccurate, since there are other settings with the same traits that I liked. I finally figured out what it was (well, other than some of the overly entheusiasic fans): Forgotten Realms is a setting that makes me feel like I need to go read the books in order to really figure out what it is about. I got the same feelings towards d20 Wheel of Time, and actually read the books several years after looking through the d20 book. Without reading the actual series, I didn't really know what the setting was about just from the d20 book (which many people see as a really good setting book). It isn't necessarally a bad thing, as it plays up to the fanbase and increases initial sales, but it does make it tricky when growing the brand to folk who haven't read the books and feel a little intimidated by the massive Wall of Forgotten Realms at the used book store. Granted, it doesn't help that it is a High Magic campaign that thinks it's High Fantasy.</blockquote>

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