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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wyrmshadows" data-source="post: 4434525" data-attributes="member: 56166">Big, big disappointment if you were a fan of the 2e/3.5e Realms. This book is mostly fluff, but IMO there is nothing stand out about the fluff. Oooohh earthmotes, flying squid, Asmodeus kills Azuth, eladrin elf retcon, Imaskar and Netheril come back, etc. I have seen as good and better backstory in friends' homebrews. The 3e FRCS book was great, full of personality and information. The new book is a dim shadow of the 3e FR sourcebook.  Its not unusable, but it also isn't IMO a book that grabs you and makes you say "I must play/DM here!" Not at all. It has a far more generic, undeveloped feel than I thought it would. The Spellplague and its aftermath might have been more interesting if the current book had a greater amount of detail. There is nothing about this book that would make me more likely to play/DM in FR that I would in Paizo's Golarion or Goodman's Aereth if I wanted to do good old fashioned D&D fantasy.  4e FR is barebones FR. It feels like someone's high quality homebrew before an actual capaign was run on it. It has all the necessary details, but it doesn't seem alive. I see some basic history, some individuals, some groups, and some names on a map but I don't see a living setting YMMV. Sure the production values are good but I expected that much. I would prefer a good, hardback black and white book overflowing with good content than a prettier book with less content. IMO content is king.  Wyrmshadows</blockquote>

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