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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Adlon" data-source="post: 4447220" data-attributes="member: 1972">My suspicions are :1e: TSR: Ed, we want your stuff, it's great.EG: Ok, guys, here is the FRCS.TSR: ok, we'll check it out, edit it, and gtg. Thanks Ed.2e:TSR: Ed, we want to make a new edition. Some of this stuff has to change. Some has to go. We need something drastic, dunno, how about tossing the gods down from the heavens, and generally having total chaos for a short time....Ed: WTF, well, ok... lemme see what I can do.....Ed: Ok, guys, here it is. I did X here, and Y there, and all is gtgTSR: Great Ed, we'll make it purdy, and sell it. Thanks.3e:Wiz: Ed, time for another edition.Ed: OMG not again........PLEASE guys..... we can do ...Wiz: Nah, we gotta make money. The big guys sez we gotta or we're in deep kimshee. THIS is the timeline of products, and this is generally how we want our products to go. It's up to You to make it all work, and oh, here's some MORE people to tell you what to do.Ed: sigh.....can I ....Wiz: only if we say so... but Ed, you're the man..... !!!Ed: So, whaddya want now?Wiz: We want stuff !! We had gods tossed about, cant have that again....how about strife in the most popular organization in the realms, the return of Netheril, oh, we liked Bane......yeah...but, do your thing Ed....Ed: sigh....Ok, guys, here you go......Wiz: Great Ed, now our editors and other FRCS experts will make this stuff into sellable (our way ) product.4e:Wiz: Ed, yep, you guessed it... 4EEeeeeeee !!!!!Ed: /slitwristWiz: ? Ed, Hasbro sez we gotta make money......Ed: nevermind... whatcha need now....Wiz: Well, with 4e, everything changes. We want everything upside down, entire continents wiped, and replaced, alot of people dead, oh, axe some gods along the way. We don't want a God of Magic anymore, make sure SHE's outta here. Oh, we HATE the Harpers too.....We want everything to work thus, and we want to be able to say 'Penned by Ed Greenwood' on every FR product. You write it, we'll make it fit, as we now have people who are better at FRCS than you are......Ed: Isn't it too soon?Wiz: well, probably, but, we are a business after all. As we have our finger on the pulse of the industry, and base our changes on customer feedback almost exclusively, all is good. If we build it, they will come.Ed: !!!Wiz: !Ed: sigh... ok, here ya go......Wiz: Ed, you're a real trooper, and a team player. Now, we'll take all this and make it OUR way, so WE can sell this stuff, after all, we have people who win more FRCS than you do.Ed: yah.... checks in yet?---------------It is what it is. Ed is a real person, who like most of us needs a real job, to put real meat and potatoes on his real family's plates. He has a good job, and IS a game/world designer, and is doing what he loves.To me, one particular person on the FRCS team truly doesn't belong, but that's a rant and wont go here. Unfortunately, this individual has ALOT to do with the finished product, and at a glance I can tell he has NO clue about FRCS and what is has been. 1-2 others on this team are also suspect, but, my point is that Ed has alot less say, and it dwindles with every 'expansion pak' we get. It's obvious.....in the writing, and feel of the CS.</blockquote>

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