Crawford confirms the brilliant strategy of the D&D team. Thanks for posting the highlights Morrus. Sales and fans returning to D&D are proof that they are doing something right.
Bravo!
Bravo!
Not the same sort of thing, but the thing you're looking for, I think.
The "hints" from the already published adventures are how the baddies are "going elsewhere" after a failure to try again. Tiamat's plan for Krynn didn't work , so she tries on Toril. Same with Tharizdun, who failed on Oerth, and is trying on Toril. I think this might lead up to some crazy Planescape or Spelljammer style realm-hopping adventure.
That said, I'm not sure how OotA fits into that idea. But we haven't seen it yet.
Wow, tough crowd. WotC really can't say anything without people tearing it apart and/or assuming the worst.
Not seeing the problem.
To me, it's like the approach they are taking with the new Star Wars movies. The past will be mined for ideas and inspiration, but, they are not locked into previous lore and are free to tweak/change what they want. Best of both worlds IMO.
How did you feel about Greedo shooting first?
Nobody is altering what already happened retroactively, it's all new stories. New stuff can happen, in unexpected ways. Someone from place X can go to place Y, even if they have never been to place Y before. Place X is not harmed by that person going to place Y. Nobody is saying that person is retroactively now from place Y instead of place X.
That's true. But it still comes at the expense of place X. Meaning, place X receives no further detail or "action" because place Y gets 100% of the attention.
Why not mix it up and have this adventure path from this world, and the next adventure path from that world? That's how you properly represent a multiverse. It's really not very "multiversal" to have all of the classic villains from other worlds continually showing up in the Forgotten Realms. It seems way less "cool mashup" and much more like "bad sequel" to me.
The problem is that not everyone wants to use the Forgotten Realms setting. Some people, in fact, really dislike the Forgotten Realms setting. Some people, like me, have a consistently running, 32-year-old Greyhawk campaign. Some people want to have their campaigns set in the bleak world of Dark Sun... not the Anauroch desert. People grow to love these worlds as if they were their favorite fiction or movie.
How did you feel about Greedo shooting first?
The problem is that not everyone wants to use the Forgotten Realms setting. Some people, in fact, really dislike the Forgotten Realms setting. Some people, like me, have a consistently running, 32-year-old Greyhawk campaign. Some people want to have their campaigns set in the bleak world of Dark Sun... not the Anauroch desert. People grow to love these worlds as if they were their favorite fiction or movie.
How did you feel about Greedo shooting first?