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<blockquote data-quote="Bird Of Play" data-source="post: 8393678" data-attributes="member: 7032193">Uuuhm. Is it still homebrew if I am using the standard D&amp;D Forgotten Realms setting...... but I gave my personal interpretation of it? I mostly use the Forgotten Realms to take monster and places ideas from there, then reimagine them.I think the coolest part of my revision of the Forgotten Realms is the way it balances a fantasy setting of magic and weird creatures, with a somewhat realistic setting with castes and the rich 1% and the peasants and everyday problems the NPCs deal with. I don't like to go &quot;full fantasy&quot;, where you go into a town and you meet three mages, one catperson, two tieflings, a werewolf, a golem.... no, just no. I really don't like that.You know the first volumes of the manga Berserk, where everything gave at the very least the illusion of being a somewhat realistic medieval setting, but sometimes over the top battles or eerie magic showed up? I like that. It's how I like my fantasy.I guess the second cool thing about my setting is definitely how every event or character has a certain symbolism to real life things. But it's not in-your-face, which would be cheesy. Yet, consciously or subconsciously, I'm sure the players pick up on the symbolism, and it makes the whole thing more appealing because it has a meaning behind it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bird Of Play, post: 8393678, member: 7032193"] Uuuhm. Is it still homebrew if I am using the standard D&D Forgotten Realms setting...... but I gave my personal interpretation of it? I mostly use the Forgotten Realms to take monster and places ideas from there, then reimagine them. I think the coolest part of my revision of the Forgotten Realms is the way it balances a fantasy setting of magic and weird creatures, with a somewhat realistic setting with castes and the rich 1% and the peasants and everyday problems the NPCs deal with. I don't like to go "full fantasy", where you go into a town and you meet three mages, one catperson, two tieflings, a werewolf, a golem.... no, just no. I really don't like that. You know the first volumes of the manga Berserk, where everything gave at the very least the illusion of being a somewhat realistic medieval setting, but sometimes over the top battles or eerie magic showed up? I like that. It's how I like my fantasy. I guess the second cool thing about my setting is definitely how every event or character has a certain symbolism to real life things. But it's not in-your-face, which would be cheesy. Yet, consciously or subconsciously, I'm sure the players pick up on the symbolism, and it makes the whole thing more appealing because it has a meaning behind it. [/QUOTE]

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