Have you been disillusioned by the Forgotten Realms?

[MonsterMash]

It never really grabbed me as a setting from the start, so I never got disillusioned by it. Currently I'm turned off a bit by the canonical nature of the setting now - I like to change things and don't really want somebody turning round and saying: 'but in page 43 of Forgotten Realms Novel x, it says...'

 

[der_kluge]

I like FR, and I used to run campaigns loosely set in the realms in 2nd edition.

I could see myself running an 3e FR game, but much more toned down. I like the detail, and the quality is superb. That said, I do think it's way over-powerful.

I've always loved all the fluff details about the gods. If I build my own homebrew, I seriously might consider using some of the FR gods. There is an abundance of usable material on them that is really, really good.

 

[diaglo]

I went other, because I felt wrong saying "No" when I was never that deeply into it in the first place.

ditto.

plus it stole everything from GH.

 

[Henry]

I have enjoyed and have tremendous respect for the FR material as a whole. I've used it for one campaign, have cribbed from it for numerous campaigns, and have no reservations about running it again in the future -- though I have no plans to do so currently.

 

[Mystery Man]

If this thread was titled

"Are you disillusioned with WoTC?" then I would choose yes. Post Eberron setting and the price jack, page count fall, the printing looking like junk, crap the WoTC is now pulling I have been gradually moving to 3rd party d20 material and will most likely continue to do so.

 

[JoeGKushner]

KI like the Forgotten Realms more then Eberron. It's slightly ahead of Greyhawk, but if Roger Moore could be talked into doing some more supplements for GH...

 

[VorpalBunny]

I love the Realms - it's become my "default" world for high-magic fantasy campaigns.

 

[seankreynolds]

Funny that several people have felt there were too many gods. I actually agree with them, and for a while in the development of the FRCS we talked about cutting most of the deities, mainly through revelations that many deities were just aspects of other deities; Milil and Denier are just alternate personalities of Oghma, the various racial war gods were just aspects of the same deity, etc. We actually got the total number of deities down to about 40 (from the 120-odd we have now), but we finally decided that it would freak out too many people and didn't do it (though we did secretly eliminate a couple of deities ... Sseth became a part of Set, and Shar absorbed Eshowdow, though I hear that in Serpent Kingdoms Sseth is back again).

 

[Alhazred]

I was never interested in the forgotten realms beyond the computer games that have come out. Too cluttered, too many uber-npcs, and I always felt like I never knew enough to run or play in it because others knew so much, and that took away from the mystery of the world that I like in a game.

Agreed. And there are too many deities.

 

[TerraDave]

I am not alone

Yes, since about 1990...

...and from the replies above, I am not the only one, and there is this...

plus it stole everything from GH.