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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Primal" data-source="post: 4912419" data-attributes="member: 30678">Depends on what the players prefer... I know a couple of DMs who never actually *read* any of the books, and they get 90% of the facts "wrong" in regard to canon Realmslore  (I'm referring to one of them above with my comment about the 'Cormyrea'-campaign) but their players don't seem to mind.  Frankly, I don't know about your DMing style or which sort of game your players prefer. Want a lot of social interaction with NPCs? Write complex background stories for their PCs? Take a lot of notes during the session? Often ask questions about minor details? Have much exposure have they had with FR canon? Do they in general care if your campaign contradicts official lore?  For example, if you're good with improvising stuff (and writing it down at the same time) and your players do not read a lot of FR books... well, not much. What I *do* expect every DM to read is the campaign setting (which is, indeed, hundreds of pages), but that goes IMO without saying. You could also pick an area that is less-detailed than, for example, Waterdeep, Cormyr or the Dalelands; contrary to the popular belief, there are a lot of cities, towns and areas covered with maybe two to five pages in published canon lore.      Well, do you ever read the campaign setting book before you run your first campaign in a published setting? Because usually that is at least 150+ pages. As I said above, I might get away with my ignorance of Karrnath's true nature or Sharn's layout if the players don't care about details or adherence/consistency with the "official" lore -- however, if they do care about such stuff, why not run PoL or a homebrewed setting or a setting nobody knows about instead? Why cling to the idea that "It's my DM's right not to read a single page more than I want to, and you need to suck it up or walk out!"? Why does it need to be FR? I wouldn't expect to get away with reading only 20 pages in ECS and running a decent Eberron campaign. (BTW, even after the Spellplague and the reduced word count in 4E FRCG, it's still more than 20 pages, right?)</blockquote>

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