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<blockquote data-quote="MxBaticeer" data-source="post: 7911026" data-attributes="member: 6928794"><p>I don't fully agree with the earlier overview of how many official adventures are tied to Forgotten Realms. I feel that it overstates it somewhat.</p><p></p><p>Curse of Strahd is set in Ravenloft. It opened up the setting for DMs Guild and the whole adventure takes place there. Saying it's FR based because two of the six optional hooks provided at the beginning, each of which is less than a page long and has barely any relationship to the rest of the adventure, suggest that your characters could come from FR is just silly. There is more Greyhawk related content in Curse of Strahd than there is Forgotten Realms related content.</p><p></p><p>Tales from the Yawning Portal is a compilation of seven conversions of old adventures. Of those adventures, only one was originally set in FR and all of them have prefaces with suggestions for how to use them in various official settings. The title refers to the Yawning Portal (a FR location) and there's a short preface describing it but the Yawning Portal doesn't actually show up in any of the adventures. I wouldn't call TftYP a Forgotten Realms adventure book despite the admittedly misleading Yawning Portal title and theme.</p><p></p><p>So I think saying those two are "set in FR" exaggerates the actual situation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MxBaticeer, post: 7911026, member: 6928794"] I don't fully agree with the earlier overview of how many official adventures are tied to Forgotten Realms. I feel that it overstates it somewhat. Curse of Strahd is set in Ravenloft. It opened up the setting for DMs Guild and the whole adventure takes place there. Saying it's FR based because two of the six optional hooks provided at the beginning, each of which is less than a page long and has barely any relationship to the rest of the adventure, suggest that your characters could come from FR is just silly. There is more Greyhawk related content in Curse of Strahd than there is Forgotten Realms related content. Tales from the Yawning Portal is a compilation of seven conversions of old adventures. Of those adventures, only one was originally set in FR and all of them have prefaces with suggestions for how to use them in various official settings. The title refers to the Yawning Portal (a FR location) and there's a short preface describing it but the Yawning Portal doesn't actually show up in any of the adventures. I wouldn't call TftYP a Forgotten Realms adventure book despite the admittedly misleading Yawning Portal title and theme. So I think saying those two are "set in FR" exaggerates the actual situation. [/QUOTE]
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