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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vocenoctum" data-source="post: 4437679" data-attributes="member: 2477">I don't know that 3e superceded it, but it was a great book. It just had a different feel.Original FR boxed set had a sort of low end feel to it, a lot of focus on the dalelands which I didn't care for, but it felt like a place where some first level adventurer could leave the farm and become a king.2nd edition felt sort of bland to me, having the avatar crisis smash the realms into a new shape to fit 2nd edition mechanics. I do think the unicorn rider was one of the best covers ever made, but leira was gone and things just seemed to be getting odd in the realms.3rd edition felt huge. Sure, the realms had been growing and growing, but it wasn't all expanded on in the core book. Expansions expand things, but in 3e it was one big huge pantheon covering a huge world.4th edition wasn't content to just leave out stuff and focus on the part they wanted. They had to nuke everything else in the name of "condensing the realms for new players". Mulhorand doesn't have to be destroyed to focus on the swordcoast...(As for me, I found Al Qadim, Karatur and Mulhorand to be neat realms based on real world analogies but D*D'd up a bit. They fit in their places, but at the same time they were far removed so they weren't a required part in everyday FR unless you wanted them to be.)</blockquote>