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<blockquote data-quote="Doug McCrae" data-source="post: 6418233" data-attributes="member: 21169"><p>The main problem is that the forces of good are too powerful. FR power levels were always too high generally, NPC levels being about 10-15 higher than Greyhawk, even in the 1e grey box version. This has the, almost certainly intentional, effect of making the world impervious to PC action. It's a world where the innkeeper is a 12th level fighter and his teenage daughter is a 4th level ranger. There's a strong impetus to use high level NPCs such as Elminster as the cavalry riding over the hill to save the PCs when they get into trouble. Players, in my experience, almost always hate that.</p><p></p><p>Flavour-wise, FR is another sub-Tolkeinesque world, like Greyhawk and Dragonlance, but it's a Middle-earth set in the 4th age where the good guys have won. It's a fantasy version of Canada where there are no real threats and author stand-in NPCs in their 60s have sex with the ever-youthful goddess of magic while throwing the PCs a cheeky wink.</p><p></p><p>There are two ways, I think, you could make FR work:</p><p>1) PCs are the bad guys. Their enemies are Elminster and his harem.</p><p>2) The players have some kind of meta-resource they can use to summon Elminster et al.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doug McCrae, post: 6418233, member: 21169"] The main problem is that the forces of good are too powerful. FR power levels were always too high generally, NPC levels being about 10-15 higher than Greyhawk, even in the 1e grey box version. This has the, almost certainly intentional, effect of making the world impervious to PC action. It's a world where the innkeeper is a 12th level fighter and his teenage daughter is a 4th level ranger. There's a strong impetus to use high level NPCs such as Elminster as the cavalry riding over the hill to save the PCs when they get into trouble. Players, in my experience, almost always hate that. Flavour-wise, FR is another sub-Tolkeinesque world, like Greyhawk and Dragonlance, but it's a Middle-earth set in the 4th age where the good guys have won. It's a fantasy version of Canada where there are no real threats and author stand-in NPCs in their 60s have sex with the ever-youthful goddess of magic while throwing the PCs a cheeky wink. There are two ways, I think, you could make FR work: 1) PCs are the bad guys. Their enemies are Elminster and his harem. 2) The players have some kind of meta-resource they can use to summon Elminster et al. [/QUOTE]
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