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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4850578" data-attributes="member: 5143">I can only speak from experience, but MOST of the group who taught me D&D were Realms fanatics.  Amongst the group, they probably had every FR novel published.  When one person was done with a book, they'd pass it on to whoever hadn't read it yet.I was the new guy in the group and just learning D&D, but FR sounded super cool the way our DM portrayed it.  I started reading novels that anyone would lend me as well.  I just read slower than most people and didn't finish them nearly as quickly as the others.I always felt like I knew nothing.  I hadn't read the campaign guide or any game books about FR.  Just the novels that people would give me and whatever I learned from playing in the game.  But I know the people in my group would have constant discussions about stuff like "I wonder where Elminster is right about now.  Oh, right, it's X year, he's currently dealing with that thing from Y book.  Of course it's likely that the Simbul is in town visiting XYZ person because of that same book.  Maybe we should go visit her."I was totally lost.  All I knew was that we were in some town where we were supposed to find some guy who stole a book from someone.It just sounded like there was all this information to know, that I didn't.  It was interesting to play in as long as the DM knew about all that stuff, but it was intimidating.  I never even tried to run a FR game after that.  I tried reading through the 3rd Edition FRCG, but it was too daunting to finish as it is very large and rather boring to read.But even with what I currently know about FR(having read about 15 novels, and most of the 3e FRCG), I'm sure I could still make a DM who had only read the 4e FRCG completely baffled with questions.  I already have.</blockquote>

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