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http://dorkland.blogspot.com/2011/08/dungeons-dragons-returns-to-legendary. html
According to that relase, WOTC is coming out with the neverwinter city setting. The VERY first city supplement for any RPG. It says so in the relase.
*breaks out my copy of city state of the invincible overlord and the thieves world boxed set from back in the 80s.*
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Given that they've actually released 4e supplements focused on individual settlements (Vor Rukoth, Hammerfast, etc.) I'm inclined to chalk this up to a mistake on the part of their copy team rather than an insidious plot by the WotC guys to trick you into thinking that this is the first book about a city ever (which is pretty much what the blog post's author concludes as well).
Let's not be the sort of people who decide to be upset over something like this.
Yea, weird wording. Maybe they meant first ever set in Neverwinter. Just off the top of my head I can think of City System from Wizards/TSR and the Zobeck Gazetteer from Open Design and I am sure there are many others.
They probably meant the first for 4e.
This is just a really bad typo and it is refutably wrong.
Typical. You have to wonder if they're intentionally lying or whether they just don't know any better.
But I can't imagine how this could have slipped through.
Typical. You have to wonder if they're intentionally lying or whether they just don't know any better.
No, you don't. It's the sort of thing that no one would lie about. It's just an example of a product being handed off to a copy team and a mistake cropping up.
But I can't imagine how this could have slipped through.
Really? Pretty much everyone else can.
Ya I gotta chalk this one up to "wow, that's why we hate it when marketting doesn't talk to us ..."
Volo's Guide to Waterdeep, anyone?
Ptolus?
City of the Invincible Overlord?Few dozen others ...
Yup, before anyone knew much more about Neverwinter than what was contained in the computer rpg, there was this other Forgotten Realms city in the spotlight.
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I've just had a look around the Wizards of the Coast product page, and the explore neverwinter minisite, and I couldn't find the 'first RPG city' claim anywhere obvious at either location.
Looks like someone at Wizards is on the ball and edited it out.
Plenty of other sites still with copies of the original release though...
It's still there, several paragraphs down in the press release. Directly copy pasted from the release this morning:
It is the first-ever RPG book focused solely on one city and conveniently presents Neverwinter content in a single hardcover format containing information for both players and DMs.
I agree with Joana that they probably meant to say, "the first-ever 4e book focused solely..."
As far as I know, no books have ever been completely dedicated to Neverwinter in the past, so perhaps that's what they meant.
I wonder if city maps of Neverwinter are still illegal in 4th ed Forgotten realms; Personally, I always though that was a poor excuse not to include any (ever... AFAIK) for the sake of grasping the layout of the city, even if it isn't something the DM hands-out to the players as something they bought...
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As far as I know, no books have ever been completely dedicated to Neverwinter in the past, so perhaps that's what they meant.
"...the first-ever RPG book focused solely on this city?" That's even more likely than substituting RPG for 4e. Easy to do when you're editing text down from "focused solely on this legendary city of the Realms" or whatever.
Link to this item on the Wizards of the Coast website please? If they are miss-selling this, I want to email the UK Advertising standards agency...
Are you f$!!ing serious?
Link to this item on the Wizards of the Coast website please? If they are miss-selling this, I want to email the UK Advertising standards agency...
Please don't waste a consumer watchdog agency's time and effort on something that literally does not matter in any substantive fashion to anyone, at all. They have real concerns to deal with - malicious scams that actually cheat people out of their money, property, time, or health. It would be like calling 911 (or 112 in your case) because your pizza delivery guy took the wrong route to your place and was 10 minutes late with your dinner.
Nefarious plot there. They were so close to fooling everyone too...
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I seriously doubt that whether or not it's the "first ever" has a material effect on any person's decision to purchase and/or sales. That's what we lawyers call "mere puffery" and does not go to the core of the deal. Every product on the market makes claims like "best at removing dirt" or "first to use the active-touch system!" and consumers are sophisticated enough to realize that such claims are worth as much as the ink with which they are written. Do you seriously think there's a group of consumers who are saying "I totally wouldn't buy this product, but now that I know it's the first ever rpg supplement for a city, I must have it!" What exactly does (not) being the first ever add to the value of this product?
Step away from the kool-aide, Charles. That stuff is no good.
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People stupid enough to purchase a product they wouldn't otherwise buy because of potential collectible value (particularly those who aren't already collecting in the industry, since those are the only ones who would not be aware that there are prior products in print that are supplements devoted to a particular city) or advertising that makes the product seem cutting edge/cool/fashionable (which is the function of advertising generally) have much more significant problems than being ripped off by WotC. Like finding a desirable place under an overpass to sleep, not drowning in a puddle of their own drool while sleeping there, or exercising their property rights with respect to the Brooklyn Bridge.
What about the raft of "new and improved" products? It's either one or the other. By the very definition of the words, it can't be both. Clearly, all these companies need to be sued out of existence as well, since they're all perpetrating scams.
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Not a comment on the original claim of the book in question of this thread, but as far the first ever for an RPG...
I think Judge's Guild's "City-State of the Invincible Overlord" was first, followed closely by Chaosium's version of Thieves World's "Sanctuary", then perhaps TSR's "Lankhmar"...
Unless I missed one somewhere...
Claiming something is the 'first ever' in an attempt to boost sales when it is quite demonstrably not sounds a lot like a scam to cheat people out of their money to me... At the very least, if it was an unintended error by some copywriter, it is a (in my opinion) serious misrepresentation of the facts which needs someone Wizards of the Coast will actually notice to give them a poke to correct it.
No, apparently that's perfectly OK to do, and if you don't agree, people may insult you.
That said, I'm still waiting for a link which shows Wizards of the Coast is visibly running this reportedly misleading line of information on their site or Neverwinter mini-site. If Wizards of the Coast (the company trying to sell this item) isn't actively making this claim right now then I don't see anything worth my reporting to the Advertising standards agency.
Haven't found anything on their own sites, but the press release is still on sites that provide press releases, and unless I'm very wrong about this or this is a very elaborate hoax, the Press Release originates from wotc
Since WotC themselves made at least three books focused on single cities for 3.5 (Sharn, Stormreach, and Waterdeep), this is clearly a simple mistake. No reason to get upset about it, unless they don't change the text when they're made aware of it.
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Your thesis (if I understand you correctly) that anyone susceptible has much bigger problems anyway, so doing anything which might help them on a lesser count is pointless is something I differ with you on here. That's a matter of my personal opinion though...
No, my thesis is that no one would ever purchase a product on that basis. The only people who care are the 4e haters and, well, haters gonna hate.