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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 7662564" data-attributes="member: 907">Have you read any of the Volo's Guides? VG to the Sword Coast has a lot of lore on places in the Western Heartlands, focusing on &quot;touristy&quot; stuff but not to the exclusion of other things. Plenty of adventure hooks, and amazing for bringing the place to life.Now, you might think that that's not the kind of details you like, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Eberron's Five Nations gives four pages of stuff on Fairhaven, one of the capitals of the eponymous five nations. Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast gives you 19 pages, albeit somewhat smaller pages, on Baldur's Gate, one of the largest cities along the Coast. Sharn: City of Towers is 192 pages of awesome, but City of Splendors has a total of 304 pages (plus 32 pages of monsters, and six friggin' poster maps).It's about as open to debate as evolution or vaccines - some might argue differently, but they do not have facts on their side. The Forgotten Realms are demonstrably more detailed than Eberron - it would be very strange otherwise given that FR has been around two to three times as long, including the highly fertile 2e period. Again, you may argue about the quality of the details, but their quantity is not in question.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 7662564, member: 907"] Have you [I]read[/I] any of the Volo's Guides? VG to the Sword Coast has a lot of lore on places in the Western Heartlands, focusing on "touristy" stuff but not to the exclusion of other things. Plenty of adventure hooks, and amazing for bringing the place to life. Now, you might think that that's not the kind of details you like, but that doesn't mean they don't exist. Eberron's Five Nations gives four pages of stuff on Fairhaven, one of the capitals of the eponymous five nations. Volo's Guide to the Sword Coast gives you 19 pages, albeit somewhat smaller pages, on Baldur's Gate, one of the largest cities along the Coast. Sharn: City of Towers is 192 pages of awesome, but City of Splendors has a total of 304 pages (plus 32 pages of monsters, and six friggin' poster maps). It's about as open to debate as evolution or vaccines - some might argue differently, but they do not have facts on their side. The Forgotten Realms are demonstrably more detailed than Eberron - it would be very strange otherwise given that FR has been around two to three times as long, including the highly fertile 2e period. Again, you may argue about the quality of the details, but their quantity is not in question. [/QUOTE]

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