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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 752627" data-attributes="member: 2205">I can relate to the thought the the Realms is somehow less than the sum of it's parts -- the Realms has tons of great ideas, but like -- who was it, Quinn? (are you the same Quinn who used to post on the Astralwizard's mailing list, by the way?) -- I find I'd much rather borrow them and adapt them into my own setting rather than use them in the Realms per se.Part of that is fact that inventing homebrews is at least half the fun of DMing for me, so I almost always want to borrow for a homebrew rather than use outright, but some settings, like Planescape and Iron Kingdoms (and possibly Kalamar), I probably could use "out of the box."And to cptg1481 -- I don't think dismissing those who prefer low magic games by painting us all as elitist snobs of some kind really helps your case any.  In my experience, there are more Realms fans than not on these boards, although the Realms detractors are certainly vocal and often quite harsh.Me personally?  I don't mind the Realms.  I've played a few pretty good games in them in my time.  I'm not a particular fan of the novels, but then again, I haven't read a lot of them either.  I'm not a huge fan of the presentation of the Realms in the past, but the 3e book is very well done -- a real benchmark for how to present a setting.I could play in the Realms again the way jester47 describes it.  That I'd enjoy.  Otherwise, though, it just doesn't interest me nearly as much as half a dozen other options I could think of off the top of my head.</blockquote>

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