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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catsclaw227" data-source="post: 4795163" data-attributes="member: 14197">This is all well and good, but a couple of years ago, I asked a group of new players that I wanted to do a FR game and they brought up the uber NPC thing.  I trotted out the explanation above, and was promptly told that they didn't want to play in a world where they were simply pawns in a chess game for big powerful NPCs.  So we ran Savage Tide in Greyhawk.I once DMed (or attempted for about 6 sessions) the realms right around the 3.5 revision and I had two players that knew way more about the FR than I did.  Even though I explained that this would be my interpretation of the realms and that some of the novel canon and even the RPG canon may not be quite right.  Some of the rumors and legends and stories were myth or false.  That didn't seem to matter....  So yes, it was my game and I could run it that way, but there were too many different moments where I had to "argue" around a situation and the players were (understandably) frustrated because they didn't know what was canon and what wasn't.I didn't have the time to become a FR expert.  So that game went into the tank.I like the 4e realms, almost as much as I liked the old greybox set.  Even though the 3e FRCS was amazing from an information, layout and presentation standpoint, it just had too much muck attached to it for me to try to enjoy it.  And when I did give it a go, it didn't seem to matter.For me, the 4e FR treatment has given me a desire to run FR again.  And yes, it is just as much the Forgotten Realms to me as it was in 1e. It's kinda like saying that Europe just isn't Europe anymore because so much has happened in the past 200 years.  Too many ESEs!!!1!!1! Euro2009 is teh suxxors!  Euro1812 rulzz!!!!  I gave Napoleon l33t power-ups like heroes feast and endure elements scrolls to survive in Russia.</blockquote>

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