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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 4446932" data-attributes="member: 32740">The Realms lost me several years ago for a couple of reasons.  The last straw was that for the previous ten years just about every game I'd played or run was set in the Realms.  I was tired of it and wanted new horizons.  But the real seed of dissatisfaction with the Realms was planted LONG before when they detailed Sembia - an area that had SPECIFICALLY been set aside in the first box as strictly the playground of the individual DM.  It wasn't even an area that seemed interesting enough to BOTHER detailing.  I much rather enjoyed Waterdeep and Cormyr. As time went on after that they just kept crapping out sourcebooks for every friggin' square mile from pole to pole and sea to shining sea.  It came to feel as if it was a setting that was no longer INTENDED for any DM to pollute with his own ideas.  "Oh, hey!  We haven't done a sourcebook for that little nation of Podunk with a population of 1,347.  People will be wanting THAT one.  We'd better get right on that before someone actually does their own thing with it and then it won't fit with anything else WE publish!"  Sort of went hand in hand with how I felt the game itself was being handled - thou shalt not tolerate deviation from the text.</blockquote>