My FR setting...tweak or not to tweak!

[The_Warlock]

... Resistance is futile. ...

I understand your point, and it might make the most sense for you, but I can't disagree more. I too have a life and job, but I'm going to use the parts/editions of the Realms, and of any game system or campaign setting, that work for me and my players both in terms of prep, and in terms of what we enjoy for the purposes of story.

Will I have to do some prep? Yes.

Is it as bad as you seem to make it out? Not where I'm standing.

Resistance isn't futile. It's a game. Everybody plays it the way they like it. Nobody loses.

So, once again to the OP - sounds good to me, take what you like and run with it.

 

[emerszi]

My campaign is heavily dependent upon the Church of Lathander; my PCs helped form a very idealistic (and militant and heretical) order devoted to the idea that evil could be destroyed (in the cosmological sense, even). But now Lathander has been subsumed by Am-something or other, and the church's alignment has shifted from Neutral Good (good at any cost) to Lawful good, which would make the "Spear of Dawn" even more of a splinter group.

I've considered just ignoring the demise of Lathander, and keeping the rest. I've also changed Tieflings. I don't mind Dragonborn, too much.

 

[Draenar]

I'm about to start a 4e FR campaign, pretty much straight up as in the Campaign Guide. I'm a long-time Realms fan (about ten years), and FR has always influenced my world-building style, even when I played in my homebrew setting. That said, I totally empathize with those who don't like the changes. Throughout reading the guide, and reading a bunch of old Realmslore for ideas, I had the feeling that something was missing from the altered setting, something that made it "less FR".

However. I distrust this gut feeling, considering how much like nostalgia it feels. I'm going to give it a chance, and if I just can't reconcile myself to it, I can always use the epic tier to hit a reset switch.

My only major changes are going to be inserting a number of NPCs I've created in earlier FR games, as well as old PCs, many of whom have risen to power, or left descendants who can show up. I'm a sucker for continuity.

Plus, I'm using my campaign to right a couple wrongs that the Spellplague has inflicted. (For instance, I *really* liked the sharn, and would like to see them sane again.)

Zaukrie, completely agree about Ao -- I have my own ideas for him that never came up in game before. Maybe I'll trot them out as part of my epic reset button.