Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Rocket your D&D 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E games into space! Alpha Star Magazine Is Launching... Right Now!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 8122232" data-attributes="member: 6801060">I hesitated to even respond to him, given his obvious and overwhelming bias in this matter, but the massive misrepresentation that "there aren't even any nations in the world" was so blatantly incorrect that I couldn't help myself.Apparently they are sham nations without any borders or roads now.  He's obviously never looked at any non-Sword Coast product in the setting (well, other than likely rejecting them out of hand without opening), as they all objectively have both (and the roads aren't sparse either), as well as complex histories, politics, economics, and international relationships, all written down EXTENSIVELY (some would say overly-extensively - the main complaint you usually see about the setting is that it's too detailed) in dozens, if not hundreds, of FR products. Basically, he's shown himself to be utterly unknowledgeable about the setting by making such claims in the face of hard, printed evidence to the contrary.If anyone wants a good map, sourced from 2e and 3e products (From what we've seen, the 5e map will still look pretty similar to this, with some changes that really doesn't dramatically affect the number of nations or roads), that shows the multitudinous nations of Toril (with borders and innumerable roads even!), go here (but be aware, it's very large):<a href="http://www.pvpchamps.com/TorilMap.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.pvpchamps.com/TorilMap.jpg</a></blockquote>

Verification