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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ruleslawyer" data-source="post: 3815534" data-attributes="member: 1757">IMHO, absolutely not. As evidence, I cite Serpent Kingdoms, Lost Empires of Faerun, and Power of Faerun, all supplements that are about as 100% true to the flavor and ethos of the Realms as possible, but came out well into 3.5. IMO, there are two big problems with the bloat of Realms material: 1) a raft of supplements that had little in the way of Realms flavor; and 2) novels. The latter issue speaks for itself; as for the former, I hate to belittle the work of certain writers, but as far as I'm concerned, anything that didn't come from Ed Greenwood, Steve Schend, Eric Boyd, or Rich Baker has a high likelihood of being write-off-able. I know this sounds a bit purist, but here would be my acceptable list of "authentic" Realms sourcebooks:-The gray boxFR1 Waterdeep and the NorthFR4 The MagisterFR5 The Savage NorthFR6 Dreams of the Red WizardsFR11 Dwarves DeepFR13 AnaurochFRA hardbackThe Volo's GuidesCity of Splendors boxed setRuins of Undermountain boxed setRuins of Myth Drannor boxed setFOR2 Drow of the UnderdarkFOR4 Code of the HarpersCloak and DaggerEd's "Everwinking Eye" column3e FRCSSilver MarchesUnapproachable EastSerpent KingdomsLords of DarknessLost Empires of FaerunPower of FaerunCity of Splendors: Waterdeep hardcoverEric's Impiltur bits in Champions of RuinNow, that's a BIG chunk of material, but it does theoretically leave room for more. To be honest, if Ed would just pop open the shelves and give us access to some of his material (I get the impression that a lot of the stuff that has come out in supplements is material that Ed had sitting in his closet for years), that would be fine by me. His Realmslore online column, and the Everwinking Eye series before that (and the FR columns that Ed wrote in Dragon before the boxed set) have been more valuable to me than much of the full-blown books that have come out since.</blockquote>

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