А Какие Слухи Идут По Fr В Грядущей 4 Редакции ?

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Краем глаза тут на одном англоязычном форуме прочитал, что там очередной мировой катаклизм грядет с убийством Мистры и гибелью еще несколкьих богов и соответственно начинаются сильнейшие магические бури, плетение рушится, гибнет множество магов.
А кто-нибудь знает, какие еще слухи ходят по будущему Forgotten Realms, что там может быть?

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Сорри за дабл-пост, но тут я вывалю самое, ИМХо, ценное. Все прочитали, перевели, в том числе и дыхание, выдохнули облегченно и успокоились... Если коротко, будут те же яйца, только в профиль)))))))) Радуемся)
Вырезки из инфы по 4е:
Forgotten Realms will be the first setting released (Forgotten Realms campaign setting: August 2008.)
'Points of light in a dark world' does NOT refer to existing settings -- "One quick point of clarification I'd like to make... Don't assume that we're going to apply the 'Points of Light' conceit to existing campaign worlds. I think Realms and Eberron would prosper if they got just a little more points-of-lightish, but we're not going to overthrow worlds with that much breadth and history."
Ed Greenwood has spoken out about the Forgotten Realms in 4th Edition. To the question: "But I hope Ed can tell us this much: was this change "his idea"? Or is he along right now mainly to do damage control and try to salvage SOMETHING?", Ed replies: "Not, it was not my idea... I see the risk Wizards is taking, and sure hope it pays off. Whatever happens, I intend to go on sharing the Realms with gamers and readers for as long as I last. I am hard at work on future Realms goodies now, and am acutely aware of the Border Kingdoms and the unpublished city of Teziir and other things too long neglected." Click here for the full text of his lengthly answer (Ed's post is the sixth one down, posted under the name "The Hooded One").
Ed Greenwood working on the 4E FRCS. He has been hired to write 50,000 words for the book.
On the FR pantheon: "Yes, we'd like a smaller pantheon in FR. However, that doesn't mean that three-quarters of the deities will kick off. It does mean that we're looking at a lot of marginal deities and asking ourselves, "Could this deity be a demigod--a divine figure who doesn't really have a continent-wide church with dozens of temples devoted to him or her?" For example, we like a lot of the demihuman deities as demigods who hang around with/work for the real heavy hitters like Moradin or Corellon."
Rich Baker on whether the new core cosmology will be adopted for FR: "I'm sure this is probably more than I ought to say right now, but yes....Of course, the particular astral dominions that will exist in Faerun's cosmology will correspond to the Realms pantheon. So you'll see Arvandor, House of the Triad, Warrior's Rest, etc., as shaken up by events of the Spellplague (no more Dweomerheart, for example)....Faerie's been touched on several times in Realmslore (for example, Elaine's novels). The Shadowfell and Plane of Shadow are pretty much the same thing. The Inner Planes are getting resorted to the Elemental Chaos, but no one ever went there before anyway, so it should be fine. We've got some details to work out on the interaction of the Fugue Plane with all this, but other than that, the new cosmology is going to be Faerun's cosmology."
Rich Baker's defence of Realms changes.
Chris Perkins has a lengthy blog update. He mentions that "the Spellplague is an event that allows us to incorporate 4th Edition elements into the existing scheme of the world" and that "there are things about the Spellplague that we deliberately haven't revealed". He also recommends that people check out the hints in the "Unsolved Mysteries of D&D" article in Dragon #359, and comments on a post where somebody picks up on the hints (the current theory is that this is the post).
More importantly, he lists ten things you should know about the 4E Forgotten Realms. Check out the blog for the actual text (each of these gets a paragraph or so), but here's the basic message he's putting out:
It feels like FR but uses 4E mechanics. They're not ignoring canon, rewriting history or blowing up large parts of the setting.
4E FR embraces, at least in part, the "points of light" concept.
In 4E FR, the PCs matter, not the uber-NPCs.
FR novels will remain part of the FR canon.
Running 4E adventures doesn't require a masters degree in FR history.
The pantheon will be smaller.
Elminster, Drizzt and other NPCs are still part of FR.
They started writing the Forgotten Realms Campaign Guide in early 2006.
FR will get lots of support (Insider, official wiki, online tools).
Various people were involved with 4E FR.