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<blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 6309866" data-attributes="member: 6318">Yes, Elminster's Forgotten Realms is very representative, and it makes a fine companion to the Old Grey Box (the 1987 campaign set), the one discussing how things generally work, the other giving geographical, biographical and historical examples. As an introduction to the Realms it has the advantages of being easily available and non-era-specific. And -- like Ed's other sourcebooks, his current <a href="http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Archive.aspx?category=all&amp;subcategory=forgingtherealms" target="_blank">&quot;Forging the Realms&quot;</a> column, and most other Realmslore -- it paints a very clear picture of the basically local nature of life and adventuring in Faerûn, where there are a hundred cruel, ambitious magelings and ten thousand self-interested merchants and bullyblades for every continent-spanning plot of the sort promoted by the books department and satirized within Realmslore as the stuff of sensationalist chapbooks.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Faraer, post: 6309866, member: 6318"] Yes, [i]Elminster's Forgotten Realms[/i] is very representative, and it makes a fine companion to the Old Grey Box (the 1987 campaign set), the one discussing how things generally work, the other giving geographical, biographical and historical examples. As an introduction to the Realms it has the advantages of being easily available and non-era-specific. And -- like Ed's other sourcebooks, his current [url=http://www.wizards.com/DnD/Archive.aspx?category=all&subcategory=forgingtherealms]"Forging the Realms"[/url] column, and most other Realmslore -- it paints a very clear picture of the basically local nature of life and adventuring in Faerûn, where there are a hundred cruel, ambitious magelings and ten thousand self-interested merchants and bullyblades for every continent-spanning plot of the sort promoted by the books department and satirized within Realmslore as the stuff of sensationalist chapbooks. [/QUOTE]

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