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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sylrae" data-source="post: 4859366" data-attributes="member: 48520">Hmm. Well, I'm one of those people. But only for things that are important. Sometimes for things important but obscure. Like How time-traveling magic has all sorts of extra restrictions in FR, due to a 2e book (Elves of Cormanthyr, I believe).But I found it more stressful than any DMs have (due to every canon thing I could remember being ignored, and me not saying anything to be nice). So now I simply wont PLAY in FR and only run it. But I encourage the players to correct me if I messed up a plot detail, at which point the game takes a 5 minte recess for me to rework the plot~OR, I have something occur early enough in the game that they clearly are diverging from standard canon, and then nobody questions me. I've done the whole thousands of years in the past thing. Alternate Reality FR can be fun. elminster is Evil, or the cult of the dragon was actually right and they took over, or whatever. even when i dont do that, It usually doesnt happen, but I've only had a couple diehard realms players. Most of them didnt read anything more than the frcs and pgfr 3e.I'm not a Canon Porn novel person though. But if its in the sourcebooks I tend to expect it to be there. Including from old editions... It wasnt fun to play FR with a DM who didnt know FR. And I wont touch 4e FR products after the Reset. Too many of the changes drive me up the wall.-Dragonborn? Are they like Dragonkin? -> No, they're new. And the women have boobs. -> So what happened to the Dragonkin, which have been in FR for a long time then? -> they're still there, we're just never going to mention them again.And the deity genecide and destruction of most of the cities made it less appealing too.I do tend to expect continuity. it would be a hell of alot easier if there was condensed continuity guides of some kind.Now, I dont expect to play in a published setting. Or a published setting that's well Defined. But if you're going to run the setting, I tend to want you to know a good chunk of material and be willing to adjust for inconsistencies you didnt accomodate in some other way. That's why I dont usually play in FR. Being someone who likes the Canon - at least as a starting point for a game, butchered campaign settings make me cringe. Run Ravenloft, or some homebrew setting. I'll enjoy the game, and wont expect it to match canon. You can still easily use the feats/spells/class options in the FR books.</blockquote>

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