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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Faraer" data-source="post: 2390383" data-attributes="member: 6318">I know for a fact that the underlying good–evil, law–chaos balance is there. I've come to understand it through the hundreds of Realms sourcebooks, novels, and magazine articles, in Ed's exquisitely wrought historical structures, in conversations with him and others. Stating otherwise is flat-out misinformation, based at best on partial and mistaken interpretation of the sources. The factors I mention skewed the way the Realms was presented, not how the Realms work -- I was never aware of the idea that the Realms was good-dominated till I read it online.The 'big famous NPCs' can't possibly 'stomp down the mechanations of various huge evil organizations' because they are greatly outnumbered by neutral and evil characters (even in the very partial published sources); because they're constrained by responsibilities, pacts and agreements, and so forth; and because there are dozens of times more evil plots going on at any one time than any given handful of NPCs could be aware of, let alone counter in person. What we see in the novels is a tiny, tiny fraction of what goes on, as you see from a glance at the 'year in a life' and current clack in the Old Grey Box, FOR4, etc.I've had this out in great detail several times, and the case that the Realms is good-dominated collapses as soon as you look at the sources and what they imply in any depth and detail, let alone the exhaustive notes on how the Realms works that's been published lately as wizards.com "Realmslore" and on candlekeep.com.</blockquote>

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