renau1g
First Post
Sure, I get it. And some orcs probably are tolerated in LS, too, but you won't see one on every corner by any means. Yeah, those differences from campaign to campaign are what makes dragging my butt out of bed every morning all worth it!(Well, MOST mornings, at least.)
Don't even get me started about how the recent prevalence of standard settings like the Forgotten Realms have damaged the creative world-building side of our hobby! Oh, I love the realms, don't get me wrong, and some DMs probably make significant changes to the setting, too, but I think that by and large, most people just open the box/book/whatever and use an emotionless vanilla snapshot of the world much like a town from a "B" Movie Western shot on the back lot of the movie studio.
Yeah, I use the realms as a guide for my RL game, but much of the campaigns have revolved around Timmins, a player created city in Cormyr, as the players prefer to develop it. So we're kind of homebrew, using the FR goegraphy, monetary system, and deities.
