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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 7670540" data-attributes="member: 221">Since I am reminiscing, I'll mention Forgotten Realms. I bought the Forgotten Realms grey box campaign setting probably about 89 or so, and it was my campaign world of choice for several years. I loved the look of the books, and the setting had a lot of mystery and potential to it. It also had support and I lapped up the Waterdeep supplement and a couple of others also (though Waterdeep was always my favorite of the supplements.) However, the problem with Forgotten Realms and gaming for me was that it was a living world, meaning the supplements and the novels kept advancing the timeline. Rather than producing a static world that you could invest in and then use, they produced a world you had to keep rebuying. That soured me* on the setting as an RPG setting. And is, actually, one of the reasons I like Golarion as a setting is because, other that the results produced at my game table, the world remains the same. Which means that when my kid's character establishes and builds a temple of Erastil near Sandpoint, I don't have to worry about other supplements coming along and putting something else there. Static settings easily become more personal as you use them, compared to living, fluid settings which keep resetting themselves.*Soured on the setting is not the same as hating the setting. I just don't think its actually a good investment, at this point, for a table-top role playing gamer.</blockquote>

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