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At least a couple of the locations in Yggsburgh, the Tower of the Striped Mage and the Green Dragon Inn, are from the City of Greyhawk.

Your points explain why you aren't playing any RPGs right now, but not why you'd quit entirely. Would you stop going to see films for ever because a lot of them are bad? Original D&D required some kind of wargaming background to decipher the rules and how to play. But D&D in principle, I agree...

Proper use of wards and mantles.

I don't think any substantial number of people are angered or irritated by either of those things. Most people either read and enjoy the novels or ignore them. (also, the highly competent characters you're objecting to are exactly those who Ed explains in the linked interview -- for the...

Their game write-ups, rather, are inadequate and incomplete representations of the characters (some of whom predate these writeups by almost 40 years). Characters in the Realms -- PCs very much included -- tend to have minor, little-used talents and abilities which the published rules don't...

As has been said, it isn't a question about the Realms, but about the R&D process of how levels are assigned to characters in sourcebooks. The answer is that different people write different sourcebooks, there isn't a completely consistent standard of assigning levels, and moreover, those...

Because Monopoly is a finite game and RPGs are infinite games. See James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games.

I'm not familiar with the warlock, but you can make a perfectly good swashbuckler with a fighter and the right feats. But sure, I'm not saying everything except core is extraneous, by no means. The gap between what the core rules legitimately don't cover and the bulk of redundant feats and...

Power of Faerûn -- one chapter specifically about court intrigue, and the rest about related political, economic, and diplomatic topics.

It works fine for tactical play unless you want the ruleset to determine what's tactically effective rather than the narrator.

The thing is, they're not real choices. They don't give you any options about who your character is that you wouldn't have without them. Most of the meaningful things you could decide about your character and what they can do can be handled with the core rules. For the relative few that can't...

I think 'it's a giant' is a good clue.

For me, as a player, the setting is fundamental to my enjoyment of roleplaying; I enjoy being part of a living, organic, detailed world which gives context and meaning to my character and actions. There are selfish, egotistical persona players who only care about their own PCs, but I don't play...

We can perfectly well assume the DM is competent, because if not the game isn't worth playing, whatever rules are in place.

It just isn't what it used to be.

It's a relatively small, manageable setting, intended for use either on its own or as a worldwalking destination -- the free player's guide is surely the best introduction. He originally created Castlemorn (as it was then) for Jim Ward at Fast Forward Games, Jim and Sean Everette did develoment...

We know this in some detail. The central Realms (which Jeff Grubb named the Heartlands), up to the time of the Old Grey Box (1357 DR), is very close to Ed's Realms; beyond those regions, and into the TSR/WotC ongoing timeline, less so. Factor in stuff like the Code of Ethics, and Henry's point...

The exact quote from 'On Fairy-Stories' is 'Escapism' used unqualified is close to meaningless. Where is the escape from and where is it to? Why is it done and when? The active, fantastic, questioning imagination is perhaps the most important human trait -- it allows empathy with others...

Flaw in the operating system analogy, which I think is largely concocted by manufacturers wanting to sell the latest thing, is that recent software is written for more powerful hardware than older software and is likely to be legitimately better just because of that, which is part of the...

If they're amenable to reason, ask them to consider separately the medium of RPGs and the subject matter or genre of D&D. If their problem is the medium, do they feel the same about acting and theatre? About improvisational theatre? There are self-consistent (but crazy) reasons to object to...