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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Laurefindel" data-source="post: 9782225" data-attributes="member: 67296">When I say Forgotten Realms, I mean Faerun. There are many tangential settings with permeable barriers, some geographically nearby, some astrally accessible, but my Forgotten Realms games were mostly concerned with the populations, cultures, trades, and dangers of Faerun. Those are all part of the same macrocosm and “meta setting”, mostly aware of one another but not interacting much.This D&D macrocosm is completely separate from other settings such as Star Wars or Warhammer Fantasy/40k for example, but if I’m playing FR, it’s to play in Faerun. I could have a Planescape game with occasional stops in Faerun, or a Ravenloft game that started in Faerun, or a Kara Tur game that trades with Faerun, or an Al Quadim game that mentions the Faeruninan pantheon, but those are Planescape, Ravenloft, Kara Tur, and Al Quadim games; not FR games.Faerun probably should be the name of the setting but Forgotten Realms stuck, and that’s mainly what it refers to.</blockquote>