[FR] Do you use the Realms cosmology?

[Pants]

And it does seem like "make crunch seekers buy FR to fill out their collection" seems to be becoming less central to WotC's strategy for the brand.

Wait... isn't that a good thing?

 

[Wombat]

I still just find it freakish that all these highly variant cultures in one world, that otherwise disagree on most points of morality, government, and other society constants, would come up with exactly the same cosmology.

Just a thought...

 

[mhacdebhandia]

But other than Monsters and Magic of Faerun, what other brand specific crunch books were there? Wasn't it right after that they started on the regional sourcebooks, which are still the common FR releases today?

Regional sourcebooks a-plenty, but Champions of Ruin and the forthcoming Champions of Valor (*waves to Sean*) are arguably Forgotten Realms-specific "crunchy" books, even though I'm aware both are strongly tied to Realmslore - that's kind of the point of setting-specific crunch.

 

[Jeremy E Grenemyer]

Folks who want FR + Great Wheel are mostly folks who are more attached to Great Wheel than they are to FR, IMO.

Not me, either.

J. Grenemyer

 

[BOZ]

hi

if i were to ever run an FR campaign again (i may...) i would use the gods and planes from 2E FR/Planescape, adding on parts from the 3E books that i like. so, i picked "other"

 

[Desdichado]

Not me, either.

Wow, three people? I guess I better go change my opinion!

Where's that rolleye smily when I need it?

 

[Shade]

Wow, three people? I guess I better go change my opinion!

Where's that rolleye smily when I need it?

Now, now...that's not really fair, is it? I could just as easily make the opposite assertion and be no more or less correct. Of the 176 that voted as of the time of this post, few have actually posted to explain themselves.

I also fall into the camp of "not more attached to the Great Wheel than FR". I'm about equally interested in either, and my campaign's been about 70% on Toril, 30% extraplanar thus far.

 

[Arnwyn]

Wow, three people? I guess I better go change my opinion!

Where's that rolleye smily when I need it?

That's a strange thing to say.

 

[Ferret]

I've never neither needed to use the cosmology nor really looked at it, so I voted other.....

 

[Desdichado]

Now, now...that's not really fair, is it? I could just as easily make the opposite assertion and be no more or less correct. Of the 176 that voted as of the time of this post, few have actually posted to explain themselves.

I dunno if it's fair or not. I don't know what difference it makes. I made it clear that my assertion was my opinion (even has the infamous IMO tag at the end of the statement) and it's based on discussions with local groups, online and elsewhere. Certainly three people popping in and saying, "Yeah, well not me," isn't going to change my view.

I still believe, although I won't claim it's "true", that most people who were upset by the change, or who disregard it, were folks that were as much (or more) fans of the Great Wheel rather than FR per se, and spent much of their time adventuring there rather than on the Realms per se. Regardless of how many people chime in and say "Well, not me."