>Clark Peterson wrote: > In fact I stood at GenCon with Ryan and Keith and we > were looking at the (then) new Forgotten Realms book. > I said to them that I thought that was the most well > put together book I had ever seen. Though I'm not a > big FR guy, the book is unbelievable. I said "looks > like we d20 types are pushing you all to raise the > product bar." Keith and Ryan smiled and agreed. I > think it is true. Competition makes for healthy > products--better products.
To further agree with Clark, d20 allows WotC to concentrate on the big things and leave the small things to the d20 publishers. When we sat down to work on the new edition of the Realms, we'd already started dividing up things that D&D would do, and things that FR would do. Part of that division allowed D&D to focus on the big things, with the little parts trickling down to d20 publishers. FR got to cast off things that it didn't need to worry about, because D&D (and to a lesser extent, future d20 publishers) would be handling it. We created the Forgotten Realms book in that environment, and I believe it was healthy. For too long, the Realms had tried to be all things to all people, covering every base possible. We got to sharpen the focus dramatically and leave much of the ground-breaking rules-making to the D&D team (and d20 publishers). The phenomenal things that appeared in the FR book are testament to that (and that's more than the great graphics layout). Good Gaming! Jim Butler, President Bastion Press, Inc. http://www.bastionpress.com _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
