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<blockquote data-quote="freyar" data-source="post: 3782507" data-attributes="member: 40227">Thanks for the response!I think Greenwood has confirmed that ToT was not his idea, also, though he wrote the modules to go along with it.&nbsp; But it does seem to me from the Spellfire books, for example, that he had a lot of the trade connections, etc, between different lands roughly laid out fairly early.&nbsp; After all, he'd been working with the world for, what, 20 years or so by the time 2e came out?I assume you're talking about the same 2e revisions here.&nbsp; But did this change the overall feel of the Realms as a setting about the struggle between good and evil with good at least mostly winning after a hard fight?&nbsp; Or was that not the feel before?Yeah, I agree with the novels being a bit of a problem.&nbsp; Too much happening too fast!&nbsp; I wonder, though, are the high level NPCs too many compared to the population given the 3e RAW in the world-building section of the DMG?&nbsp; Anyway, that's a tangent.&nbsp; More directly, didn't 1e have characters like Khelben (who shows up in an early RAS novel, I think), Mirt, etc?I guess the real question to me is just this: Given the very little info we have so far, 4e FR seems like a much darker setting (which is just how some people like it) but is arguably very different in tone from the previous editions.&nbsp; What's your take on that?&nbsp; What was the tone of 1e FR?&nbsp; Thanks!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="freyar, post: 3782507, member: 40227"] Thanks for the response! I think Greenwood has confirmed that ToT was not his idea, also, though he wrote the modules to go along with it. But it does seem to me from the Spellfire books, for example, that he had a lot of the trade connections, etc, between different lands roughly laid out fairly early. After all, he'd been working with the world for, what, 20 years or so by the time 2e came out? I assume you're talking about the same 2e revisions here. But did this change the overall feel of the Realms as a setting about the struggle between good and evil with good at least mostly winning after a hard fight? Or was that not the feel before? Yeah, I agree with the novels being a bit of a problem. Too much happening too fast! I wonder, though, are the high level NPCs too many compared to the population given the 3e RAW in the world-building section of the DMG? Anyway, that's a tangent. More directly, didn't 1e have characters like Khelben (who shows up in an early RAS novel, I think), Mirt, etc? I guess the real question to me is just this: Given the [i]very little[/i] info we have so far, 4e FR seems like a much darker setting (which is just how some people like it) but is arguably very different in tone from the previous editions. What's your take on that? What was the tone of 1e FR? Thanks! [/QUOTE]

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