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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jan van Leyden" data-source="post: 6418162" data-attributes="member: 20307">Back in the days I used to like the Realms, but never ran a game in it. It was a nice change having more details than for the '83 Greyhawk set.Come the 2nd edition mass of books and the myriads of novels, it became unmanageable. When thinking about starting a new campaign and considering FR as setting, I didn't even know what to read and how to run a game.Furthermore, a huge gap would have opened between GM and player knowledge about the world; none of my players was much interested in reading up on game world stuff. Now I could have used one of the basic Camapign Settings for my purposes, but what would I have gained compared to Greyhawk?During 3rd edition times I ran three campaigns in the Realms, none of it diving into the deep pool of knowledge available. I'm sure none of the players noticed any deviation from the canon, and not for me sticking to it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />One campaign I tried to make FR-specific, placing it around Silverymoon, and focusing on FR stuff of the region: search for a priest, were-creatures, Hosttower of the Arcane in Luskan, the orc king (Obuld Many-Eyes?). Sadly, this camapign didn't last long.I read the 4e version of the Campaign Setting, finding it fresh and interesting. The actual games I ran took place in POLand and Ptolus, though.</blockquote>

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