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RodOdom
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 Posted - 10 Aug 2008 : 15:14:23
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if instead of turning the Realms upside down , Wizards just focused on the elements they want 4E players to adventure with? For example, the (re)designers don't want so many gods to write about. Fine, then just mention a few gods in 4E FRCS. The rest would be left "unsupported" by Wizards. Let we the players figure out how to use them in our games, if we choose to do so. Same with NPCs and locales.
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Edited by - RodOdom on 10 Aug 2008 16:14:16
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Wooly Rupert
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Posted - 10 Aug 2008 : 16:25:55
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There's a lot of things that most of us would have done differently, given the goals of the Shattered Realms designers. Simply shifting the focus back from the multitude of gods to a smaller number is one of those things. Ditto with shifting the focus away from Mystra and her Chosen, rather than focusing on them so much that some Realms-haters hold them up as an example of what's "wrong" with the setting.
I expect that 5E will see Shar eradicated in some silly manner, because of the way they've tied all evil in the Shattered Realms to her. And it will of course be portrayed as a setting flaw, rather than something the designers and marketing people triggered.  |
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Ayunken-vanzan
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Posted - 10 Aug 2008 : 17:52:07
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
There's a lot of things that most of us would have done differently, given the goals of the Shattered Realms designers. Simply shifting the focus back from the multitude of gods to a smaller number is one of those things. Ditto with shifting the focus away from Mystra and her Chosen, rather than focusing on them so much that some Realms-haters hold them up as an example of what's "wrong" with the setting.
*sigh* If they would have only stressed the difference between the *novels-Realms* and the *players-Realms*, the former being the place where the iconic characters of the Realms are acting and the latter where the players are gaming and all the D&D-fun takes place with the VIP NPCs being far away on some most important mission most of the time ...
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MerrikCale
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Posted - 11 Aug 2008 : 16:59:22
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Originally posted by RodOdom
if instead of turning the Realms upside down , Wizards just focused on the elements they want 4E players to adventure with? For example, the (re)designers don't want so many gods to write about. Fine, then just mention a few gods in 4E FRCS. The rest would be left "unsupported" by Wizards. Let we the players figure out how to use them in our games, if we choose to do so. Same with NPCs and locales.
the asnwer is "of course". That way it would bring in new players and not p.o. us old timers |
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