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Fine, you win, you are a hardcore cynic, but I refuse to be bounded by the confines of your cynicism.

The Jomsvikings were not an authority, pretty much the opposite and were (as far as I know according to legend) destroyed by Harald Bluetooth the King of Denmark.

Are we sticking to History or including myth and other stories? That is human history, we are telling fantasy stories and are not required to colour within the lines of real human psychology if we do not want to. Like I said do you want to overthrow the pigs in Animal Farm or throw the ring...

I think it depends. What you are saying is true if the source of the evil is rooted in the nature of society and the beings that make up that society. One could say that tyrrany is a disease of the culture and to play that out one would need to play out the politics/economics of the society...

That is pretty much it. As far as I can tell projecting the trajectory back leads to nowhere in particular for a very long time and at that point the uncertainties prevent any clarity.

Scandal! Really! Mostly I don't really care what the official lore is. It is all legos that I can use for my own purposes. In so far as I think of the Realms, I see it as Faerun with everything else as extra. As for stuff like the Planes, Feywild and so on, I see them as separate entities, at...

Some good information here from Anton

I want to respond to this without reading the thread. I have always been on the hope side of the equation, I have never had much time overly dark settings, there is enough darkness in the real world for me to import it into my fantasies. Why would I do that to myself. As for the rest of the...

I suppose the sample size was too small to notice any balance issues. I know that Mike Shea says not but he has never struck as being that hung up on balance.

How did you find it and how did you manage the differences in the rulesets?

I think I am an outlier here, I have some of the 3e books but I have got more use out of the Sword Coast Adventurers guide than from those other books. I generally want a light gazetteer, placenames, a sentence or two about what is special here but light on the detail. I mostly want somewhere to...

ok, fair enough.

Were they running them on a single rules chassis or were they allowing each class under its native ruleset?

And yet I ran Princes out of the book much to the satisfaction of the players. Not 100%, mind you but close enough, it depends on the group and what their expectations are. It is still very popular.

I did not say I had no sympathy, just that I had less. Is there no place for the middle ground anymore?

Ok, they could and I would like to see some of them also, or good recommendations on third parties that do this well in a way that can be cleanly separated from their game and into 5e if that is what I want. But your posts generally never actually bring any of these things up. It is nearly...

I believe that in the modern world anyone willing to be a referee is probably running a system they like. There are always exceptions and locations and circumstances where it is hard to organise a game. For players the matter is not as clearcut, but to be honest, it they are not willing to run...

So perhaps you see my point about posts that open the conversation rather than close it off.

Sven Vincke has already done it.

Holy neon pastels..... Reminds me of the uniform that Murat designed for a hussar regiment of the Kingdom of Naples, turquoise jacket, cerise boots and lemon-yellow pants if memory serves.