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<blockquote data-quote="Laeknir" data-source="post: 6496889" data-attributes="member: 33994">For those people who care about playing in the canon &quot;living&quot; Realms, no - it would be insufficient.&nbsp; Take a look at some people like Sailor Moon who prefer canon games. In this thread she's point-blank told people to &quot;go educate yourself&quot; and that others &quot;obviously aren't familiar with the Realms.&quot;&nbsp; It important to some.Hey I agree with you, because I don't really like the Realms for a lot of reasons (mostly the metastory cheese).&nbsp; I haven't played in it since the late 1st edition or so, because it's no longer my thing and a lot of people get super-crazy about following lore exactly.You can be upfront with players who want the living canon Realms, and tell them you're limiting this and that, but even really mature players who are Realmsfans will still be disappointed if you don't get it right.&nbsp; And getting it right means a ton of research, not just flipping open a years-old campaign guide and rolling with that.&nbsp; The &quot;cut off line&quot; for what acceptable to Reamsfan A might be completely insufficient for Realmsfans B and C.&nbsp; You never can be sure, even if you ask them beforehand.&nbsp; Mess up on how Laeral or Khelben are portrayed, and that might've been one of the things they really wanted to do but forgot to mention.Even worse, you now have the split in Realmsfans where 4E is not acceptable at all, for whatever reasons they have.&nbsp; So you're expected to carefully, surgically remove all the 4E stuff while still running in the current year.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Laeknir, post: 6496889, member: 33994"] For those people who care about playing in the canon "living" Realms, no - it would be insufficient. Take a look at some people like Sailor Moon who prefer canon games. In this thread she's point-blank told people to "go educate yourself" and that others "obviously aren't familiar with the Realms." It important to some. Hey I agree with you, because I don't really like the Realms for a lot of reasons (mostly the metastory cheese). I haven't played in it since the late 1st edition or so, because it's no longer my thing and a lot of people get super-crazy about following lore exactly. You can be upfront with players who want the living canon Realms, and tell them you're limiting this and that, but even really mature players who are Realmsfans will still be disappointed if you don't get it right. And getting it right means a ton of research, not just flipping open a years-old campaign guide and rolling with that. The "cut off line" for what acceptable to Reamsfan A might be completely insufficient for Realmsfans B and C. You never can be sure, even if you ask them beforehand. Mess up on how Laeral or Khelben are portrayed, and that might've been one of the things they really wanted to do but forgot to mention. Even worse, you now have the split in Realmsfans where 4E is not acceptable at all, for whatever reasons they have. So you're expected to carefully, surgically remove all the 4E stuff while still running in the current year. [/QUOTE]

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