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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 9757616" data-attributes="member: 25619">Very similar to why I prefer and stick with Greyhawk, except I started D&D with AD&D in 1982, and you started with 2e about a decade later.The much more massive library of FR materials is one reason my curiosity about “what is everyone doing over there” hasn’t led me to get involved.FR feels like one of those things like classical music or being a fine wine enthusiast where the barrier to entry is high.  If you haven’t read 100 books on FR, you’re way behind.Maybe that’s why WotC keeps resetting the setting, but I don’t think that helps - I view it as yet another barrier that there umpteen answers over decades of real life and centuries of game time to my initial question of: “hey what should I as DM know about Iriaebor, other than that it’s hard to spell?”Long diversion:The Iriaebor question came up because in my since 1998 email campaign (in Greyhawk, using 3.5e since 2003), a player decided he wanted to bow out, either temporarily or permanently.We were in the Temple of Elemental Evil's Nodes (which are extraplanar) at the time, so I decided a good 3.5e solution was to have this character be hit with a Dismissal spell - back to his home plane, which is the Prime Material Plane. I made up a table of which SETTING in the PMP he would end up on, including Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, the Known World, Nentir Vale, and more.  I randomly rolled FR.Using my newly acquired Gray Box (recommended by a newer player), I randomly rolled a page number and came up with Iriaebor.  Reading up on it, I had questions, and I think my answer is there's an endless firehose of information about any place in FR, even though this one is kind of obscure.What my other players know so far about where their missing Monk friend is: he's in a place that doesn't speak Common - the language of Greyhawk's Great Kingdom from their POV, but he has met elves and has no problem communicating with them in Elvish.  Next time they check-in by Sending, he'll say he's traveling to a place called Candlekeep.   He's a Monk and intellectual, so he'll be drawn there like a moth to the flame.</blockquote>

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