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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 1027511" data-attributes="member: 6318"><p>I'm a big Realms fan, and it's clear that TSR's adding on of Earth-analogue nations to Ed's Realms (which don't use Earth analogues) is bad worldbuilding. I also think the Realms-shattering event novels -- whether the chaos of the 1990s (1360s DR) or the committee-planned 2000s (1370s DR) have hurt the setting. (It's not a matter of novels being canonized: everything published for the Realms has always unambiguously been canon barring specific exceptions such as the Double Diamond Triangle Saga.) But the swords & sorcery charm and deep, distinctive consistency of mode of Ed's Realms, rooted in his extraordinarily broad reading and eccentric imagination, shines through even now. It's a shame that so many of the carefully crafted underpinnings of the Realms (economic and magical and social and sexual) are left implicit and so subject to confusion and proliferating canards (and sometimes contradiction in careless published products).</p></blockquote><p></p>