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<blockquote data-quote="The Dungeon Nazi" data-source="post: 210463" data-attributes="member: 4520">Here's what I think.I think that the 3E FRCS is very light on the details.&nbsp; Very broad in its content and epic in its scope, but to get such a huge world into one book is impossible unless you pass over a lot of the finer points.&nbsp; Shadowdale gets about a page and a half, and then the DM is encouraged to build off of it to run an adventure there.Ambitious or no, it's impossible for one DM to use that material to create anything as deep, rich and exhaustive a place as the novels and old materials provide.&nbsp; They were put together over the course of years, decades, by people who were paid to do nothing but build up these places as living, breathing areas in a world that is complex enough to be on par with reality.&nbsp; Something you could almost reach out and touch.A lot of the games I've played in lacked this depth, and the game suffered heavily for it.&nbsp; Things constantly and consistently degenerate into a simple &quot;get the magic weapon - kill the monster - save the princess - be the hero&quot; scenario.I saw a thread a few weeks back discussing &quot;homebrew vs. premade&quot; campaign worlds, so maybe that is where this post belongs, since this has absolutely nothing to do with drow half-glaives of petrification (the goon has been kick from my game and replaced already!&nbsp; yay!). <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&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Dungeon Nazi, post: 210463, member: 4520"] Here's what I think. I think that the 3E FRCS is very light on the details. Very broad in its content and epic in its scope, but to get such a huge world into one book is impossible unless you pass over a lot of the finer points. Shadowdale gets about a page and a half, and then the DM is encouraged to build off of it to run an adventure there. Ambitious or no, it's impossible for one DM to use that material to create anything as deep, rich and exhaustive a place as the novels and old materials provide. They were put together over the course of years, decades, by people who were paid to do nothing but build up these places as living, breathing areas in a world that is complex enough to be on par with reality. Something you could almost reach out and touch. A lot of the games I've played in lacked this depth, and the game suffered heavily for it. Things constantly and consistently degenerate into a simple "get the magic weapon - kill the monster - save the princess - be the hero" scenario. I saw a thread a few weeks back discussing "homebrew vs. premade" campaign worlds, so maybe that is where this post belongs, since this has absolutely nothing to do with drow half-glaives of petrification (the goon has been kick from my game and replaced already! yay!). :D [/QUOTE]

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