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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 4905383" data-attributes="member: 11697">It used to be my 2nd favorite setting (outside of Planescape), but I no longer play in the Realms, and I don't know of any groups in my area that are playing in the 4e version (even those using 4e rules seriously don't care for the 4e treatment of the setting). The setting seems to cater to people who weren't FR fans, to the extent that it destroyed much of what FR fans enjoyed about the setting in the first place. I would happily join a pre-Spellplague FR game (regardless of ruleset), but the 4e post-Spellplague Realms seems like an entirely different setting to me, and one that I'm not interested in. Ruleset isn't important to me, but the fluff content is. I would happily buy a Greenwood/Boyd/Schend/etc 4e book that pertained to the Realms timeline prior to the large-scale 4e setting changes.Ongoing support has been pretty slim, and DDI only, and if you're not part of the RPGA, the setting would seem to be a shadow of its former self in terms of being used outside of the RPGA. Additionally, I suspect that many RPGA players aren't firm fans of FR, it's just that FR happens to be the chosen primary RPGA setting so that's what they'll play in order to play within the RPGA.The Origins and Ennies showing for the 4e version of the Realms I would think revealing about its reception.</blockquote>