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5 years ago ::
Mar 02, 2008 - 8:49AM
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eh... I'm probably just needlessly jaded.
I've just been itching to know where I might be adventuring in the Realms, as that might/is/was the make-or-break for my getting 4e right out of the gate. If I needed the books to play LFR and was interested enough to throw myself into the campaign I'd do it.
Region is something I've been curious about since 6 and a bit months. Since the announcement.
Then it's finally there's the grand announcement on the message board post that's not on the official site anywhere. Although this could be a hoax.
And Canada gets Akanul.
Or as I saw it... Canada gets lhfjkhaflkhskjfhkjhfjshfkh
Akanul. Okay, Canada gets where?!
Not a place I know, but I've been doing Greyhawk and homegames so my Realms is rusty. Google it.
No map. No information. First few links go nowhere.
Canada apparently gets a place best summed up in a "link not available" website.
Yeah....
Then I search through all the Countdown articles and find it.
So Canada is apparently getting a place populated by a race that won't be in the Core rules, whose ground is unnavigable, and main dungeon area drives everyone who enters insane. A place of floating islands with a big-ass jungle in the south populated by "feral elves".
Interesting. Can't say I'm filled with enthusiasm. Not enough to really care once the campaign is released.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 02, 2008 - 11:19AM
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Worry not, regions are more for administrative purposes since modules are playable anywhere. We will welcome all players to our mighty region that spans from sea to shining sea, from Strait of Bering to Port of Rotterdam :D
Sampo Haarlaa
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Yeah, I've been wondering this for awhile.. what exactly is the 'assigning of regions' if you can play anywhere?
Is it simply who is in charge of putting out modules set in certain regions?
So are the admins more or less wearing two hats: 1st hat deal with players in the real world location and 2nd hat deal with modules set in the FR setting location?
Is it more 2 separate roles rather than the LG system where they were tied together?
If that's the case, why should anyone (outside of the admins) care about the assignments? (Unless of course they like/dislike an individual admin's style/vision of play?)
-James
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5 years ago ::
Mar 02, 2008 - 1:02PM
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Then I search through all the Countdown articles and find it.
So Canada is apparently getting a place populated by a race that won't be in the Core rules, whose ground is unnavigable, and main dungeon area drives everyone who enters insane. A place of floating islands with a big-ass jungle in the south populated by "feral elves".
Interesting. Can't say I'm filled with enthusiasm. Not enough to really care once the campaign is released.
I don't understand how someone could not be excited by a region like that. It seriously sounds like 100% awesome. A region where the PCs aren't the dominant race (assuming we can't play genasi), where you travel around on floating islands, where you can have expeditions to a southern jungle full of savages? Imagine a region where the majority population of playable races were PCs?
Man, I can't wait. Lots of exploring to do and foreign culture to learn. To each their own, obviously. I just think it's worth trying out each of the regions before writing one of them off.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 02, 2008 - 1:11PM
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East Rift? Where is East Rift?
Is this the same as Eastern Shaar?
Anyone have a reference from the FR books?
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5 years ago ::
Mar 02, 2008 - 2:30PM
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the East Rift is probably a new region, that was once the Great Rift of the Lands of the Shining South. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shining_Southso Shaar savannah barbarians, Great Rift dwarves, the descendants of Halruaan mages, hindu-themed dungeons of Durpar and Estagund, wild elves of the Chondalwood, the halfling nation of Luiren, the drow of Dambrath, the Underdark and so on.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 02, 2008 - 2:44PM
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the East Rift is probably a new region, that was once the Great Rift of the Lands of the Shining South. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shining_South
so Shaar savannah barbarians, Great Rift dwarves, the descendants of Halruaan mages, hindu-themed dungeons of Durpar and Estagund, wild elves of the Chondalwood, the halfling nation of Luiren, the drow of Dambrath, the Underdark and so on.
That's what I'm assuming too. I hope someone from the 4e Con can post to confirm or deny this.
BTW, here's a better public space than wikipedia for FR, its WIKIA:
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Shaar
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5 years ago ::
Mar 02, 2008 - 5:42PM
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I wonder if there will be subregions for local administration... Maybe Quebec will have an independant state, hopefully.  It's quite high on the fantastic. I wish that I knew more... But I like genasi, it sounds vaguely eastern or something. I'd have prefered the East or Waterdeep, but well, it offers a blanker state, which may be a plus.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 02, 2008 - 6:54PM
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Three boos for the midwest getting Waterdeep. I'd rather it were a blank slate to work with.
I agree. I wish Waterdeep had been a Core region like the city of greyhawk was for living greyhawk.
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5 years ago ::
Mar 03, 2008 - 5:16AM
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I´m very very happy and proud with the region selected to Latin America, Baldur´s Gate.
The biggest city in the continent (bigger than Waterdeep?? :D) will be very well represented by the Latin Americans (I´m Brazilian!), and I´m sure that BG translates the cosmopolitan feel of great cities in Brazil (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro), México (Mexico City), Colombia (Bogotá), Argentina (Buenos Aires), and other great cities in Latin America!
Wheeee!!!!
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5 years ago ::
Mar 03, 2008 - 5:53AM
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Just skimming the thread real quick before a class I'm in begins, so I may have missed a couple things, but wanted to comment on a couple things.
The East Rift was mentioned at DDXP as being part of what used to be the Great Rift. During the spellplauge the Underdark collapsed, and now where the Great Rift was, well, I'm assuming there's now an East and West rift.
Regions are assigned, I heard, mostly for administrative reasons. However, the RPGA is still working on a system for granting bonuses of some sort to people for playing in their physically geographic region.
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