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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Laurefindel's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with
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1) FR is still my favourite D&D setting. It has breath, some depth, and many good elements despite the (often valid) critics. I’m... -
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That’s a very modern looking lantern - must be steampunk!
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to gban007's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
Bruenor did reach a truce, but eventually by 5e the kingdom was destroyed by 1485 DR, with Bruenor helping end it as such. The tribe is...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to haakon1's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
Drow and the Underdark entered D&D via a Greyhawk series of adventures published 1978-1981. As a Greyhawk fan who missed most of the 2e...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
Since at least 2e FOR2 Drow of the Underdark in 1991 Forgotten Realms Drow have had Eilistraee a good Drow goddess of dance, beauty, and...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to doctorbadwolf's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
Since I run on a canon based on 4e, it isn’t really an issue. The orcs have the Kingdom of Many Arrows, the Drow have many groups and...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to haakon1's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
Trying to read up on how FR got an Underdark, I didn’t find that specific answer, but I did find an interesting product history of how...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to zakael19's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
These are what I have nostalgia for. Formative memories of fantasy play. No real connection to FR beyond that, and not the more recent...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
This is a misunderstanding of history. There have always been people who played D&D X way and people who played it Y way*. But in the...
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Eearthsea_wizard replied to the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? +.True, and I actually like that character and those books. But in-game my thought is once you make the conceit that it could happen to...
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Eearthsea_wizard replied to the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? +.What was changed? I know he and (I think) Bruenor reach a sort of truce or even start working together, right? I am not well versed in...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to gban007's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
Being 3e based, I feel Forgotten Realms already supported change as such, with the kingdom of many arrows (was disappointed that this...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to SableWyvern's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
My impression taken from the 1e material is that Waterdeep, at least, is already cosmopolitan and that people there already associate...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to Voadam's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
I like the Realms. The gods and their organizations from the 2e god books are great material to draw on. I find the Red Wizards as D&D...
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Eearthsea_wizard reacted to haakon1's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
I have never run FR, and only played FR in Gen Con Online and BG3. But plus thread, so I’ll answer why I’m interested. 1. Inescapable...