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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brennin Magalus" data-source="post: 1270692" data-attributes="member: 13103">Well, I am tired of Realms cheerleading, so there is no love lost between us.That is because WOTC devotes so much time and energy to it.  Well, that and the fact that there is no accounting for taste.Heaven forfend that a world have some sort of plausibility.Yes, unique in its own nonsensical way.  It was a decent book, but even so its ad hoc explanations could not justify such an ill-conceived, patchwork pantheon (it is clear to me that ol' Ed mindlessly cribbed many of his gods from the old Deities & Demigods, without any further research).I bought the original boxed set when I was 11 and the 2e update a year later (I didn't realize until later that you needed other books to play).  I also have FRCS.  I have been a player and a DM in the FR.  So, I am qualified to make a judgment concerning FR, and my judgment is that it sucks.As for a glacier abutting a desert, that taxes my credulity overly much.  I believe campaigns should strive for what Walt Disney called the "plausible impossible."</blockquote>