D&D General Forgotten Realms - why do you still like running games here? +

[Voadam]

Ed Greenwood has put a weird amount of thought into trade routes, they go back to his home game and were in 1E products, much more detailed than Greyhawk was on that front.

Do you have any examples? I didn't notice any in my 1e Campaign Setting PDF or the FR1 Waterdeep PDF.

The Sword Coast is pretty big (the Packfic coast of North America big), and the isolated city states that pepper it are pretty ideal D&F home bases, so they do get a lot of the attention.

I was particularly struck by this size comparison map in the 1e grey box:

 

[Parmandur]

Do you have any examples? I didn't notice any in my 1e Campaign Setting PDF or the FR1 Waterdeep PDF.

FR5 has the material cut from FR1 for space:

I was particularly struck by this size comparison map in the 1e grey box:

It's big.