Are WoTC really serious in leaving out Elistraee from 4E?
[/quote:1fmcmwv8]FR design team has indicated the Realms had too many deities, from about 150 they went to about 30. Many deities are gone about 120 of them.[/quote:1fmcmwv8]
Yeah, I;ve been browsing over at Candlekeep for the past few hours, catching up on the unfolding trainwreck that is 4E FR
By all that is sacred! This is such a crappy decision that these head-up-arse WoTC people have made, it beggers belief.
FR was designed by Ed Greenwood to be this vast rolling place with a multitude of deities much like the anciet world. Now we get soime halfwits who claim to have the game at heart but really all they are doing is corporatising the game, in other words downsizing the FR pantheon to make it "streamlined" and "more efficient" which is code for "we don't give a flying f*ck about what core fans of FR feel, we own the rights and we can do what we want, so screw you! and buy our new fancy game while you're at it".
That's what it is folks, a new game with D&D slapped onto the front in the hope that fanboys & girls will slavishly buy this load of drivel while they laugh all the way to the bank lighting up cigars with $100 notes while snorting coke of the breasts of some $1000 per hour call girl.
4E is not D&D.
It is a new game pure and simple.
WoTC have been manueouvering to wipe out EG's creation, cutting down a mighty oak and hacking it back to a sickly bush that lacks imagination. Although I have yet to read the final Lady Penitant book [which has been pretty average fiction so far I must say, Lisa Smedman, you suck!] it's painfully obvious she's been given a brief from those wankers on high at WoTC to kill off Eilistraee in her canon "sanctioned" trilogy. What a brilliant business decision that was. Kill off one of their great draw cards, stories that relate to the drow and specifically the dark lady. Who ever made that call must be up their with the dickhead TV exec who worked at Fox and said that Desperate Housewives wouldn't be a hit show and cancelled Firefly as well.
I know Ed Greenwood has come out and said wait & see, it'll be ok but that's because he has to say that sort of thing in order to have ANY hope of preserving what's left of his creation. He is like a father who see's his child with a gun to its head and is powerless to do anything but co-operate.
Quite frankly I hope WoTC crash and burn due to terrible sales and a fan base revolt. Those wankers deserve to go down for screwing over a perfectly viable fantasy setting because they wanted to improve their bottom line.
Hahahahaha 
