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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 3812545" data-attributes="member: 3586">I'm going to start with the Forgotten Realms.Forgotten RealmsWhat hooked me into the setting:It hooked me at the right time. I was young, impressionable, and just ending high school and moving into University. The original boxed set was such a difference from the Greyhawk set, with actual *characters* of the setting described!Then there were the FR series of supplements, which would detail a section of the world, and also give these really nifty poster-sized maps, which could all fit together to make a *massive* map of the entire realms. All I needed to do was collect every FR supplement and I'd have them!Why the setting lost meTwo supplements: Maztica and the Horde. Along with "Marco Volo". The Realms suddenly had become a cheesy place for ripping off real-world historical events. I'd also never got the 2e update of the setting, because it was way, way too expensive. And, in a move that was boundless in its stupidity, the maps in the later FR supplements weren't compatable with the originals! Forget that, TSR!Also, the novels, which had begun quite well, had begun to take a definite turn to the worse. Of course, they let Jean Rabe write a novel as well. (You know, a setting seems to take a definite turn for the worse whenever Jean Rabe gets involved with it...)Why the setting almost captured me againBaldur's gate is an awesome game.Why the setting couldn't hold meToo much stuff! In the beginning, I understood the setting. Coming back after over a decade, there had been too much development, and a lot of books that I didn't have, and couldn't get. The 4e reboot might actually make the Realms relevant for me again... but it seems unlikely at this point.Cheers!</blockquote>

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