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Message: <blockquote data-quote="RenoOfTheTurks" data-source="post: 1271009" data-attributes="member: 11634">So not true.  He tries to right the few wrongs that he can ("meddling"?... that's what evil characters say...they really *need* others to dislike Elminster like they do) though the many good forces in the Realms can be no means annihilate the many evil forces.  He's powerful certainly, but there is a huge backstory fleshing that out and you simply reveal your tastes if you call it "over-powerful".  As for a "ubiquitous force in everything that happens", it's nowhere NEAR true and there is a sidebar in the FRCS explaining why it isn't true (WotC knew of this popular untrue sentiment, methinks).  His actions do weave through many plots.  So do Szass Tam's and Fzoul Chembryl's.  Love it.  I love that there are forces in the world greater than low-level PCs, and a tier of movers and shakers that PCs can become involved with at higher levels.  Our group has had several campaigns in which this has happened.I am sick of setting wars too, and I don't want to engage in them, except to reject specifically the attacks continually brought against the Realms.  IMO the attacks are always based on the same set of uninformed statements about the Realms blended with matters of taste.  Who am I to dispute matters of taste?  Well, when you can't extricate the matters of taste interwoven with the uninformed statements, the matters of taste are immediately suspect.I have all these theories about the demographic that attacks the Realms like this, involving their age, their links to First Edition and Greyhawk, but I can never understand how they can systematically be so wrong in their statements about what the Realms is and isn't.  There is something historical/emotional driving the vitriolic, wrong-headed attacks, but I'm a younger gamer and I can't quite put my finger on what it is.</blockquote>

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