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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Crazy Jerome" data-source="post: 5826695" data-attributes="member: 54877">I like the 1E best as a starting point, I like 4E, but from there I in no way fit your characterization.  I didn't even buy any 4E Realms material because it was obvious that the ham-handed nonsense of the Time of Troubles, compounded by 3E changes, had reached its ultimate fruition in the spellplague. Nonetheless, I do quite like the details in the Realms, and agree that I see no reason to see it as anything special absent that detail.  It is merely that not all details are created equal.  Details in maps, of places, of NPC personalities, of lairs, the Volo guides, and so forth--these are all useful, and largely edition neutral. Moreover, the reason that the gray box was touted as being something that you could fill in yourself was that they had not gotten around to filling it in yet.  They made a virtue of necessity.  Even before 2E, some of the 1E supplements had started filling it in.   So what I'd really like is a 1E Realms--more or less--with some of those accumulated details.  An alternate timeline would be perfect.  Or if that is insufficiently explanatory, and alternate dimension, where some alternate Realms that more or less has the 1E feel, but happens to fit the mechanics of 5E--that would be perfect.  Yeah, reboot is exactly what it needs.  Keep the good stuff, and shed the bad--with Time of Troubles and all of its nasty children at the top of the list to shed.</blockquote>

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