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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4917474" data-attributes="member: 22779">I don't know if you realize just how condescending this sounds.  You're effectively saying that the only real fans of the setting are people who deeply immerse themselves in the vast reams of setting material and everyone else doesn't matter.That the changes they made weren't done for any "real" reasons, just another money grab.  That the idea of having massive fluff bloat wasn't off putting to the continually shrinking population of gamers that would even consider trying to get into the Realms.See, you've said that it's enough to have read the campaign setting guide.  So, you're saying that I could run a campaign in the Shining South (to pick an area) having only read the SS campaign guide and the FRPG?  That would be sufficient to qualify me to run a campaign in FR?Or, if I wanted to run a Waterdeep campaign, the FRCS would be sufficient?If that's true, then we are in complete agreement.  However, if I need to have any more books than one, maybe two, in order to be sufficiently qualified to run a game in FR, then FR needed to be pruned WAY WAY back.Like I said, I should not need to read close to a thousand pages (which is what I meant by hundreds of pages) before I even begin to start crafting adventures in that setting.</blockquote>