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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 1030919" data-attributes="member: 5834">reA bit more grim? The Shadovar have returned, powerful shadowy evil archwizards wielding shadow magic.Bane has returned.Thay is still as powerful as ever and exceedingly evil.Cormyr is in near ruin.The Dalelands are under attack from drow. Scardale just recently suffered the effects of a plague.Orcs are slaughtering in the North near the Silver Marches.Calimshan is a cesspool. Evermeet was nearly destroyed.Lolth is silent. The drow are at war with each other.What more do you want?The Realms may seem fluffy because of the way it is written, but it is very dark and grim all by itself. Given the above events, you can make it even more grim and dark if you so choose.I think people have a negative view of the Realms because of super-beings like the Chosen and the total lack of equivalent villains as well as poor novelization of Realms crises. The build up towards crises and their resolution is usually very anticlimatic, especially with the Chosen being overused to solve the problems.</blockquote>