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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Davelozzi" data-source="post: 3162067" data-attributes="member: 771">I never got a chance to run Birthright but I wanted to for quite a while.  If I did, I am not sure whether or not I would use the whole political/domain rulership aspect of the campaign or just use it as a setting for a more typical adventuring campaign like an_idol_mind suggests.  At any rate, I think that it is a great setting that for whatever reason never got the recognition it deserved.Many of the previous posters have already given good summaries of its strengths - great villains, well developed cultures with interesting histories, interesting NPCs, and good takes on the races in a more Tolkien, less generic D&D sort of way.  It's also one of the best relatively low magic settings ever produced for D&D.  In short, the setting as a whole is a lot more cohesive than any of the other published D&D worlds.  It makes good sense internally, and is definitely not a "everything and the kitchen sink" type of setting.That said, at this point I am not particularly likely to run it anytime soon.  I agree with Glyfair that it works best in 2E and that the 3e conversion is less than inspiring.  However these days I am not sure how likely I could get my players to play 2E.  Furthermore, my tastes have changed somewhat in the past several years.  At the time, I specifically wanted a more realistic, low magic world.  These days, though I would still prefer that sort of setting for novels, movies, etc., for D&D I think that something  a little more high octane is more fun for the players.</blockquote>

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