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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Renshai" data-source="post: 260539" data-attributes="member: 1061">Dead on Psion. (imo)I guess I could fall squarely in that category, in fact I'd say that most FR Dungeon Masters that played through the 2E years could as well.  As someone who owns pretty much all of the FR Accessories the regional information wasn't all the important. The prestige classes, feats, and spells were the most useful, and pretty much continues to be the most useful info in Magic of Faerun and Lords of Darkness.  But that is only because I already have a great deal of that FR information.The newly added information (fluff) was really good though, imo. The City of Shade, the near fall of Cormyr, the expansionism of the Red Wizards... the current state of the Drow attack on the Dales... these all gave me tons of ideas too...  I think the FRCS was a good balance of fluff vs crunch.. (i hate those terms.. )  It is harder to retain that balance in a book that isn't as large as the FRCS.  I guess since books like Silver Marches target only FR DMS then the market mmust be smaller than a generic book.... but you just can't support a setting without expanding on the setting itself, so I guess WoTC is in sort of a bind in that area. I wonder if marketing and selling a campaign setting is a viable option as far as sales go? I'd hate to think that, but it sounds like this is what SKR is hinting at. Another interesting point...  At Gen Con 2000 Anthony Valterra mentioned that WotC would be creating one shot game settings that would never get more than one or two books supporting them before being turned over to the players and the WotC web for support. Could this be a viable option for producing campaign settings? It would certainly give us a greater number of settings to choose from don't you think?  Imagine if all we saw for the Realms was the FRCS plus Magic of Faerun and all the manpower  that was spent creating Lords of Darkness, Silver Marches, and City of the Spider Queen went into producing a one shot campaign setting in a book that resembled the FRCS? We might get some really quality settings...Anyway... I'm rambling now...Ren</blockquote>

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