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Message: <blockquote data-quote="darkbard" data-source="post: 272706" data-attributes="member: 1282">echoing the sentiments expressed above:  the FR books set the standard for how to put together a campaign world regardless of whether you use the setting or not.  there is so much to these books, i'd be surprised if once you started seriously reading through you weren't sucked in and eager to set a campaign there.though my words'll never change the prejudices some have against the realms, i must say that before 3e i shared these prejudices but have been completely won over with the new products.  there is no more of the high-magic cheese in the books than any other setting (and, in fact, many rules are included which help to balance out how various special magics (like spellfire, etc.) work).  to my mind, at least, there is a definite element of menace at work (one of the greatest kingdoms laid low by war and a magical episode that destroyed one of its cities; the resurgent church of a tyrannical god; a mysterious floating city of shadow wizards with unknown designs on the world; i could go on and on...).</blockquote>