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<blockquote data-quote="see" data-source="post: 8308822" data-attributes="member: 10531">Are there, in fact, enough fans of Kara-Tur canon that angering them would matter?The writing of the boxed set was dry and highly real-world-analog-ist (except insofar as it jammed the 1e OA classes into all the cultures). The setting never generated any product support beyond a few adventure modules, no novels (except insofar as one volume in the Horde trilogy concentrated on the conquest of Shou Lung), and no video/computer games (while Dragonlance, Mystara, Hollow World, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Planescape, Zakhara, Birthright, Spelljammer and Eberron all have had at least one at some point). I don't know of any fan discussion anywhere except as either 1) an afterthought in FR fandom discussions, or 2) people explaining how it needs to be radically reworked. And, of course, it was in the &quot;steep drop-off&quot; category of setting popularity back when it was polled.(This, of course, raises the question as to whether it's worth bothering with reviving rather than doing some other setting for Asian-accented fantasy. But the fact that it's attached to the Forgotten Realms creates a semi-eternal push to revisit it, with references getting made over and over again. And the events of the Avatar Crisis, Horde, Spellplague, and Second Sundering, including just the sheer passage of over 130 years in the FR timeline since the date of the information in the boxed set, would quite justify radical revisions.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="see, post: 8308822, member: 10531"] Are there, in fact, enough fans of Kara-Tur canon that angering them would matter? The writing of the boxed set was dry and highly real-world-analog-ist (except insofar as it jammed the 1e OA classes into all the cultures). The setting never generated any product support beyond a few adventure modules, no novels (except insofar as one volume in the Horde trilogy concentrated on the conquest of Shou Lung), and no video/computer games (while Dragonlance, Mystara, Hollow World, Dark Sun, Ravenloft, Planescape, Zakhara, Birthright, Spelljammer and Eberron all have had at least one at some point). I don't know of any fan discussion anywhere except as either 1) an afterthought in FR fandom discussions, or 2) people explaining how it needs to be radically reworked. And, of course, it was in the "steep drop-off" category of setting popularity back when it was polled. (This, of course, raises the question as to whether it's worth bothering with reviving rather than doing some other setting for Asian-accented fantasy. But the fact that it's attached to the Forgotten Realms creates a semi-eternal push to revisit it, with references getting made over and over again. And the events of the Avatar Crisis, Horde, Spellplague, and Second Sundering, including just the sheer passage of over 130 years in the FR timeline since the date of the information in the boxed set, would quite justify radical revisions.) [/QUOTE]

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