Two words for when you're business starts slowing down.

[Fire_Godd]

FORGOTTEN REALMS.

everyone would play. I'd be a full member for life.

[Mercules]

FORGOTTEN REALMS.

everyone would play. I'd be a full member for life.

Please no...

Please let that gaming world die in peace.

Problems with Forgotten Realms:

1. Licensing as it is not owned by Turbine or Hasbro
2. Too much cannon. Turbine can't write anything without stepping on someone's previously written work and "messing it up" in someone's eyes
3. Poorly written. Half the ideas in Forgotten Realms were really cool to a 13-year-old but made very little sense from a cognitive sense. Why bother doing anything, Elminster Aumar or the Harpers will be there soon to fix the problem. If not them then any one of the dozens of dozens other famous characters.

[Visty]

atari is doing an FR MORPG

[dunklezhan]

Monty haul, massively powerful magic levels, excellent novel fodder.

So no thanks. I'd like room to grow if'n its all the same to you.

I'd much rather they just fleshed out Eberron properly.

[Skirmish]

Bah! GREYHAWK FTW!

I was originally worried about DDO's future when Atari announced they were doing a Neverwinter based MMO. But, after seeing the cluster bomb that was Star Trek online, the fact they have Cryptic building it makes me comfy that my home for D&D will be around a while.

Most likely, the hardcore players that leave here to play it will finish it's content in a week and be back. If it's good enough, they might go back to it when more is added, then come back after they complete the new content. rinse and repeat.

[Chai]

Please no...

Please let that gaming world die in peace.

Problems with Forgotten Realms:

1. Licensing as it is not owned by Turbine or Hasbro
2. Too much cannon. Turbine can't write anything without stepping on someone's previously written work and "messing it up" in someone's eyes
3. Poorly written. Half the ideas in Forgotten Realms were really cool to a 13-year-old but made very little sense from a cognitive sense. Why bother doing anything, Elminster Aumar or the Harpers will be there soon to fix the problem. If not them then any one of the dozens of dozens other famous characters.

/disagree.

The only "problem" with Forgotten Realms is that the villains are often times better developed than the protagonists, which is why many of them have carried their own books, and even series. Forgotten Realms will live on long after these other worlds die off.

The reason why people make comments like your #3 is because of characters like Drizzt and Elminster, who are the cookie cutter "good guy who cant be touched with a 10 foot pole". If this is all Forgotten Realms was, I would agree with you.

The reason why I dont agree is because the Cales, Jarlaxles, Szass Tams, and Pirate Kings are all too busy carrying their own story lines, becomming better developed characters than the protagonists who stand against them, and are that much more interesting than villains from other realms, most of which are either borrowed from a forgotten realms author / creator in the first place, or are a cookie cutter bad guy that is just used as a tool to make readers hate them so when the end of the book comes and the author kills them off, the audience cheers. /barf

You have to look past the Drizzts and Elminsters to get to the real content FR has to offer, that will keep it on the map for a long while.

[MarkusWolfe]

Bah, it would be much better that we get to explore the rest of Eberron. Isn't there some place where barbarian halfings ride around on tyranosaurs?

[Rakian_Knight]

Before we even think about Forgotten Realms, why don't we, I don't know, correct and finish Eberron. We need a ton of races, classes, story lines, and places that we haven't even begun to think about in Eberron so why not finish this before complaining that we need another D&D MMO.

[h4x0r1f1c]

Two words for when you're business starts slowing down.

Two words for when you are business starts slowing down.

wat

[Narcissistic_Martyr]

No. I vote we go for Greyhawk instead if I get a say in what happens for DDO 2. Why you ask? *Launches onto long tirade about why Greyhawk is the best D&D setting and how it will always remain that way. Continues for a few hours and convinces you "young whippersnappers" fed on the drivel that is forgotten realms to get back to your roots to shut me up. Also, no one has a the license for greyhawk at the moment and since no one wants it (insert randomly meandering complaint full of angry outbursts about the state of gamers these days), I'm sure it will be cheaper than keeping the Eberron license since it's all new and shiny.

[underpants]

Go to amazon and get some of the eberron novels most are pretty good and frame the world and story lines of the game pretty good. Turbine or Warner Bros just need to put out some new novels and republish the existing ones with the DDO logo, and Eberron will grow on ya.

Let Forgotten Realms go espically that stoooopid drow Drizzzzdork.

[Skirmish]

No. I vote we go for Greyhawk instead if I get a say in what happens for DDO 2. Why you ask? *Launches onto long tirade about why Greyhawk is the best D&D setting and how it will always remain that way. Continues for a few hours and convinces you "young whippersnappers" fed on the drivel that is forgotten realms to get back to your roots to shut me up. Also, no one has a the license for greyhawk at the moment and since no one wants it (insert randomly meandering complaint full of angry outbursts about the state of gamers these days), I'm sure it will be cheaper than keeping the Eberron license since it's all new and shiny.

Besides the fact that I grew up on Greyhawk, that was actually one of the reasons I suggested it.