carl3369 wrote:FWIW the Forgotten Realms is my absolute favourite setting. I love the depth of it, the sheer volume of information available beggars belief.
Carl
Now, you see, that is the problem...
There is so much to collect that I have no intention of trying. There is too much detail.
I think there is little discussion of Forgotten Realms on the Acaeum because of the age of the members. Younger guys might have fonder memories of Waterdeep...or whatever it is called.
One thing I do not understand about various settings is how the actions of a few individuals is supposed to be known across an entire continent. Who would really know about characters like Tenser or Mordenkain or the like?
For me, the idea of powerful individuals who have it so much more together than the PC's is anathema. (This is one of the things that wrecked
Shadowrun for me when it was run by a GM who really thought he was
supposed to make us all feel small by having Harlequin sneer at us.) In my own campaigns, these people are always off stage and when they do (very rarely) appear it almost always turns out that their reputation is larger than their true selves.
A Gang of Five or Circle of Eight, or whatever, who dominate the news on an entire continent, is really boring. It is about as interesting and memorable as
The Lord of the Rings would have been if Gandalf, Elrond, Galadriel, Celeborn and Glorfindel would have formed an uber-party and flown on giant eagles to Mordor to flatten Barad Dur...possibly with Saruman along to play the part of
tormented turncoat.
This is superheroes role-playing, not fantasy.
Um...and....right....Forgotten Realms....right. I own a couple of copies but I would never
use it. Get real.
Mark