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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7132251" data-attributes="member: 6785785"><p>We can talk about both, if that's cool. </p><p></p><p>1) This is definitely a matter of opinion. I also used to share this opinion. I was not a fan of the realms early on...this was most likely due to seeing an incomplete picture of things. I read a couple of teh novels, and other than a few, most were pretty bad. Entertaining perhaps, but not much about the setting that I really felt was very compelling. The only novels I read that were strongly "Realmsish" for lack of a better term was the Avatar Trilogy. Which as a kid, I thought had some cool concepts, but which I recognized even then was more about establishing a new status quo based on rules mechanics than anything else. And I would even say that to this day, I'm not all that strongly a proponent of the Realms....it's an okay setting in that it has a lot of various regions in which you can base different kinds of games and so on, but it's all fairly Tolkienesque. But I'd say the same for almost all of the old settings. I quite liked the 3E Campaign Setting book. That was the first time I ever considered running a Realms based game. </p><p></p><p>2) This is more a matter of fact, in that clearly FR is the setting getting all the focus of the current edition. On one had, I agree with you that this is a bad thing. I'd prefer to have more variety of content. I find the material easy to port, but that's gonna very from person to person, and I know others may find it difficult. It also depends on which settings you want to port things to. But on the other hand, I can kind of understand WotC's decision to focus on one setting. As this thread can attest, and others like it, a setting alone seems to be enough reason for people to buy or not buy a product. There's a portion of the existing fan base that refuses to buy certain products if they are associated with certain settings. That's not a practice I woudl follow, but many do...and it seems WotC has heard them, and they've decided to minimize that as much as possible, and go with the most pop-culture present setting they have. So while I may lament their decision along with you, I can also recognize the reasoning behind it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 7132251, member: 6785785"] We can talk about both, if that's cool. 1) This is definitely a matter of opinion. I also used to share this opinion. I was not a fan of the realms early on...this was most likely due to seeing an incomplete picture of things. I read a couple of teh novels, and other than a few, most were pretty bad. Entertaining perhaps, but not much about the setting that I really felt was very compelling. The only novels I read that were strongly "Realmsish" for lack of a better term was the Avatar Trilogy. Which as a kid, I thought had some cool concepts, but which I recognized even then was more about establishing a new status quo based on rules mechanics than anything else. And I would even say that to this day, I'm not all that strongly a proponent of the Realms....it's an okay setting in that it has a lot of various regions in which you can base different kinds of games and so on, but it's all fairly Tolkienesque. But I'd say the same for almost all of the old settings. I quite liked the 3E Campaign Setting book. That was the first time I ever considered running a Realms based game. 2) This is more a matter of fact, in that clearly FR is the setting getting all the focus of the current edition. On one had, I agree with you that this is a bad thing. I'd prefer to have more variety of content. I find the material easy to port, but that's gonna very from person to person, and I know others may find it difficult. It also depends on which settings you want to port things to. But on the other hand, I can kind of understand WotC's decision to focus on one setting. As this thread can attest, and others like it, a setting alone seems to be enough reason for people to buy or not buy a product. There's a portion of the existing fan base that refuses to buy certain products if they are associated with certain settings. That's not a practice I woudl follow, but many do...and it seems WotC has heard them, and they've decided to minimize that as much as possible, and go with the most pop-culture present setting they have. So while I may lament their decision along with you, I can also recognize the reasoning behind it. [/QUOTE]
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