Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
The
VOIDRUNNER'S CODEX
is coming! Explore new worlds, fight oppressive empires, fend off fearsome aliens, and wield deadly psionics with this comprehensive boxed set expansion for 5E and A5E!
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Forgotten Realms
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Gargoyle" data-source="post: 6331084" data-attributes="member: 529"><p>I have sort of a love/dislike for the Forgotten Realms. I love the maps and all the support it's gotten in the past, and the overall flavor of it, and many of the factions and settings within it, but I dislike a few things about running a game in any established campaign setting. I like to know everything about the world I'm running, and FR is just too big and complex for that. So in the past I just mined the sourcebooks for stuff, and created my own campaign settings or ran less developed settings. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/conferences/paxeast2014/11308-New-Dungeons-Dragons-Next-and-Tyranny-of-Dragons-Details-Emerge" target="_blank">With 5th edition featuring FR as its "flagship" campaign setting</a> and including lots of little FR details in the core books though, I can see the benefit of running a campaign in it, especially since I don't have a lot of time these days to create pantheons and other details that will be right in the Player's Handbook. Just looking at the Basic Rules, there is some direct support for FR even in that; just look in the description of humans and the examples of names and kingdoms. My new job is nice because I no longer work on the weekends so I can run a campaign again, but it keeps me too busy during the week to prepare the way I'd like. I really don't have time to reinvent the wheel anymore, as much as I would enjoy doing so, so the Realms might be a good fit for me right now.</p><p></p><p>So I'm thinking of placing my campaign in the Realms for the first time since I had the original boxed set. But to satisfy my creative urge, I'm thinking of making up a previously undiscovered continent/island and starting them off there. Eventually they will travel to the mainland and I"ll run published adventures (I love Tiamat as a villain, I blame the old D&D cartoon for that), or if I feel I have time I'll just write adventures and make it more sandboxy.</p><p></p><p>I have the 3rd and 4th edition FR books, and was thinking of using the 4th edition FR Campaign Guide map and set it in that era. Kind of curious on whether they will advance the timeline of the Forgotten Realms again; hoping they will keep it sort of ambiguous in new published content, as I believe I've read that they intend to support all eras of play. I'd hate to see them blow everything up again and rearrange the pantheon, etc, for the new products and invalidate stuff I've bought further.</p><p></p><p>Anyone else doing anything similar with the Realms? In the past I've either used campaign settings as written, or made my own. This will be my first attempt to make a published setting my own by adding content to it, while not conflicting with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gargoyle, post: 6331084, member: 529"] I have sort of a love/dislike for the Forgotten Realms. I love the maps and all the support it's gotten in the past, and the overall flavor of it, and many of the factions and settings within it, but I dislike a few things about running a game in any established campaign setting. I like to know everything about the world I'm running, and FR is just too big and complex for that. So in the past I just mined the sourcebooks for stuff, and created my own campaign settings or ran less developed settings. [URL="http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/video-games/conferences/paxeast2014/11308-New-Dungeons-Dragons-Next-and-Tyranny-of-Dragons-Details-Emerge"]With 5th edition featuring FR as its "flagship" campaign setting[/URL] and including lots of little FR details in the core books though, I can see the benefit of running a campaign in it, especially since I don't have a lot of time these days to create pantheons and other details that will be right in the Player's Handbook. Just looking at the Basic Rules, there is some direct support for FR even in that; just look in the description of humans and the examples of names and kingdoms. My new job is nice because I no longer work on the weekends so I can run a campaign again, but it keeps me too busy during the week to prepare the way I'd like. I really don't have time to reinvent the wheel anymore, as much as I would enjoy doing so, so the Realms might be a good fit for me right now. So I'm thinking of placing my campaign in the Realms for the first time since I had the original boxed set. But to satisfy my creative urge, I'm thinking of making up a previously undiscovered continent/island and starting them off there. Eventually they will travel to the mainland and I"ll run published adventures (I love Tiamat as a villain, I blame the old D&D cartoon for that), or if I feel I have time I'll just write adventures and make it more sandboxy. I have the 3rd and 4th edition FR books, and was thinking of using the 4th edition FR Campaign Guide map and set it in that era. Kind of curious on whether they will advance the timeline of the Forgotten Realms again; hoping they will keep it sort of ambiguous in new published content, as I believe I've read that they intend to support all eras of play. I'd hate to see them blow everything up again and rearrange the pantheon, etc, for the new products and invalidate stuff I've bought further. Anyone else doing anything similar with the Realms? In the past I've either used campaign settings as written, or made my own. This will be my first attempt to make a published setting my own by adding content to it, while not conflicting with it. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Forgotten Realms
Top