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<blockquote data-quote="ParanoydStyle" data-source="post: 7871216" data-attributes="member: 6984451"><p>....annnnnnnd that one is literally 300 pages. Holy crabs. I feel like Homer Simpson a little: "REMOVE THE ROCK OF SHAME. ...ATTACH THE ROCK OF TRIUMPH!"</p><p></p><p>That seems like a great, comprehensive reference work but it also looks way too long for me to actually read and internalize on any kind of reasonable timescale (I mean, not if someone was actually paying me a living wage to research a made up world, but that's a whole other topic). I'll have that "on the table" so to speak, but I expect to learn more immediately useful stuff from posters in this thread and/or one of the FR wikis.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I can remember being younger than 10 and playing Hillsfar on my grandmother's 386. Well, attempting to play Hillsfar, except for the part where you jump your horse over things I don't think I made much progress. At this age I unironically wondered what a "ling" was and what it meant to be 1/2 of one, no joke. I didn't properly discover D&D for almost a decade afterwards.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, is Hillsfar that one of the Goldbox games of which you speak? I think I vaguely recall Hillsfar being a place in the FR.</p><p></p><p>(And I get it, it's a huge world with a TON of history, but I would bet not as much so as Shadowrun (which has, I can safely say having written for it, one of the most ginormous, detailed, and convoluted metaplots of all time) and I can still give people a "short version" of Shadowrun in 1000 words or less, you just have to, y'know, leave a lot of stuff out.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ParanoydStyle, post: 7871216, member: 6984451"] ....annnnnnnd that one is literally 300 pages. Holy crabs. I feel like Homer Simpson a little: "REMOVE THE ROCK OF SHAME. ...ATTACH THE ROCK OF TRIUMPH!" That seems like a great, comprehensive reference work but it also looks way too long for me to actually read and internalize on any kind of reasonable timescale (I mean, not if someone was actually paying me a living wage to research a made up world, but that's a whole other topic). I'll have that "on the table" so to speak, but I expect to learn more immediately useful stuff from posters in this thread and/or one of the FR wikis. I can remember being younger than 10 and playing Hillsfar on my grandmother's 386. Well, attempting to play Hillsfar, except for the part where you jump your horse over things I don't think I made much progress. At this age I unironically wondered what a "ling" was and what it meant to be 1/2 of one, no joke. I didn't properly discover D&D for almost a decade afterwards. Anyway, is Hillsfar that one of the Goldbox games of which you speak? I think I vaguely recall Hillsfar being a place in the FR. (And I get it, it's a huge world with a TON of history, but I would bet not as much so as Shadowrun (which has, I can safely say having written for it, one of the most ginormous, detailed, and convoluted metaplots of all time) and I can still give people a "short version" of Shadowrun in 1000 words or less, you just have to, y'know, leave a lot of stuff out.) [/QUOTE]
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