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Makes sense! I am not much of a forum-ite, seeing + threads I just made the assumption you should make a (-) thread to say that it was ok for the thread to have a negative connotation. On second thought, though, I can see why this is not needed or desired. Anyways, been a nice and respectful...

I've got a + thread going about the Realms, thought I would even it out with a - thread! I recently fell for Eberron after mostly ignoring it for 21 years, but am curious what it is by 2025 that has people not enjoying it? It is now more difficult for me to look at most other D&D fantasy...

True, and I think some of his more fairy-tale like influences have an affect on the aesthetic that I enjoy. However, Greenwood was definitely still heavily into the same stuff Gygax was. I know Greenwood cites Leiber, Anderson and Moorcock constantly, especially Leiber.

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 one of the drow it all starts to unravel because it only makes sense that more than one out of thousands could have a similar capacity to change. Following that...

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 her, can you tell me more?

Hopefully not opening a can of worms- but does everyone still running the realms run their drow and orcs in the traditional sense (monoculture and always bad enough to kill) or have you altered this in your world? Not a judgement statement, but it seems a lot of people have warmed up to not...

https://www.enworld.org/threads/dungeons-dragons-releases-new-unearthed-arcana-subclasses-strongly-hinting-at-dark-sun.714936/ Well well...

If one were to look at the 1e gray box and 3e FRCS side by side, how much of the 3e book is useable with that first gray box? Did they do anything to disentangle what happened with the setting throughout the 90s? Where are you going to run into hiccups between the two? Also, any links to these...

A really solid foundation right there. Also, a handful of comments on Serpent Kingdoms and the Cunningham books. I own Serpent Kingdoms but never really gave it much of a look and only read the Salvatore books (first 9 or so). Always meant to read the Niles Moonshae stuff but didn't get around...

Really as good a reason as any.

A positive post about this setting which is simultaneously legendary and divisive. Over the decades we've read endless posts about the high level PCs (overblown, imo), the world shattering events, the neverending pages of canon that weigh the setting down etc. etc. Yet many people still game...

Yeah. To me, this is a campaign, and something worth striving for. Also see: Lord Gosumba - Same campaign in Greyhawk for 45 years with the same group and still AD&D with some 2e mixed in (the in person sessions are the long time group, he has online games with new players as well). There are...

I think that's probably the truest answer underneath it all, coupled with DM investment in whatever the setting is. But kitchen sink vs narrow setting does matter to some groups for their version of what long term campaigns are, and that's what I am curious about. The people who feel it matters...

Sure, it was thin on purpose because each answer is going to be really subjective no matter how I spun the question. 1. Whatever defines a long campaign to you and your group. 2. Again, doesn't need to be clarified. Because I am not positing an argument or answer to anything and because I am...

Which setting?

Do you personally feel that one or the other lends itself to the health of a long-running campaign? Kitchen sink settings of course allow you to shift genres when desired and can handle many more player options. There is a risk of the flavor becoming dilluted over time. A more narrow genre...

Interesting. Pulp sword and sorcery very much inspired Greyhawk, and arguably Known World, which you liked. If you aren't into any of the stuff that influenced early D&D and the original settings, what influences on fantasy do you like and what are you settings of choice?

While it may have been a bad idea, is there data to show that an alterante approach would have saved the company? It seems to me, from what I remember people saying from shortly after the 3e release, people had largely moved on to systems that had more cohesive and throught through mechanics...

This is true, and characters are described as such in the setting materials. I think the "count every drop of water and food along the way" thing got blow out of proportion somewhere along the way. To hear the creators talk about it, this wasn't to be the primary focus of the setting.

You're gonna have to explain to me how these two things are related :unsure: