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<blockquote data-quote="Tovec" data-source="post: 6009840" data-attributes="member: 95493"><p><strong>Just my two cents.</strong></p><p></p><p>I think the forgotten realms are probably a great campaign setting, very rich and detailed.</p><p></p><p>However, by the virtue of being so rich and detailed it is a hard barrier to break into. I started playing DnD with 3e and I occasionally happened to pick up or read FR books. With the simple, basic stuff of even the campaign setting book it was far too much to break into. It gave me too many nations and factions to try and figure out where my players worked. The scope of what they gave us in a very simple campaign book was overwhelming.</p><p></p><p>So I'm all for people who love the setting and want to play in it. I'm not saying they can't. But I think it is a poor idea to make FR the default setting for the newest edition, just as it would be for Eberron or Dark Sun. They are interesting settings and they certainly have their place but making them the default just imposes too much history on what could otherwise be a simple game.</p><p></p><p>I know some people are also going to bring up Greyhawk as it was the default of 3e, but outside of the gods (and minor planar stuff) it really wasn't much of a default at all. It wasn't until 2008 I even heard about Iuz, for example. If they keep the game at this most basic veneer of a setting then that is fine, but the more campaign level details they introduce the harder it is to weed those details out of the core game. I mean I never used Red Wizards of Thay for just that reason.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tovec, post: 6009840, member: 95493"] [b]Just my two cents.[/b] I think the forgotten realms are probably a great campaign setting, very rich and detailed. However, by the virtue of being so rich and detailed it is a hard barrier to break into. I started playing DnD with 3e and I occasionally happened to pick up or read FR books. With the simple, basic stuff of even the campaign setting book it was far too much to break into. It gave me too many nations and factions to try and figure out where my players worked. The scope of what they gave us in a very simple campaign book was overwhelming. So I'm all for people who love the setting and want to play in it. I'm not saying they can't. But I think it is a poor idea to make FR the default setting for the newest edition, just as it would be for Eberron or Dark Sun. They are interesting settings and they certainly have their place but making them the default just imposes too much history on what could otherwise be a simple game. I know some people are also going to bring up Greyhawk as it was the default of 3e, but outside of the gods (and minor planar stuff) it really wasn't much of a default at all. It wasn't until 2008 I even heard about Iuz, for example. If they keep the game at this most basic veneer of a setting then that is fine, but the more campaign level details they introduce the harder it is to weed those details out of the core game. I mean I never used Red Wizards of Thay for just that reason. [/QUOTE]
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