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<blockquote data-quote="crazy_monkey1956" data-source="post: 3654965" data-attributes="member: 49514">There's only one published setting that I really (as in, really, really) wanted to run pretty much as written.&nbsp; Council of Wyrms.&nbsp; Other than that, I've either run homebrews, or did the following...Spell out from the onset, before characters are rolled up, what the setting is and how you DM it...including any changes from canon.&nbsp; If a player isn't ok with that, politely tell them that this may not be a good game for them to play in.Another solution I used when running a brief Forgotten Realms campaign in 2nd edition.&nbsp; A) The players knew less about FR than I did.&nbsp; B) I used a relatively obscure little corner of the Realms and didn't travel beyond it.Another perspective to take it from, which Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have advocated when comparing &quot;their&quot; Dragonlance to other writer's works in published Dragonlance novels: The game books are used as the campaign setting for gaming and the novels are stories told by bards that often vary from bard to bard.&nbsp; In the Realms, Drizzt, in this example, is a near legendary figure that no one has ever met, although the bard telling the tale of how the drow ranger singlehandedly killed a thousand orcs swears he heard the story from his uncle's friend's cousin who served in the Silver Marches army that saw the whole thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="crazy_monkey1956, post: 3654965, member: 49514"] There's only one published setting that I really (as in, really, really) wanted to run pretty much as written. Council of Wyrms. Other than that, I've either run homebrews, or did the following... Spell out from the onset, before characters are rolled up, what the setting is and how you DM it...including any changes from canon. If a player isn't ok with that, politely tell them that this may not be a good game for them to play in. Another solution I used when running a brief Forgotten Realms campaign in 2nd edition. A) The players knew less about FR than I did. B) I used a relatively obscure little corner of the Realms and didn't travel beyond it. Another perspective to take it from, which Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman have advocated when comparing "their" Dragonlance to other writer's works in published Dragonlance novels: The game books are used as the campaign setting for gaming and the novels are stories told by bards that often vary from bard to bard. In the Realms, Drizzt, in this example, is a near legendary figure that no one has ever met, although the bard telling the tale of how the drow ranger singlehandedly killed a thousand orcs swears he heard the story from his uncle's friend's cousin who served in the Silver Marches army that saw the whole thing. [/QUOTE]

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