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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scrivener of Doom" data-source="post: 7655708" data-attributes="member: 87576">It's not just what Brian James has said. Think about Kobold Press. Despite being tasked with writing two fairly important adventures critical to the success of 5E and the continued publication of D&D as a tabletop RPG by WotC - and with WotC desperate to avoid the debacle of 4E when it launched with at least two of the worst D&D adventures of all time (KotS and PoS) - they were not given any details about the 5E Realms despite specifically asking for same.Now I realise WotC has about six designers left and they are probably spending most of their time dealing with corporate crap, but Ed Greenwood is a phone call away and can write pages about the Realms extemporaneously. But nobody could be bothered putting anything together for the Kobold guys. For a company that thinks it's going to increase the value of its brands, that's really poor stewardship of its second most important brand after D&D itself.Anyway, this is why I keep posting that the best idea is to go back in time and choose another era and run that. Personally, I like 4E and the 4E-era so that it what I use - although I also use a lot of earlier products to fill in the blanks - but if I wasn't doing that, I would probably go back to 1372DR and the 3E FRCS which was a real high water mark for the FR brand.But wait for WotC to make up its mind about to do with the post-Sundering Realms? Nahhh, I am not that patient nor am I convinced that we're going to see anything like what we have seen in the past. And I have games to run so I'm sticking with what I have got.(The funny thing is, I always wanted my own version of the Realms without the baggage of the novels and now I have it! <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=":)" /> )</blockquote>

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