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Dennis
Great Reader
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 Posted - 07 Jan 2012 : 06:48:39
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Definitely. And will continue to do so, specially now that I know the novel line-up for this year! |
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MrHedgehog
Senior Scribe
688 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2012 : 10:03:57
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I might buy Neverwinter, I haven't seen it at a store yet though.
Looking at the first two books I though they were poorly made and so I didn't see a reason to buy them. They recycled art even! I am pretty sure the Heartwarder painting was from a 3d book. |
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Thelonius
Senior Scribe
Spain
730 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2012 : 10:27:47
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| No, though is not as much of problems with 4E stuf that a matter of accesibility in here to the new FR stuff. Though it has been greatly critisez I'd like to delve more into it before making my own opinion, the only 4E related novel I've read so far is Gauntlgrym, and it doesn't give much info about it. |
"If you are to truly understand, then you will need the contrast, not adherence to a single ideal." - Kreia
"I THINK I JUST HAD ANOTHER NEAR-RINCEWIND EXPERIENCE"- Discworld's Death frustrated after Rincewind scapes his grasp... again.
"I am death, come for thee" - Nimbul, from Baldur's Gate I just before being badly spanked
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Lady Swiftstrike Assassin
Seeker
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Posted - 08 Jan 2012 : 06:17:36
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| The Sage, will you be requesting Ayrik to support his opinion with numbers as well? |
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Lady Swiftstrike Assassin
Seeker
73 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2012 : 06:23:59
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Originally posted by Kentinal via private message
Maybe you are wiser then I, maybe you are a Great Reader with a new identity for some reason. The polls you put out however did not appear to have used much of your Wisdom
I'm not a Great Reader, but I still hope that you can grow in Wisdom, Kentinal! |
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Ayrik
Great Reader
Canada
7971 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2012 : 06:24:53
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Your interactions with me and with other scribes suggests strongly that you're simply trolling for argument, Swiftstrike.
I won't respond to trolling, even when you call me out by name. Nor I suspect will Sage. Perhaps I'm mistaken, and hopefully you'll prove me wrong, but in any event you may consider me withdrawn from your thread. |
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Tasker Daze
Seeker
84 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2012 : 07:01:30
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Originally posted by Lady Swiftstrike Assassin
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Originally posted by Kentinal via private message
Maybe you are wiser then I, maybe you are a Great Reader with a new identity for some reason. The polls you put out however did not appear to have used much of your Wisdom
I'm not a Great Reader, but I still hope that you can grow in Wisdom, Kentinal!
You're calling someone a moron, and also sharing the contents of a private message? That's just not cool.  |
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Tasker Daze
Seeker
84 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2012 : 07:02:45
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Originally posted by Lady Swiftstrike Assassin
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Originally posted by Diffan
I'd like to hear why the Poll was created (in additoni to the other one) honestly. Was it just to prove a point? Was it to gain some measure of people's tastes on a specific Realms or 4E matter? Or to cause flame-wars?
And as Therise says, how does one define "support"? I've purchased pretty much all the FR 4E information I can about the system and it's interactions with the setting. I have not, however, purchased all the novels of the current time. I just don't have the time to read that much anymore. I'd still say I'm fully supporting the Realms even if my library of novels isn't stocked with 4E timeline stories.
I put these polls together in response to the Moderator asking me to provide numbers to back up my opinion that I feel a lot of negativity for the development of the Forgotten Realms on this site.
I guess it wasn't such a good idea.
It wasn't. People don't buy things for a lot of reaosns. |
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D-brane
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
140 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2012 : 08:11:40
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Originally posted by Lady Swiftstrike Assassin
The Sage, will you be requesting Ayrik to support his opinion with numbers as well?
Thank you Lady Swiftstrike, for reminding this humble scribe of why he no longer bothers to fully enter these halls much any more.
It's folk like you that give this site the bad trolling reputation that I've seen talked about elsewhere. |
"Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence." |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2012 : 08:14:28
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Okay, I think we're treading the line here in terms of what the site's Code of Conduct deems appropriate forum chatter for Candlekeep.
Let's keep it civil, and more importantly, on-topic, eh? 
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D-brane
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
140 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2012 : 08:21:19
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I apologise friend Sage. *wink* To help facilitate the transition back to the original topic, I will attempt to answer the original question posed by this thread's opening post.
I have purchased the new Forgotten Realms books, and I have also picked up several of the novels launched in the post time-jump period. But I have been select in which books I've bought - - though not because of anything I may have against the 4th Edition Realms setting. Instead, I maintain my policy of purchasing only books by authors I like. I'm not as appreciative as perhaps I should be for the new lot of Realms writers entering the franchise, so I still exist on a literary diet of Ed Greenwood, Steven Schend, Erik Scott de Bie, and Richard Lee Byers.
I haven't thought about purchasing a Dungeons & Dragons Insider subscription. I'm on meagre funds at the moment, so my yearly budget is tight.
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Old Man Harpell
Senior Scribe
USA
495 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2012 : 19:52:56
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Originally posted by D-brane
I haven't thought about purchasing a Dungeons & Dragons Insider subscription. I'm on meagre funds at the moment, so my yearly budget is tight.
The issue with DDI, for me, anyways, is that while I would very much like access to any new Realms-related material, regardless of edition (I did say I was a completist), I am also paying for other stuff that simply doesn't interest me.
Mechanics are irrelevant, as I use Pathfinder, and the only other TSR world I regularly use, Birthright, will never see any further official support. If they were to create a Realms-only service, I would subscribe immediately, but that is, I realize, a pipe dream.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 08 Jan 2012 : 23:03:47
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Originally posted by Old Man Harpell
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Originally posted by D-brane
I haven't thought about purchasing a Dungeons & Dragons Insider subscription. I'm on meagre funds at the moment, so my yearly budget is tight.
The issue with DDI, for me, anyways, is that while I would very much like access to any new Realms-related material, regardless of edition (I did say I was a completist), I am also paying for other stuff that simply doesn't interest me.
Mechanics are irrelevant, as I use Pathfinder, and the only other TSR world I regularly use, Birthright, will never see any further official support. If they were to create a Realms-only service, I would subscribe immediately, but that is, I realize, a pipe dream.
- OMH
Even a pay-per-article approach would be superior to the current all-or-nothing approach, I think. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
31701 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jan 2012 : 00:52:17
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Originally posted by Old Man Harpell
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Originally posted by D-brane
I haven't thought about purchasing a Dungeons & Dragons Insider subscription. I'm on meagre funds at the moment, so my yearly budget is tight.
The issue with DDI, for me, anyways, is that while I would very much like access to any new Realms-related material, regardless of edition (I did say I was a completist), I am also paying for other stuff that simply doesn't interest me.
Mechanics are irrelevant, as I use Pathfinder, and the only other TSR world I regularly use, Birthright, will never see any further official support. If they were to create a Realms-only service, I would subscribe immediately, but that is, I realize, a pipe dream.
- OMH
I don't use 4e mechanics either, largely because my campaign rules-set is a hodge-podge mixture of rules and mechanics from many editions of the D&D game, and other non-TSR/WotC games as well, like the BattleTech RPG.
But I was too tempted by the lore, so I renewed my subscription after originally receiving my first yearly subscription for DDI as a birthday present.
I know not every scribe has the financial luxury of indulging in such practices... if only for the lore. And some may find it wasteful for me to purchase whole material that I'll only ever use part of... but, really, isn't that what we were doing anyway when we used to purchase a Realms sourcebook? I don't know any Realms campaigner who has ever used EVERYTHING included in one singular Realms sourcebook. |
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Matt James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
918 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jan 2012 : 01:01:20
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Chiming in on this thread. I would love to see pay-per-article. We'll have to see how feasible that is. Hard to tell.
I do think, however, that WotC is going to release a future strategy for PDF releases. Keep an eye out tomorrow ;) |
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Kentinal
Great Reader
4686 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jan 2012 : 03:28:05
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Originally posted by Lady Swiftstrike Assassin
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Originally posted by Kentinal via private message
Maybe you are wiser then I, maybe you are a Great Reader with a new identity for some reason. The polls you put out however did not appear to have used much of your Wisdom
I'm not a Great Reader, but I still hope that you can grow in Wisdom, Kentinal!
Indeed you take the role of Assassin well. I only wonder which moderator gave you permission to conduct these polls. |
"Small beings can have small wisdom," the dragon said. "And small wise beings are better than small fools. Listen: Wisdom is caring for afterwards."
"Caring for afterwards ...? Ker repeated this without understanding.
"After action, afterwards," the dragon said. "Choose the afterwards first, then the action. Fools choose action first."
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Brimstone
Great Reader
USA
3286 Posts |
Posted - 09 Jan 2012 : 03:46:37
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Originally posted by Matt James
I do think, however, that WotC is going to release a future strategy for PDF releases. Keep an eye out tomorrow ;)
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"These things also I have observed: that knowledge of our world is
to be nurtured like a precious flower, for it is the most precious
thing we have. Wherefore guard the word written and heed
words unwritten and set them down ere they fade . . . Learn
then, well, the arts of reading, writing, and listening true, and they
will lead you to the greatest art of all: understanding."
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
1591 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jan 2012 : 11:11:03
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| Well i have purchased quite a few novels. I particularly enjoyed the brotherhood of the griffon trilogy. |
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Have you purchased the New Forgotten Realms books?
