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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 9357801" data-attributes="member: 6701124">As far as I can tell there is nowhere in the DMG that it tells DMs to run FR - at least in my skimming through Chapter 1.  Do you have a favorite spot in the book that actually says or implies that?  To me it looks like it gives lots of options and doesn't settle on any of the,  with most of the time in some sections going explicitly against the FR grain. Do you have any particular quotes to back that up?[ATTACH=full]364965[/ATTACH]It starts with the core assumptions, but then... [ATTACH=full]364966[/ATTACH]The next page is on pantheons and it talks about Hieroneous in the Greyhawk setting, mentions Forgotten Realms for a sentence, and has a big example from the Dawn War Pantheon.  And then jumps into other religious systems for a two pages, and then does humanoids, mentioning Moradin and FR  in one paragraph.The next section is on geography and mentions Great Britain and California to start.  When describing cities it gives: [ATTACH=full]364968[/ATTACH]As usual for this chapter it tells folks to consider what the different pieces mean.It then has a section on weather, government, currency, languages, and factions that seem 1e DMG reminiscent.It then ships to magic and brings up Waterdeep and Dark Sun.And then it shifts to Creating a Campaign, which seems to tie it all together.In the styles of play it mentions Heroic Fantasy is the baseline and that most FR novels fit in that.  It doesn't say anything else about it having to be FR though.  S&S mentions Dark Sun.  Epic Fantasy mentions Dragon Lance, Mythic Fantasy mentions greek myths, Dark Fantasy mentions Ravenloft, Intrigue mentions the FR novels Brimstone Angels, Mystery mentions both FR and DL examples, Shawshbuckling mentions FR's City of Ravens, War mentions DL, Wuxia doesn't bring up FR, and Crossing- the Streams mentions all kinds of things from Greyhawk before getting to Elminster.The actual advice seems in the second half of the chapter (again, I don't think anyone is defending the 2014 DMG's organization)![ATTACH=full]364969[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

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