What do you think?
I think you are simply incorrect in your expectation.
I have come to understand you really like the idea of mashups. I don't see any sign WotC is preparing to do a whole lot of system redesign and republishing to support them.
What do you think?
I kind of wish we could leave the FR behind and have WotC create a fresh new adventuring world full of new things to explore and encounter. So "reboot" should really be "fresh start".
I never played the video games or read the books or really played the game before 5e so I have no nostalgic attachment to the FR. To me it's just a huge dead weight hanging around the neck of the game!
Definitely a minority opinion I'm sure.
Yeah - that window is closing for me to as I start to branch out into making the game my own rather than rely on WotC to world build for me. And even if they did start over they'd probably not produce something to my taste.Well, we do have a couple of new campaign settings with the MtG crossovers and Wildermount. Since I run a home campaign in my own world and only purchase mods here and there to mine for ideas it doesn't matter much to me.
Perhaps a minority opinion, but you certainly aren't the only one to hold it.I kind of wish we could leave the FR behind and have WotC create a fresh new adventuring world full of new things to explore and encounter. So "reboot" should really be "fresh start".
I never played the video games or read the books or really played the game before 5e so I have no nostalgic attachment to the FR. To me it's just a huge dead weight hanging around the neck of the game!
Definitely a minority opinion I'm sure.
Reminds me of why I gave up on FR a long time ago. Too many world-changing events. But I suppose it could also just be an excuse to launch a new campaign? Who knows.
On the other hand if you could reset things so Drizzt never existed. Hmm.
FR was the original meta-setting with constant updates, since the novels were generally also considered part of the lore. Dragonlance didn't even become a setting until after all three novels were published IIRC. Greyhawk only updated when new modules (adventures) came out that referenced each other, which was rare. Later TSR tried to make every setting like FR, which turned out to be a disaster for pretty much everyone. Rebooting any of those is not only reasonable, but probably helpful (4E did this with Dark Sun, which was a massive improvement).The only setting that WotC has published where they've bothered with keeping a metaplot going is Forgotten Realms. All the others they've shrugged and said "don't worry about it".
And Forgotten Realms has a pretty stable tradition for explaining new stuff in a new edition: they have a whacky magical apocalypse and when they came out the other side, stuff was different.