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My impression taken from the 1e material is that Waterdeep, at least, is already cosmopolitan and that people there already associate with "monster" races (coming up from underneath, I assume, as a posse of orcs aren't likely to get the same benefit of the doubt while frolicking about in the...

A quick search finds me another thread by the prolific Yora (this time on rpg.net), where he points out the following substantial changes just between 1e's FR5 Savage Frontier and 2e's The North: Unless 3e rolled things back (which, as far as I'm aware, didn't happen), the differences are only...

Lots of FR posts on his blog here. Discussion of FR5 on EnWorld here.

I've only liked the idea of running games in the Forgotten Realms for less than a year (including a single, solitary session so far, with the second scheduled for this weekend), so I'd say it's a bit early for me to bored or over it. 😏 I am using the 1e boxed set and FR5 Savage Frontier as my...

There is certainly a bit of that. I'm not sure as to the truth of it, but I've heard it said the authors didn't want to include the traditional races at all. When management ruled that they must, the results we got were a form of malicious compliance. Whether that particular story is accurate...

It was a brief anecdote related to the topic, not a detailed analysis of the situation. It appears I may have made it seem more extreme situation when it was. While my basic reaction to his response was, "you reap what you sow", I did take his comments on board as a reminder not to go too...

Edit: Never mind, better off just moving on rather than responding.

My brother plays in an occasional OSR/Stonehell game I run for my niece and nephew (ages around 9 and 11). I don't tend to adjust the way I run the game for the kids (I'm a little more circumspect in some areas, but overall, not a huge difference). Last session, my niece used a sleep spell on...

The Veilled Alliance can be allies, enemies or both. Druids, merchants/merchant houses, outlying communities (human or otherwise), slavers. Kreen tribes. Internal noble and templar factions fighting over trade, logging rights or whatever. That's just off the top of my head and, if that's not...

I can see a little bit of Rolemaster influence in 3e, but absolutely nothing from Ars Magica. Casters were progressively having many of their limitations removed over the course of previous editions. 3e continued this process and combined this with revamping the save system so that spells...

No idea. Haven't played and know almost nothing about BG3. Although I'm not sure why a BG3 character would prove anything about templars in Dark Sun. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I stopped caring about Dark Sun canon after the Ivory Triangle boxed set. Even if it happens to support my position...

Did you miss the part where I mentioned being indoctrinated into Nibenays cult from childhood? That's not "signing up" that's "being signed over". Edit: No you didn't. Look, if you have decided all templars must be extra-evil, all well and good. You can feel that way if you want. I think there...

I haven't read it, and I'm not generally a fan of SK redemption arcs (unless somehow initiated by PCs), but that's just my personal take and I agree with your general point that there is room in Dark Sun for it. Certainly, the general ideas people seem to have regarding "What is a templar?" (as...

I don't think this necessarily needs to be the case. You can certainly view a templar of Nibenay as an eager, fully invested fanatic in service to a cruel and bloodthirsty sorcerer conduction horrible experiments at one extreme. At the other, however, it's just as valid to have a Nibenese...

I hold a fundamentally opposite position. Nothing exists that can't be a PC; all it takes is for a given group to decide they want it as a PC and a willingness to make it so. That, of course, doesn't mean that everything must have official support for PCifying it, which I would guess is the...

I don't really care what WotC does or does not put into their books, it's not going to make any difference to me. I'm happy for you to want a book that meets your needs and preferences. However, I am opposed to anyone who thinks they can make moral decisions about how other people play their...

I won't vote, since I don't and likely never will run 5e, but I am, in general, perfectly happy and willing to start a level-based game at higher than first level if there is a reason to do so, and see no reason why that would change in the hypothetical, parallel universe where I did run 5e.

The only Forgotten Realms product I've read closely is FR5 The Savage Frontier and it is absolutely a "gritty points of light type vibe".

It was based on an apocryphal story about the Bishop Otto wielding a club at the Battle of Hastings. As I recall, he was depicted thusly in a painting, and it was probably some Victorian "scholar" who invented the whole no shedding blood story out of whole cloth.

I always felt that was illogical in a very realistic and believable way, assuming all clerics belong to pretty much a single order following a general force of Law, ala B/X and BECMI, rather than a disparate bunch of specific gods. Once you reach the point where there a bunch of completely...