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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 3992870" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>The reason not create a new setting, is that new settings generally sell poorly at first, and that we've had quite a number of new settings over the course of 3E, both official and unofficial (particularly Eberron). Creating a new setting is really only likely to appeal to extant D&D players, and the setting's attractiveness to the market is likely to be untested. Even a very cool setting might actually only appeal to a very small section of the player base.</p><p></p><p>To, your "Why ruin the FR?" question has the flipside - "Why not fix the FR?" - I mean, they're going to have to change the FR somewhat to fit with 4E (they always have, and always will, change the FR). For you, the FR is ruined and it's "disingenuous" - For me, there's nothing "disingenuous" about it, any more than it was disingenous of Lucas to connect the Episodes 1,2,3 with the 4,5,6. It's a different setting, with mostly different characters, but there elements, particularly thematic elements, and places, which stay constant.</p><p></p><p>I lost interest when the 3E FR *failed* to change, personally, when it was just "more of the same" in the worst possible way (to my mind - specifically it a megacrapton of useless crunch based on many of the more dull aspects of the FR - whilst maintaining the uber-NPCs, the dull, safe parts of the setting, and so on). 4E FR promises to draw me back, by offering me the stuff that I liked about the Realms (parts of the sword coast, the history of the FR, all it's cool fallen magical empires and all these familar names and places, a certain visual style and style of name, and so on), whilst throwing overboard much of that which I disliked.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure about everything, like, the Dragonborn particularly, and their kingdom, but something like blowing up Dullhorand (Fauxgypt or whatever you want to call it) sounds like a great idea to me, as does killing off Mystra and the pointless, aesthetically annoying Chosen, and trimming down the god-list a bit (not too much, I hope).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 3992870, member: 18"] The reason not create a new setting, is that new settings generally sell poorly at first, and that we've had quite a number of new settings over the course of 3E, both official and unofficial (particularly Eberron). Creating a new setting is really only likely to appeal to extant D&D players, and the setting's attractiveness to the market is likely to be untested. Even a very cool setting might actually only appeal to a very small section of the player base. To, your "Why ruin the FR?" question has the flipside - "Why not fix the FR?" - I mean, they're going to have to change the FR somewhat to fit with 4E (they always have, and always will, change the FR). For you, the FR is ruined and it's "disingenuous" - For me, there's nothing "disingenuous" about it, any more than it was disingenous of Lucas to connect the Episodes 1,2,3 with the 4,5,6. It's a different setting, with mostly different characters, but there elements, particularly thematic elements, and places, which stay constant. I lost interest when the 3E FR *failed* to change, personally, when it was just "more of the same" in the worst possible way (to my mind - specifically it a megacrapton of useless crunch based on many of the more dull aspects of the FR - whilst maintaining the uber-NPCs, the dull, safe parts of the setting, and so on). 4E FR promises to draw me back, by offering me the stuff that I liked about the Realms (parts of the sword coast, the history of the FR, all it's cool fallen magical empires and all these familar names and places, a certain visual style and style of name, and so on), whilst throwing overboard much of that which I disliked. I'm not sure about everything, like, the Dragonborn particularly, and their kingdom, but something like blowing up Dullhorand (Fauxgypt or whatever you want to call it) sounds like a great idea to me, as does killing off Mystra and the pointless, aesthetically annoying Chosen, and trimming down the god-list a bit (not too much, I hope). [/QUOTE]
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