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riverc0il in forgottenrealms

This May Be Good Bye to the Realms for this Reader

Jan 03, 2009 21:02

Well, I just finished Paul Kemp’s latest trilogy. Without spoilers, it was good but not as good as the first Cale trilogy. Since it appears Elaine Cunningham’s sixth book in the S&S series was cancelled (DOH!) that may just be the last FR book I read after more than 15 years of following the Realms. After reading the Epilogue in Shadowrealm, I said ( Read more... )

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greysil January 4 2009, 14:32:58 UTC

Yeah, the Spellplague has pissed off a lot of long-term fans. It's certainly dampened my love of the setting... I even got the 4E book, but haven't been interested in reading it. It used to be that I got new FR books as soon as they came out -- I'd go to my FLGS and buy them on my lunchbreak, and then look at at least a couple of pages before going back to work. The FRCG? I bought it on eBay back in August (much cheaper, and WotC didn't get money from me that way), and I've still not gotten past page 1.

mikoto January 4 2009, 21:11:06 UTC

Oh God. They're reshaping the Forgotten Realms world to meet 4e molds?
HORRIFYING!

linmeister January 5 2009, 17:01:21 UTC

*screams in utter horror and runs away chanting the war-cry of her gaming group*

Hell no, we won't go!
Shut the door, we won't play 4!

To eBay, to Amazon, to alibris! I must buy 3.5 Realms books before they hit the hundred dollar mark!

And then I'll reread Elaine Cunningham's Elf trilogy.

The fall of FR ext_338370 November 29 2010, 02:01:03 UTC

Truth is they started going wrong from early on. The writers should steer the world and they should get together to decide who gets to write.
Good writing can make a huge difference. Also they should have a rule against plots that save the world or change it at all large scale. The Drizzt stuff was not world changing and it is probably the most integral stuff from FR. Also the world used to be more medieval but now that every farmer knows a bullette from a weretiger there is no mystery.
DnD has the same problem though. People rise to levels unheard of too quickly and suddenly bob the fighter is killing a merelith riding a dragon with his +7 great bigger sword of doom.
Wizards can't afford to keep changing to please little kids who want power and blood. They will continue to lose dedicated players and the 12yr olds will lose interest and that will be the end of it. They keep trying to wal-martyr DnD and FR and what we need is something quality or we will all go back to home brew.

Re: The fall of FR riverc0il December 1 2010, 00:41:30 UTC

Good writing can make a huge difference.Unfortunately, the Realms have long suffered from sub-par writing with a few notable exceptions such as Cunningham. Kemp occasionally shines. The Realms most popular author, Salvatore, is popular and sells a lot of books not due to great writing but rather due to good characters. So good that they have become an over done cash cow for both Salvatore and WotC ( ... )