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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glade Riven" data-source="post: 5792518" data-attributes="member: 86468">The Dragonlance novels were my first introduction to Dungeons and Dragons. I read a few Forgotten Realms books, but the original Dragonlance trillogy was better. I didn't actually start playing D&D until college, about early-to-mid 3.5. The problem I ran into with Forgotten Realms in how it was presented during 3e left me with a feelling that the whole setting was practically mapped out down to every 5 ft square. I found it stifling and dull. What remained of Greyhawk for 3.5 core was...well, also boring. The settings that grabbed me? Eberron. Dawnforge (runner-up to Eberron in that contest). Iron Kingdoms. Each one for different reasons. I refuse to run a campaign in Forgotten Realms because I do not want to DM something in which a player can know more about a world than me. Did that with Star Wars. It made DMing not fun. Playing in the setting? I don't mind it, except when a DM feels they need a cameo by Celcius Blackstaff or whatever to appease that one or two Forgotten Realms fanboy in the group. While I have little interest in buying anything for the setting, I actually do think it would make a good "core setting" for D&D - if tweaked a little. I would prefer something new, but I'd be fine with a slighly rebooted Forgotten Realms as core. Then I could ignore it and do my own thing like I did with 3e's bastardization of Greyhawk.</blockquote>