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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brian Compton" data-source="post: 3802878" data-attributes="member: 24898">Since it seems like WotC is trying to turn Faerun into Athas, don't give them any more ideas  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.Seriously, FR has been one of the most popular gaming worlds in the history of Fantasy RPG.  There are certain things that have made it popular, such as the wide variety of gods and the fact that they interact deeply in the world (hence, having to explain to a newbee to FR that atheism would be very out of place).  For me, that is something that IS the Realms.  Maybe this won't change, but if they're trying to bring the Realms more inline with the default setting, there is that risk.  Likewise, if drow are going to be a more commonly used PC race, that means a lot more drow in the upper world.  This would be another big change, from small rare pockets of Elistraee followers or the two organized groups of Vhaerunians to a large host of them.  This also means taking them from a rarely used scary enemy to "oh, more drow- yay."WotC, prove me wrong please.  But I'm guessing they won't, which again means that FR will be a nice place to read about, but I won't want to play there.BTW, the points of light thing- does that remind anyone else of Palladium's RIFTS setting?  I liked RIFTS, but as it's own setting, not imposed on FR.</blockquote>

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