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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
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 Posted - 28 Sep 2008 : 15:10:21
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There's an article in the latest Dragon called "Organizing Your First Living Forgotten Realms Game", by Chris Tulach.
So, what do we think about this? I believe it's been stated that RPGA material should be considered canon going forward, but now I can't find where I saw that. Does anybody know for sure? The full page ad for the campaign on the last page of the FRPG certainly seems to point that direction.
I'm going to go ahead and sign up for whatever's sign-uppable, if for no other reason than to have access to all the modules and so on. If it's canon, I'll want to see the lore.
For those who want to influence the direction of the published, canon lore, maybe pitching RPGA modules would be a good way to start, eh?
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Kuje
Great Reader
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Posted - 28 Sep 2008 : 16:34:08
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For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet and excite you... Books are full of the things that you don't get in real life - wonderful, lyrical language, for instance, right off the bat. - Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
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sfdragon
Great Reader
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Posted - 28 Sep 2008 : 18:21:58
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id rather they were not canon......
the modules on the otherhand.....
but if i have to buy them, and thats where the info on various cities and regions end up, your going to have a few pissed off players, fans, and whatever category egamers would fall under |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
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Posted - 28 Sep 2008 : 18:32:11
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
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Posted - 28 Sep 2008 : 19:18:44
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Wait, I'm clearly confused. First of all, as KnightErrantJR says, I don't think there's a charge for this stuff, at least not that I've seen.
And beyond that, haven't we always paid?
I mean that if we want to own new Realms stuff that is being sold (as opposed to given away for free on the Wizards website like the articles in the last few issues of Dragon), we have to buy it, just like always, right? I understand that it's not all that fun to be living through this transition in how intellectual property is produced and distributed, but, taking the media out of it for a second (sorry, Mr. McLuhan), there doesn't seem to be that much difference--in terms of "fairness" or appropriateness or what-have-you--between paying Wizards for Realmslore by buying a book at the local shop and paying them for Realmslore by doing whatever one does to get an RPGA module.
That said, I hope they make it easier than having to post and run public game days and so on, which is my first-fast-read on how it works. But who am I kidding? Even if that's the case I'll probably set up a weekly weekday afternoon RPGA table at the game shop up the street. It might even be fun.  |
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
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Posted - 28 Sep 2008 : 19:20:21
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Oh, and thanks for the clarification about where I'd heard anything about Living Forgotten Realms'"canonization," Kuje.
Has anybody seen anything in writing?
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
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Posted - 28 Sep 2008 : 19:56:06
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| I will say that I understand, not so much about paying, but about cogent information having to be gleaned from an adventure. It is much easier to have a source that makes sense that compiles the information, for example, a regional sourcebook or a sourcebook on various religions, instead of trying to remember which soucebook talked about what Doomguides of Kelemenvor think of X or what the name of the mercenaries protecting various towns in the Silver Marches were called. Its not a complaint limited to 4th, however, as there were several interesting tid bits of information in 3rd and 3.5 that were hidden in sourcebooks that didn't seem, on the face of it, to have much to do with the bit of information they held. |
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Posted - 28 Sep 2008 : 21:26:55
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Yeah, even a cursory search for lore about a particular item shows how dispersed it is, and has been from the beginning. When I'm in my most generous moods, I actually relish that--it sort of mimics the kind of intuitive and far ranging casting of the net I imagine our namesake scribes in the "real" Candlekeep engaging in.
When I'm just trying to find something quick, though, oof.
Anyway, I'll be interested to find out how many tidbits are tucked away in these modules. Which reminds me, I should have included a link to this...
List of Living Forgotten Realms modules made availble thus far.
Cheers,
Christopher
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
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Posted - 01 Oct 2008 : 19:58:10
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Here's a little more information, though I don't know anything about the source.
A poster called Gomeztoo over at the Wizards board wrote:
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LFR will publish approximately one adventure every week.
They are, I admit, relatively short (for one session), but some can be tied together into a bigger arc.
All contain FR-specific material, including organisations, NPCs, locales, and historic events.
Also of interest, the RPGA Content Designer, Chris Tulach, confirmed in a note to me that the modules will be free but that they'll only be available by ordering them through their system--which means agreeing to run them (or to organize their running by others) as open events at shops, libraries, conventions, etc. |
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The Hooded One
Lady Herald of Realmslore
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Posted - 02 Oct 2008 : 02:21:22
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Hi, Christopher.
I believe the intent was to have events described in LFR Adventures become part of the rumors and current events (and eventually history) of the unfolding 4e Realms. It's something Ed pushed for, to avoid having the RPGA gaming Realms "feel" different from the Realms of the novels.
If you don't participate in the RPGA, you miss those adventures but not a huge amount of Realms flavour. Rather, the adventures generate "what's happening somewhere else in the Realms," that traveling merchants and sailors pass on as gossip.
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
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Posted - 02 Oct 2008 : 06:01:14
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The LFR, like all 'Living' campaigns, revolves around canon events, but the adventures themselves are more personal, and effect a smaller amount of Faerūn (at least, a lot less then those mega-story arcs they produce for the regular Realms).
Ergo, what happens in them is ALL canon, but all you may here about is that "some group of adventurers took care of those trolls in the Reaching Woods outside of Scornubel". This way, everyone who played that particular scenario can say "Hey! That was me!" and feel all warm and fuzzy inside. 
For all the official lowdown on what is what, you can find it here. |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Posted - 02 Oct 2008 : 13:47:06
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Thanks, THO and Markustay! I'm still looking at all the material Wizards has sent out via e-mail--most of it just last night, to me, at least. I signed up for various things I could sign up, and had to take a test to become a "Herald," now I just have to take a careful look at my schedule to see if I can (or want to) commit to a weekly four or five hour block running an LFR game at one of the shops.
Cheers,
Christopher |
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Canon Status of Living Forgotten Realms (4E topic)
