Forum:Your thoughts on 4e Forgotten Realms?

Have got today the 4Ed FRCG. Well never expected that it would be good, after all the things I read about it. I like the pictures, most of them are more than good, some good. I liked black/white things, but the colorfull thing is amazing. The negative point is still the map. I had hoped that the maps in the excerpts were only fast drawn things and not the end result. This map is boring, really boring. The one in 3Ed was impressive, inspiring and something wich made me itchy to explore a world. This one seems like a piece someone did with a little bit photopaint. Then I came to Abeir. Wanted to know whats all this about, that changed the FR so deeply, but then, only 17 pages with allmost nothing of interest for me, some things seemed only to be cloned from Krynn. Then Abeir seemed a little bit small, for a whole continent? The changes in religion, well I never liked what I read about it and it is still boring and nothing wich makes me feel intrigued. Netheril and all the badstuff there, was never interested in Netheril, so it is nothing for me, that they are now the ultimative bad guys. What I do not understand, huh Blood War ended since Asmo smashed the Abyss back to the Chaos. But then there is a descreption about the Abyss in the book and everything there seemed as it allways was, unfinite chaotic Realms, Demons are born (spawned), Demonlords rule some Realms. So why should they have stopped now to bring chaos to the worlds? There has nothing changed. Chaos is still there, his minions are there, the worlds of chaos are still there, so what???? Seems like the designers did'nt have read all entries they made so well for contradictions. The same goes for the changes in coastlines and the like, if they have changed, why are they still the same they were in 3Ed maps. The only changed a little bit the places of some cities but the coastline itself changed not. Historicus 15:04, 16 September 2008 (UTC)