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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Greg V" data-source="post: 3685735" data-attributes="member: 31270">Hmmmm.  Anauroch or Pathfinder.  Having written some or all of the conclusion to each, I too am torn.  My best suggestion would be to go with both.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> That having been said, I really liked Cormyr, but like many FR fans was wanting a little more not sure of what to expect.  However, I really liked Shadowdale even more (though it calls Lashan Aumersair the former lord of Shadowdale rather than Scardale..but hey, the fact that it mentions Lashan at all means they were really diggin' into Realmslore!), and as a resault re-evaluated my initial concerns with Cormyr.  Having worked on Anouroch with Thomas Reid and Skip Williams, I can say that it is going to be a blast as well.  Lots of good Realms stuff in there with a richness and depth worthy of Eric L. Boyd.As a quick, explanation by the way, each of the adventures has a short "regional" appendix.  The one in Cormyr examines Wheloon in some detail and southeastern Cormyr to a lesser extent.  Shadowdale, of course, focuses on Shadowdale.  And Anauroch will bring you an appendix on Anauroch, but the vast bulk of these books is definitely adventure.  Anauroch will pick up where Shadowdale left off taking the ever-growing quest from Cormanthor to Anauroch to quests across the Realms to demiplanes and back to Anauroch for the grand finale.  It's a great ride, and I highly recommend it.However, be sure and take a look at the Pathfinder series.  The vanillaness of comparing it with FR is certainly true (but then FR has 20 years of a developmental headstart on Golarion). Look for greater depth and development to occur as time progresses.  It may never have the specificity of a FR, but I think you'll see at least a GH level of development with talks of a gazetteer being rumored.  The conclusion of it, Spires of Xin-Shalast, is also of epic proportions building on what has been done in the other lead-up adventures, each of which is very different from the last.  You'll also get to participate in one of the things that made FR so special when it first came out and had a detailed map in the Shadowdale region that got markedly less detailed as it got farther away.  You get to participate in the developmental stage of world building.  So when you run into the Pathfinder equivalent of Lashan Aumersair 20 years from now you can say, "I went through an adventure involving him way back in the gray boxed set (or the Pathfinder equivalent)" and have that sense of connectedness that longtime FR fans enjoy and can easily take for granted now.I don't think you can go wrong with either the FR adventures or Pathfinder, but I hope you'll try them both.</blockquote>

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