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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheCosmicKid" data-source="post: 6682940" data-attributes="member: 6683613">Hey, let's keep things civil here.  I asked a question and you called me ignorant instead of answering it.  Not cool, dude.Thank you.  This is sort of what I was getting at:  people run the Realms because it's easy.  It's not a "special purpose" world with a unique hook -- it is by design an absolutely standard medieval high fantasy world that a DM can quickly pick up and run any adventure in.  But if the DM is going to put in the work at writing his own NPCs (and, by necessity, rewriting lots of the history that the default NPCs have been involved in), then this virtue of ease is lost.  If he's willing to do all that work, what about the Realms is worth preserving?  What does the Realms have to distinguish it?  When Corpsetaker said, "So why can't some of you just repopulate FR with your own NPC's?", he seemed to be implying that all of us should be playing the Realms, even if we have to put in some extra effort to make that setting work for our needs.  It's as if we were complaining that SUVs get bad gas mileage, and he said, "So why can't you just buy an SUV and switch its engine with a more efficient one?"  What's the point?  Why can't we just drive something else?</blockquote>