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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 4732428" data-attributes="member: 30678">Sticking to canon is not as important as having a detailed setting (did you note that I tend to ignore all RSEs, unless they fit my campaign?). Now, I could grab any Volo's Guide, for example, and run a game in most of the settings described in them. Add in the boxed sets and FR Adventures, and there's no need for "extra" details. Just to name a few such places: Scornubel, Arabel, Suzail, Elturel, Hill's Edge, Berdusk, Silverymoon -- not to mention, naturally, Waterdeep. And, whatever details I might feel are still missing to satusfy my players, I could do myself. With Volo's Guide to the North, I could have a pretty decent "Tour de North"-type of campaign, with even smaller settings detailed "well enough" (major inns, shops, NPCs, adventure locations) for me to use them with minor tweaks. And, yes, I have to "Make Stuff Up" for each session anyway (the session's adventure, at least) -- that wasn't the point. If the players wouldn't want the level of details they do, I wouldn't *force* it on them. Also, over the years I've kind of learned how to "hook" them; no need to worry about "wasting" adventure hooks. For example, if I tried the old cliché with the "mysterious employer" at the local inn + lots of combat encounters, they wouldn't think it was a fun session. Spending half the session in role-playing with themselves and the NPCs, with adventure hooks tied to character backgrounds... now, that's their idea of fun. Anyway, my point was, I'd have to start with a "clean slate" in 4E FR, because I could hardly expect to grab my 2E/3E accessories and use the stuff "as is". In fact, it would probably be easier to pick a small village and start from scratch, than trying to update the info and the maps.  I suspect that you realized I'm talking of D&D settings *published* by TSR/WoTC.</blockquote>

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