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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4691139" data-attributes="member: 1003">No. It's not a campaign setting. It's the 4E Core Rules (plus spellscarred) barfed onto a map WotC had publishing rights to. Some echos of a former campaign setting remain, but I already own the Grey Box.The Forgotten Realms used to have a feel. So did Dark Sun, Planescape - all the good settings you remember long after you've moved on. The new FR just doesn't feel like anything in particular, other than a confused mess.  A good DM could still run a great campaign there, but he'd have to do all the heavy lifting.(Not that I may do exactly per the above one day; but it wouldn't really be recognizably the 4E Realms. I'd probably just borrow ideas from the 4E FRCS here and there to advance the timeline in my own way. And I'm happy to borrow crunch.)Too many elements have been introduced and changed. Cultures with thousands of years of history and hundreds of pages of supplements were just wiped off the map so they could fit in Dragonborn or Genasi. I feel like someone forcibly traded a library of travel journals written by people who were there for a Lonely Planet guide with half the pages missing.I want to emphasize that I am not some "Realms purist." I'd be happy to play in a reimagined Realms if I thought it was any good as a setting.  I just don't have any need for a collection of encounter locations loosely connected by whisps of plot left over from an R. A. Salvatore novel.</blockquote>

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