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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lurks-no-More" data-source="post: 4792994" data-attributes="member: 8226">Problem was, the detail was getting choking for new players and especially DMs. 3e FRCS was and is one of the best D&D books ever, but it's absolutely crammed full of stuff about the world. I think that some slate-clearing was necessary anyway, and with FR's history of Grand Sweeping World-Changing Events, they went reasonably well with it.Anyway, there is very little "unique" about FR; it's a quintessential kitchen-sink fantasy setting. But I think that it had a certain hard-to-define tone of the setting: city-states strung along the trade ways, ancient sorcerous kingdoms of South and East, the importance of arcane magic to the history and the present. It didn't feel to me like the Medieval times, with magic and monsters pasted on, but rather a time of its own. (I think that 2e, with its pushing of vaguely disguised Earth cultures into the Realms, was something of a nadir for the setting.)The FR elves were also one of the better takes on them outside of Tolkien; they had a quasi-Tolkienian glorious, epic past and are now fading out from the way of humans, but still remained D&D elves. (And, in the case of the gold elves, they frequently were arrogant, borderline racist twits...)</blockquote>