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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6644415" data-attributes="member: 37579">Okay, now that I have more time, some extra thoughts. I do feel setting is rather lacking from the D&D products. Some of this is because D&D is so very generic. I imagine Fantasy AGE will also be super generic. Because most people will set their campaigns in their own world or won't use the default setting. But settings are still important. But even the adventures we have gotten have been fairly generic. They're set in the Realms but only very, very, very loosely and it's super easy to port them into other worlds. They're not Realms adventures so much as D&D adventures that just happen to be set in the Forgotten Realms. None of the story elements or plot points have really tied into the Realms. None of the villains have been established figures or groups (apart from the Cult of the Dragon, but even then their movies and modus operandi entirely changed). None of the stories have been stories that could only have been told in the Realms and not Greyhawk or Dragonlance with just a few simple name changes. Which, I imagine, is the point. But it does leave the adventures a little flat and generic. But I imagine they're waiting until they get some feedback and see how people feel about the Realms before the slip in a little more world specific flavour. As I said in my previous post, they're likely still working on a setting book. The OP mentions Titan's Grave but rather than release both a rules book and a setting book, Green Ronin (one of the larger RPG publishers out there) is releasing a small 144-page rulebook and a tiny 96-page setting book. Part of this is likely to see how well the setting sells. Since they likely have no idea how fans will react. And part of this is likely that they could not develop a larger world and write a longer book in the year since they signed with Wheaton for his series.  And yet WotC is expected to do it in half the time...</blockquote>

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