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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neil Bishop" data-source="post: 3789884" data-attributes="member: 55494">It's not just a question of what to lose but what it needs.FR needs an introductory product that shows how to set a campaign there. Basically, something like a small adventure path set in a "un-novelled" region of the world. Throw in some history, some power groups etc... and show new DMs what the attraction of FR is and how the world can be managed.Key is the "un-novelled" part: it's time to set aside a region or regions for NO development in the novels. That way the DM can feel like it is his own little playground.The first regional product for 3E was Silver Marches and one of the most interesting hooks in that book was to do with the rise of an orc kingdom. Of course, that plot hook then had to be resolved in a trilogy by R A Salvatore. Not such a smart move, WotC.The first adventure for 3E was City of the Spider Queen. This massive dungeon crawl had a backstory that basically wasn't revealed for FOUR years as we endured an interminable wait for six hardcover novels to be published (one of which was written so well that the combat scenes between a fighter and a non-fighter actually described on several occasions that the fighter received four attacks on his turn). And if someone from WotC is reading remember these two things about the turgid dreck that was CotSQ:- if you're going to publish an adventure with drow don't tie it so intimately to a novel-based, FR-specific backstory because you lose the non-FR DMs who might otherwise buy this product; and- any lengthy Underdark adventure needs a place like Mantol-Derith as neutral ground and a place to trade and gather information.The FR --GAME-- line needs to be managed with the context of an overall strategy in mind that takes into consideration the needs of FR DMs (and, to a lesser extent, players).</blockquote>

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