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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brother Richard" data-source="post: 4848746" data-attributes="member: 39615">My ThoughtsYou know, i would probably consider myself fairly knowledgeable in FR lore.  Until the books approached 4e (as in like a little before lat year), i had read nearly every FR book, including those that were out of print by the time I could really read well.  However, when I play in FR games, I make sure I only 'know' what my character knows.  Also, I have been confused a few times and made false comments, that were then corrected by the DM, but it was not that bad.  My DM has read almost as many books as i have, until he sort of stopped.  So when I enter the Realms with my character, I am approaching it as the realms of what ever date the last book my DM has read.  He is also my brother, so i know this really well.  Also, the players I play with know the Realms nearly as well as i do anyhow, so its not that much of an issue.  The biggest problem is when I played an Inquisitor of Azuth from Halruaa, and my DM wasn't using those books by Elaine Cunningham about Matteo and Tzigone even though he dis read them.  Many of my facts were off until i realized my mistake, but one of the reasons I love FR is because of its rich history.  This means that I play Halruaa before those books I don't care, I still really like it.  even if I had to play FR several hundred years in the past to null novels, i would still love it because i still have some idea of what it was like, but FR becomes a more generic setting like Greyhawk with only some locations truly fleshed out and others only mentioned in passing.So basically what I am trying to say is that the large amount of info being centralized in one individual should not really be a problem unless that individual does not handle it well.  The DM can easily just say: before those novels, if there is any issue, unless the DM is taking some late novels and didn't really read most of the others, which in my opinion is not a good idea in general; however, it could still work if nobody really knows the setting well.  Using 1/2 of the canon doesn't make sense and as an avid FR fan, I would not be happy.  I would probably even rather the DM just say: i changed some random FR stuff, its somewhat different, then i'm gonna try to use half of the lore, which makes no sense and causes problems because of a possible ripple effect not seen by the DM.  For example, the Zentarim are becoming mroe mercantile and less pure evil, and if this was ignored; some of what is going on in the Dales or whatever they are called wouldn't really happen ebcause of constant pressure from the Zentarim.(I apoligise for incorrect names.  I am really bad at remembering the names of both places and people)I don't know, thats just how i feel.</blockquote>

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