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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Little Raven" data-source="post: 3855751" data-attributes="member: 10095">It did. However, it was written by Brian R. James, the guy whose name is on the cover of the book. Wizards offered to turn his fan timeline into a real product so that he would be recognized and compensated for the tons of hard work he put into it.Reused art, yes. As explained, when your option is "more elf pictures," or "maps of places we never detailed in previous supplements, in order to give people something new and useful," you give your customers maximum gain by providing them with the maps.As for that art flub with the Warforged... meh... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> happens. No use dwelling on it.It's very much an aid for FR fiction readers. Ever wonder how all the novels relate to eachother, timeline-wise? Well, now you can find out. Ever read about a character in a novel, and want to see where else he shows up? Well, now you can find out.To most people, this is new text (and there is also a bunch of new text, even for those familiar with the old Candlekeep version). Not everyone is a Candlekeep nerd, you know. There is a huge market outside of the people that navigate D&D fan-sites. And for being 160 pages, this book crams in TONS of information.Color printing and hardcover binding ain't cheap.Then go download the old version, if you don't want to pay for the new one. It's that simple. You won't get the maps or the additional fleshing out provided by Ed Greenwood.Suddenly it's WotC's job to correct Amazon's inaccurate copy information, even though Wizards' copy information on their site, and in catalogs, is correct? Amazon is renowned for putting up faulty information, since they hardly ever correct anything. Don't try and blame Wizards for Amazon being wrong.</blockquote>

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