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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 2725675" data-attributes="member: 13892">That's probably the best advice I've heard on this thread. Depending upon what era of time or region you play during or in, the Realms will vary wildly. Also, many people consider the events of the novels to be setting canon, while many others do not. Similarly, certain editions of the Realms setting emphatically urge the DM to make the Realms his own, while others do thier best to avoid suggesting such things. In my experience, a different version of the Realms exists for nearly every DM out there (except, perhaps, for the strict canon adherants, whose Realms campaigns are pretty much cookie cutter clones of each other). Check with your DM and find what time period and region their campaign will be set in, as well as whether they consider the novels to be canon, and if so, to what degree. I think that the recent FR poll that I posted did a good job of illustrating the ups and downs of the setting as several different Realms fans perceive them. In fact, I'm pretty certain that no Realms bashers participated in that thread, so you may want to take a look at it, domino.</blockquote>