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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Obryn" data-source="post: 4929353" data-attributes="member: 11821">As I mentioned in another thread, I'm currently re-reading the 4e Realms Campaign Setting (and the Player's Guide at times, too.)  It's a much, much different read than it was the first time I poked into it.  Now that I'm over the "WTF?" stage, I'm finding more stuff I didn't necessarily expect.(1) I have a much better feeling about the 4e Realms now than I did.  Note that I wasn't negative about it to begin with, but it's better than I remember.  At the moment, I'd rather run 4e Realms than 4e Eberron, having looked through both recently.  (The 4e Realms map still sucks, though.)(2) There are a lot of little things tossed around here and there which I remember from the 1e/2e Realms.  I think an expert in Realms canon could actually put that knowledge to some good use for a similarly-interested group.  It's got some good post-apocalyptic feel to it.(3) Reading the 4e Realms has encouraged me to pull my 1e and Early 2e Forgotten Realms stuff out of the closet.  I was a heck of a Realms collector back when the canon was fairly manageable. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  And damn - these had some insanely good maps.  I ran out of floor space trying to put them together, and it's probably a good thing; my cat was trying to dive under them to figure out what's underneath.Anyway, among the things I pulled out of storage was the fabulous Atlas of the Forgotten Realms by Karen Wynn Fonstad (who apparently passed away a few years back...)  At any rate, it has a lot of maps in it from the classic Forgotten Realms novels - the original Crystal Shard series, at least the first Azure Bonds book, Spellfire, and so on.  Heck, looking through those maps made me interested in re-reading those novels (or novel series).  But, it's been a while, and I've gotten picky in my old age. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  So, I'll finally get to my point.Has anyone read these classic Forgotten Realms novels recently?How have they held up?  Are they actually worth my reading time if I've grown picky about my fantasy novels? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Any recent experiences would rock.Thanks!-O</blockquote>

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