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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seankreynolds" data-source="post: 1788006" data-attributes="member: 3029">Not true. The prestige class description even says, "It is not necessary to have this prestige class to serve in the Purple Dragons at large.... It is not necessary to have this prestige class to be an officer of the Purple Dragons...."{The Shadovar reappearing.}That's more a push by the novels division than anything RPG R&D decided, and thus isn't really a 3E issue (other than it first appeared in a 3E FR gamebook rather than a 2E one).{The "Tree Cosmology." }You are of course entitled to your opinion about the FRCS cosmology, but understand that it was never Ed's intent that FR be crammed into the Great Wheel cosmology, and the author of the Manual of the Planes (both Manuals, actually) agrees that a non-Wheel cosmology is appropriate for FR. See here:<a href="http://p082.ezboard.com/fseankreynoldsboardsfrm20.showMessage?topicID=2.topic" target="_blank">http://p082.ezboard.com/fseankreynoldsboardsfrm20.showMessage?topicID=2.topic</a>{The disappearance of many areas from the map or from any mention (Erlkazar, Maztica, Kara-Tur, Zakhara, The Bandit Wastes, Swagdar, The Blade Kingdoms, etc.)}Part of that is due to the scale of the map: some things ended up so small on the map (when we went from the giant poster maps we could include in the old box sets to the smaller poster map glued into the FRCS) that we ended up removing them for clarity ... either the text would overlap or be too small to be readable. They're still there (and we added some of those things back in in the larger four-part poster map we published in Dragon in the following months).As for Zakhara, Maztica, and other large areas that don't get "any mention," you should look at the map on page 231 of the FRCS, the Maztica Zakhara entries on page 230, and note that the FRCS index says that Zakhara is mentioned on seven other pages and Maztica is mentioned on ten other pages.The FRCS' focus in on Faerun, as all of our information from customers shows that nearly all of them play in Faerun rather than any other part of Toril. Devoting five pages to Zakhara or Maztica -- and entire continent -- would give them poor coverage, wouldn't be enough info to run a game there, and would take away space that could be used to focus on Faerun. Remember that the authors over-wrote the FRCS by a total of 100 pages; we had to cut a lot to make it all fit, and when it came to making a choice to keep or cut something, if it wasn't directly useful to a Faerun campaign, it usually got cut.{The dungeon-punk-ization of demi-humans.}I have no idea what you mean by this.{The emphasis on crunch vs. fluff in the various publications (we'll never see another "Volo's Guide to..." or "Aurora's Whole Realms Catalog" get published.)}That is unfortunate, <a href="http://www.seankreynolds.com/rpgfiles/gaming/forgottenrumsstory.html" target="_blank">and I think it's clear I'm not happy with the situation</a>. However, I do feel they have a reasonable compromise with the current setup. Would I like to see more story material? Yes. Do I understand that most players and DMs are demanding more "crunch"? Yes.</blockquote>

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