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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9756101" data-attributes="member: 2209">I like the Realms. The gods and their organizations from the 2e god books are great material to draw on. I find the Red Wizards as D&D Stygian sorcerers very evocative in their various incarnations, 1e pulp Conan 2e High magic magocrats, 3e evil magical merchants, and even 5e undead dominated. I had a few Dragon articles with things like named magic swords as my first intro but when the Gray Box came out I left it for my friends to make it their setting as I had made Greyhawk the setting for my longterm 1e campaign. The FR supplements and novels were fun though and I eventually got some things like <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/16801/n5-under-illefarn-1e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">N5 Under Illefarn</a> which I really liked and then later the <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/16797/forgotten-realms-adventures-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Forgotten Realms Adventures</a> with its fantastic specialty priests presentation and then later I really enjoyed the FR 2e god books. The <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/28729/forgotten-realms-campaign-setting-3e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">3e Campaign Setting</a> is something I got right away and it is great for both itself and as a resource for other settings. I also really enjoyed reading the timeline history book <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/51644/grand-history-of-the-realms-3-5?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">The Grand History of the Realms</a>.I mostly use elements of the setting in my homebrew mashup campaign setting. Mostly FR gods as pantheons in the world and the excellent lore from the 2e books. I mostly stick to 1e-3e lore, I second hand know about the 4e and 5e lore but I prefer the stuff I have mostly. I do have some 5e FR modules, Rhyme of the Frost Maiden in particular, I am tempted to run in my setting or straight though.I have included elements in my setting for 17 years now.<a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17569/faiths-avatars-2e?affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Faiths & Avatars</a>, <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17535/powers-pantheons-2e?src=also_purchased&affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Powers & Pantheons</a>, and <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/17534/demihuman-deities-2e?src=also_purchased&affiliate_id=17596" target="_blank">Demihuman Deities</a>. The high point for me of D&D books talking about gods for any setting and for any edition.Oh yeah, I have read maybe 2 dozen of them? The Moonshae trilogy, the Crystal Shard trilogy, the Drizzt homeland trilogy, the Empires and Maztica trilogies, some anthologies and some Harper novels. I enjoyed them, parts I have ragged on (Drizzt's special double down maneuver comes to mind <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=":)" /> ). I have only used them as sort of mood stuff for myself, nothing specific from them has come up in games.</blockquote>

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