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I definitely use it for RPGA games. Otherwise, I borrow bits and elements for my homebrew campaign.
I definitely use it for RPGA games. Otherwise, I borrow bits and elements for my homebrew campaign.
Are You Using the 4E Forgotten Realms as a Setting?
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darjr
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The Loudwater map reminded me of the original Pool of Radiance-module (and *not* in a good way), and made me wonder how tightly those 9000+ people must be crammed in those 40+ buildings shown on the map.
Its 2000 people that count loudwater as home and it's only 'Hundreds' that live within the walls. It's also closer to 50+ buildings, many multistory 'apartments'. I do agree a bit about the map, it should have been better.
Yes, I use it as a setting. Can you tell?
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I only own 3 4E books; the PHB, the FRPG & the FRCG.
I bought the 4E Forgotten Realms books because when I heard how it was changing I liked it. However, I don't like 4E.
I do intend to run the Realms someday, using the 4E FR background, but most likely under the 3.5/BOXM rules.
I bought the 4E Forgotten Realms books because when I heard how it was changing I liked it. However, I don't like 4E.
I do intend to run the Realms someday, using the 4E FR background, but most likely under the 3.5/BOXM rules.
I was going to post just this topic!
It's strange but I think the 4e version of FR is starting to grow on me. I liked the 1e setting but much after that turned me off. But the 4e incarnation is really an entirely new setting with FR names.
And I think I'm liking it. It's still very high magic which I'm not a huge fan of but it's high magic in a way I find interesting. Eberron for me is the exact opposite. I hate everything about it. It's just not fantasy to me when you throw in modern-world things like trains and skyships and world economies. But the 4e FR is far out there but still feels like a fantasy setting.
I might even end up using it 0.o
It's strange but I think the 4e version of FR is starting to grow on me. I liked the 1e setting but much after that turned me off. But the 4e incarnation is really an entirely new setting with FR names.
And I think I'm liking it. It's still very high magic which I'm not a huge fan of but it's high magic in a way I find interesting. Eberron for me is the exact opposite. I hate everything about it. It's just not fantasy to me when you throw in modern-world things like trains and skyships and world economies. But the 4e FR is far out there but still feels like a fantasy setting.
I might even end up using it 0.o
jbear
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Using it and enjoying it. I used FR before but far more lightly, so I have no emotional investment attached to its earlier versions.
Began my campaign with a revamped 'Escape from Sembia'. I'm mixing and tweaking to make it suit my game and soon will unleash a second wave of destruction upon Toril as Cyric, Mystra's assassin begins to join pieces of her destroyed body to himself, a second spellplague, but dark and insane. I've reworked elements of the 4e Heroes of Horror Taint system. The world is about to get very crazy and very sick.
It should be fun.
Began my campaign with a revamped 'Escape from Sembia'. I'm mixing and tweaking to make it suit my game and soon will unleash a second wave of destruction upon Toril as Cyric, Mystra's assassin begins to join pieces of her destroyed body to himself, a second spellplague, but dark and insane. I've reworked elements of the 4e Heroes of Horror Taint system. The world is about to get very crazy and very sick.
It should be fun.
Mr. Wilson
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Sadly, I'm not using FR for anything other than ideas and crunch (swordmage and genasi mostly).
I used to run FR, Eberron, or my homebrew world depending on my mood, but FR will fall out of that mix.
It feels too different with the time jump, and I really wish they would have just created a new world instead of gutting the Realms.
YMMV, of course
I used to run FR, Eberron, or my homebrew world depending on my mood, but FR will fall out of that mix.
It feels too different with the time jump, and I really wish they would have just created a new world instead of gutting the Realms.
YMMV, of course
Wraith Form
Explorer
That's pretty weird, as (looking at my 2nd edition FRCS boxed set which is right here next to me) I could say, verbatim, the exact same thing about it back then.
Let go of the past.
Move on.
And seriously, those who don't even own the 4th edition CS book? How can you accurately weigh in on this topic if you don't even own the book? "I hate the new Franz Ferdinand CD. Do I own it? No. Have I listened to any of the songs it? ......Uhh...no...but I read on a web site that it was terrible. So I hate it."
As far as the setting being gutted, didn't WW1 and WW2 "gut" our world? Are things the same now than they were back then (especially in certain European cities)? Change is inevitable.
Adapt. Be flexible. It's the same setting, just in the future.
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Not enough description in the Realms? You serious? You could write a 1000 page article on Bartenders of the Realms with little effort. There is information about everything! Heck if Ed Greenwood was not bound by enough NDAs to cover Waterdeep we would probably have more information about the Realms than about our own world.
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