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10 months ago ::
Aug 08, 2012 - 4:49PM
#11
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Jan 18, 2012
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I think that in general the 5e starting point for FR is damage control. FR needs to regain some of it's former distinctiveness while not entirely throwing out all of the 4e changes. I don't think that the single author approach is going to be much of a problem. Their will be a 5e realms team and all signs point toward it being headed up by Ed Greenwood the settings creator. Hopefully, Ed can rekindle FR's flame.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 10, 2012 - 2:18PM
#12
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Feb 16, 2008
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A reformation of how the lands and economies have healed or developed around areas damaged by the Spellplague. What Role Druids might have played or are active doing to heal these or have embraced?
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10 months ago ::
Aug 10, 2012 - 4:33PM
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I want a continuation from where the FR is now, but told in a tone like used in the old editions and support for different periods in time as long as it's still part of one unified timeline.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 12, 2012 - 10:13PM
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I'd like a note in large font included as part of the preface, which says that if you intend to talk about the Forgotten Realms online you have to be nice, even when other people aren't nice to you. Also, that if you aren't nice, Mr_Miscellany will find you, because Chuck Norris knows Mr_M can do the job better than him.  That aside, I'd like the 5E FRCS to:
- Return to an unreliable narrator voice.
- Show obvious signs of Ed Greenwood's influence and writing.
- Feature the work of Realms freelancers extraordinaire.
- Be fully integrated with the 5E rules, without the setting having to be knocked on its head in order for this to happen. Use the Magic Television approach like they did for the 3E Realms.
- Be primarily set in the post-Spellplague Realms, but written in the style of the Old Grey Box. i.e. finish all the work that the 4E FRCG didn't do and bring the mystery and wonder back, for Pete's sake!
- Cover older eras. If a place was more interesting two centuries ago then talk about that place as it was then.
- Advance the timeline to account for all that's happened in LFR and get Brian R. James on the task of updating the timeline.
- Go local. Don't give us massive overviews, instead give us local flavor. You've got time to build, WotC, so go slow.
- Include a world map (yes a world map); something that is printed on the other side of the standard map of the continent of Faerun. The map ought to be done by Mike Schley. Not everything has to labled on the world map, so some things are open for a DM to build on their own.
- ...be the product of people who had fun doing the work of making it.
Thanks for starting the thread Promitheas!
The Forgotten Realms: It's an ugly baby, but damnit it's our ugly baby.
WotC, please don't wreck the Forgotten Realms a third time in order to introduce the latest version of the D&D rules.
Give us back 3rd Edition's Magic Television concept instead.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 12, 2012 - 10:44PM
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5e FRCS what would you like to see in the book?
- Totally eradicate all 4E material, "history," and implications on Realms cosmology. Toss all of that into a bin and set it on fire. Never acknowledge it again, and treat it as if it never happened.
- Develop regions that have (for decades now) needed more detail. Stop focusing on Cormyr and Waterdeep. Updates are welcome. Focusing solely on the same two areas over and over for 30 years, rehashing and re-publishing the same thing, is not.
- Treat gods like gods, not NPCs with monocular vision.
- Focus on humans, elves, dwarves... the standards of the genre. I'm sick to death of devas, genasi, dragonboobs, and the like.
- Minimize the use of aberrations and Far Realm nonsense. Lovecraft does this well, you don't. At all.
- Return to good storytelling.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 13, 2012 - 6:06AM
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the intro letter written by the fox at twilight.
a mask everyone has at least two of, one they wear in public and another they wear in private.....
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10 months ago ::
Aug 16, 2012 - 4:17AM
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Ive been thinking about this, and what Iwould really like to see, is focus on lesser known parts of the Realms, you know, someplace that hasnt been in the spotlight, I mean yeah, we all know Waterdeep's big, they stick a fold-out map of Theymarsh in there and im sold!
I survived Section 4 and all I got was this lousy sig
Off-topic and going downhill from there
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10 months ago ::
Aug 16, 2012 - 9:24AM
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Oct 21, 2008
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Agreed, perhaps tethyr?
Keep in mind that there has been some discussion about realms being the core setting. So a "traditional" medieval region maybe be appropriate.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 17, 2012 - 6:07AM
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Nah, not Tethyr, that got a fairly big write-up in 2e with Lands of Intrigue. I'd like to see something for regions they've covered, but never covered that in-depth, like the Vast which was only partially touched on with Forgotten Realms Adventures, or Sembia, which has received a lot of exposure through novels, but next to nothing in sourcebooks. Same could be said of the lands around the Dragon Coast, and what I guess should be the "Central Heartlands", that little strip of land between the Western Heartlands and the Dragon Coast that we know pretty much nothing about, not really.
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10 months ago ::
Aug 17, 2012 - 8:54AM
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but how many actually have the land of intrigue from 2e.......
a mask everyone has at least two of, one they wear in public and another they wear in private.....
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