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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Enceladus" data-source="post: 569783" data-attributes="member: 9615">It's Kalamar for me! That I think, is because it was all Ed G. It was wonderful. The Realms is one of the most richly detailed and  fleshed out settings ever created. For some reason the new FRCS just didn't do it for me. Greyhawk? One of the best DM's ever, my mentor DM by the way, played nothing but Greyhawk(which is why I think I got so burned out on it). He made that setting sing though, let me tell you. The dude knew every inch of that world and then some. I've only had a brief flirtation as a 1st level player in the Scarred lands setting, it was loads of fun but ultimately not for me. On a lark I bought the Kalamar source book, I had just put together a new gaming group and was looking for something to do, the thought of starting another whole new camaign in the Realms just didn't appeal to me. And I have to admit that I was a bit leary of starting my new campaign in this Kalamar setting but after putting it into practice and using the source book its turned out to be really something great.The Pantheon is perhaps one of the most tight, solid systems I've come across. The God's dont have stats though (as it should be) for those crunchy monkeys who dig that sort of thing. The Organizations, both benevolent and benign are very well done, and very useable with room to grow, add on or kill off.  I wasnt too keen on the Code of Law but my players, believe or not are getting me turned on to it. I'm a big Monte Cook fan so you can guess I have a ton of his freelance Eldritch stuff. It's great, I can take a city like Ptolus and not have to change a lot to make it fit. And I can plop in virtually anything from Monte and not upset the whole balance of the the setting. I just don't think I could do that in the Realms without doing more work that I would want to.What can I say? I'm hooked. My players? Hooked. My wife (who doesn't game), who has to sit there and listen to me incessantly prattle on about my campaign? She's hooked too!</blockquote>

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