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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
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 Posted - 22 Sep 2008 : 13:55:14
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So unless I am too tired and have missed it, I didn't notice a thread on this subject but saw it mentioned in some other threads (being noted that it needed its own thread).
WotC is moving D&D products more and more into the digital world. Word is that NO Forgotten Realms products other than the three this year will be published, and so any new lore will be for Dragon (and Dungeon) online. No more books to put on your bookshelf...
So how does everyone feel about this? Personally, I love the smell of a brand new book as I open its pages for the first time, soaking in all the lore it has to offer. My bookshelves look great as I look at them with all the books lined up and sorted according to region.
Now I am not opposed to extra lore that I have to get on the computer, but if this becomes the ONLY new FR lore, well, my bookcase will become very sad indeed (its like a Dragon's hoard - always needing more to be added to it).
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Karsite Arcanar (Most Holy Servant of Karsus)
Anauria - Survivor State of Netheril as penned by me:
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 22 Sep 2008 : 14:14:39
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Originally posted by Alisttair
WotC is moving D&D products more and more into the digital world. Word is that NO Forgotten Realms products other than the three this year will be published, and so any new lore will be for Dragon (and Dungeon) online. No more books to put on your bookshelf...
Well, no more books are planned at this time. Never say never--WotC hasn't promised that they'd never make more books. |
"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."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
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Alisttair
Great Reader
Canada
3054 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2008 : 14:33:39
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
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Originally posted by Alisttair
WotC is moving D&D products more and more into the digital world. Word is that NO Forgotten Realms products other than the three this year will be published, and so any new lore will be for Dragon (and Dungeon) online. No more books to put on your bookshelf...
Well, no more books are planned at this time. Never say never--WotC hasn't promised that they'd never make more books.
Let us all pray together to whatever god we worship (except Mystra since she's dead  ) that FR Sourcebooks WILL be in the works! |
Karsite Arcanar (Most Holy Servant of Karsus)
Anauria - Survivor State of Netheril as penned by me:
http://www.dmsguild.com/m/product/172023 |
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Ayunken-vanzan
Senior Scribe
Germany
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Posted - 22 Sep 2008 : 14:34:24
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| As a librarian, I prefer books over files on a computer. You need something to hold into your hands and to leave through. As nice a fully searchable document is (especially when there are no indexes in the printed version ...), I prefer reading a book over reading on a monitor. |
"What mattered our lives now? When our world had been torn from us? Folk wept, or drank, or stood staring out over the land, wondering what new horror each dawn would bring."
Elender Stormfall of Suzail
"Anyone can kill deities, cause plagues, or destroy organizations. It takes real skill to make them live on."
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 22 Sep 2008 : 17:02:56
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BOOKS are the Meat & Potatoes of RPGs - without them, the game loses that 'collectible' factor that has always been part of the genre. An RPG that moves away from that paradigm is doomed to failure with the fans.
It may find it's own, new niche, but it doesn't fit the mold of what RPGers have been doing and playing with for the last thirty years. |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 22 Sep 2008 : 17:41:29
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Books = Rpg
Computer = Mmorpg(or what ever that acronym may be at the moment!)
But, yes a bookshelf makes a nice place to store your laptop whilst reading a good book! |
A little nonsense now and then, relished by the wisest men - Willy Wonka
"We need men who can dream of things that never were." -
John F. Kennedy, speech in Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963
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Oh dear Bookcase, may I store my computer in you??
