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Message: <blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 3990685" data-attributes="member: 5948">To be fair, there's a bit of chicken and egg about that argument.  Did nobody play in the Old Empires because they weren't properly detailed, or did WotC never bother properly detailing them because nobody played there?Remember, the FRCS was very very scant on Old Empires info.  There was slightly over one page on Mulhorand, and about the same on Chessenta.  Unther had nearly two pages, but that included an NPC statblock.  Murghom and Semphar got a paragraph each.By comparison, every one of the Dales (population about 30000 each) had a writeup of about a page and a half, plus the page-long regional overview at the start of the section.  It's just plain easier to run a Dales campaign than it is to run an Old Empires campaign - there's much, much more info.  And of course, it's worth remembering that the Time of Troubles and the invasion of Unther turned the whole region upsidedown twice since the last time WotC/TSR published any detailed material on the Empires, (hell, when the Old Empires book was published, it was still 1st ed and Gilgeam was still alive!) so it's not like the pdfs in the back catalogue are going to be of much help either.  Chessenta got a bit of coverage in Dragons of Faerun, but in general, a GM running an Old Empires campaign has to do pretty much everything him or herself.There was enormous potential in the 3e Empires, but to be honest, the whole region has gotten so little support over such a long time that I'm not surprised very few people based campaigns there...</blockquote>

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