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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kid Charlemagne" data-source="post: 259748" data-attributes="member: 93">Count me among those who find very little value in the Silver Marches or similar books.  I've bought nearly every major WoTC 3e, from Core books to Splatbooks to DD&DG to the FRCS and Magic of Faerun.  I will probably get the Book of Challenges and Epic book, though I'm in no hurry.Silver Marches never had a shot at my gaming dollar.   I don't run in the Realms, so I have zero need for it.Sean seems to have forgotten the lessons of the past.  Ryan Dancey has pointed out many times the laws of diminishing returns in regards to settings and settings books.  I also concur with those who point out that supplements are crappy places to tell stories.  Or to be more to the point, almost all the stories I've ever read in supplements tended to be crappy.I know designers love to write fluffy pieces that show off their prose and original ideas, but I run D&D campaigns.  Not fiction judging sessions.  I also run them in my own game world - mostly because the supplements for world settings are not consistent in meeting my wants and needs for my games.  That means that all the non-crunchy bits might as well be blank space.I know SKR hung around rec.frp.dnd back in the day, and he was certainly there in the waning days of TSR, when it seemed like 90% of the people were clamoring for adventures and supplements that didn't try to force a story on them.  We know how that story ended:The elves got their way and D&D nearly vanished from the world.  I'm sorry for those who might prefer to write such things, but I haven't been buying their products for decades, and most likely won't in the future.  Give me Magic of Faerun or a MMII over Silver Marches any day.</blockquote>

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