Originally Posted by
PabstBlueRibbon
Oh please, they went south on plots Day 1.
Opening FR Plot: Planet-eating Eldritch Horror called The Shade oooospooookyoooo! Accidentally awoken by the birth of a new god.
So the options here were: Old gods dealing with new possible eldritch horror god, because he's got so many legs / Hey god of magic + magic's back whaaat! / Old gods got the worst wake up ever! / Oh BTW did you know Poison Ivy + Bane are also gods and thought they were the only ones for a while/ Big-ole recipe for massive global Godfight.
And on top of it all that Shade stuff.
This went absolutely nowhere. My disappointment is immeasurable. I've seen homebrew 3e campaigns that were just power fantasies that made better use of an ounce of this kind of lore/story potential.
We're not even going to talk about the actual War. Because they pussed-out on that idea the second after they released it.
(I mean sure, I can headcanon what I want like everyone else does. But I can't *post* it on my dragons. Because assholes read my stuff, can't separate art from artist and get "offended". And if I'm going to go through all that trouble just to keep it all in a word doc on my laptop, I may as well change the names and make a book out of it.)