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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FriarRosing" data-source="post: 6696302" data-attributes="member: 63942">The Realms' problem, in my mind, ties directly to its age, the number of novels that have been written in it and the world being changed time and time again with updated new meta plots.For example, I would love to play a Star Wars RPG set either right before or after the original trilogy, but completely ignoring any prequels or expanded universe nonsense. In that context I would have a massive, evocative universe to play with an explore, that was given some tonal and narrative context by a single story already told, but was otherwise wide open for me and my friends to wander around and shake things up as we went. As soon as you start to pile on more and more canon the universe becomes less of a fertile playground for my imagination and more a library catalogue of what everyone else has imagined already; there are fewer gaps and fun places to shove my ideas into, fewer seeds of intrigue and interest for me to latch onto and roll with, less room for forward momentum.Forgotten Realms has just been around so long, supported so heavily and updated so constantly that there's very little wiggle room for me to take ownership of it. It belongs to everyone else, and the best we can do is jump and try to go along with the ride. But then we're just the passengers. I want to be driving.That said, there is a lot stuff in the Realms I do like. Icewind Dale in particular, since it is so remote from the rest of the world and has such a unique atmosphere--relatively speaking--and can allude to the rest of the setting without being stifled by it. Also just that I liked the game so much as a kid. That's probably part of it.</blockquote>

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