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<blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 3936431" data-attributes="member: 5143">There are about as many rabid haters as there are rabid fans.&nbsp; Both won't like the new edition probably.Yes, and people who have never seen the Realms ARE affected by the 30 year legacy.&nbsp; If I come into D&amp;D and FR from the point of view of someone who has never played in the Realms before and I buy the FRCS and start to read through it to figure out how to run the Realms, it is daunting.&nbsp; It was daunting for me and I've played D&amp;D for many, many years and played in Realms games before.&nbsp; It's because the books like to stress the grand history the world has and all the NPCs that are important to the world and the power groups and their political workings.If I sit down and read it looking specifically for &quot;What town I should start players in, how they get magic items in the town, where the nearest dungeons are and what kind of adventures they should expect to go on?&quot; I won't find it easily without wading through the other stuff.&nbsp; Which turns people off.I'm doing it.&nbsp; I don't consider myself a Realms detractor.&nbsp; I liked the Realms when I played in it.&nbsp; However the thought of running it used to drive me crazy with fear at having to learn all of that stuff in order to run it correctly.&nbsp; My DM who ran us in the Realms knew it all.&nbsp; I could never compete with him and I didn't want to try.The history is still the same...but it is partially reset.&nbsp; I mean the Time of Troubles still happened.&nbsp; However, when Mystra is dead and so is Cyric and Bhaal and a number of other gods that were involved, I no longer need to KNOW about the Time of Troubles to run FR.I don't need to know that Cyric is bitter at Mystra over the events that happened there and that his followers will go out of their way to make Mystra and her followers miserable.I see them making large gains in the &quot;Never played FR before and don't know about it&quot;, &quot;Never played D&amp;D before&quot;, &quot;On the fence about FR&quot;, and &quot;Played FR but didn't like a lot of things about it&quot; areas.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Majoru Oakheart, post: 3936431, member: 5143"] There are about as many rabid haters as there are rabid fans. Both won't like the new edition probably. Yes, and people who have never seen the Realms ARE affected by the 30 year legacy. If I come into D&D and FR from the point of view of someone who has never played in the Realms before and I buy the FRCS and start to read through it to figure out how to run the Realms, it is daunting. It was daunting for me and I've played D&D for many, many years and played in Realms games before. It's because the books like to stress the grand history the world has and all the NPCs that are important to the world and the power groups and their political workings. If I sit down and read it looking specifically for "What town I should start players in, how they get magic items in the town, where the nearest dungeons are and what kind of adventures they should expect to go on?" I won't find it easily without wading through the other stuff. Which turns people off. I'm doing it. I don't consider myself a Realms detractor. I liked the Realms when I played in it. However the thought of running it used to drive me crazy with fear at having to learn all of that stuff in order to run it correctly. My DM who ran us in the Realms knew it all. I could never compete with him and I didn't want to try. The history is still the same...but it is partially reset. I mean the Time of Troubles still happened. However, when Mystra is dead and so is Cyric and Bhaal and a number of other gods that were involved, I no longer need to KNOW about the Time of Troubles to run FR. I don't need to know that Cyric is bitter at Mystra over the events that happened there and that his followers will go out of their way to make Mystra and her followers miserable. I see them making large gains in the "Never played FR before and don't know about it", "Never played D&D before", "On the fence about FR", and "Played FR but didn't like a lot of things about it" areas. [/QUOTE]

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