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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kengar" data-source="post: 688463" data-attributes="member: 3230">I'm just going to post first then read through all the other replies, so forgive my laziness if I'm just rehashing others' comments. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />My initial exposure to FR was the 3e FRCS from WOTC. I had pretty much skipped 2e entirely (I wasn't playing much during those years, and when I was, it was mostly RQ & GURPS). I bought it because I wanted a detailed setting that would give plenty of background material to help character & story development. So I set up a campaign in the Silver Marches & off we went.When I look at pregenerated campaign settings I'm mostly looking for flavor. I want to read about the game world and say, "Wow! That's cool. I wouldn't have thought of that." and "That should lead to some interesting situations for the party." FR gives you that in one sense because it's so freaking BIG. There is something for everyone. Someplace in Faerun there is a region or a town or a race that will give the DM or player(s) what they are looking for.Which, of course, became one of my problems with it. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> I ended up feeling that the world was too generic. It was so inclusive that it lost any "realness" to me. Also, I like a slightly lower magic campaign. If I had been more familiar with FR from the start, I would have know this was the wrong setting for me to run.My wife (one of my players) absolutely LOVES the setting. Her Moon Elf Ranger is her all-time favorite character. I've bought several of the FR supplements and received 1 or 2 as gifts (I think Lords of Darkness may be the only major one I'm missing); but after this current adventure where the party is discharging a geas to repay a resurrection, I won't run Faerun again. I'll give the books to my wife so if she ever wants to DM, she can run a FR campaign.</blockquote>

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