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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 4905821" data-attributes="member: 30678">I'm with Shemeska here; I utterly disliked it when it came out, and I still utterly dislike it. I'm still running a pre-Spellplague FR campaign (and I will keep running FR campaigns every now and then in the future, too)  but I'm more or less moving into Golarion. Why? Because it reminds me of the "Old Realms" in scope and quality of lore, and it's supported in three monthly publications (adventures and supplements). I guess you could say that FR still gets supported via DDi (and I'm excluding LFR material here), but we already had that when Dragon was still in the hands of Paizo. So comparing the support FR gets these days to the 3E era makes the former look like FR is on life support, and fading fast. Frankly, I think WoTC sees FR as a novel setting first and foremost; LFR may be doing good (or not; I can't say one way or the other) but I suspect the sales for FRCG were not nearly as good as they expected (hence the sudden "only-three-books-per-setting"-policy, which was announced, I think, after the sales data for FRCG started coming in).   BTW, I find it funny that when the "h4ters" claimed the voting system was "abused" by 4E fans and this was the only reason why 4E won so many EnNies (a ridiculous claim, IMO), people rose in defence of WoTC by saying that the results actually showed how popular 4E really is among gamers (which I agree with). Now, when someone says that very same award (and/or the lack of existing FR threads on several boards) could be used to make some conclusions about the popularity, success and quality of 4E FR, suddenly this award seems to be some vague and obscure backyard trophy that's only given to the judges' best friends and therefore not indicative of anything (alright, that's hyperbole, but you get the point). To me, the EnNies represent the opinions of the majority of the active international online gamer community; whether it's indicative of the true opinions of the gamer community worldwide or not depends on the number of voters (I'd say that over a thousand voters is probably a pretty good sampling).</blockquote>

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