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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Henry" data-source="post: 4723761" data-attributes="member: 158">I'll add two thoughts:1) Ed Greenwood has some writing credit on the project, and it's on record that he's the one who dreamed up Lost Abeir, so if the people who wrote it didn't like the Realms, he's one of them. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />2) Emotions definitely rode high on the kickstart of the Realms, both in the teeth-gnashing leading up to the release, as well as the people defending what the 4E Realms has become. Having gained an appreciation of the Realms back during the old DC Comic book days, and rediscovering it in 2001 thanks to a very good DM, I did give the new Realms a chance, and found that I do like a lot of what they've done.Taken by itself, I think a lot of the Realms ideas would have been better received by some people had it not borne the FR name. By itself, there's a lot of "Scarred Lands" flavor to me from the areas outside the Western Heartlands and the Sword Coast - a feel of a place torn apart, and ripe with adventure hooks due to the ripping. To me, it feels like Toril has not been meshed with Returned Abeir, more like it's been meshed with Scarn -- I'm not saying it's good or bad, that's just the flavor I get from it. I liked the "set-piece" feel I got with the 1987-2007 Realms, but I can also see a lot of the appeal of making a lot of stuff unknown again.</blockquote>

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