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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PMárk" data-source="post: 7816085" data-attributes="member: 6804619">Thanks Ed, you described exactly why I like settings like the Realms, or WoD, or Shadowrun (and how I prefer to handle these kinds of detailed settings). They feel alive. They have going-ons outside the PCs, which I can read about and may or may not come up in the home game. It's the ammount of details and yes, the dreaded word "metaplot" and the novels and such. It's just that these worlds are lot more immersive for me, because they feel like living, breathing worlds, not just backdrops for the game. I know some people feel contstrained by those things, but it wasn't like that for me.I also appreciate all the tremendous work you and others put into the Realms. It's one of my favorite settings and I have tons of precious memories connected to it. Hell, the 3e Farűn poster-map, that came with the 3e FRCSG is still up on my wall! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I wish if WotC would put more actual work into the setting (and the other settings too). I just miss the good ol' days (which for me was mostly under 3e as the game goes, though I read a lot of 2e novels and I generally miss the novels now a lot). Our group still uses mostly the 3e material, because there just wasn't anything better since then. The 4e Realms was... while not bad, per se, wasn't really the continuation of the Realms, IMO (though I liked some of the stuff, like Erin Evans's books) and the 5e material is just shockingly scarce and to be frank, bland and boring. I miss the stories, the characters, the myriad plots and story hooks. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />It would be great to have some FR material on the DM's Guild, if not else, from the authors, like you Ed, that I could consider "canon". Maybe they're already here, I'll certainly check. I didn't bother with D&D stuff for a while, 4e and 5e largely drove me to Paizo and other games and I just stopped caring. A big part of that was WotC's handling of the settings, foremost the Realms. I'd buy FR material, that is on par with the old books, even if I'd use them with 3.5 or whatnot and I'd buy novels from you guys. I'm not interested in the stripped-down Realms WotC uses as a mere backdrop for their annual big campaign book. I'd be very interested in some "real" Realms stuff.</blockquote>

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