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Gyeah to me its always about internal consistency. If the universe is consistent to itself, or characters are consistent to themselves...
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GI think for somebody who doesn't like fiction with the hubris of people making terrible choices and dying horribly as a consequence as...
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GI mean ... I think that a lot of this goes to suspension of disbelief- which can be very subjective. To give you some examples- most of...
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Ggban007 reacted to Paul Farquhar's post in the thread Spoilers Alien: Earth Spoiler Thread with
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Someone’s Law: In real life, people do stupid things all the time. In fiction it’s bad writing. -
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Some cats and dogs can understand the threat of future action, understand the vague concept of "guilt" (as in future punishment for a...
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Ggban007 reacted to Epic Meepo's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
To answer the questions in the OP: 1. I'm fond of the Forgotten Realms for nostalgic reasons. The original grey box was my first...
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Ggban007 reacted to Ibrandul's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
1. High-magic, versatile setting (there is no single “high concept”) with very deep bench of supplements to draw from. 2. Everything is...
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Ggban007 reacted to Steampunkette's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
Here's why I sometimes run in FR rather than a homebrew setting: 1) Easy Lots of adventures are already written so I can just focus on...
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Ggban007 reacted to TheSword's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
1. Why It’s a high magic setting that has really well established setting structures - areas, gods, magic system, organisations. These...
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Ggban007 reacted to doctorbadwolf's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
One thing I love about the realms is that it doesn’t pretend that the wider world doesn’t exist. Hat I mean by that is, in a lot of...
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Ggban007 reacted to Older Beholder's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
I always liked the Forgotten Realms Pantheon. So, there's that. The setting itself is varied enough that you can do anything you want...
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Ggban007 reacted to doctorbadwolf's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
It’s fun, and most of my players have some aspect of the setting they like. My FR continuity pretends 5e didn’t happen, and continues...
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Ggban007 reacted to Benjamin Olson's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
I use it for most campaigns because it is familiar with vast lore to draw upon available on a handy wiki, but nobody I play with is...
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Ggban007 reacted to Tonguez's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
I dont use FR per se, but its so expansive that I will refer back to its Lore and use its locations, factions and characters and set...
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Ggban007 reacted to Weird Dave's post in the thread D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? + with Like.
I've been running D&D for 30 years now, and while I acquired many of the 2E Forgotten Realms boxed sets and accessories in the 90s, for...