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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Irda Ranger" data-source="post: 4438982" data-attributes="member: 1003">I concur with the above. I thought it was lousy. The biggest problems for me are:1. Too little information on each area. If I wanted to play in a Cormyr-like Kingdom I could brainstorm the amount of content provided by the 4E FRCS in ten minutes or so.2. Uninspiring. Perhaps related to the above point, but everything was "Grrr! I'm a monster!" and "Spellplague!! Dark and brooding geography!!" and not very thematic at all. It has no flavor. I think parts of it were worked over by the Committees for Selling Dungeon Tiles & Minis.Just as one example - Eladrin?? Does FR have no life whatsoever apart from the Core Rules? Apparently not. Apparently it was just too confusing to stick to calling them Gold or Grey Elves and making a note to use the Eladrin stat blocks from the PHB. So, one more bit of flavor that makes FR feel like FR gets flushed down the toilet. Maybe my expectations were falsely misled by the words "Campaign Setting" on the cover. I expect a Campaign Setting to provide details that take a lot of time and creativity to brainstorm all by myself, and to provide a "theme" or "feel" that communicates itself to the players.  By example, there's no mistaking whether or not you're in Planescape or Ravenloft.  This book should have been called "34 Unrelated Kingdom Sketches, Plus A Free Bundled Adventure."I could name many other problems I have with the book (like what happened to Wheloon and Calimshan - WTF!?), but that would be too nitty. My overall opinion: crap. Good use of whitespace doesn't save the fact that the key reasons for buying a CS are missing. Better luck next year, WotC.</blockquote>

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