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I'm obviously not explaining myself well. I'm differentiating between types of fantasy through the things that are notably different, that appear a lot more in one type than another. Thus, magical engineer types are something you see a lot more in steampunk fantasy than in other sorts, bumbling...

It's not something I'd associate particularly with Traditional Fantasy. In fact my first thought when a knight in shining armour comes along with no context is historical fiction, followed by romance fiction, and only then fantasy, and I wouldn't think of any particular type of fantasy even if...

I like systems where there's a bit more nuance than Succeed with No Problems or Fail with No Recourse, and I also like it when there's a mechanic that lets me turn a failure into a success by accepting some sort of consequence. For rather obvious reasons I think it's a bad fit for D&D, which...

I suppose it might be worth defining what comprises "traditional" fantasy in this sense; 'rubes in armour riding around on horseback and waving swords' isn't a feature I'd consider common. Reputedly it was Ed Greenwood's world where he'd been writing stories since the 1960s. So not conceived...

"Nontraditional" fantasy covers the whole game. D&D as a rules set (at least with 5e and arguably most of the time since 2e) simply isn't intended to deliver "traditional" fantasy. And if FR is such a perfect fit for the Core Rules it's due to the Core Rules being written with FR in mind, and...

55 projects I backed have funded. With Deluxe Tunnels & Trolls and Deluxe Exalted 3rd edition finally delivering or on their way, there's three that are really late and one of those has delivered the pdf at least. My most recent delivery had a pledge in September and came through my door today...

I don't make many characters that don't have some inspiration from more than one source. A theme from where the campaign area is set, a picture to inspire the appearance, some mechanics that would make sense of that, mix them together with a personality from someone I know and there's a...

It's not hard - their own pie chart shows it - to see that FR isn't something most players are playing in. As such, producing FR setting material certainly isn't the most efficient way to earn profit, at least in the short term. Steve Jackson Games with GURPS, for one. Many of the companies...

Why is FR "easiest to steal from for home brew games"? Is the idea that the 5e rules are so steeped in FR concepts that any game run under them is likely to resemble an FR game anyway? That does sound familiar. It certainly doesn't make it sound like FR is necessarily equivalent to high sales...

The one disappointment for me (besides the fact that I still have all of my original materials and really can't justify throwing money at it) is that they don't appear to be able to offer the Avalon Hill 3e material, because some of the later bits of that included some of the best adventure...

I doubt it would. The question is how a Dark Sun Campaign Guide would compare to another FR region getting another source book. Or for that matter, a book with no setting in it at all would do compared to an FR book. If your reasoning is valid, a good (defintion of good may vary) non-setting...

There was a story came out of one convention - I can't vouch for the truth of it - that one distributor said the Neverwinter book had sales in 'three figures'.

That's likely to be most of them for nearly all replies.

What the poll says as that the majority are not playing in the Realms. Also, that FR is now regarded (at least by quite a few people in this thread) as some generic setting both amuses and saddens me. Amusing because of the effort some fans have put into explaining how rich and unique it is...

Medieval demographics made Easy. A very nice web site for population details. But as for size, there should be a mix of large and small "kingdoms" as well as various other states of different sorts. The Roman empire which stretched from the Atlantic in the west to Mesopotamia in the east, and...

This would be more convincing if Forgotten Realms was enormously popular as opposed to being a setting that only interests a small minority of D&D players (a larger minority than other D&D settings, but still only a minority).

Oh, there were some pretty aggressive things being said, and it was widespread and persistent (if not so much as the anti-4e version). Even 1e to 2e had a little bit of one, though with the internet being much less widespread it wasn't as obvious. I've still got some links to things like Hat of...

Well congratulations. Now you've require that we go through the whole damn game looking at every single thing that's been added to it since the earliest editions, trying to discover whether they "belong" or not. Do you know how many spells and magic items now need looking at? How many classes...

I think, perhaps because you're emphasising 2e as your starting point, that you overestimate the amount of magic that was found in earlier editions. Even the PHB alone showed a large increase compared to the 1e version, especially in areas where mages and clerics had previously been lacking and...

In the Rules Cyclopedia, twelve spells of each level for Magic Users; nine spells of each level (and only seven levels) for Clerics. Strictly speaking it was possible to get Fighters who were spellcasters too, at twelfth level and up, by becoming either a Paladin or an Avenger (Lawful and...