Re: What is the Fifth Age?

Morten Brattbakk wrote:
> 
> And you do have double standards, you did say that the 5A
> team had plans for correcting their mistakes, but when W&H does it
> instead it's destruction.

The team had plans, but their definition of mistake and mine are two 
different things.

Either way, I doubt the 5th Age team would've had somebody write a 
trilogy that brought everything cra****ng down in 1200 pages.

> WoS certainly seemed to revive the game setting and its sales.

Some would argue that if SAGA had been regular D&D, instead of a new 
system, everything would have been fine to begin with in terms of sales.

All things considered, DL probably would have returned with 3E without
WoS.

> You write your own bias into the intent of W&H.

What were Tracy's words about the purpose of WoS? "Resetting the 
compass", or something very similar to that.

> I don't like destruction of Ansalon by the dragon purge, but I
 > certainly wouldn't voice my dislike in the way that you voiced
 > your dislike of WoS here.

Come on, Morten. We all know of your complete distaste for Tales of the 
lance and what you perceive as a complete disregard for what came 
before, so why is my bias any different? :)

> Changes were needed for fans to keep being interested in the setting.

DoSF brought change, the 5th Age team brought, and yet many people were 
not happy. So, W&H bring more change. Still, nobody's happy. Go figure.

> It didn't have to happen as slowly as you said, only better.

Well, for me better would be that everything that happened in the 5th 
Age wasn't guided by Takhisis. :)

Craig J. Ries