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<blockquote data-quote="Fenris-77" data-source="post: 7988862" data-attributes="member: 6993955">Let's separate this out and try to look at it form the outside. Pretend you're someone that's new, that's only kinda maybe heard of the Forgotten Realms. Maybe you've paged through the SCAG at a friend's house while pinching a loaf. Whatever. One of your leveled-up geek buddies says:OMG!! There a new FR book coming out that will update the time line!&nbsp; To which you reply, huh, cool, what kind of new stuff is it going to have? Quivering with excitement, he replies Neat stuff about some countries in the Realms we haven't heard about lately!!Does that sound interesting? Maybe, maybe not. It probably does to people who love the Realms, people who want to fill in holes on their map. To the gamer in our example it probably sounds boring as dirt. That's what WotC is working against. You need to build in enough player facing crunch that there's some interest outside the FR fanclub. In some ways you're actually working against the setting, which just isn't that sexy, not to a newer gamer anyway. It's a very generic fantasy world. Don't get me wrong, I love the Realms, and have for years, but there are issues in play that experienced gamers just don't seem to get, or be willing to admit to anyway.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fenris-77, post: 7988862, member: 6993955"] Let's separate this out and try to look at it form the outside. Pretend you're someone that's new, that's only kinda maybe heard of the Forgotten Realms. Maybe you've paged through the SCAG at a friend's house while pinching a loaf. Whatever. One of your leveled-up geek buddies says: [I]OMG!! There a new FR book coming out that will update the time line! [/I] To which you reply, [I]huh, cool, what kind of new stuff is it going to have? [/I] Quivering with excitement, he replies[I] Neat stuff about some countries in the Realms we haven't heard about lately!![/I] Does that sound interesting? Maybe, maybe not. It probably does to people who love the Realms, people who want to fill in holes on their map. To the gamer in our example it probably sounds boring as dirt. That's what WotC is working against. You need to build in enough player facing crunch that there's some interest outside the FR fanclub. In some ways you're actually working against the setting, which just isn't that sexy, not to a newer gamer anyway. It's a [I]very[/I] generic fantasy world. Don't get me wrong, I love the Realms, and have for years, but there are issues in play that experienced gamers just don't seem to get, or be willing to admit to anyway. [/QUOTE]

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