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Purple Dragon Knight
Master of Realmslore
Canada
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 Posted - 02 Feb 2008 : 09:26:10
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Reading Longtime Lurker's post, this comes to my mind: R.A. Salvatore, Ed, and Boyd are freelancers, so they'll still be around when the staffers at WotC get replaced by the next generation of designers... so although I hold no hope for 4E Realms, there *IS* the possibility that in the long-term, an *enlightened* WotC replacement staffer would pull a huge return to the future and forget those horrible "Days of Future Past"   |
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Tyr
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 02 Feb 2008 : 11:04:52
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You can always hope but in companies the size of WoTC and bigger it ends up just being sales, which matter. ie. to avoid what happened to TSR.
Only problem is if 4th ed Realms bombs, then most likely it'll get dropped rather than revised. |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 02 Feb 2008 : 13:28:10
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Originally posted by Purple Dragon Knight
Reading Longtime Lurker's post, this comes to my mind: R.A. Salvatore, Ed, and Boyd are freelancers, so they'll still be around when the staffers at WotC get replaced by the next generation of designers... so although I hold no hope for 4E Realms, there *IS* the possibility that in the long-term, an *enlightened* WotC replacement staffer would pull a huge return to the future and forget those horrible "Days of Future Past"
Heh, I just used "Days of Future Past" as an analogy when talking about this situation to Darkmeer last night. |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 05 Feb 2008 : 13:39:56
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Originally posted by Tyr
Only problem is if 4th ed Realms bombs, then most likely it'll get dropped rather than revised.
This is something I fear could happen....or they might just cut the game product line and ONLY continue the novel line. |
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Dalor Darden
Great Reader
USA
4211 Posts |
Posted - 10 Feb 2008 : 19:07:55
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Originally posted by Alisttair
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Originally posted by Tyr
Only problem is if 4th ed Realms bombs, then most likely it'll get dropped rather than revised.
This is something I fear could happen....or they might just cut the game product line and ONLY continue the novel line.
As with Dragonlance. |
The Old Grey Box and AD&D for me! |
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Ardashir
Senior Scribe
USA
544 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jul 2008 : 18:48:11
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Originally posted by SirUrza
Bob understands the Realms are more then a collection of popular cities, it's about the people and the adventures one can have there. None of the "new" characters have struck my like Ed, Elaine, and Bob's have.
*nods* That's what I hate the most about all this from a fiction standpoint (I rarely get to play in the FR any more). I liked these characters and now they're gone because some marketing **** decided that killing them would please the fanboys because "they're too strong, my characters can't do anything!"
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Most of Ed's will be dead.. from old age or from not being chosen anymore. Bob's characters are all in question.. I for one hope he doesn't advance his timeline. And Elaine.. well... who knows if she'll ever write the Realms again, but all of her characters except for 2 of them will be dead.
Well, we can always hope for some undead action... ;) |
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Ardashir
Senior Scribe
USA
544 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jul 2008 : 18:51:09
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Originally posted by SirUrza
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
He may not have a choice.
Maybe, maybe not. We've got 2 years before we find out. :)
Does anyone else find it terribly amusing that the Elminster books just got reprinted in the Anotated and now they're releasing all the Collected Edition Drizzt books until the Legends of heading when all of these books don't mean anything to the Realms anymore?
Truth be told, some of the stuff WoTC did at the very end (the Annotated Elminster, the Rules Compendium, etc.) seem almost like a slap in the face in retrospect. Sort of, "Ahah, here's what you fanboys wanted all this time, and we'll give it to you, now that it doesn't mean anything any more! Muwahaha!" |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
15724 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jul 2008 : 19:33:49
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"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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IngoDjan
Learned Scribe
Brazil
146 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jul 2008 : 20:10:40
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Ed do not leader this ship nowadays! Just accept that! He is just a writer, only that! He already sold this trademark to TSR and now WotC!
Please, just ACCEPT THAT! |
Ingo Djan
DUNGEON MASTER AO OF THE DIAMONDS!"I see the future repeat the past. It all is a museum of great news. The Time do not stop." |
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jul 2008 : 21:30:56
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| I think this scroll has been agured several times in every possible way. I hate to see a scroll locked...but now may be the time. |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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sfdragon
Great Reader
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Posted - 21 Jul 2008 : 22:37:22
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lock the thread
I know garbage when i see it, and this spells like 5 day old tuna fish
He sold it, now it will either sell or it will bomb out, along with dragonlance, following them, greyhawk and eberron will not be far behind |
why is being a wizard like being a drow? both are likely to find a dagger in the back from a rival or one looking to further his own goals, fame and power
My FR fan fiction
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Stonwulfe
Seeker
Canada
81 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jul 2008 : 04:22:05
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Understood, but I think speculation about what a person's "true feelings" might be is something that should be avoided (regarding anybody here).
It's called a 'Fallacy of Intent'. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31774 Posts |
Posted - 22 Jul 2008 : 06:15:24
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I think this point has been debated enough. And given the recent trends of conversation here at Candlekeep about 4e, the future of the Realms, and the work of designers, I think it would be best to just close this scroll for now.
*Scroll sealed*
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