TheSleepyKing
First Post
I disagree.
From what I have seen the 4e realms seems to have much more in common with the feel of the old 1e boxed set than the rather over stuffed 3e version.
That to me is a good thing.
My read is exactly the opposite. I've seen a number of posters who have compared this to the 1e Realms, but to me it seems diametrically opposed. From what I remember, the grey box went into a fair bit of detail about a small part of the realms (the Dalelands, Cormyr and the North), while leaving most of the rest of it as a mysterious "otherlands" that DMs could develop if they thought the heartlands were a little too well travelled for their tastes.
The 4e FRCS, on the other hand, gives a very small amount of information about a lot of places, but no detail about any one place. It's a mile wide and an inch deep, where the grey box was an inch wide and a mile deep (or at least that's the way I remember it).