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Faraer
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 Posted - 26 Aug 2004 : 16:19:49
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GamingReport.com has posted a report and pictures of the Forgotten Realms seminar at Gen Con.
If I'd made it across the water, I wonder how I'd have approached the WotC panelists about the Realmslore backlog and all the existing dungeons and regional information and merchant lore and ... we haven't seen... |
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SiriusBlack
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 29 Aug 2004 : 17:54:13
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| Sean K. Reynolds has a report of his Gencon experience including pictures. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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Posted - 30 Aug 2004 : 03:53:29
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Originally posted by Faraer
GamingReport.com has posted a report and pictures of the Forgotten Realms seminar at Gen Con.
If I'd made it across the water, I wonder how I'd have approached the WotC panelists about the Realmslore backlog and all the existing dungeons and regional information and merchant lore and ... we haven't seen...
I think that's something we'd all like to ask ourselves if we were to be confronted with a similar situation such as this... 
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Garen Thal
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 30 Aug 2004 : 04:08:18
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Having been confronted with that exact situation, I can tell you what I said about missing dungeons, unrevealed Realmslore, merchant lore, climate patterns, and...
Nothing.
I said nothing for a pair of fairly important reasons. First was that I know that it's the sort of complaint that isn't going to be listened to from some Realms fanboy in the crowd (whether he knows his stuff or not), because I wouldn't have the time to back it up. My primary objective in that particular seminar was to steer the single WotC representative--Chris Perkins--into including the sorts of information I like to see in my books, rather than standing up and shouting "we want Realmslore." I saved that for afterwards. 
The second was one that doesn't really need to be made, but which I'll make anyway: Eric Boyd and Ed Greenwood were two of the four panelists at the FR seminar. If there's anyone who already knows what sort of stuff people like the Candlekeep audience want to see, and is in a position to demand/ensure that they get into books, it's those two.
There are other reasons, too, not least of which is that I know from other conversations that the "pendulum of fluff vs. crunch" overswang toward game mechanics after the release of 3e, and is going to be recentered as things go forward to include more flavor (for FR, read Realmslore), so I felt no need to stand up and shout my lungs out. They've heard us. It's just a matter of finding a place to put it all, and then listening to the groans when it doesn't all fit. 
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George Krashos
Master of Realmslore
Australia
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Posted - 30 Aug 2004 : 04:17:17
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Well said, Garen.
I for one have been very happy with the "new" direction FR products seem to be heading in. As I've said before, late-2004 and 2005 augur well for FR products. Even the fanboys should be satisfied.
-- George Krashos
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SiriusBlack
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 30 Aug 2004 : 14:24:01
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Originally posted by Garen Thal
I know from other conversations that the "pendulum of fluff vs. crunch" overswang toward game mechanics after the release of 3e, and is going to be recentered as things go forward to include more flavor (for FR, read Realmslore),
So, what you are saying is that a balance will return to the force....
oh wait, wrong campaign world. 
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That's just what I think, though. And what do I know?
Quite a bit purely judging from this post. If nothing else you possess the ability to calmly and intelligently present your points. Such a trait is a rarity these days. Thank you for sharing.
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SiriusBlack
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 30 Aug 2004 : 14:29:00
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Originally posted by George Krashos
I for one have been very happy with the "new" direction FR products seem to be heading in. As I've said before, late-2004 and 2005 augur well for FR products. Even the fanboys should be satisfied.
-- George Krashos
GK:
I keep hearing your comments in my head as I see the date drawing ever so closer to Shining South's release. October is not that far off.  |
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Faraer
Great Reader
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Posted - 30 Aug 2004 : 15:47:29
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| Sure. It would depend on the climate of the thing, and I'd want to come up with a slightly new angle (point of leverage) rather than repeating a known point of view. |
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Any scribes at Gencon?
