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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 3994728" data-attributes="member: 18">Perhaps, and perhaps with some justification, but I think if the FR is like, a 5 on the "dropping in random real-world cultures without justification/logic" scale, then, I would say that Mystara is about a 14. I mean, it's so glaring and mind-numbing it's whole "Here's a real-world culture, we've randomly jammed them in here, and maybe made them into anthropomorphic animals for no clear reason" that it really gave me, even at 14 or so, the distinct vibe that it had been put together by a 10-year old, and not a very bright one.For my money, the FR has some, and I mean *some* depth of history (something absent from Mystara), some interesting gods (absent from Mystara, at least as I recall), and a real, coherent style to it, which has been more or less successfully maintained through three editions (remains to be seen with 4E, but I'd be surprised if they lost it), where Mystara is just... meh with a capital M. To me, at least. It's ultra-bland, ultra-dull, makes no sense, and has really nothing to make people go "Oh, that's cool!" about it.I'm probably severely biased in this, and I must admit that it's been years since I saw anything of Mystara (quite intentionally, on my part), but the idea of professional writers spending time on it in this day and age, well, it does my head in, as they say.</blockquote>