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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Katerek" data-source="post: 635877" data-attributes="member: 5193">I'll bite.My first experience with the Realms was the City Sytem product when it was brand new all those years ago.I was very impressed, and in fact I still use that product in my games to this day, although I am on my third copy.I have read some fiction from the realms.  Namely the Salvatore books when they were new and fresh, though I haven't touched one in 5 or 6 years.  Frankly I have drifted away from fantasy literature altogether.During second edition I bought every boxed set that the realms had.  Strangely though I never really got to play there.  I tried to run it once or twice but it felt overwhelming.  As a DM I am never comfortable with the possibility that the players know more back ground than me.When I game, either in playing or in running I look for a setting where I can actively effect change comfortably.  I do not want to worry about some canonical text that will publish over what has come to pass in my games.  I know that as a DM I have the right to ignore later publications and as a player I can do that to somewhat of a lesser degree.  That being said, I do not always feel comfortable doing so.What ultimately attracts me to the realms is the fine level of detail, but in the same breath I have to say that it is that very same detail that detracts me from it as well.  On the surface it appears as if everything has been done and that no amount of great deeds will ever compare to anything that has already been accomplished by the bigwigs.I would play, in fact I have contemplated building an entire setting around this, in a realms where everytyhing that is currently in print is ancient history.  The annals of some long lost golden age.  The realms are nicely done, very nicely done.  Like others on here I am often quick to use terms like Elmonster.  I mean no insult, honest, it is just hard to stomach sometimes.  I do have respect for the realms and all the work that has gone into it, deep down I just wish that work had been utilized and channeled elsewhere.</blockquote>

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