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Brimstone
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Evermeet - it's still there. the portals to/from it are all gone (except maybe a few) so many think the place was whipped out. It is not. pg 132/133 are all about it. evermeet was teleported into the feywild with a echo of it on the planet. the echo appears just like the original. However, it states the last 8 dragons of evermeet, in isla sumbrar were killed or teleported somewhere else in the spellplague..now only creatures live in the ruins of that island...

-Now its the Isle of Dread/Xen'drik!


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So now we have what... THREE Xendriks?

Golly, this setting just keeps getting kewler...

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-You can never have too many Xen'driks!


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So basically Evermeet is "there", but in ruins?

I just need clarification, I find the quoted post a bit confusing.

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quote:
Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin

So basically Evermeet is "there", but in ruins?

I just need clarification, I find the quoted post a bit confusing.



The real Evermeet shift in the Feywild.

The echo in the real world is ruined.
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-Yeah, but its in the Feywild also if you know what I mean. Thats what I got out of it.
-YMMV.


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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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quote:
Originally posted by Skeptic

quote:
Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin

So basically Evermeet is "there", but in ruins?

I just need clarification, I find the quoted post a bit confusing.



The real Evermeet shift in the Feywild.

The echo in the real world is ruined.



Thank you for the clarification.

"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Quale
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Posted - 12 Aug 2008 :  09:50:53  Show Profile Send Quale a Private Message  Reply with Quote
whoa, another blow, Evermeet's now just an ordinary place in the planes, a piece of Arvandor on the Prime was better
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Jorkens
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I put the elven kingdoms in small dimensional pockets years ago, so here is at least one thing that don't bother me.
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Markustay
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They left it obscure because they are planning a core sourcebook set in the Feywild covering Evermeet, and they needed some justification for people who are using other settings to buy it.

Everything in FR is being dumbed-down and homogenized for core - just look at the track record.

Drow of the Underdark, Undermountain, The Draconimicon...

They needed Evermeet in the Fey wild so that they could get away with reprinting the old material as part of the 'greater D&D experience'.

They obviously are incapable of creating ANYTHING new on their own, so they are going back and using past bits of FR lore so that they don't have to work so hard. Even this concept of an 'echo' left behind on the prime material has been used before, numerous times. Ravenloft made good use of that, and the most prominent example that comes to mind is Lord Soth's Realm, which was intact in RL, but just a ruin in Dragonlance.

Seriously; these guys wouldn't know a fresh idea if one fell out of the sky and hit them in the head.

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RodOdom
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That's exactly what I was squawking about a year ago : how can the 4E FR possibly be as good or better than (the real) FR when the design team are nowhere near as talented as the original creator? Their solution was to yank as much original material out so they can present their new stuff on their own terms.
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quote:
Originally posted by RodOdom

That's exactly what I was squawking about a year ago : how can the 4E FR possibly be as good or better than (the real) FR when the design team are nowhere near as talented as the original creator? Their solution was to yank as much original material out so they can present their new stuff on their own terms.
To be fair, neither Unther nor Maztica were in the original Realms. Not that I appreciate that they obliviated them instead of Realms-ifying them, or that they built up good, logical (IMO) story reasons for the obliviating; but they did not obliviate "original material." In this case though, I will have to differ to a more knowledgable sage (i.e. bought Realms supplements before 3e; not that I did not read novels before that, but that is the point at which I started collecting Realms supplements) than myself as to how much Evermeet is part of the original Realms.

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Calm down, take a deep breath, and think before typing. Some of the designers past, present and possibly future visit our little home away from home.
If you don’t like the way the setting is heading, take Garens’ advice, and write a letter to WoTC. If you feel it is too late and it is doomed
then move on already and start producing pre-spellplague lore for us to devour. (do we have a broken record emoticon or a dead horse emoticon??) If you think you can do better than the current designers, get off your rump and get published so we can complain about how you messed everything up in 6th edition Forgotten Realms in 2016.

I click on the Evermeet thread I want to see something useful, not this...

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Markustay
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But it would have been MORE work for them to fix everything, so instead they just replaced whatever they weren't talented enough to 're-imagine'.

They replaced Maztica, and who did they have work on it?

Ed, that who!

They are well aware of their own limitations, and I bet it pisses them off no end. <evil grin>

All they can do is build upon the lore created by giants, and hope no-one notices.

Ask yourself how much material a person can write - a normal person, not a lore-machine like ED - in an eight hour day. Now multiply that by 5, and then times 52 (the number of weeks in a year).

Then figure out how many people WotC is paying to 'design', and ask yourself...

What the hell do they do all day long?

Especially when you consider much of what is printed (including the 3e stuff) is just a re-hash of older stuff already written years earlier. And to add insult to injury, they destroyed all that old lore because they felt it was 'too hard' to research anything (poor babies... having to work for their paycheck... my heart bleeds for them...)

A single person could have written the FRCG in less then a year, and done a better job (just look at all the stuff Monte Cook churns out). With three years and a team, the FRCG should have been GOLDEN.

And it was far, FAR from...

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quote:
Originally posted by Bakra

If you think you can do better than the current designers, get off your rump and get published so we can complain about how you messed everything up in 6th edition Forgotten Realms in 2016.
Actually, I am working on my own personal revised 3.5 rules set for my playing group. Sometime in September (hopefully October at the very latest), I will have a website up showcasing it. I will also borrow the bits of rules that are open content that I like from other revised 3.5 systems (i.e. Paizo's Pathfinder RPG, and probably Monte Cook's Experimental Might series, as well as other bits I find here and there). Then, maybe I will have time to work on actually developing my own campaign setting (preferably with a friend or two) and trying to get it published. I prefer to to things one at a time though. And, I would not be nearly as upset if it seemed as if the WotC-employee designers of the 4e Realms had actually put some effort to making the changes logical and well-reasoned. So far, this does not seem to be the case.

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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Posted - 12 Aug 2008 :  20:23:46  Show Profile  Visit Rinonalyrna Fathomlin's Homepage Send Rinonalyrna Fathomlin a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Bakra
I click on the Evermeet thread I want to see something useful, not this...



Well, to be fair, it doesn't seem like much detail has been given about it anyway. I'd check the WotC boards, but they seem to be down today.

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Foxhelm
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quote:
Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin

quote:
Originally posted by Bakra
I click on the Evermeet thread I want to see something useful, not this...



Well, to be fair, it doesn't seem like much detail has been given about it anyway. I'd check the WotC boards, but they seem to be down today.



Well, Enworld had a piece about people having early copies of FRCG and a link to the forum. News has had time to spread. So every realms fan, whether they like the changes or not, is moving there to get details on the changes. Either to complain about them or to champion them. Then there is the chances of flame wars between the two sides getting out of control or other glitches.

So a millions of Realms fans, plus the inability to accommidate them or control them leads to frequent breakdowns of the site. It will likely increase in down time before it gets better.

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Zanan
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So that's 1 million elves wiped from the surface of Faerûn too? Lolth will like that turn of events.

(Until she finds out what they have done to the drow cities. I reckon they all went too and just one or two are left - i.e. the poor Vault of the Drow* - style. But hey, we won't want to start any rumours.)

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quote:
Originally posted by Foxhelm

Well, Enworld had a piece about people having early copies of FRCG and a link to the forum. News has had time to spread. So every realms fan, whether they like the changes or not, is moving there to get details on the changes. Either to complain about them or to champion them. Then there is the chances of flame wars between the two sides getting out of control or other glitches.

So a millions of Realms fans, plus the inability to accommidate them or control them leads to frequent breakdowns of the site. It will likely increase in down time before it gets better.



-Ah, not exactly. The problems on the WotC site of late are due to a corruption in one of their physical servers, a problem with the vBulletin script, in relation to the WotC website, and an increased traffic to the site since the debut of 4e. It has nothing to do with the Forgotten Realms specifically.

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-Its the Death Throw's of STUPID GLEEMAX!


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to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
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-Some new info.
[QUOTE=StarFyre2007;16565103]Oh, regarding Evermeet again, i read the full paragraph...in addition to the dragons in Isla Sumbrar disappearing, it also mentions all those eternal soldiers there (along with the dragons) and the spelljammer Armadas that were hidden there, they all burned in the magical fires of the spellplague..so basically, the most powerful army on the FR (other than Larlochs 60+ liches or whatever it is) is gone..but since they are in the Feywild now, I guess that makes no difference.

Sanjay[/QUOTE]


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"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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quote:
Originally posted by Foxhelm


Well, Enworld had a piece about people having early copies of FRCG and a link to the forum. News has had time to spread. So every realms fan, whether they like the changes or not, is moving there to get details on the changes. Either to complain about them or to champion them. Then there is the chances of flame wars between the two sides getting out of control or other glitches.

So a millions of Realms fans, plus the inability to accommidate them or control them leads to frequent breakdowns of the site. It will likely increase in down time before it gets better.



Frequent forum-crashing on the WotC boards isn't anything new or recent, though.

EDIT: I see Dagnirion explained it even more thoroughly.

"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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Edited by - Rinonalyrna Fathomlin on 13 Aug 2008 00:28:16
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quote:
Originally posted by Brimstone

-Some new info.
[QUOTE=StarFyre2007;16565103]Oh, regarding Evermeet again, i read the full paragraph...in addition to the dragons in Isla Sumbrar disappearing, it also mentions all those eternal soldiers there (along with the dragons) and the spelljammer Armadas that were hidden there, they all burned in the magical fires of the spellplague..so basically, the most powerful army on the FR (other than Larlochs 60+ liches or whatever it is) is gone..but since they are in the Feywild now, I guess that makes no difference.

Sanjay


BRIMSTONE




OK, I'm still confused. The soldiers burned up in the Spellplague and are gone, but they're in the Feywild, so they're OK?

"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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RodOdom
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" If you think you can do better than the current designers, get off your rump"

Thank you for completely missing my point. Adding bits and pieces to the Realms is something many have done very well. Look at Salvatore. But a complete overhaul of everything, now that only the original creator has the talent to do. All these excerpts only confirms my fears.

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quote:
Originally posted by Bakra

If you think you can do better than the current designers, get off your rump and get published so we can complain about how you messed everything up in 6th edition Forgotten Realms in 2016.

Additionally -- and at the risk of it sounding like a tired apology -- most of us have day (or night) jobs. This is our hobby, yet most of us here can be more creative in a few off hours between real life commitments than the whole WotC design team over the course of how many design man-years. I'm really happy for you -- you seem to be really enamoured of 4E and more specifically 4E Realms -- but don't you dare try to chastise anyone for having a differing opinion.</end rant>

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I'm going to have to call you out on this one Kyrene as I know from firsthand experience that it's not as easy as it appears. Not by a long shot. Until you're given a true writing assignment with a short deadline, you have no idea what it's like for these designers. Hell, I typically spend half my alloted time just researching for the article before I even start writing.

If you truly believe that you can be more creative than the WotC team, then I look forward to seeing your future submissions to Dragon Magazine or Candlkeep Compendium.
quote:
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This is our hobby, yet most of us here can be more creative in a few off hours between real life commitments than the whole WotC design team over the course of how many design man-years.

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And at this point, I think maybe everyone needs to just step away from the keyboards and take several deep breaths.

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StarBog
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I have to agree with Brian. Writing professionally (or for commercial organisations) is a whole diffent kettle of worms than doing so in an amateur fashion. None of us non-professionals know the exact constraints and pressures that writers have been put under with the new FRCS. It would perhaps behove us to give some of the chaps a break.

Somtimes I wonder if I'm being a bit too hard on the new FRCS given how many of the authors who have contributed to it also contribute here. I wonder where and how do we draw the line between acknowledging the undoubted skills of said authors and expressing our disagreements with the direction the Forgotten Realms has taken?

To put it bluntly: how do we resolve the inherent contradictions in saying "We think you're a good author, and we enjoy your stuff, but 4e FRCS stinks, including the stuff you wrote?"

(edit: WR - just saw your post which was posted as I was writing mine. feel free to delete this post if it isn't helpful)


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quote:
Originally posted by Brian R. James
If you truly believe that you can be more creative than the WotC team, then I look forward to seeing your future submissions to Dragon Magazine or Candlkeep Compendium.


Excellent point well made Brian. I have lots of unfinished pieces of Lore that translate well in my campaign, but not well when written down for others to look at unless they know the backstory 'to where we are at now'. Coming up with ideas is (fairly) easy, giving them coherence and interest to others in the written form is another kettle of fish entirely! (or whatever the equivilent Realmsian saying is )

general question: Are we any clearer on whether fan created edition neutral pieces for the Compendium are acceptable under the 4E OGL/GSL licence. I seem to recall some debate about the new legal requirements and their interpretation?

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I don't think we actually came to a decision on that. Though, as I see it, so long as the OGL/GSL doesn't specifically prohibit such activities, I don't see a problem.

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Posted - 13 Aug 2008 :  17:34:37  Show Profile Send SirUrza a Private Message  Reply with Quote
quote:
Originally posted by crazedventurers

general question: Are we any clearer on whether fan created edition neutral pieces for the Compendium are acceptable under the 4E OGL/GSL licence. I seem to recall some debate about the new legal requirements and their interpretation?


That's why I'm waiting. If RA Salvatore and Ed Greenwood are forced into the Shattered Realms, then I'll be done with my reading. If by chance Drizzt continues where he is and Ed continues to write Realms lore, then I'll atleast have 2 people to go to for Realms stuff.

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