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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 9755883" data-attributes="member: 2205">I don't run games in the Forgotten Realms, because I only ever really run games in my own homebrews, but I do have a strange love-hate but more love fondness for the Forgotten Realms, and I've recently embarked on a project to read (or re-read, for many) every single 3e Forgotten Realms product ever printed. There are plenty of things that I also don't like about the setting, but since this is a + thread, I won't mention them.1. Why? Because I always like the Salvatore novels. I also recently reread the Halfling Gem trilogy, and I'm going to soon re-read the Drizzt prequel trilogy, Legacy or whatever it was called (which I bought in omnibus trade paperback a couple of years ago.) Time second time around, I don't imagine that I'll go farther into the series than that, but I still hold those six books out as among the better examples of shared world spec fiction.2. I'm more familiar with the 3e version of it than any other, so I tend to think of it that way. When I do use FR elements, though, I'm more likely to just borrow them and throw them in another setting of my own devising. Some of my favorite elements, like the Red Wizards, etc. don't lend themselves as well to this, but y'know. File those serial numbers off and do your best, I guess.3. Technically, it never has been, but I've liked it more or less, at least, since the Crystal Shard was published. And the 5e game that I'm playing in is one of the pre-written campaigns, so it's set on the Sword Coast region.4. Unapproachable East (2003), Serpent Kingdoms (2004), City of Splendors: Waterdeep (2005). Do the 5e campaigns that are set in FR count? I like reading those campaigns.5. As noted above. I've also read some Paul S. Kemp novels (Twilight War trilogy, iirc) and a few others here and there, but no, I tend to think of novels and game products as completely separate, and don't even necessarily think of them as occupying the same setting, even though I know that they do.</blockquote>

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