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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vancian Magic" data-source="post: 4437319" data-attributes="member: 74190">For a 288 page count book there really doesn't seem to be much in it.  Though I guess that's my general annoyance for them blowing up the Realms in order to make it more generic, then spending a good chunk of dead tree telling us all about how it got blowed up and has changed the setting (because...  that is useful for new DM's to know?).End of the day, I think ever FR book I see gets compared to the old grey box.  And there was something I really loved about that pair of cyclopedia books that made the Realms feel so alive to me.  Every edition since then has simply felt like the same stuff, but stretched thinner and thinner through more and more support books...  Especially since it has had to bow to corporate decision making and the novel 'canon' which so easily supercedes the role-playing game it seems.I think it's very interesting to see Ed still putting word count into the FR, especially since it isn't even close to his own one anymore.  But I guess once you disconnect from what is being published it isn't so bad...  Kind of like an "elseworlds" or "infinities" product, heh.</blockquote>