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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rounser" data-source="post: 4437399" data-attributes="member: 1106">Depends who you ask, I guess.  They're probably my favourite part of the realms.  I agree that the Horde and Maztica seem to get very little love.  They're rarely even mentioned.Keep in mind that the Moonshaes were airlifted into FR - they were originally intended as a "British Dragonlance" unto themselves.  They also harbour another minisetting which wasn't originally FR - the Korinn Archipelago of the module N1 Treasure Hunt.That said, I think Douglas Niles did a rather good job of integrating the Moonshaes into the realms.  There's a lot of references to mainland FR in the novels.  The flavour and thematic imagery is different, though...Ed Greenwood's Moonshae module (Halls of the High King?) puts more of a typical "FR vibe" stamp on the Moonshaes...harping around the fireside, Zhents under the beds etc...so more of a "classic Ed FR" flavour can be done with them too.From what I've heard of the original Moonshaes, I'm sort of glad they got changed.  Their original incarnation (a sort of Earthsea-like place) sounds less interesting than the celtic mythology/northmen vs ffolk/King Arthur/Bhaal avatar vs Earthmother's children/Robin Hood mishmash that the Moonshaes offers, and it does interesting things with the role of druids, bards and mages in society.</blockquote>