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Message: <blockquote data-quote="teitan" data-source="post: 7892849" data-attributes="member: 3457">So for me, I love the Tal'dorei book and it is more straightforward fantasy. If it is in Tomes of Foes, it applies etc. It takes some of the best aspects of 4e, like the Dawn War Pantheon, the PoLand approach and exemplifies it pretty well. The Vestiges of Divergence are pretty cool artifacts that slowly unveil themselves as the PC's figure them out and level up. The factions are cool and the book is filled with more seeds than almost any setting I've read in years and only a few of them played out on the show but not only are those on display as something you can latch onto but other seeds that Vox Machina didn't pick up on are present for you to develop as well. Then with Wildemount you get a setting  that is to Tal'dorei what Taladas is to Ansalon. It is a very different setting. Drow don't live underground, they rule a surface kingdom called the Krin Dynasty. They aren't necessarily evil either. This is the part of the world where the Calamity happened so large swaths of the continent are scarred from the conflict. Also, unlike other settings, this is not a world where the war just happened, this is a world where the war is starting to break out. A lot of the intrigue of the setting is in how the PCs can play each side, the grey areas of the conflict etc. It's also where the "monsters" come from. The Menagerie Coast is a great area to play pirate campaigns.Overall the setting is about 1/3 of the way between Greyhawk and the Realms in the darkness factor. It isn't quite as "good always wins" as the Realms but not as "holy crap IUZ is going to overtake the world" as Greyhawk looked to be with From the Ashes. To get even cooler... the big bad of Campaign 1 turned out to be a certain Lich God and campaign 2 is hinting very much at a certain chained up force of chaos. It has those classic D&D villains and it makes them cool again.</blockquote>

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