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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 7670423" data-attributes="member: 37579">Almost no settings really need rules updates beyond a couple races. 98% of a setting is effectively edition neutral. You don't buy a campaign setting for new rules and character options, you buy it for the nations, characters, factions, culture, history, plotlines, etc. There are some exceptions (Dark Sun with defiling and its wealth of unique monsters) but for the most part you can run Greyhawk or Mystara or Dragonlance with 1e or 2e products. I totally forgot about that book. Mostly because it followed Dragonlance Adventures and Greyhawk Adventures as a setting hardcover. It felt like it belonged to that same series but wasn't finished prior to the 1e -> 2e edition transition. That said, that book was also released in 1990, a year after the 2e core rulebooks. So it continues to follow the pattern of setting books some time after the rulebooks. And I'm am very, very confident we'll see some kind of setting book in the not too distant future. The world has changed and even fans with old material do need a sourcebook for the modern Realms. However, it's not like WotC could have gotten their staff to write it in the evenings and weekends and/or added an extra day to the week to have it ready for release right now. So some patience is required for them to write the 250,000 words of a 320-page campaign setting product. Comparison time. Ever hear of National Novel Writing Month (aka <a href="http://nanowrimo.org/" target="_blank">NaNoWriMo</a>)? Where you write a short novel in just 30 days? It's not easy and at that rate the product is seldom quality. That's only a 50,000 word novel. At that breakneck rate of writing, it would still take five months to write a campaign setting. Even with a couple people sharing the load it's two-and-a-half months. Plus it needs to be edited, the changes to the setting need to be considered and planned. And the book needs to be laid out, art needs to be added, and more.Given how unpopular the changes for the 4th Edition Realms were, people should be happy they're taking their time and not rushing through the creation of the campaign guide to crank it out in six months. Even getting it out for GenCon (late August) would be a somewhat rush job. I'd rather a good book than a quick book.</blockquote>

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