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<blockquote data-quote="Razz" data-source="post: 3607274" data-attributes="member: 3014">Which is totally just wrong, in my opinion. See, not every Forgotten Realms player reads a FR novel. It's unfair to base a lot of the game material on the novels. Especially if said novels are being churned out so quickly. It's gotten to the point where a FR player will be so far behind on what's happening in the Realms if he/she is a couple of trilogies behind everyone else. It's also thinning out the market since now you're not only required to purchase Forgotten Realms sourcebooks, but you're also going to have to churn out money for all those novels to boot as well.If you don't buy the novels, the next time a FR sourcebook comes out and a million things just happened that just made your last sourcebook practically obsolete makes you sit there and wonder,&quot;What the hell?&quot;Like I said, I wouldn't mind an FR novel here and there being canon material. Like if it detailed a new region or a catastrophic event were to happen that they were planning to implement into the world. But I really don't believe ALL of them should be canon. Again, Eberron went this route and it's working out fine. You have the fans of the novels and the fans of the gamers getting what they want and neither side having to worry about one affecting the other. Also, the novel readers who are the gamers can actually apply the events in the novel into their game with just a word.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Razz, post: 3607274, member: 3014"] Which is totally just wrong, in my opinion. See, not every Forgotten Realms player reads a FR novel. It's unfair to base a lot of the game material on the novels. Especially if said novels are being churned out so quickly. It's gotten to the point where a FR player will be so far behind on what's happening in the Realms if he/she is a couple of trilogies behind everyone else. It's also thinning out the market since now you're not only required to purchase Forgotten Realms sourcebooks, but you're also going to have to churn out money for all those novels to boot as well. If you don't buy the novels, the next time a FR sourcebook comes out and a million things just happened that just made your last sourcebook practically obsolete makes you sit there and wonder,"What the hell?" Like I said, I wouldn't mind an FR novel here and there being canon material. Like if it detailed a new region or a catastrophic event were to happen that they were planning to implement into the world. But I really don't believe ALL of them should be canon. Again, Eberron went this route and it's working out fine. You have the fans of the novels and the fans of the gamers getting what they want and neither side having to worry about one affecting the other. Also, the novel readers who are the gamers can actually apply the events in the novel into their game with just a word. [/QUOTE]

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