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<blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 4413809" data-attributes="member: 41584">Unless your name is Ed Greenwood, you're gonna be running a homebrew Realms game anyway. And, for that matter, 90% of the current Realms is stuff that was strapped on by people not named Ed Greenwood (and while he's been gentleman enough to do little more than raise an eyebrow at most of it, it isn't all stuff that *he* would have chosen to add to his sandbox), so even Ed's games count as 'homebrews' these days...&nbsp;Take what you want, ignore the rest. Elminster is an 8th level Diviner with some good information sources, and his houseboy Wong is just some foreign exchange student, not the Lost King of Whatever. The Chosen are just some fairly competent mages with really good PR. The Magister is the 'real Chosen' and has some gifts from the goddess of magic, but is *not* able to blow dracoliches out of the sky with SilverMoonFaerieSparklePonyFire. Halruans are snooty and superior about the magic so prevalent in their society, so much so that they keep their magically-inept commoners safely at home, rather than let the surrounding nations know that they aren't *all* magically 'ept. The gods are the same gods they've always been. Mystra has never died. The Time of Troubles never happened. You might think Lleira is dead, but only if that's what she *wants* you to think. Bane is alive and well. His son WhateverTheHeckHisLoserNameWas may or may not exist, but he sure doesn't have any worshippers. Cyric is a 2nd level Fighter / 6th level Rogue, and dating a 9th level Wizard girl named Midnight, after some werecat dude broke her heart.&nbsp; Drow don't use scimitars, although there is this one that wields dual short swords and has a figurine of wondrous power who's like 7th level or so and apparently killed some orcs once.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Set, post: 4413809, member: 41584"] Unless your name is Ed Greenwood, you're gonna be running a homebrew Realms game anyway. And, for that matter, 90% of the current Realms is stuff that was strapped on by people not named Ed Greenwood (and while he's been gentleman enough to do little more than raise an eyebrow at most of it, it isn't all stuff that *he* would have chosen to add to his sandbox), so even Ed's games count as 'homebrews' these days... Take what you want, ignore the rest. Elminster is an 8th level Diviner with some good information sources, and his houseboy Wong is just some foreign exchange student, not the Lost King of Whatever. The Chosen are just some fairly competent mages with really good PR. The Magister is the 'real Chosen' and has some gifts from the goddess of magic, but is *not* able to blow dracoliches out of the sky with SilverMoonFaerieSparklePonyFire. Halruans are snooty and superior about the magic so prevalent in their society, so much so that they keep their magically-inept commoners safely at home, rather than let the surrounding nations know that they aren't *all* magically 'ept. The gods are the same gods they've always been. Mystra has never died. The Time of Troubles never happened. You might think Lleira is dead, but only if that's what she *wants* you to think. Bane is alive and well. His son WhateverTheHeckHisLoserNameWas may or may not exist, but he sure doesn't have any worshippers. Cyric is a 2nd level Fighter / 6th level Rogue, and dating a 9th level Wizard girl named Midnight, after some werecat dude broke her heart. Drow don't use scimitars, although there is this one that wields dual short swords and has a figurine of wondrous power who's like 7th level or so and apparently killed some orcs once. [/QUOTE]

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