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I've never liked the tying in of alignment to game mechanics. It stank too much of the kind of binary decision marking in Bioware RPG's post-KOTOR. There was no real thought about which option to pick. Few grey choices or middle-paths. Luckily most video games are moving beyond that, and it's...

Am I wrong sensitivity to sunlight less an eyesight thing, and more of a whole body sensitivity? I know at least in the Forgotten Realms, I remember the reading about sunlight literally hurting Drow skin.

From what I can tell, giving almost every class some form of spellcasting was an attempt to replicate 4E's powers in the absence of any unified AEDU-type system. Rather than give each class separate, class-specific mechanics, the designers gave most of the classes some form of spellcasting and...

I like FR because of individual characters, settings, and storylines. Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, Never winter. The Crystal Shard or the Twilight War. Farideh or Minsc. The setting has attracted some talented creators over the years. Taken as a whole the setting is underwhelming. It lacks...

The quality of the Forgotten Realms totally depends on the author or developer handling it. Many people got into it because of the Icewind Dale or Baldur's Gate series, which made FR seems mysterious and deadly. Paul S. Kemp's books took a relatively boring section of FR (Sembia), made them fun...