Forgotten Realms: The Sundering

RPGPundit · September 08, 2012, 05:32:44 PM

Quote from: James Gillen;580635Oh, like DC Comics did at least twice.

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Well, sort of. They rebooted, which is as close as you get to an admission of guilt or failure in this industry.

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Reckall · September 08, 2012, 05:52:51 PM

Quote from: Novastar;579671I think anyone on this board, would love to be able to add to their resume: "NYT Best Selling Author".

I'm a Writers Guild of America Award Nominee for "Assassin's Creed: Revelations" and it was not that hard. It is useful when I want to boast about myself, though.

Bedrockbrendan · September 08, 2012, 05:53:45 PM

Quote from: Justin Alexander;580294Just once I'd like to see someone execute a continuity rollback by just saying, "Ya know what? We goofed. That shit never happened and we're going back to before we made those stupid choices."

Instead everybody feels a need to execute some sort of big, complicated meta-event which only makes their continuity more knotted and ridiculous.

Or, if that's too much to ask, just have Mystra step out of the shower. Elminster says, "Wow. That was a weird fucking dream." And then move on.

I think highlander III tried to do that

I tend to agree though. If something was unpopular enough, they ought to erase it rather than make it part of the historical cannon.

Piestrio · September 08, 2012, 07:22:50 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;581151Well, sort of. They rebooted, which is as close as you get to an admission of guilt or failure in this industry.

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The problem is that they "reboot" but then shove every last bit of the old into the new lest their man-children fans throw a tantrum.

Marvel and DC both do this.

Look at the Ultimates line, it started out so promising but then before 6 months had gone by basically every bit of retarded "continuity" had been put right back in.

Benoist · September 08, 2012, 08:50:40 PM

Quote from: BedrockBrendan;581159I think highlander III tried to do that

What the fuck? There were no sequels to the Highlander movie. Especially not with hoverboards and alien immortals and bullshit. There COULD be only one. Get your facts straight, mate.

RPGPundit · September 10, 2012, 12:13:46 AM

Movies? I only remember a TV series...

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Novastar · September 11, 2012, 10:10:09 PM

Quote from: RPGPundit;581417Movies? I only remember a TV series...

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...and the last 2 seasons are kind of fuzzy, at that.

RPGPundit · September 13, 2012, 01:27:13 PM

Quote from: Novastar;581818...and the last 2 seasons are kind of fuzzy, at that.

Quite.

Randy · September 24, 2012, 10:11:28 AM

Quote from: RPGPundit;575857If they don't do some kind of reset of the Realms, specifically undoing the 4e butcher-job on the realms, it'll be a terrible mistake.

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What happened to the Realms in 4e?

James Gillen · September 25, 2012, 02:09:22 PM

Quote from: Randaconda;585019What happened to the Realms in 4e?

That's kinda what we've been talking about.

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Wolf, Richard · September 25, 2012, 05:39:04 PM

Quote from: Randaconda;585019What happened to the Realms in 4e?

The most egregious change was that it time warped 100 years into the future, but also a new continent popped up to account for the new races in 4e, and there was a 'spellplague' that explains why spellcasting isn't "vancian" anymore.

So basically the Time of Troubles on crack.

RPGPundit · September 25, 2012, 06:34:36 PM

Quote from: Randaconda;585019What happened to the Realms in 4e?

They shot the timeline ahead 100 years, killed off a huge number of the gods, removed entire sections of the geography that they replaced with others, and retconned the existence and tremendous importance of races like the dragonborn, all just to try to remake FR into a "points of light" setting for 4e. It sucked ass!

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