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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ST" data-source="post: 4847755" data-attributes="member: 14053">In literary criticism, if there are clear, obvious attributes to a body of work that the author himself strongly denies exist, then the critical articles talking about this stuff will often give the author's opinion. But they won't consider that a rebuttal in any way, it's just one data point.There are a number of known quantities about the FR setting that are often cited as having been problematic for GMs in the past, and there's a number of factors that enter into it, from obsessive fans to supplement bloat to Hot Sexy Elminster Time, etc. etc. FR is what it is. How awesome and nice Ed Greenwood is and what a great GM he is is heart-warming, but not really related to the issues brought up by the OP. Set enough detailed guidebooks and franchise fiction in a setting and it can get choked and crowded no matter how it started out.I'm biased, though, as I've intentionally never run any game ever in a canonical version of a setting. I respect people who love to celebrate setting detail, but it's not my bag.</blockquote>