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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Falstyr" data-source="post: 4905993" data-attributes="member: 82794">To me the various realms have always been interchangeable. It never felt as if the campaign was one realm specific. There were parts of Vanilla, Ebberon and the Forgotten Realms with some adjustments to make it one big universe. It was great to play in and left a lot of flexibility and things to do. With 4e there hasn't been a lot of change in that regard for my games. In fact now a days we stick more to the FR setting than any other.Previous editions had a lot of supplements and in depth history which made each realm come to live. In 4e we get articles that flesh out certain areas such as Cormyr or the city of Genasi etc. It is still great, but just like previous editions it will take some time before there is enough supplemental material to work with. But I still feel the hardcore FR fans are just a bunch of people who moan without a just cause. Complaining how certain gods no longer exist, how history suddenly has a gap of a few decades. Well boohoo. I can see no reason why people can't use supplements of previous editions in their 4e FR setting. The changes aren't that huge making it impossible to implement. Spellscarred can easily be added and the geographical changes aren't that influential either.The only people who might have a decent reason to moan about the realms are those new to D&D. Then again...what is there to bitch about when they don't even know the past and what there might be different hehe. For new comers the books are clear and easy to comprehend. Low learning curve to get into and start playing. 3.x was like gibberish the first few times I read through it and took quite some time to get used to.Using underdark supplements and races of Faerun are still very usable in 4e luckily <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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