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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jolly Ruby" data-source="post: 9759252" data-attributes="member: 7040015">1. Why? Familiarity, mostly. After all these years running a game set in the Forgotten Realms is almost second nature. Second, I made the setting mine after all these years. It's still very much recognizable and easily approachable by a player who knows the realms from playing the games or reading the books, but my Realms have the accomplishments of my players steering it's history.2. How do you approach the setting? I set it in 1490s and later, but I aim for the Grey Box vibe and use it as supplementary info. Lorewise I tend to stick to 5e stuff to not overwhelm the players, since the 5e guide is very... light. It gives me freedon to input my own stuff too. And I avoid touching the spellplage.3. How long has it been your campaign setting of choice? Since 2019. I toyed with it before when I played past editions, but when the 4th was released I went to Pathfinder and only came back to D&D some years after the 5e was released and started running a campaign set in Waterdeep loosely based on Dragon Heist. Since then most my D&D campaigns are set in the Forgotten Realms.4. What are your favorite game supplements? I really like the Grey Box and it's the baseline for the "vibe" of the Forgotten Realms I use to run, but I used the Baldur's Gate Gazettee from Descent into Avernus, the Neverwinter Campaign Guide and the Waterdeep Gazetter from Dragon Heist A LOT these past years. And I have very fond memories running Phandelver.5. Do you like any of the novels? Which ones? And do you use the novels for game material? Drizzt is cool and I like the old Salvatore novels, but I avoid using it's contents or characters when I'm running it.</blockquote>

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