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<blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 754924" data-attributes="member: 5868">I never got into FR when it first came out ... it was taking the spotlight away from Greyhawk, which I didn't like.I didn't come to the Realms until 3E, after playing BG/IWD.&nbsp; Now I run my campaign in the Realms.&nbsp; The variety, and vast level of detail, are great -- because I can get the flavor of a campaign I want, without having to do a tremendous amount of background work.I find the trick to running a campaign in the Realms is to make it your Realms.&nbsp; Personally, I don't use any of the major (Greenwood, Salvatore, et al) characters and NPCs -- though I use a host of relatively minor ones.&nbsp; I've changed the history to fit (I hate &quot;blow up the world&quot; plots -- Shades are out).&nbsp; I have players who have read some of the novels, and who read the FRCS or other FR supplements, and my response to the occasional metagaming about plot is to steal from Ed Greenwood and say:&quot;Nothing within those pages is false, but not all of it may turn out to be true ...&quot; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />It seems to work.&nbsp; It may offend the purists who only want to play in the &quot;canon&quot; Realms, but I'd bet most players who dislike the Realms for whatever irrational reason would find it more to their liking -- since I've tried for a more Greyhawk feel with Realms names, history, and geography.Make it your own.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Olgar Shiverstone, post: 754924, member: 5868"] I never got into FR when it first came out ... it was taking the spotlight away from Greyhawk, which I didn't like. I didn't come to the Realms until 3E, after playing BG/IWD. Now I run my campaign in the Realms. The variety, and vast level of detail, are great -- because I can get the flavor of a campaign I want, without having to do a tremendous amount of background work. I find the trick to running a campaign in the Realms is to make it [i]your[/i] Realms. Personally, I don't use any of the major (Greenwood, Salvatore, et al) characters and NPCs -- though I use a host of relatively minor ones. I've changed the history to fit (I hate "blow up the world" plots -- Shades are out). I have players who have read some of the novels, and who read the FRCS or other FR supplements, and my response to the occasional metagaming about plot is to steal from Ed Greenwood and say: "Nothing within those pages is false, but not all of it may turn out to be true ..." :) It seems to work. It may offend the purists who only want to play in the "canon" Realms, but I'd bet most players who dislike the Realms for whatever irrational reason would find it more to their liking -- since I've tried for a more Greyhawk feel with Realms names, history, and geography. Make it your own. [/QUOTE]

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