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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4854642" data-attributes="member: 11821">FWIW, I am, if anything, less familiar with Eberron than I am with the Realms.  And so all of your Eberron examples seem dandy to me.No, and I don't.  There are many, many reasons why FR is a poor campaign setting for the kinds of games I run and the kinds of players I run the game for.  It would be silly for me to try and run a game for canon purists when neither my players nor I am willing to spend the kind of time it would take to learn the canon.I wouldn't ever ram a campaign down my players' throats.  I don't even know how I could do anything like that, unless I was running some kind of D&D gulag.So I'll pose a query to you - let's say I'm a DM and I'm only vaguely familiar with the Realms.  Several of my players are huge FR fans and have read just about everything that has come out for it.Clearly, I can't run a canonical FR game because I lack the knowledge and know less about the setting than my players.  Apparently, I shouldn't run a non-canonical FR game, either, because it will violate their expectations.What options am I left with?  In my mind, assuming we all want to play D&D together because we're buddies and like gaming together, I should avoid the canonical setting entirely, or else blow it up so much that only bits and pieces of canon remain.What other alternatives would you suggest?-O</blockquote>