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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6229559" data-attributes="member: 32740">The closer I stuck to the original grey box the happier I was with The Realms.  I played in and used The Realms as a setting so much though that I OVERplayed it.  I actually swore to never, EVER run The Realms again as a DM.  I've thought briefly once or twice about going back on that pledge but still can't find reason enough to do so.  The players never had too much issue with it's population of high-profile, high-level NPC's but it did come up more often that it ever did in other settings despite the fact that other settings I'd run also had equally high-level NPC's.  It was harder for me as DM to ignore those NPC's because it was annoying to justify to MY satisfaction how/why certain events would take place without repeatedly having to find an excuse to NOT have them involved in things that the setting assumes they will be.  So I started those campaigns by publicly declaring them dead or to have never existed and it was much easier on myself and the players.Actually, the secondary reason I swore off The Realms was the maps.  I started to really hate them.  I made it a project to completely revamp the map of the whole of Faerun so that I could tolerate it again but then combined with the aforementioned I just chose to move on and not regret the vow to not go back.</blockquote>