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<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7805548" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>Everyone is right for their own table. The amount of lore is actually why I don't run the Realms - for me picking an existing setting is shorthand for the players to bring in their own knowledge so we have a shared understanding of the place. I wouldn't pick Eberron and remove the dragonmarks, houses, warforged and the Last War - it would be unrecognizable as Eberron.</p><p></p><p>So with FR I know that I do not have "all the lore" in my head, and my players can know more than me about various subjects. I haven't read any of the FR novels, for instance. </p><p></p><p>"But Sammaster ..." this or "But the Red Wizards ..." that or "The Mythal ..." other thing. I don't want to say "my campaign, this is how it is here" and actively mislead players by things I didn't know enough to tell them are different from their assumptions. Rather play in a world where they don't have those assumptions.</p><p></p><p>On the other hand, that's lead by my own shortcomings with FR. If I was more fluent with it's lore I might love that depth and richness.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 7805548, member: 20564"] Everyone is right for their own table. The amount of lore is actually why I don't run the Realms - for me picking an existing setting is shorthand for the players to bring in their own knowledge so we have a shared understanding of the place. I wouldn't pick Eberron and remove the dragonmarks, houses, warforged and the Last War - it would be unrecognizable as Eberron. So with FR I know that I do not have "all the lore" in my head, and my players can know more than me about various subjects. I haven't read any of the FR novels, for instance. "But Sammaster ..." this or "But the Red Wizards ..." that or "The Mythal ..." other thing. I don't want to say "my campaign, this is how it is here" and actively mislead players by things I didn't know enough to tell them are different from their assumptions. Rather play in a world where they don't have those assumptions. On the other hand, that's lead by my own shortcomings with FR. If I was more fluent with it's lore I might love that depth and richness. [/QUOTE]
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