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Bakra
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 Posted - 01 Feb 2005 : 23:17:56
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Originally posted by Melfius
[quote]Originally posted by Steven Schend
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What WotC should be focusing on is this:
1. Tell us the news (much like they're beginning to do with Eberron on the DnD website). Tell us what's happening in the world that affects large numbers of people (wars, plagues, etc.).
2. Tell us what areas there are to live in, who's in charge, and what major groups are at work/play there.
3. Leave it up to the home campaigns to create the local news. If Piergeron's Palace itself was robbed, I'd like to know it happened, maybe who did it and why, but I don't wan't an entire page sidebar in a supplement of Waterdeep to cover it. A paragraph or two, maybe. I'd much rather know troop sizes, who his support staff is, and how they interact with the city.
4. Most importantly - If something BIG happens (like, oh, I don't know, maybe A GOD COMING BACK FROM THE DEAD!!!) we should get more than that pitiful bit of info we were given. The Manshoon Wars? More info. Fzoul becoming chosen of whoever it is this week? More info. Like a novel, maybe.
I'd also like more of the Arcane Age-type stuff. Even if it came out looking like a high school history book. There's just been too many fun events we don't know enough about. Like the Harpstars War. Or the Dawn Cataclysm (while it mostly affceted deities, and mortals would not exactly have been privvy to it, there would have been some shakeups in the churches and we should like to hear about THAT!  )
Wow, I'm ranting again.
But that's what I'd like, anyways.
I'm gonna go take my pills now.
Melfius,
You keep on ranting, I agree with your thinking. And don't take the blue pills.... |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 01 Feb 2005 : 23:32:36
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Originally posted by Bakra
The Forgotten Realms Atlas (I have never seen it in print....ever),
I found mine used, for a reasonable price, at a game store in Orlando. I know there's at least one or two copies on eBay right now.
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Originally posted by Melfius
3. Leave it up to the home campaigns to create the local news. If Piergeron's Palace itself was robbed, I'd like to know it happened, maybe who did it and why, but I don't wan't an entire page sidebar in a supplement of Waterdeep to cover it. A paragraph or two, maybe. I'd much rather know troop sizes, who his support staff is, and how they interact with the city.
I dunno -- I thought the Current Clack section of the old regional sourcebooks was really good. It was always one of the first things I'd read.
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Originally posted by Melfius
4. Most importantly - If something BIG happens (like, oh, I don't know, maybe A GOD COMING BACK FROM THE DEAD!!!) we should get more than that pitiful bit of info we were given. The Manshoon Wars? More info. Fzoul becoming chosen of whoever it is this week? More info. Like a novel, maybe.
Yeah, they seriously dropped the ball on Bane's return... Closing off the Manshoon Wars and marginalizing the Harper Schism without any more coverage was a huge mistake, too.
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Originally posted by Melfius
Or the Dawn Cataclysm (while it mostly affceted deities, and mortals would not exactly have been privvy to it, there would have been some shakeups in the churches and we should like to hear about THAT! )
The FRCS does mention the schism in Tyche's church... |
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Melfius
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 02 Feb 2005 : 01:09:05
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
I dunno -- I thought the Current Clack section of the old regional sourcebooks was really good. It was always one of the first things I'd read.
Well, okay, I'll admit I liked those, too. But still... |
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