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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olgar Shiverstone" data-source="post: 5789289" data-attributes="member: 5868">I shared Morrus' view of FR for a long time (well, except about Dragonlance, which I always thought was ruined by the original adventure modules) and am a huge Greyhawk fan.  That changed when I picked up the 3E FRCS -- as a result of playing the BG series games -- and subsequently got a copy of the original Grey Box. Ironically I'd played the original SSI Gold Box computer games, but I'd never made the connection between those games and a published campaign setting at the time.I found that if I ignored the named characters (Mary Sues et al), the Realms-shattering events, and the novel-based evolution of canon, FR is a great place to run a wide variety of campaigns.  There's such a huge depth of history and lore to draw from that it's easy to find a spot to fit campaign needs with a relative minimum of adaptation.  I ran a multi-year successful campaign in my version of the Realms, which I'd effectively Greyhawk-ized by ignoring future canon, novels, RSEs, and big-name characters.Greyhawk still is D&D's core in my heart, but as a result of my experience I'm a fan of FR as well.  I think it will work great for 5E if WotC can avoid the historical bad tendencies (those three items I mention above).  Ideally, I'd like to see them do a reset to the Grey Box era, then not mess with the timeline further.  A campaign setting should expand outward, fleshing out other areas, but not forward -- gaming groups set the "future history" of a campaign setting.I'll certainly echo a call for a return to Greyhawk in 5E -- but only if they put Erik Mona in charge, because I think of anyone I can name he gets it the best.(On the FR novels ... I've read quite a few, and sadly most are crap, but unfortunately that also goes for the majority of D&D "gaming fiction".  In reviewing that stuff you almost have to treat gaming fiction as a separate genre of F&SF in order to recalibrate your standards downward.)</blockquote>

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