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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ruleslawyer" data-source="post: 2633686" data-attributes="member: 1757">Mm hmm! I've done pretty much exactly this; some of the new FR stuff, IMHO, is among the best material I've ever seen from TSR/WotC (I count Serpent Kingdoms, Silver Marches, and Lost Empires of Faerun in said category, with the tip of the hat going to SK), and meshes well with the ol' skool FR material in any case.FYI:If I may blather: IMHO, there is a "core grouping" of FR material that gets at what the setting "should be." In that group, I would put the following (all of which I highly recommend for $5 a pop at RPGNow, and some of which are available for FREE on WotC's Classic Downloads page):-The "gray box" 1e FRCS-The Everwinking Eye series from Polyhedron (yeah, I know, but see below)-Ed's original articles from Dragon (most of which have since been reprinted in FR material)-FR1 Waterdeep and the North-FR4 The Magister-FR6 Dreams of the Red Wizards-FR11 Dwarves Deep-FOR4 Code of the Harpers-Ruins of Undermountain-Ruins of Myth Drannor-The Volo's Guides (oh, the Volo's Guides!)IMHO, the above materials are sufficient to run an excellent FR campaign that gets right to the heart of the setting. If you are a detail junkie and want more info about the outlying regions of the Realms, the following are also pretty good:-FR13 Anauroch-Lands of Intrigue boxed set-Empires of the Shining Sea boxed set  The FR Revised Campaign Setting mostly serves to: (1) incorporate the detail to Sembia (which was intentionally left undetailed in the original boxed set to serve as a DM-customized setting) that was originally written up in the Forgotten Realms Adventures hardcover and (2) fold in sections of Ed's "Everwinking Eye" column in Polyhedron, which focused largely on the Moonsea and Vast regions. For those two tasks, it's quite good (although the original idea to "leave Sembia blank" is the better one, IMHO). Everything else is pretty dilatory. Note that the City of Raven's Bluff supplement (free as a pdf on WotC's Classic Downloads page) contains much of that detail on the Vast, and Ruins of Zhentil Keep has the stuff on the Moonsea.</blockquote>

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